[Festival] IFF's now on Slack!

[Sacha van Geffen]

On 10/27/2015 11:36 AM, Jillian York wrote:
> On 10/27/15 11:27 AM, holger krekel wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Is it a good idea for the "Internet freedom" community to take US
> government funding? Is it a good idea for us to use Twitter? I'd argue
> those are far worse things than Slack...
> 
> Sorry, but your argument is overwrought and unnecessary. You don't have
> to join the Slack channel. And you certainly don't have to interrogate
> the organizers of the conference publicly because you've got a
> holier-than-thou attitude about which tools are best.
> 

To me there is some truth in both arguments, sure evveryone recognizes
that using slack is not the perfect open and free solution, and not
fully compatible ith what we want to achieve.

I think it is great that the organizers try to broaden the involvement
of a larger group before the festival. And slack is surely at least a
better option than for instance Facebook or Google tools.

On the other hand I do understand why people do not want to be part of
it and exclusion because of that is also not a great thing.

To the practical end of things; would you all feel comfortable if we
would set up a private instance of mattermost
http://www.mattermost.org/open-source-slack-alternative-reaches-1-0/
on our servers for the festival, instead of using Slack?

Cheers, Sacha




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