Working from home?

Try these open-source tools.

A lot of workers will be working from home in the coming weeks. As a result, they will rely on communication and collaboration tools as stand-ins for being at their desks or in meeting rooms. There are offerings from the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Zoho, but there are lots of great open-source offerings, too. A prime contender is Keybase (https://keybase.io) and its collaboration tools. While Keybase’s first goal is to facilitate easy encryption tools, it offers Slack-like teams and private chat. Keybase also offers private, encrypted online file storage (like Dropbox) that can be shared with individuals or teams. Keybase recently added a Google Meet bot, which when invoked with “!meet” creates a link to a Google video conference. Slack and Atlassian’s HipChat are big players, but to get…

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