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So, I pinged the nice folks at Slack (and they really are nice!, or at least
the guy I communicated with), and asked them about:
* open source: No.
* the issue of uncaptured conversations, as Ted D. mentioned ("there is a huge
danger of off-list discussions…").
To the latter, which James H. of Slack recognised as important, he suggested:
<quote>
...our new-ish reactions feature:
http://slackhq.com/post/123561085920/reactions
One team I'm in has coopted a particular emoji to flag conversations as
off-topic – a friendly but brief way to say "please take this elsewhere". This
probably wouldn't work for the social dynamics of every team, but it does work
in this particular case.
</quote>
I further replied that in this case that the technical solution seemed
interesting but that given the basic nature of the problem (it’s a human
thing), I’d guess that the solution will necessarily include discipline.
Cutting off options is going to get increasingly hard and we (Apache) run the
risk of coming to seem fustian, stodgy, obsolete, old fashioned and everything
else. Perhaps—as with GitHub—discipline and then yet more recognition of the
importance of inclusive community, is the ticket.
louis
> On 07 Aug 15, at 06:13, Ulrich Stärk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> We use it to communicate with people in all parts of the world. US, South
> America, Several European
> countries, Asia. So I'd say it's pretty global.
>
> Uli
>
> On 06.08.15 19:24, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I’m curious who here also uses Slack. Besides me, that is.
>>
>> One thing I’m interested in is, How global is its reach?
>>
>> -louis
>>
