[OSM-talk] Slack

[Dave F]

Yeay! Another communication forum. Just what OSM needs.

On 26/03/2016 19:59, Steve Coast 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 <http://openstreetmap.slack.com> and there is 
> also osmus-slack.herokuapp.com <http://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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