Hi all,
I’m on the Community Working Group Ops Team over at social.coop (TL;DR we’re the mods for our mastodon instance and do community building, among other things). We’ve been looking for a way for the team to stay in touch and have been considering various instant messaging options. We’ve also been thinking about expanding this effort to a co-op wide service that all members could use, not just a single chatroom for the team.
We’ve had the suggestion that, if we want to provide instant messaging accounts as a service co-op wide, it might be good to expand our current organizational membership in MayFirst to include chat, and potentially provide some service May First needs in return (ie. each member could have a fediverse account on our server or potentially we just increase our monthly contribution).
I know the broader co-op collaboration, if we were to pursue it, would probably require more buy in from other teams, but in terms of just providing XMPP accounts to either our teammates, or our membershp as a whole, is this something that the tech team would be interested in if we did end up doing some sort of cross partnership? I wanted to make sure it was technically feasible before I brought it up for discussion more broadly, if the tech team doesn’t want to deal with it, it’s probably not worth pursuing 
We’d probably need a separate virtual host that used our domain so that we could run our own web client, and an auth extension that integrated with our SSO or some other way for us to manually provision new IM accounts, and I know that doesn’t fit with how the existing server is configured so i wanted to make sure.
Sorry for the rambling question, it’s early days so I’m mostly just hoping to get a feeler for whether this is possible or whether there’s some reason May First definitely wouldn’t be interested in a further partnership. We haven’t even fully decided to go with an XMPP service yet, but I figured it was never too early to reach out. Thanks!