Agreed. Slack is not a good place for persistent, open conversations that will end up shaping how lessons, code, and policies are implemented. At my day job, we have several years of lost conversations, policy decisions, and links to useful things that disappeared into the history that isn't displayed without paying. Not a good tool for things it's not good at.
It is good for things that can be dealt with quickly and that do not need long-term recollection or that will have ramifications beyond a few days. Good tool for what it's good at. On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 2:06 PM Dav Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > I resonate strongly with this "Why I Avoid Slack" article from Matthew > Rocklin, who has a pretty good track record of fostering open source > community: > > https://matthewrocklin.com/blog/2019/02/28/slack-github > > I think an email archive also has good affordances, especially for putting > together a curriculum vs. a software project. > > But I'll try to keep up with whatever the broader group wants to do. > > D > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 8:50 AM Deborah Paul <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Maybe good to have a Slack channel in the Carpentries Slack account? >> Deb >> >> On 2019-07-22 11:40 AM, Dav Clark wrote: >> >> So it seems maybe there is no working group. Shall we make something to keep >> communication organized? Or just use this thread? >> >> D >> >> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 8:28 AM Shoaib Ahmed Sufi >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I just thought I would mentioned this course - >>> https://www.fast.ai/2019/07/08/fastai-nlp/ that might be a useful ‘extra >>> reading’ or data point for your preparation - I am not an Natural Language >>> Processing person but I heard this course being mentioned and lauded >>> recently. >>> >>> Best >>> Shoaib >>> >>> On 19 Jul 2019, at 17:10, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> just to let you know ... I'm planning to prepare a carpentries style course >>> on text mining... which is a type of NLP (i.e. Natural Language >>> Processing). :-) >>> >>> Bea Alex (Edinburgh) >>> >>> >> >> -- >> -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar >> -- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Digitization and Workforce Development Manager >> iDigBio -- Steering Committee Member >> SPNHC Liaison, Member-At-Large and Member International Relations Committee >> SYNTHESYS3 Representative, ICEDIG External Advisory Board Member >> Vice Chair, Biodiversity Information Standards Organisation (TDWG)(2019-2020) >> Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB >> Florida State University >> Tallahassee, Florida 32306 >> 850-644-6366 > > The Carpentries / discuss / see discussions + participants + delivery options > Permalink ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tee8f460df4206334-M0a889cc34f631a6fc27afa73 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
