Institutions often have directory systems with departments or schools have classes. We were presenting our customer cases and tools at the barcamp the first day. We do have experience and scripts when it comes to migrating users and groups from RocketChat to Matrix or when mapping groups from an LDAP/AD directory.
As we see it: the future of messengers is federated. Like with E-Mail, you look up or install your own homeserver to start an account. Several apps are available and we've seen some fresh ones.
Quite new but promising is TAMMY, which has been programmed with kotlin and can be built for desktop, Android, iOS and Web. We also got some updates to Flutter based clients, which use the matrix Dart SDK, that we also use at fairkom for some projects.
When it comes to scalable deployments, fairkom seems to be one of the view alternative service supplier. Element is the elephant in the room, but not all of their recipes are being offered as open source code. They also only offer subscriptions by number of users, whereas we are offering more flexible service level agreements.
The conference took place in a fancy innovation hub in Neukölln - a district famous for levantic and oriental food. The fresh falafels were wonderful and also the donuts served at the conference site. On Friday evening we visited the c-base hackerspace where we continued testing some new tools. There we got an additional live demo on the web version of TAMMY and Oliver showed a LiveKit video conference embedded in a custom page.
We definitely will follow up with PolyChat, that tries to offer bridging between various messenger systems. However, to get that running in a smooth way, a lot has to be still done.
Here is a summary of the conference and here are the videos of the talks.
