[Talk-us] Slack

[Charlotte Wolter]

         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).
         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.
         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.

Charlotte


At 12:59 PM 3/26/2016, you wrote:
>
>
>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.
>
>
>Due Diligence:
>
><https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:wiki.openstreetmap.org>https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:wiki.openstreetmap.org
>https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:lists.openstreetmap.org
>
>I've found two OSM-related Slacks. Someone owns 
><http://openstreetmap.slack.com>openstreetmap.slack.com 
>and there is also 
><http://osmus-slack.herokuapp.com>osmus-slack.herokuapp.com 
>as a front door to the US slack. The former I 
>can't find a lot about. The latter is mentioned here:
>
><http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maryland>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maryland
>
>And it has a neat thing to throw out invites to 
>people. There's also a neat bot that it looks like tmcw wrote:
>
><https://github.com/osmlab/osm-slackbot>https://github.com/osmlab/osm-slackbot
>
>
>
>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:
>
><https://awesomestreetmap.slack.com>https://awesomestreetmap.slack.com
>
>So unless there is a secret slack somewhere that 
>I missed, or something, I need help:
>
>* Come join this slack, send me an email for an invite
>* Can someone please add the osmbot to this slack?
>* Can someone please make the magic “send me 
>an invite thing” for this slack?
>* Please help edit 
><http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slack>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slack 
>and also make slack a prominent part of other methods of communication
>* Please announce this on your favorite existing 
>mailing list, forum or IRC channel
>
>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.
>
>Best
>
>Steve
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