[Talk-us] Slack

[Luis Villa]

+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.

Luis

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 11:26 AM Charlotte Wolter <techlady at techlady.com>
wrote:

>
>         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:lists.openstreetmap.org
>
> I've found two OSM-related Slacks. Someone owns openstreetmap.slack.com
> and there is also 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
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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
>
> 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 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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