Am 10.06.2018 um 05:21 schrieb Bryan Housel: >> 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
You can have all of that with a number of alternatives, matrix for completely open and free, mattermost and so on for less ... .. and these alternatives actually connect with other stuff (say irc). > * everyone is on it That's a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy after you've essentially force migrated everybody there and then cut the ties with any other competing media (in OSM) so that you can have your nice walled garden. SImon > > 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 > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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