It's worth noting that there are reasonable open, company-backed alternatives to Slack.
For example, https://zulipchat.com/ presents a Slack-like interface. It's Apache2 licensed, allows for self-hosting, is backed by a company, has web/desktop/android/iOS apps, and has the same service agreements that Slack offers. In addition, it's free for open source projects -- Firefox would likely qualify. It's not invitation-only -- you can optionally make it available to the public, so non-Mozilla-internal employees could reasonably join conversations there. It has moderation, so people can't disrupt communications. It also has slightly different functionality from Slack that makes it particularly helpful for remotees. Messages are organized by topic, and it's very easy to go back to a channel after ~48 hours out of the loop, and go through and catch up, even if multiple conversations are interleaved. I'm using this for a personal project and really like it. It's maybe worth considering looking outside of Slack to organizations that would better fit out unique open structure, at least for evaluation. Regards, Sean Stangl On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Eric Shepherd (Sheppy) via governance < [email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:38 AM Dão Gottwald via governance < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > AFAIK Slack is only available to Mozilla staff and volunteers who've > signed > > our NDA. It's my understanding that communication at Mozilla should be > open > > by default, and the rest is sufficiently covered by e-mail, private > > meetings and restricted bugs. Why are we on Slack? > > > > I wonder this as well. Having so much of what we do transitioning (by > intent or by chance) to Slack seems contradictory to our openness > standards. It also is causing a fracturing of our conversations for no good > reason. We now have some conversations about a topic on IRC and others on > Slack and keeping track (if you're even on both at all) is an unnecessary > chunk of additional overhead to our days. > > > > > Thanks, > > dao > > _______________________________________________ > > governance mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > > > > > -- > > Eric Shepherd > Senior Technical Writer > Mozilla > Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy > Check my Availability <https://freebusy.io/[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
