Hi JB, A common practice/hack is to create a small web app that allows people to send themselves invitations using the Slack API. For example: http://www.skill-space.com/blog/2015/11/16/create-an-auto-invite-channel-using-slack-heroku1
Cheers, Yaniv On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 at 3:40 pm, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> wrote: > Hi Wade, > > You are right: invite people on Slack means adding them as member. > > However, how can we accept Slack participants without inviting them ? Is it > possible ? > > Thanks ! > Regards > JB > > On 03/26/2017 07:05 PM, Wade Chandler wrote: > > My understanding is there isn’t a max limit on Slack for users for free, > and I have confirmed this with Slack there is not supposed to be a > limitation on numbers of members. NetBeans for instance has 320 members. > Did someone tell you this or did you run into some issue? If so, you might > write them to ask what is the deal.. It could be the difference in setup; > we use a registration page which sends invitations > https://netbeans.signup.team/ <https://netbeans.signup.team/> and is > using bots from https://stacktodo.com/ <https://stacktodo.com/> Or, it > could be something about when it was setup and differences in plans over > time. > > > > It doesn’t change the limits on the log and file storage, but we explain > to folks it is for ephemeral real time communication and never to be > considered historic, but we are looking into setting up a log bot which > Slack personnel told us could also be helpful for OSS use. Slack said they > don’t have plans for more features for OSS specific projects at the moment > as one request from us was they make some new individual/personal low pay > option which could help communities with dedicated membership to pay for > their own personal use, but they said no plans at this time, but would take > it into consideration as an idea. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Wade > > > > > >> On Mar 26, 2017, at 01:58, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Slack is very convenient for quick communication, but clearly, it > doesn't change that the mailing list is the first communication channel. If > discussions happen on Slack, minute notes/discussion has to be forwarded on > the mailing list. > >> > >> I wonder if we plan to ask for some "pro" Slack account for Apache > projects (as we have license for IntelliJ for example). Now, at Apache > Beam, we reached the max capacity of the Slack free version (90 Slack users > on Beam channel and limited history). We already received new member > request that we can't accept for now. > >> > >> Thoughts ? > >> > >> Regards > >> JB > >> > >> On 03/22/2017 10:37 PM, Craig Russell wrote: > >>> Hi James, > >>> > >>> There was a pretty extensive discussion on the netbeans dev list. I’d > encourage you to review this thread https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ > 2dce365d03334c82d31b12c8b3dcad1a925a2f71af75658b8d8a5a07@% > 3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E > >>> > >>> You can get all of the messages in the thread by doing a quick search > for “slack” on the d...@netbeans.apache.org list in lists.apache.org. > >>> > >>> My takeaway is that Slack not a substitute for email. But it is useful > for ping-pong communication when people are in the heat of development. > >>> > >>> But no decisions are made on Slack, and any discussion there (aside > from “add a semicolon there” and “let’s get lunch") needs to be brought > back to the dev list. > >>> > >>> The underlying principle is that “if it didn’t happen on dev, then it > didn’t happen”. We strive for open, inclusive communications at Apache and > that means attempting to encourage participation by everyone who wants to, > regardless of primary language, time zone, and availability of tools. (We > assume everyone has a device that handles email clients). > >>> > >>> Hope this helps. > >>> > >>> Craig > >>> > >>>> On Mar 22, 2017, at 1:27 PM, James Bognar <jamesbog...@apache.org> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Can someone remind me? I thought there was a discussion a couple of > months > >>>> ago about allowing incubator projects to use Slack for > communication. What > >>>> was the final decision? > >>> > >>> Craig L Russell > >>> c...@apache.org > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > > > -- > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > jbono...@apache.org > http://blog.nanthrax.net > Talend - http://www.talend.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
