<div dir="ltr"><div>+0.5 to Slack. It's clearly better than IRC on a number of fronts, but if it replaces publicly browseable/searchable interfaces, information can be lost for the casual folks who are the lifeblood of a community. (Meeting announces there won't be seen by the public, for example.) This usually isn't a problem for IRC since it is so clearly unfit for that purpose.<br><br></div>Luis<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 11:26 AM Charlotte Wolter <<a href="mailto:techlady@techlady.com">techlady@techlady.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<u></u> <u></u>Slack is
easy to use and intuitive. It's a good way to communicate with a team,
much better than (ugh!) Github or IRC (which is really primitive
compared to Slack). <br>
<u></u> <u></u>I think it
is a stronger tool for small to medium-sized groups, such as a working
group, than all of OSM. It may also be useful for some national chapters,
if they are not too large. <br>
<u></u> <u></u>My Maptime
group in Los Angeles, which has about 50 active members, uses Slack for
notices about meeting content, to organize projects and just to
communicate one-to-one about activities and special interests. It works
well and can be learned in about 15 minutes.<br><br>
Charlotte</div><div><br><br>
<br>
At 12:59 PM 3/26/2016, you wrote:<br>
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Ok so look, Slack took over the world. And it turns out it's pretty good
and useful. Let's have an official OSM slack.<br><br>
<br></blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite">
Due Diligence:<br><br>
<a href="https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:wiki.openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">
https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:wiki.openstreetmap.org</a><br>
<a href="https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:lists.openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">
https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:lists.openstreetmap.org</a><br><br></blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite">
I've found two OSM-related Slacks. Someone owns
<a href="http://openstreetmap.slack.com" target="_blank">openstreetmap.slack.com</a> and
there is also
<a href="http://osmus-slack.herokuapp.com" target="_blank">osmus-slack.herokuapp.com</a>
as a front door to the US slack. The former I can't find a lot about. The
latter is mentioned here:</blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><br><br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maryland" target="_blank">
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maryland</a><br><br>
And it has a neat thing to throw out invites to people. There's also a
neat bot that it looks like tmcw wrote:<br><br>
<a href="https://github.com/osmlab/osm-slackbot" target="_blank">
https://github.com/osmlab/osm-slackbot</a><br><br>
<br><br></blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite">
I'm proposing that a) we have a global slack and b) it be ‘official’
whatever that means. Having not been able to find this, I invite everyone
over to:</blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><br><br>
<a href="https://awesomestreetmap.slack.com" target="_blank">
https://awesomestreetmap.slack.com</a><br><br>
So unless there is a secret slack somewhere that I missed, or something,
I need help:<br><br>
* Come join this slack, send me an email for an invite<br>
* Can someone please add the osmbot to this slack?<br></blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite">
* Can someone please make the magic “send me an invite thing†for
this slack?</blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><br>
* Please help edit
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slack" target="_blank">
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slack</a> and also make slack a
prominent part of other methods of communication<br>
* Please announce this on your favorite existing mailing list, forum or
IRC channel<br><br></blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite">
I realize that I’m inviting a discussion about how slack is an evil
company or that we should all just use IRC, and those are fine arguments
I don’t have the energy for.<br><br>
Best<br><br>
Steve</blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><br>
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