[Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Slack

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Dave F <davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com> wrote:

>
> On 29/03/2016 21:20, Tom Hughes wrote:
>
>> On 29/03/16 20:52, Martijn van Exel wrote:
>>
>> I find this a really worthwhile conversation to have. IRC is still great
>>> for some but it’s hardly inclusive.
>>>
>>
>> In what way is it not inclusive?
>>
>
> Because IRC works in real time. Contributors have to be in the same time
> zone (or stay up really late/ get up really early). It's biased towards
> densely populated zones ie Northern Europe or East coast if North America.
>
> As it has no record facility it turns into the equivalent of little groups
> huddling away secretively in the corner of the room to have a whispered
> conversation; something that only teenage girls usually do.


Could we not get osmbot to archive this to the web?
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