+1 to Andrés's points. I'm in favor of the move, plus paying so we don't hit the 10000 chats limit.
Greg On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Andres Galante <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > PatternFly is a unique community that joins developers and designers. > > Designers do not use IRC. Since I love IRC and I believe in the power of > freenode, I did try to push them there. The ones that finally land on IRC > just ignore the channel. > > Slack is less scary than IRC :) and many designers are already there. The > core team of designers building PatternFly is on Slack. > > I want to bring the communication channel to where the core committers > are, instead of pushing the core committers to use a new tool. > > I would like to include the rest of the community to the discussions the > UXD team is already having on Slack, and the only way I can think of doing > that is by moving our communication channel. > > if the mountain won't come to Muhammad... > > Maybe I am wrong, I know this move is controversial. It's not about Slack > itself, it's about been more open. > > I'd like to know if there are other options to solve this problem. > > Thank, > > Andrés > > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Alexandre Porcelli Bakos < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Andres, >> >> What makes you think that by using Slack instead of an IRC channel >> (that, as you mentioned) is usually crowded would improve the >> discussions? >> I've been on OSS for a while now, I've been part of so many vibrant >> communities... and all in common using the good old IRC. >> >> Regards, >> --- >> Alexandre Porcelli >> Principal Software Engineer >> Red Hat Business Systems and Intelligence Group >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Andreas Nilsson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On 2016-09-29 22:17, Andres Galante wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi! >> >> >> >> I want us to move the PatternFly community chat to Slack. >> >> >> >> I feel that even though the IRC channel is usually crowded there is not >> >> enough discussion. >> >> >> >> I love IRC but since the UXD team is on Slack, all of our designers and >> >> most of our developers are on Slack. >> > >> > >> > It would be one more app for me to install and keep open, but if it >> allows >> > for one less client for the rest of you to have open, I'm happy to >> carry the >> > burden. :) >> > >> > PS. This is more of an internal company thing, but I'm happy to join >> the UXD >> > slack channel too, because I'm a bit isolated out here in my department. >> > Totally up for taking that discussion off-list. >> > >> > - Andreas >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Patternfly mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/patternfly >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Patternfly mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/patternfly >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Patternfly mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/patternfly > > -- Greg Sheremeta, MBA Red Hat, Inc. Sr. Software Engineer [email protected]
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