On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 10:25 AM Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Slack offers an irc gateway if you'd prefer to connect to slack from your >> irc client. Just sign up for the slack team and look in the "integrations" >> section for information about how to connect your irc client. >> > Our software consultancy is using Slack for communications both > internally and with the client (who adopted it internally at our > suggestion). In general it s very nice. > > 1) History evaporates quickly ... unless you have a paid account. > This may be good for Corps with (anti)retention policies, but could be > a problem for a FLOSS/OpenData project. > My understanding is that open source projects can get a free corporate account that retains history (details here <https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/204368833>, I think?) That said, as I pointed out earlier, history available only to logged-in/signed-up members is an anti-pattern for open source communities. So some tradeoff is inevitable there. (That said, most projects have pretty unsearchable IRC logs as a practical matter anyway, so this may not be much of a loss.) > 2) The Xmpp / Jabber gateway works with Pidgin etc, but is buggy and > inconsistent in handling of advanced/new features (re-edited messages > don't re-send; multi-user private chat invites don't, emoji as > :smiley-cat:, display literal as data text with `markdown` only, ...) > mapping down to traditional and back. I expect the IRC gateway will be > similar. The gateway should not re seen as a a panacea; try it before you > jump hard there! > > I do concur with sentiment of preferring to base open development on open > infrastructure. > But if the freemium product provides sufficiently better capability, it > is not wrong to use it to enable the project. > +1 to this. OSM should be seeking to broaden the base of potential mappers, and that means making sure that gateways to the community are user-friendly - which these days includes good UX/onboarding experience and mobile apps. Slack is a clear winner there. Luis
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