[RockerC]

Team-Kodi have surely heard about HipChat by now, so how about setting your own HipChat server for Kodi real-time support/chat-rooms?

https://www.atlassian.com/software/hipch...1#software

For those who have not heard about HipChat (by Atlassian), HipChat is kind or like IRC/mIRC for the modern age group-chats, it is a real-time group-chat and 1-to-1 instant-messaging service that unlike some competing products (like Slack) HipChat allows you to download and install your own stand-alone team-server for your project, meaning that you have full access control per chat room/users, integrations/addons, and server maintenance control.

https://www.hipchat.com/server

On the clients side the server supports both a web interface client as well as native client apps for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, and iOS.

Integrations are available for GitHub and much more:

https://www.hipchat.com/integrations
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/addons/app/hipchat/

"HipChat Basic" license is free

https://www.hipchat.com/pricing

• Unlimited users
  
• Group chat
  
• Instant messaging
  
• File sharing

XBMC Foundation could also pay to upgrade Team-Kodi members to "HipChat Plus" license for $2 a month per user user to also get get the Kodi team additional features such as:

• Group chat
  
• Group video chat
  
• Group screen sharing
  
• Unlimited file sharing and storage
  
• Unlimited message history

PS: I have no affiliation with HipChat at all, I just want to recommend it as an end-user because we have implemented our own HipChap server at work and it works great so far 1000+ users here, where we have “rooms” for most teams and projects at work.

[jjd-uk]

We already use Slack internally and there's an IRC bridge to the #kodi channel on Freenode so we can see what's going on in that channel via Slack.

[da-anda]

we evaluated HipChat 1 or 2 years ago, when we where looking for better alternatives to IRC, but ended up on Slack back then. We might move to opensource alternatives like Mattermost or RocketChat some day though