Sasha, Some projects, such as Hive, use an IRC channel on the irc.freenode.net server. This should be free and unlimited. However, I would like to try Slack while the community is small.
Btw, I'm not aware of any Apache infra for chat accounts. On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Alexander Kolbasov <ak...@cloudera.com> wrote: > As far as I know Kudu isn’t using Apache infrastructure, they are using > private account and Slack integration: https://github.com/rauchg/slackin > <https://github.com/rauchg/slackin> > > I think I can have a free private account on Slack with some reasonable > limitations if that’s ok for others. I am not familiar with any Apache > infrastructure for that, it would be good to utilize it if possible. Is > there public Apache hip chat or Slack account or something like that? > > > > On May 11, 2017, at 4:21 PM, Kalyan Kumar Kalvagadda < > kkal...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > > Sasha, > > > > That an nice idea. Do you know what Apache infrastructure is kudu project > > using? > > > > -Kalyan > > > > -Kalyan > > > > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:12 PM, Alex Kolbasov <ako...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> What do people think about having Apache Sentry chat room where we can > >> hang out and informally chat and discuss technical and non-technical > >> issues? Is there any Apache infrastructure for that (e.g. HipChat or > Slack > >> account)? If not we can use some private account for that purpose (I > think > >> that’s what Kudu is doing). > >> > >> Any thoughts about this? > >> > >> - Alex > >