<div dir="ltr">Right now, the main one at <a href="https://t.me/OpenStreetMapOrg">https://t.me/OpenStreetMapOrg</a> is slow enough that it would be possible to use that now; however, if we were to have a bot handle the slack channel announcements, it'd be best to have it's own announce-only channel for that, but I'm not really a coder and couldn't pull that off.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Martijn van Exel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martijn@openstreetmap.us" target="_blank">martijn@openstreetmap.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi,<div><div class="h5"><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 14, 2017, at 11:27 AM, Paul Johnson <<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org" target="_blank">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-517148531354118878Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Martijn van Exel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martijn@openstreetmap.us" target="_blank">martijn@openstreetmap.us</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span><div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 14, 2017, at 11:08 AM, Bill Ricker <<a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-517148531354118878m_67463629663221672Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:georgia,serif">Hour by hour? Do we expect it to?<span class="m_-517148531354118878m_67463629663221672Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></span><div>No, but closures that last more than, say, a few days would be useful to have, as long as we can figure out a way to be sure that OSM is again updated when the road is re-opened. The #road-news channel on Slack could be good for that, if you are on the OSM slack channel.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Probably wouldn't be difficult to create an announcement channel on Telegram (which has quite a few OSM users) re-echoing the Slack feed? </div></div></div></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div><div>We wouldn’t be the only OSM community to use Telegram groups to communicate. If you want to start one and announce it here, I’d join.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Martijn</div></font></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div>