Re: [UG-ADMINS] Slack-Team for Usergroups available

+ 1 to ben'so questions.

- Jacques

On Saturday, March 21, 2015, Ben Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Andreas Heigl <[email protected]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone.
> >
> > After a brief discussion on twitter I've set up a slack-team for
> > PHP-Usergroups. You can reach this team at https://phpug.slack.com .
> >
> > As the team requires an invitation I've setup a site where everyone
> > interested can request an invitation. You can reach that site via
> > http://murmuring-forest-7062.herokuapp.com/ (Yes, there might be better
> > names, but it's a start).
> >
> > Both links are - of course - available via the footer on http://php.ug ..
> >
> > Once logged in you can create a channel for your usergroup and start
> > inviting and chatting.
> >
> > This is NOT intended to replace any existing commnuication-channels but
> > to be a service to improve the communication between your
> > usergroup-members. And it might even improve the communication between
> > different usergroups. You do not HAVE to use it ;)
> >
> > To ease the integration into your current chat-applications I've opened
> > the Jabber- and IRC-gateways. You can find the information to access
> > those (after login) at https://phpug.slack.com/account/gateways .
> >
> > I've also added two new contact-ways on php.ug to easiely integrate a
> > current slack-team or a phpug-channel into the contacts of your group on
> > http://php.ug.
> >
> > I'm sure there is room for improvements, so feel free to ping me either
> > via the list, IRC, PM or open an issue at
> > https://github.com/php-ug/php.ug/issues or whatever way you prefer ;)
> >
> > Thanks for your input and have a nice weekend!
>
>
>
> The use of Slack has increased lately among open source projects, with some
> projects making it their primary place for communication. As a user group
> organizer, I feel it's my job to connect our members to the greater open
> source community, and the move to Slack is destabilizing the long-standing
> Freenode IRC tradition among open source projects, making it more difficult
> to find that one place (Freenode) to communicate with all the projects.
>
> What are your thoughts on this? Why are projects moving to Slack? If so
> many projects and groups are moving to Slack, how can I connect to a
> variety of open source projects through one network now?
>
> Just posing honest questions—not really making any arguments or playing
> Devil's Advocate. :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>