[Festival] IFF's now on Slack!

[Samuel Carlisle]

On 27/10/15 18:54, Sacha van Geffen wrote:
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> 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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I would second Sacha and kindly welcome that support to setup the server
with mattermost. Thanks for explaining all the sides and offering a
solution Sacha!

Kind regards,

samthetechie

p.s. I will volunteer to help run an IT helpdesk / ticket based or live
support to help our community use the new platform. Will others join me?
This has got to work! :)

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