> I'm also interested in how others feel about Slack. Is it good for the > community or should we look elsewhere?
Glad you asked! I think Slack has changed the way I work for the better. Here are some advantages.. * lower barrier to entry for less technical folks * great mobile experience * good for sharing files / screenshots * works well for both sync and async chat * emoji reactions, can be used to both cut down on noise comments but also mark things as read (like our welcome users feed) * integration with basically everything (GitHub, Stripe, RSS anything you want really) * easy to start focused public or private channels and pull a few people in to a discussion * ability to mute and set availability times * user profiles * decent search * everyone is on it I really can’t imagine going back to something else. I’d happily pay for it if they asked me to. Anyway, I felt it important to speak up because I’ve noticed a very common situation when asking for people’s opinion about something, the people who are happy will stay silent, and the few who have a problem will be the ones who respond. There are currently over 800 people on the OSM-US Slack, and over 3000 on the GIS Spatial Community Slack. I have no idea how many people are subscribed to the talk-us mailing list. I don’t think we should get rid of mailing lists. We should still copy things to the talk-us mailing that affect the entire US community. Just my thoughts Thanks, Bryan _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
