[OSM-talk] Slack

[Steve Coast]

I’d love to. I have been looking and found the basic xmpp gateway, I’d appreciate help if you’re interested?

I also love what tmcw did with the bot too.

Best

Steve

> On Mar 26, 2016, at 5:14 PM, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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