Good evening, I am a new member to the community so I do not know much about the current needs. Still I'd like to point at gitter.im which has an open-sourced IRC bridge ( https://irc.gitter.im/) for the heavy IRC users. Overall imho a good Slack alternative, its aim is to provide chatrooms for developers.
Best John On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Matt Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > 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_Ne2KEiFsrGEapCwoOAQ@mail. > gmail.com%3E > > [2] https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct > > [3] https://apachenifi.slack.com >
