I would actually like for us to shy away from using closed systems to do an open project. I'm in favor of remaining with IRC because it's a well-established open standard with multiple different networks and service providers.
Don't get me wrong, Slack is really nice. I use Slack for other communications. I just don't think it's appropriate for our project. On Mar 29, 2016 07:32, "Paul Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote: > >> +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. >> > > Yeah, wasn't aware of Slack, literally, at all until this thread, and > didn't even bother to check it out until I saw it mentioned on /r/furry > around the same moment a coworker found it independently and sent me > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6sSa5NpqUI > > I think it'd be an improvement over Hipchat for office environments > (seriously don't like Hipchat, but it's not my call) but I can't really see > myself using slack for OSM... > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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