+0.5 to Slack. It's clearly better than IRC on a number of fronts, but if it replaces publicly browseable/searchable interfaces, information can be lost for the casual folks who are the lifeblood of a community. (Meeting announces there won't be seen by the public, for example.) This usually isn't a problem for IRC since it is so clearly unfit for that purpose.
Luis On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 11:26 AM Charlotte Wolter <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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: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 > > > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > Charlotte Wolter > 927 18th Street Suite A > Santa Monica, California > 90403 > +1-310-597-4040 > [email protected] > Skype: thetechlady > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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