[OSGeo Africa] Slack Channel

[Charles Rethman]

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: http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it.html <http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it.html>. 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.

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).

There doesn’t seem to be a General OSGeo chat room on Gitter yet… is it worth forming?



Charles Rethman



> On 3 Sep 2015, at 11:47 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> For those wanting to join the gitter QGIS chat room, you can go here:
> 
> https://gitter.im/qgis/QGIS <https://gitter.im/qgis/QGIS>
> 
> You can also install the gitter desktop and mobile apps if you want to - visit the gitter home page for details.
> 
> 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… https://slack.com/pricing <https://slack.com/pricing> whereas gitter is linked right into github which is nice and is free for public repos).
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
>> On 03 Sep 2015, at 21:34, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> I don't monitor this list frequently so please e-mail me directly.
>> 
>> -jeff
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2015-09-03 4:09 PM, Jea Munda wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I want to join.
>>> 
>>> -jea
>>> 
>>> On Thursday, September 3, 2015, Jeff McKenna
>>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>    Hi Charles,
>>> 
>>>    I've sent you an invite.  If anyone else wants to join just ping me
>>>    directly.
>>> 
>>>    -jeff
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    On 2015-09-03 9:04 AM, Charles Rethman wrote:
>>> 
>>>        Hi everybody,
>>> 
>>>        This list has been really quiet lately… I’m wondering why? Is it
>>>        because
>>>        email is so last-century and we all moved over to Slack? If so,
>>>        how do I
>>>        join? If not, isn’t it time to set up a Team or a channel on a
>>>        team like
>>>        ZA Tech?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>        Charles Rethman
>>> 
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> 
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