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.
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Due Diligence:
https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:wiki.openstreetmap.org
<https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:wiki.openstreetmap.org>
https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:lists.openstreetmap.org
<https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:lists.openstreetmap.org>
I’ve found two OSM-related slacks. Someone owns openstreetmap.slack.com
<http://openstreetmap.slack.com/> and there is also osmus-slack.herokuapp.com
<http://osmus-slack.herokuapp.com/> as a front door to the US slack. The former
I can’t find a lot about. The latter is mentioned here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maryland
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maryland>
And it has a neat thing to throw out invites to people. There’s also a neat bot
that it looks like tmcw wrote:
https://github.com/osmlab/osm-slackbot <https://github.com/osmlab/osm-slackbot>
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I’m proposing that a) we have a global slack and b) it be ‘official’ whatever
that means. Having not been able to find this, I invite everyone over to:
https://awesomestreetmap.slack.com <https://awesomestreetmap.slack.com/>
So unless there is a secret slack somewhere that I missed, or something, I need
help:
* Come join this slack, send me an email for an invite
* Can someone please add the osmbot to this slack?
* Can someone please make the magic “send me an invite thing” for this slack?
* Please help edit http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slack
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slack> and also make slack a prominent part
of other methods of communication
* Please announce this on your favorite existing mailing list, forum or IRC
channel
I realize that I’m inviting a discussion about how slack is an evil company or
that we should all just use IRC, and those are fine arguments I don’t have the
energy for.
Best
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