[OSM-talk] Slack

[Toby Murray]

I believe there are slack bots that can connect slack and IRC. Not
sure how well they work when there is a lot of traffic on both sides.
But is it something we would want to look at?

Toby

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> Thanks I added it to the wiki.
>
> Steve
>
> On Mar 26, 2016, at 2:07 PM, althio <althio.forum at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Created a few days ago for SotM-WG:
> https://osmfoundation.slack.com/
>
> - althio
> On mobile, please excuse brevity.
>
> On Mar 26, 2016 9:05 PM, "Steve Coast" <steve at asklater.com> 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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