ISG News has posted a new item, 'New D-PHYS collaboration/chat service (Slack replacement)' Now that we're all forced to work from home, one of the biggest challenges is effective communication. Some of you might have heard about Slack, a popular proprietary collaboration/chat solution for group communication. At ISG, we have worked on a D-PHYS-hosted alternative for quite some time, and have now redoubled all efforts to get it out to you as soon as possible. Today we're launching our Matrix homeserver and Riot chat client to all D-PHYS employees and students. In contrast to Slack, which is a proprietary communication silo that holds your chat history hostage, Matrix is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralized, real-time communication (chat, VoIP, AR/VR, IoT). All parts of your communication (chats, uploaded documents etc) will be hosted at D-PHYS allowing data self-sovereignty (making it compatible with ETH regulations). On top of that, another goal of the project is to bridge to all possible communications networks: If you're interested to use this service to communicate and collaborate in your group or with us, please see this readme page. Please note that we're starting with a basic set of functionality (group and direct chats, image upload). Internally we've already tested features like video calling and custom bots which will be rolled out incrementally in the coming weeks. You may view the latest post at https://isg.phys.ethz.ch/2020/03/20/new-d-phys-collaboration-chat-service-sl... You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Sven Mäder maeder@phys.ethz.ch