How does one join said Slack channel?
On March 20, 2019 at 9:36:35 AM, Steve Meyers ([email protected]) wrote: There's a UTOS (Utah Open Source) Slack channel that a lot of people hang out at. It's not Linux-exclusive, but I think that's probably better. Thanks! Steve On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 9:15 AM Michael Holley < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I listen to a couple of different Linux focused podcasts and both of them > have created a chat room for their listeners to jump in and chat with other > listeners and the hosts of the podcasts. I've really enjoyed having that > ability to get to know these people in a way that I wouldn't otherwise. > Though having a mailing list can be helpful to push out a communication I > was thinking if we had a PLUG chat room were we can idle in during the day > and help each other out it may help us build up the Linux community in this > area. > > Right now, I've found that most people in the open source world gravitate > around the messaging tool called Telegram. In years past, this chat room > functionality would have typically been performed by IRC but it really > hasn't changed much since the 90s and is missing a lot of the features that > we've come to expect in a modern messaging platform. Telegram, on the other > hand, provides many more features than IRC can. Here are a few key features > that make Telegram different: > > 1. Sticker, animated gifs, images, audio, and video messaging types in > addition to text. > 2. You can look back through the history, even before you were connected, > to find answers to common questions or to find when a thread started. > 3. It has great clients for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, iOS, and the web. > 4. It supports custom built bots, like IRC does. > > I wanted to see if others would like that. If others would like it, we > could create a room and then post instructions on how to join to the > mailing list, and on the plug.org website. > > > > ~ Michael Holley > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
