Gitter does look like it solves many of the challenges we've been facing and looks like it's had wide adoption in some open-source communities. I haven't found any other official Apache projects using it, so we could be the vanguard here.
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Eric Anderson <eric...@google.com.invalid> wrote: > While on the topic: Have we considered alternatives like Gitter > <http://gitter.im>? I'm not very familiar with Slack or Gitter, but Gitter > advertises being a little friendlier to open invites. > > On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:38 AM Dan Halperin <dhalp...@google.com.invalid> > wrote: > > > My understanding is that if you use something like that plugin, and they > > detect it, Slack will ban you from new invites entirely or otherwise > punish > > you. They want this friction for free projects so that there's pressure > to > > pay. > > > > On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Jesse Anderson < > je...@bigdatainstitute.io> > > wrote: > > > > > Is possible to change how Slack invites are handled? This might > encourage > > > our community contributions. > > > > > > Right now, people have to email in (causing extra dev@/user@ emails). > I > > > did > > > a quick search and found this <https://github.com/rauchg/slackin> so > > > people > > > can invite themselves. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Jesse > > > -- > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Jesse > > > > > > -- ------- Jason Kuster Apache Beam / Google Cloud Dataflow
