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## Working at the time of Covid19
So looks like 2020 is the year of remote working for the whole lot of people. Hey, welcome to the club! Our team has been working remotely since 2013, and now we are distributed in 5 different time zones. For us remote working has been a lot of fun, all you need is the right setup that enables everybody to be connected and be productive.
So looks like 2020 is the year of remote working for a whole lot of people. Hey, welcome to the club! Our team has been working remotely since 2013, and now we are distributed in 5 different time zones. For us remote working has been a lot of fun, all you need is the right setup that enables everybody to be connected and be productive.
We obviously couldn't do it without the digital infrstructure. Lately we've been getting a lot of requests for sharing tips for which tool or software to use for remote working, and we thought it'd be a good idea to share a practical list of tech stack we use in our daily business. So, here we go: remote working stack chez ungleich.
We obviously couldn't do it without the digital infrastructure. Lately we've been getting a lot of requests for sharing tips for which tool or software to use for remote working, and we thought it'd be a good idea to share a practical list of tech stack we use in our daily business. So, here we go: remote working stack chez ungleich.
## How we decide what to use
Before we continue, an important disclaimer: we’re an open-source, sustainability focused IT company. So we decide which tools to use by these criteria.
Before we continue, an important disclaimer: we’re an open-source, sustainability- focused IT company. So we decide which tools to use by these criteria.
1. open source
1. open-source
2. sustainablility
3. state of the art
4. usability for people with all backgrounds
## 1. Chat: Zero carbon chat - Mattermost and Matrix
You definitely need a chat system when working remotely with your
You 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 in
Switzerland, so we moved away from Slack into hosting our own chat.
sustainable compared to [our own renewable energy datacenter in
Switzerland,](https://datacenterlight.ch) 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
this platform. [Our chat](https://chat.ungleich.ch) is open for the public
and anybody can join with their email and have a conversation with
us.
@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Matrix](https://ungleich.ch/u/products/hosted-matrix-chat/), on the
other hand, offers end-to-end encryption and federation, which makes
it very attractive for people with high sensitivity for privacy and
security. It also allows us to be more open. Matrix works nicely with
video and audio calls as well, suitable for secure conference call
video and audio calls as well, suitable for the secure conference call
with different teams.
@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ We are using hosted [Nextcloud](https://ungleich.ch/u/products/zero-carbon-cloud
![](/u/image/open-infrastructure.jpg)
Redmine is just very handy for managing multiple projects and subprojects, and giving access to different people can be done on a role basis. Our whole [data center infrastructure](https://redmine.ungleich.ch/projects/open-infrastructure) is actually in redmine & we open it for public, so you can take a look to get an impression.
Redmine is just very handy for managing multiple projects and subprojects, and giving access to different people can be done on a role basis. Our whole [data center infrastructure](https://redmine.ungleich.ch/projects/open-infrastructure) is actually in redmine & we open it for the public, so you can take a look to get an impression.
![](/u/image/open-infrastructure-overview.jpg)
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## Questions?
It can be overwhelming when you need to decide what to use for a new style of work: you'll have to use it every day and you want to make a right decision. Our approach is that we know where are values stand such as decentralisation, open source, sustainability, and we try to make our decisions aligned to our values. For us working remotely with open source is fun and exciting, it gives so much freedom to everybody involved.
If you have any questions on above stack, our remote-working team is around to give you answers. ;) Stay healthy, and happy remote working to you all!
It can be overwhelming when you need to decide what to use for a new style of work: you'll have to use it every day and you want to make the right decision. Our approach is that we know where are values stand such as decentralisation, open-source, sustainability, and we try to make our decisions aligned to our values. For us working remotely with open source is fun and exciting, it gives so much freedom to everybody involved.
If you have any questions on the above stack, our remote-working team is around to give you answers. ;) Stay healthy, and happy remote working to you all!
![](/u/image/zerocarbon_no.jpg)