[Talk-us] Slack

[Bill R. WASHBURN]

I would actually like for us to shy away from using closed systems to do an
open project. I'm in favor of remaining with IRC because it's a
well-established open standard with multiple different networks and service
providers.

Don't get me wrong, Slack is really nice. I use Slack for other
communications. I just don't think it's appropriate for our project.
On Mar 29, 2016 07:32, "Paul Johnson" <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Luis Villa <luis at lu.is> wrote:
>
>> +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.
>>
>
> Yeah, wasn't aware of Slack, literally, at all until this thread, and
> didn't even bother to check it out until I saw it mentioned on /r/furry
> around the same moment a coworker found it independently and sent me
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6sSa5NpqUI
>
> I think it'd be an improvement over Hipchat for office environments
> (seriously don't like Hipchat, but it's not my call) but I can't really see
> myself using slack for OSM...
>
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