<html><head></head><body><div>Hey folks,</div><div>i welcome the triumph of having a chat platform to discuss more and diversely for better OSM contribution,..</div><div><br></div><div>but, if we keep on jumping to new and newer chat platforms without even considering their built architectures - just </div><div>for the sake of convenience, is detrimental in long term. Moreover existing IRC channels, learners & contributors over there,</div><div>and other self-hostable/free software platforms like RIOT - which supports federation in IM - will have hard time</div><div>when moving to newer platforms. </div><div><br></div><div>definetely is a bad choice. I dont know about matter most, but it does not even have a self hosting option afaik. Why </div><div>is there this motive to move to slack in particular ? I believe most of the OSM learners and contributors are well aware</div><div>about the open systems and philosophy behind it.</div><div><br></div><div>we are already kind of over populated in all known platforms(mailing list, irc, riot, ...) - based on our convenience and principles. </div><div>Open Federation might be the neutral way to go. </div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>ganesh</div><div><br></div><div>On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 17:52 +0530, Chetan H A wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Thanks all for the heads up and new ideas. Mattermost looks good for me. Never knew that before! <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:54 PM, muzirian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:muzirian@gmail.com" target="_blank">muzirian@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hi Chetan,<br><br>Its good to have an IM to chat, but slack as a private wall guarded platform looks like a bad idea.It would be better to explore other options like mattermost,riot or gitter(will be open soon).<br><br>we had a similar discussion here<div><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-in/2017-February/002784.html" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/pipermail/talk-in/2017-<wbr>February/002784.html</a><br><br>and found we have #osm-asia on oftc. IRC looks better than something which need registration to talk for newbies.<br>I also suggest u to try <a href="http://riot.im" target="_blank">riot.im</a> which give similar features and is under active development. And they already have bridges for oftc and freenode.<br><br>cheers<br>Kelvin<br><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Walter Nordmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wnordmann@gmx.de" target="_blank">wnordmann@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">
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<p>weekly osm is using <a class="m_-5377887171029671954m_8066800187278451281moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mattermost.openstreetmap.de" target="_blank">https://mattermost.openstreetm<wbr>ap.de</a> for
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<p>feel free to contact us.</p>
<p>regards<br>
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<a href="https://slack.com/" target="_blank">Slack</a>
helps us to collaborate and communicate instantly.
OpenStreetMap has a global slack channel initiated by
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It'd be good to have OpenStreetMap India community as a
separate channel and discuss our mapathons, events and
mapping activities etc. For more: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slack" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>wiki/Slack</a><br>
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To join click: <a href="https://awesomestreetmap.herokuapp.com/" target="_blank">https://awesomestreetmap.herok<wbr>uapp.com/</a><br>
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