From 9831e846bc858260a079cdb260e3edb2c8761d37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sanghee Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 19:40:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] remote working blog post intro rewritten and introduce mattermost further --- .../contents.lr | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/u/blog/remote-working-with-opensource-sustainability/contents.lr b/content/u/blog/remote-working-with-opensource-sustainability/contents.lr index e42cd52..cb2b8e3 100644 --- a/content/u/blog/remote-working-with-opensource-sustainability/contents.lr +++ b/content/u/blog/remote-working-with-opensource-sustainability/contents.lr @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ body: ## Working at the time of Covid19 -Hey everyone who works remotely now: our team has been doing it since 2013 and now we are distributed in 5 time zones. Here is how we do it: check the digital infrastructure our team is using for our daily business. +So looks like 2020 is the year of remote working for the whole lot of people. Welcome to the club! Our team has been working remotely since 2013 and now we are distributed in 5 time zones. So, yes, we have our set of know-hows built by trials, errors and success. We obviously couldn't do it without the digital infrstructure, and that's what we're going to share here. Remote work, but what do we use as technology for supporting that? We got you. Here's a practical list of tech stack we use in our daily business: remote working chez ungleich. Check it out. ## How we decide what to use @@ -30,8 +30,10 @@ Disclaimer: we’re an open-source, sustainability focused IT company. So we dec ## 1. Chat: Zero carbon chat - Mattermost, Matrix -You need a chat system when working remotely, more than anything. We have two chat systems, [Mattermost](https://ungleich.ch/u/products/zero-carbon-chat/) and [Matrix.](https://ungleich.ch/u/products/hosted-matrix-chat/) -Mattermost offers an extremely easy and smooth team communication for people with all kinds of backgrounds. Most of our team talk happens on this platform. +You definitely need a chat system when working remotely with your team, and you need it to be secure and hassle-free. We used to be on Slack at the very beginning, but we did not like the fact that Slack is hosted with AWS: from our point of view AWS datacenters are not sustainable compared to our own renewable energy datacenter, so we moved away from Slack into hosting our own chat. + +Now we have two chat systems, [Mattermost](https://ungleich.ch/u/products/zero-carbon-chat/) and [Matrix.](https://ungleich.ch/u/products/hosted-matrix-chat/) +Mattermost offers an extremely easy and smooth team communication for people with all kinds of backgrounds. Most of our team talk happens on this platform. [Our chat](https://chat.ungleich.ch) is open for public and we invite anybody who's looking for a team chat to dive into it to experience it. ![](/u/image/zerocarbon-chat-screen.jpg)