Team-Kodi have surely heard about HipChat by now, so how about setting your own HipChat server for Kodi real-time support/chat-rooms?
https://www.atlassian.com/software/hipch…1#software
For those who have not heard about HipChat (by Atlassian), HipChat is kind or like IRC/mIRC for the modern age group-chats, it is a real-time group-chat and 1-to-1 instant-messaging service that unlike some competing products (like Slack) HipChat allows you to download and install your own stand-alone team-server for your project, meaning that you have full access control per chat room/users, integrations/addons, and server maintenance control.
https://www.hipchat.com/server
On the clients side the server supports both a web interface client as well as native client apps for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, and iOS.
Integrations are available for GitHub and much more:
https://www.hipchat.com/integrations
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/addons/app/hipchat/
“HipChat Basic” license is free
https://www.hipchat.com/pricing
- Unlimited users
- Group chat
- Instant messaging
- File sharing
XBMC Foundation could also pay to upgrade Team-Kodi members to “HipChat Plus” license for $2 a month per user user to also get get the Kodi team additional features such as:
- Group chat
- Group video chat
- Group screen sharing
- Unlimited file sharing and storage
- Unlimited message history
PS: I have no affiliation with HipChat at all, I just want to recommend it as an end-user because we have implemented our own HipChap server at work and it works great so far 1000+ users here, where we have “rooms” for most teams and projects at work.