Re: [UG-ADMINS] Slack-Team for Usergroups available
[email protected] (Elizabeth Tucker Long)
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Our group is the same way. There are a few of us who are active on IRC for other purposes that hang out in our IRC channel, but most of the Madison group is not active in IRC at all. I did an intro to IRC at one of our meetings, and that got two or three other people to pop in periodically, but the channel is still mostly just me and a few other active community members hanging out (with most of the active people in our room not even being from our area). I think the main deterrent is the lack of easy-to-use and easy-to-customize tools. The tools out there that have nice GUI interfaces for IRC are so customizable that it is overwhelming to customize them. There are web-interfaces which are pretty nice, but keeping an eye on one of double-digits worth of browser tabs is not ideal either. I think of slack as the GUI interface that IRC really needed to be relevant to a new generation of programmers, and that's why it has taken off so well. Beth On 3/22/15 3:15 PM, Jeremy Lindblom wrote: > We've tried unsuccessfully for over 5 years to get our Seattle PHP group to use IRC. Nobody wants to use it. > > Our mailing list is our main way for people to interact, and it is pretty active. > > We use Slack, but only recently, and only for the organizers. > > -- Jeremy Lindblom > PHP Software Engineer, AWS > >> On Mar 22, 2015, at 12:42 PM, Lorna Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm really disappointed to see the user groups moving. For me, freenode is >> a trusted home for open source projects and user group; the walled garden >> feels like a really strange choice. I feel the same way about the facebook >> groups, for all the same reasons. Not all of us are on facebook, or want >> to mix our personal lives into the professional spheres - and how will new >> people meet new groups that require email invite to gain access to? >> >> I am sure nobody meant to exclude me but I'm not comfortable with >> interacting in these other ways. Hopefully most groups will still maintain >> email announcement lists at least so that it will be possible to find out >> about their meetings in other ways, but I do think we lost something here. >> It's fine for groups of friends to hang out on slack or wherever but if >> we're a community, then we need to remain open to our future members who >> haven't stumbled across us yet. >> >> Just my tuppence (totally agree with the others feeling old for resisting >> change!) >> >> Lorna >> >> >>> On 22 March 2015 at 18:47, Joe Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I share a lot of the same concerns as Ben. If the solution makes sense to >>> allow the conversations to happen in IRC and Slack, I'm all for it. >>> >>> Maybe I'm old school, but you can pry IRC from my cold dead hands. >>> Especially when there are great looking (and customizable) web based >>> clients such as https://www.irccloud.com >>> >>> Side note: I'm glad to see this conversation happen here. I've noticed a >>> few conversations happen on twitter that I've missed because I've not been >>> able to stop what I was doing to contribute. never mind the fact that 140 >>> characters is terrible for a conversation of any real depth. >>> >>>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Andreas Heigl <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Am 21.03.15 um 21:10 schrieb Ben Ramsey: >>>>> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Andreas Heigl <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>>> And that was (and still is) my response to the idea of a >>> usergroup-wide >>>>>> slack-team. But on the other hand, I'd rather have one place to have >>> to >>>>>> look for those not on IRC instead of hundreds. At least MY primary >>>>>> intention in creating that team was to catch all those not on IRC or >>>>>> already using slack as their main communication channel into ONE place >>>>>> to look for them instead of them splitting up into hundreds of >>> different >>>>>> places. >>>>>> >>>>>> That was the intention behind my emphasis of that team NOT being a >>>>>> replaement but an addition of the way we as a community can >>> communicate >>>>>> with one another. >>>>> Is it possible to somehow hook up Slack to the existing #phpgroups >>>> channel >>>>> on Freenode IRC so that we don't have a separation there? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Ben >>>> Hi Ben (and everyone else). >>>> >>>> After a bit of searching and testing I've found a way to connect >>>> IRC-Channels with Slack-Channels so that things you post in the >>>> IRC-Channel are also posted to slack and vice-versa. You can have a look >>>> at the solution at https://github.com/ekmartin/slack-irc or >>>> http://npm.taobao.org/package/slack-irc. >>>> >>>> I could implememt that to map the #phpgroups-Channel on IRC to the >>>> #default-Channel on slack if that can reach consensus. >>>> >>>> But that's a decission that has to be backed by more people than myself >>> ;-) >>>> So input is very much welcome! >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> Andreas >>>> >>>> -- >>>> ,,, >>>> (o o) >>>> +---------------------------------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo-+ >>>> | Andreas Heigl | >>>> | mailto:[email protected] N 50°22'59.5" E 08°23'58" | >>>> | http://andreas.heigl.org http://hei.gl/wiFKy7 | >>>> +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ >>>> | http://hei.gl/root-ca | >>>> +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ >>> >>> -- >>> - Joe Ferguson >>> MemphisTechnology.org >>> MemphisPHP.org >>> HACKMemphis.com >> >> >> -- >> Lorna Mitchell >> http://lornajane.net