Slack is easy to use and intuitive. It's
a good way to communicate with a team, much
better than (ugh!) Github or IRC (which is
really primitive compared to Slack).
I think it is a stronger tool for small
to medium-sized groups, such as a working group,
than all of OSM. It may also be useful for some
national chapters, if they are not too large.
My Maptime group in Los Angeles, which
has about 50 active members, uses Slack for
notices about meeting content, to organize
projects and just to communicate one-to-one about
activities and special interests. It works well
and can be learned in about 15 minutes.
Charlotte
At 12:59 PM 3/26/2016, you 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:wiki.openstreetmap.org
https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:lists.openstreetmap.org
I've found two OSM-related Slacks. Someone owns
<http://openstreetmap.slack.com>openstreetmap.slack.com
and there is also
<http://osmus-slack.herokuapp.com>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>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>https://github.com/osmlab/osm-slackbot
I'm proposing that a) we have a global slack and
b) it be âofficialâ whatever that means.
Having not been able to find this, I invite everyone over to:
<https://awesomestreetmap.slack.com>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 âsend me
an invite thingâ for this slack?
* Please help edit
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slack>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 Iâm inviting a discussion about
how slack is an evil company or that we should
all just use IRC, and those are fine arguments I donât have the energy for.
Best
Steve
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