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• Gitter
  • Already popular in ETH community
  • Uses GitHub ID instead of LFID
  • Would not need LF to run another server
• Matrix
  • Recently selected by Mozilla to replace IRC
  • Open Source, would need to pay a SaaS or LF to run the server
• Mattermost
  • Would need E20 license for SAML for LFID, $8.50/user/month (open source plan is E10)

Action Items

•  Converting a new chat system and preserving links will be a significant lift for the CA team
•  Making sure people's old links don't break
•  Making sure it works properly with LFID will need to be supported by LFIT not the CA team
•   How to transfer the Data or archive the data
  
•  Feature by feature comparison and spreadsheet?

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