[Festival] IFF's now on Slack!

[Lea Kaspar]

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Thanks,
Lea

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Víctor Gonca <victorrgonca at gmail.com>
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> 2015-10-27 23:21 GMT+01:00 Steve Phillips <steve at tryingtobeawesome.com>:
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>> I strongly agree with what meejah said, FWIW -- Slack is a fantastic
>> product that is ill-suited for large open source projects.
>>
>> --Steven
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:31 AM, meejah <meejah at meejah.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Tom Lowenthal <me at tomlowenthal.com> writes:
>>>
>>> > Slack is indeed a *very good* way to communicate and that's why so
>>> > many people use it.
>>>
>>> I think it's a decent way for *private teams* to communicate, and that's
>>> why so many businesses use it. For "open" projects/teams, it seems
>>> rather terrible to me: you have to pay money for each person you
>>> "invite" *or* you rely on whatever-the-free-tier provides.
>>>
>>> Also, Slack doesn't like large communities it seems:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it.html
>>>
>>> So, even ignoring the (quite valid) criticisms about closed-source
>>> software and putting All The Things into Slack's servers it seems that
>>> an "open communitiy" isn't really a use-case for Slack.
>>>
>>> That is: Slack is *not* "IRC with a nice Web interface" -- it's "we
>>> didn't want to set up our own private Jabber/etc server, so we paid
>>> Slack instead".
>>>
>>> Also, FWIW, I totally agree that "we" should be leading by example by
>>> using whatever is the best free/open "communicate in public with groups"
>>> software **even if** the very best free/open option is completely
>>> terrible vs. some proprietary option...because if this community can't
>>> (or won't) use it, who will?
>>>
>>> --
>>> meejah
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