Hi Marc, Thanks for bringing this up. I think vendor lockin is a valid concern but when we weighed that against the modern communication platform that slack provides which will help engage with our community better, we chose the latter. And I must say, the community engagement after Slack transition has been better than what it was before during IRC.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 1:15 PM Marc Roos <m.r...@f1-outsourcing.eu> wrote: > > > I don't think it is good to get vendor locked-in. First and foremost > data in slack is not publicly accessible. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jie Yu [mailto:yujie....@gmail.com] > Sent: 23 April 2019 19:51 > To: user > Subject: Re: Slack upgrade to Standard plan. Thanks Criteo > > Thanks Criteo friends! > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 10:13 AM Vinod Kone <vinodk...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > As you probably realized today, we got our Slack upgraded from > "free" plan to "standard" plan, which allows us to have unlimited > message history and better analytics among other things! This would be > great for our community. > > This upgrade has been made possible due to a general > contribution/donation from folks at Criteo > <http://www.criteo.com/> . Criteo has been a long time user of Apache > Mesos and luckily for us, they wanted to contribute back to the ecosystem. > We will update the website with the thanks shortly. > > Hope you'll take advantage of the standard plan. > > Thanks, > > Vinod > > > > >
