[Festival] IFF's now on Slack!

[Jonathan Stray]

Overall I think this discussion has gone pretty well :)

We're grappling with some key issues here, and I'm just going to +1 what I
believe are the key points. I realize some folks will feel that a different
set of points are important, and that's fine. Feel free to tell us what you
would highlight instead!

Gus's link nails why Slack is way better than IRC for many people:
https://simplysecure.org/blog/when-closed-source-wins/

Oktavia asks the key operational question: if Slack is inappropriate for
certain types of discussions, which types of discussions are those? I note
we are having *this* discussion over unsecure email.

Jillian reminds us that open vs. closed source is just one of the political
axes we could be thinking about, and every one of these issues involves
complex tradeoffs of competing goals.

James and others have pointed out that inclusiveness is important, if we
want to expand the sphere of people involved about internet freedom in all
of its various aspects.

Personally, I'm happy for there to exist a Slack channel. It's just one
option; all the other channels still work. If people choose to use Slack
over IRC, I would ask seriously why that is.

Perhaps this is because I see our ultimate goal as getting everyone *else*
to use secure communication technologies; forcing ourselves to use poor
tools won't get anyone else using them.

  - Jonathan
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