<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Due Diligence:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:wiki.openstreetmap.org" class="">https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:wiki.openstreetmap.org</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:lists.openstreetmap.org" class="">https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:lists.openstreetmap.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve found two OSM-related slacks. Someone owns <a href="http://openstreetmap.slack.com" class="">openstreetmap.slack.com</a> and there is also <a href="http://osmus-slack.herokuapp.com" class="">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:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maryland" class="">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maryland</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And it has a neat thing to throw out invites to people. There’s also a neat bot that it looks like tmcw wrote:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/osmlab/osm-slackbot" class="">https://github.com/osmlab/osm-slackbot</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://awesomestreetmap.slack.com" class="">https://awesomestreetmap.slack.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So unless there is a secret slack somewhere that I missed, or something, I need help:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Come join this slack, send me an email for an invite</div><div class="">* Can someone please add the osmbot to this slack?</div><div class="">* Can someone please make the magic “send me an invite thing” for this slack?</div><div class="">* Please help edit <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slack" class="">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slack</a> and also make slack a prominent part of other methods of communication</div><div class="">* Please announce this on your favorite existing mailing list, forum or IRC channel</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Steve</div></body></html>