Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-04-30 Thread malenki
Wuzzy wrote: >I see Slack as this: >* Another proprietary solution which flies directly in the face of > OSM's spirit It seems that at least some parts of Slack are not completely proprietary and closed:

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-04-03 Thread Wuzzy
> Ok so look, Slack took over the world. And it turns out it’s pretty > good and useful. Let’s have an official OSM slack. “Ok so look, Google Maps took over the world. And it turns out it's pretty good and useful. Let's all officially stop OSM and start working for Google.” Whaaat? This does

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-30 Thread Greg Troxel
Charlotte Wolter writes: > Really nice discussion of the issues around using for-profit tools > in an open-source organization. The for-profit point isn't really the core issue. IMHO the big issues are the use of non-Free software on servers the use of

[Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-29 Thread Charlotte Wolter
Frederick, Really nice discussion of the issues around using for-profit tools in an open-source organization. I tend to think that we should use whatever tools we can afford or get for free to make OSM data as good as it can get. The more we can do, the more open-source data is

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-27 Thread Max
Public supergroup link: https://telegram.me/OpenStreetMapOrg https://telegram.me/OpenStreetMap already was taken and I see there is some arabic talk going on about OSM.. On 2016년 03월 28일 14:21, Max wrote: > On 2016년 03월 27일 06:37, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: >> 2016-03-26 16:59 GMT-03:00 Steve Coast

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-27 Thread Max
On 2016년 03월 27일 06:37, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > 2016-03-26 16:59 GMT-03:00 Steve Coast : >> Ok so look, Slack took over the world. > > It may have taken over the internal-corporate-communication world maybe. > > Slack has a million active users, Telegram gets 350.000 new

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-27 Thread Simon Poole
YEAH so lets run a http://www.mattermost.org/ service too. Am 27.03.2016 um 00:26 schrieb Dave F: > Yeay! Another communication forum. Just what OSM needs. > > On 26/03/2016 19:59, Steve Coast wrote: >> Ok so look, Slack took over the world. And it turns out it’s pretty >> good and useful.

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 03/27/2016 12:26 AM, Dave F wrote: > Yeay! Another communication forum. Just what OSM needs. Have we even completed our implementation of UserVoice yet, before we start with other big new stuff. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-27 Thread Steve Coast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software) > On Mar 27, 2016, at 12:02 AM, Maarten Deen wrote: > > On 2016-03-26 20:59, Steve Coast wrote: >> Ok so look, Slack took over the world. And it turns out it’s pretty >> good and

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-27 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2016-03-26 20:59, Steve Coast wrote: Ok so look, Slack took over the world. And it turns out it’s pretty good and useful. Let’s have an official OSM slack. Maybe I'm living under a rock, but I only know Slack as a short for Slackware, a Linux distribution. What is this and why do I need

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-26 Thread Steve Coast
I’d love to. I have been looking and found the basic xmpp gateway, I’d appreciate help if you’re interested? I also love what tmcw did with the bot too. Best Steve > On Mar 26, 2016, at 5:14 PM, Toby Murray wrote: > > I believe there are slack bots that can connect

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-26 Thread Toby Murray
I believe there are slack bots that can connect slack and IRC. Not sure how well they work when there is a lot of traffic on both sides. But is it something we would want to look at? Toby On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Steve Coast wrote: > Thanks I added it to the wiki. >

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-26 Thread Steve Coast
Thanks I added it to the wiki. Steve > On Mar 26, 2016, at 2:07 PM, althio wrote: > > Created a few days ago for SotM-WG: > https://osmfoundation.slack.com/ > - althio > On mobile, please excuse brevity. > > On Mar 26, 2016 9:05 PM,

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-26 Thread Dave F
Yeay! Another communication forum. Just what OSM needs. On 26/03/2016 19:59, Steve Coast wrote: Ok so look, Slack took over the world. And it turns out it’s pretty good and useful. Let’s have an official OSM slack. — Due Diligence: https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:wiki.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-26 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
2016-03-26 16:59 GMT-03:00 Steve Coast : > Ok so look, Slack took over the world. It may have taken over the internal-corporate-communication world maybe. Slack has a million active users, Telegram gets 350.000 new users every day. Telegram took over the world more than Slack

Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

2016-03-26 Thread althio
Created a few days ago for SotM-WG: https://osmfoundation.slack.com/ - althio On mobile, please excuse brevity. On Mar 26, 2016 9:05 PM, "Steve Coast" wrote: > Ok so look, Slack took over the world. And it turns out it’s pretty good > and useful. Let’s have an official OSM