mention Zulip as an option for transparent chat for open source projects

[pdurbin]

Zulip has recently come onto the "transparent chat for open source projects" scene with a public access option: https://zulip.com/help/public-access-option

Here's the blog post announcing it: https://blog.zulip.com/2022/05/05/public-access-option/

I've been playing with Zulip off and on for months (maybe a year or two?) but today I finally installed a desktop client and was impressed that you can point it at public orgs and don't even have to log in. It looks and works great. Here is the desktop app pointed at https://chat.zulip.org

Some additional thoughts on Zulip:

• consider switching from Matrix to Zulip IQSS/chat.dataverse.org#22

[pdurbin]

I just watched Transparent, asynchronous, efficient communication: How the Zulip open-source team chat application addresses the needs of open-source and research communities by @laurynmm from FOSDEM 2023 and really liked what she had to say about transparency. Here are the relevant slides from her talk:

[pdurbin]

Not only does Zulip the software allow for transparent chat, Zulip the company works in the open.

@alya had this to say at https://changelog.com/podcast/607 to @adamstac and @jerodsanto

"I guess one of our folks who joined recently, he started out as an intern, and then joined as a full-time team member, and he commented that he was surprised when he got added to kind of all our private company channels, just how little traffic there is in those channels. He was thinking that – when we were giving him feedback on things he was working on, maybe we’re like somewhere off on the side discussing that amongst ourselves, and then providing the summary version… He was like “Oh, wait… No, that’s not how it works.” I was like “No, no, no. Yeah. If we’re talking about how the product should work, we just talk about that in the open, and that way everybody can kind of understand the decisions, can contribute to the decisions…”"

They talk in the open at https://chat.zulip.org with channels for design, desktop, mobile, etc.

I guess I'll also mention that I switched Dataverse from Matrix to Zulip. The details are here:

• consider switching from Matrix to Zulip IQSS/chat.dataverse.org#22

I'm very happy with the move to Zulip. I hope more open source projects start using it.