Loomio - Telegram integration

Telegram is popular message platform. There is open source Integram_bot for integrate Telegram with different services. Such integration would be useful for communities that don't use Slack.

Eduard Kurganskyi Sat 5 Jan 2019 6:15AM
Yes. Can the Lomio team do this integration?

Robert Guthrie Tue 8 Jan 2019 8:28PM
Hi @eduardk. Thanks for your interest. I'm assuming you have some funds to contribute to the development of a telegram bot. If so, that's wonderful, let's discuss this further by email: rob@loomio.org

Robert Guthrie Thu 10 Jan 2019 8:01PM
As it happens, we're currently working on a Microsoft Teams integration, I think it would be cool to offer Slack, MS Teams, and Telegram bots.

Eduard Kurganskyi Tue 15 Jan 2019 7:13AM
I would like to provide a full cycle for the work of the membership organization. Now we know that Loomio has LDAP integration. The algorithm is seen like this:
Telegram -> payment operator -> LDAP -> Loomio -> Telegram
I need some time to search for a Ukrainian payment operator ready to provide information updates in LDAP on the basis of the fee.

Robert Guthrie Wed 16 Jan 2019 12:19AM
I'd like to know more about what you're doing. What are you charging people for?

Eduard Kurganskyi Fri 18 Jan 2019 2:10PM
B2Future is the small organization that advocates changes in taxation. We are working with the specific bill.
Now we are planning to expand the list of bills. And, as part of this change, consider the possibility of transformation into a membership organization.
We have some specific needs. But in this thread, I try to talk about a universal solution for membership organizations. NGO are looking for that solution.

Connor Mon 18 Feb 2019 4:00PM
I too have wished for a universal solution for membership organizations. Unfortunately, it seems that it's still pretty fractured. Loomio is a nice forum, but with its lack of flexibility you might as well use Discourse with some voting plug-ins. If you want to gamify the membership, which may be very effective, you'd have to shift even further to something like Gamipress. And if you want real-time collaboration you'd need another messenger platform (e.g. Matrix) on top of all of that. Yikes!
At some point the better option becomes something like CiviCRM. But it would be awesome if someone made a hosting service for orgs with Loomio already tied into to all of this stuff!
Matthew Cropp Mon 18 Feb 2019 5:07PM
+1 - as social.coop has been discussing re-opening to new members, the question of membership management between the multiple platforms we use (Loomio, Opencollective, Mastodon, Git.coop, Matrix, etc.) is looming large...

Eduard Kurganskyi Mon 11 Mar 2019 4:15PM
@adroit
Thank you for the recommendations. I think we will try to use Loomio for a small organization that goes from the real to the virtual. And Discourse for improving the quality of discussion for the large informal community - as an alternative to the group on Facebook.
Robert Guthrie · Sat 29 Dec 2018 9:55PM
Hi @eduardk. Sounds cool. Are you interested in developing a Loomio integration for integram_bot?