+0 from me. Which is to say, I certainly love Slack as a business tool and am not necessarily opposed to the idea of an SDRuby Slack channel, but it's something that should be done with intention and not on a whim. Slack's business model is decidedly awkward for OSS communities[1], and since Slack is essentially a competitor to the established and open protocol of IRC[2], I would like us to have a solid justification for why it's better to open a Slack channel than to establish an IRC channel and link to a user-friendly IRC web client. I know San Diego JS has been grappling with this question, so if there's interest I could probably ping them to find out if they've landed on a resolution and what led them to it.
Also, food for thought: San Diego JS' IRC channel is basically a ghost town, and last I checked their Slack channel was similarly quiet, despite their user base being substantially larger than ours. It's possible an SDRuby chat room would suffer the same irrelevant fate—we're a wonderful community but a small one, and not everyone idles on chat all day. Again, I'm not opposed to the idea, but before launching I'd like to see a plan for how we plan to encourage enough participation to reach a critical mass of interesting-ness. On Sun, Jan 31, 2016, at 06:34 PM, Alex Egg wrote: > +1 for setting this up > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 3:29 PM James Hall > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> I was wondering if you guys have a slack setup? >> >> -James >> >> -- >> -- >> SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop >> receiving emails from it, send an email to >> [email protected]. For more options, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop > receiving emails from it, send an email to > [email protected]. For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/optout. Links: 1. https://medium.com/@jedwatson/slack-and-oss-communities-130489aae8#.m479igi2m 2. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/03/24/slack-is-quietly-unintentionally-killing-irc/ -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
