<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Charles Rethman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rethman@me.com" target="_blank">rethman@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Interesting set of observations on Slack and Gitter. Jeff McKenna invited me to the OSGeo team on Slack and I’ve joined. There’s a very interesting blog post on there from another OS group that got frustrated with Slack — if you want to read, check it out here: <a href="http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it.html" target="_blank">http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it.html</a>. From their experience, it looks like Tim is right, Slack is expensive and not actually up to the ethical and practical standard for a large OS chat group.<div><br></div><div>I’m new to Slack and I know some good people who love it but I should have looked about for alternatives like Gitter (obvious, reallly!), which looks like a great option. Thank you Tim for the enlightenment (and thank you for the QGIS Chat Room invite—I’ve joined).</div><div><br></div><div>There doesn’t seem to be a General OSGeo chat room on Gitter yet… is it worth forming?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">Yeah I think it would be good (previous poster's comments aside). Gitter channels are linked to git repos, so maybe Jeff could oblidge us by creating an osgeo/osgeo repo or for more local chat, and osgeo/africa repo that we can point gitter too. Having a repo might actually be quite nice and we could collaboratively build up Africa specific resources in that repo...</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">Regards</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">Tim</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On 3 Sep 2015, at 11:47 PM, Tim Sutton <<a href="mailto:tim@kartoza.com" target="_blank">tim@kartoza.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div class="h5">Hi<div><br></div><div>For those wanting to join the gitter QGIS chat room, you can go here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://gitter.im/qgis/QGIS" target="_blank">https://gitter.im/qgis/QGIS</a></div><div><br></div><div>You can also install the gitter desktop and mobile apps if you want to - visit the gitter home page for details.</div><div><br></div><div>If there is interest I could set up an osgeo africa one (sorry to usurp your Slack promulgation Jeff haha :-) ). The reason I don't like slack is that their subscription fees are terribly expensive - or at the least pretty confusing… <a href="https://slack.com/pricing" target="_blank">https://slack.com/pricing</a> whereas gitter is linked right into github which is nice and is free for public repos).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 03 Sep 2015, at 21:34, Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>I don't monitor this list frequently so please e-mail me directly.<br><br>-jeff<br><br><br><br>On 2015-09-03 4:09 PM, Jea Munda wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br>I want to join.<br><br>-jea<br><br>On Thursday, September 3, 2015, Jeff McKenna<br><<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a> <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>>><br>wrote:<br><br> Hi Charles,<br><br> I've sent you an invite. If anyone else wants to join just ping me<br> directly.<br><br> -jeff<br><br><br><br><br> On 2015-09-03 9:04 AM, Charles Rethman wrote:<br><br> Hi everybody,<br><br> This list has been really quiet lately… I’m wondering why? Is it<br> because<br> email is so last-century and we all moved over to Slack? If so,<br> how do I<br> join? If not, isn’t it time to set up a Team or a channel on a<br> team like<br> ZA Tech?<br><br><br> Charles Rethman<br><br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>Africa mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Africa@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Africa@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>You can UNSUBSCRIBE at <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa</a><br></blockquote><br></div></div><div><span>—</span><br><span><br></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br><span><span><KartozaLogo160x66.png></span></span><span class=""><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-align:center"><br><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-align:center">Tim Sutton</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-align:center"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="text-align:center">Visit <a href="http://kartoza.com/" target="_blank">http://kartoza.com</a> to find out about open source:</div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div><div style="text-align:center">* Desktop GIS programming services</div><div style="text-align:center">* Geospatial web development</div><div style="text-align:center">* GIS Training</div><div style="text-align:center">* Consulting Services</div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div><div style="text-align:center">Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at <a href="http://freenode.net/" target="_blank">freenode.net</a></div><div style="text-align:center">Tim is a member of the QGIS Project Steering Committee</div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center">Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial</div></div></div></div>
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