[Festival] IFF's now on Slack!

[holger krekel]

Hello Pepe, all,

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 17:33 -0400, Pepe Borrás wrote:
> *
> 
> “It’s a beautiful place full of interesting peoples to talk with [tears
> of joy]”
> 
> 
> *The *Internet Freedom Festival Slack has arrived!
> 
> 
> The #community channel is the hangout spot for the entire IFF community.
> We would like to see many of you over there, so go ahead and request
> your inviteby replying to this email with the subject “I want to be a
> Slacker”
> 
> 
> Not a big fan of Slack?Worry not! Important announcements will be made
> through all our different channels, including this mailing list and our
> Twitter account [1]

Is it a good idea to tie the "internet freedom" community to Slack
Technologies, a large for-profit highly venture-capital driven company
in silicon valley?  And to help their marketing by advising people
to shout "i want to be a slacker"?  Centralized easy-to-surveil 
communication systems are the problem, not the solution in my view.

If you and the people who organized the "circumvention tech festival"
don't feel they can come up with a better idea for communication
infrastructure there is a big problem right there.  Have you explored
other possibilities?  If so, for what reasons did you out outrule them?

best,
holger