[OSGeo Africa] Slack Channel

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Charles Rethman <rethman at me.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 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?
>

​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...

Regards

Tim

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> Charles Rethman
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> 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
>
> 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 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>
> wrote:
>
> I don't monitor this list frequently so please e-mail me directly.
>
> -jeff
>
>
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> 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
> <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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