All, I'd like to revisit the idea of having (and promoting) a Slack team for the Apache NiFi community. We broached the subject in an email thread a while back [1]. The email lists are great and IRC per se is still popular in the open-source community, but I think for folks that are more comfortable in the Slack environment, this would be another good avenue for the community to get together.
We could perhaps add integrations with the email list(s), IRC channel(s), GitHub, etc. as sort of a one-stop shop for NiFi communication, or just use it for online collaboration. I'm thinking it would be invite-only (to avoid bots, spam, etc.) but that it would be fully open to the community, just an email to an admin (such as myself) to request an invitation (kind of like a manual version of the Apache Mailing List subscribe bot). The code of conduct would be the Apache Software Foundation's CoC [2], as it is a "communication channel used by our communities". I have seen this same invite-only approach work well for other ASF projects with Slack teams. I grabbed a URL [3] just in case the community would like to proceed (nifi.slack.com is taken, but if someone in the community owns it and wants to use that instead, it's all good). The PMC would be owners/admins, my email address ([email protected]) could be the destination for invite requests, and we could discuss what integrations, access rights (creating new channels, e.g.), etc. are appropriate. Thanks, Matt [1] https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/nifi-users/201511.mbox/%3cca+w4d5rjvxvfengvsexcsmevzl_txg_ne2keifsrgeapcwo...@mail.gmail.com%3E [2] https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct [3] https://apachenifi.slack.com
