Hi all, I have had good experience with riot.im matrix.org it is open source, mobile friendly and has an irc gateway.
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 3:27 AM, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > > > Am 10.06.2018 um 05:21 schrieb Bryan Housel: > >> I'm also interested in how others feel about Slack. Is it good for the > community or should we look elsewhere? > > Glad you asked! I think Slack has changed the way I work for the better. > > > > Here are some advantages.. > > * lower barrier to entry for less technical folks > > * great mobile experience > > * good for sharing files / screenshots > > * works well for both sync and async chat > > * emoji reactions, can be used to both cut down on noise comments but > also mark things as read (like our welcome users feed) > > * integration with basically everything (GitHub, Stripe, RSS anything > you want really) > > * easy to start focused public or private channels and pull a few people > in to a discussion > > * ability to mute and set availability times > > * user profiles > > * decent search > > You can have all of that with a number of alternatives, matrix for > completely open and free, mattermost and so on for less ... > .. and these alternatives actually connect with other stuff (say irc). > > > * everyone is on it > That's a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy after you've essentially > force migrated everybody there and then cut the ties with any other > competing media (in OSM) so that you can have your nice walled garden. > > SImon > > > > > I really can’t imagine going back to something else. I’d happily pay > for it if they asked me to. > > > > Anyway, I felt it important to speak up because I’ve noticed a very > common situation when asking for people’s opinion about something, the > people who are happy will stay silent, and the few who have a problem will > be the ones who respond. > > > > There are currently over 800 people on the OSM-US Slack, and over 3000 > on the GIS Spatial Community Slack. I have no idea how many people are > subscribed to the talk-us mailing list. > > > > I don’t think we should get rid of mailing lists. We should still copy > things to the talk-us mailing that affect the entire US community. > > > > Just my thoughts > > Thanks, Bryan > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-us mailing list > > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- James Michael DuPont
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