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 <st...@asklater.com> wrote: > Thanks I added it to the wiki. > > Steve > > On Mar 26, 2016, at 2:07 PM, althio <althio.fo...@gmail.com> 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, "Steve Coast" <st...@asklater.com> 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 >> https://www.google.com/#q=slack+site:lists.openstreetmap.org >> >> I’ve found two OSM-related slacks. Someone owns openstreetmap.slack.com >> and there is also 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 >> >> 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 >> >> — >> >> 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 >> >> 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 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 >> >> Steve >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk