Hi, I created slack channel for Hadoop community unofficially and experimentally: https://hadoopdev.slack.com/
I know that there is IRC channel and it's good to log. However, Slack is very also good tool to join easily and have a communication interactively. It will be also useful to join following kind of meetup remotely: http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-Contributors/events/230495682/?eventId=230495682 Please let me know if you find any trouble or problem. To join the slack, please register your email address from here: https://hadoopdev-invitation.herokuapp.com/ Thanks, - Tsuyoshi