[OSGeo Africa] Slack Channel
Jeff McKenna
jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Fri Sep 4 04:43:11 PDT 2015
On my side, I don't care where you communicate (in fact a week ago I had
never heard of Slack). These options are there if you want to use them. :)
-jeff
On 2015-09-04 8:39 AM, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Nhamo, Luxon (IWMI-South Africa)
> <L.Nhamo at cgiar.org <mailto:L.Nhamo at cgiar.org>> wrote:
>
> Dear all
>
> This seems more like a splinter/ elitist QGIS forum being formed here.
>
>
> Haha I guess QGIS is maturing...its the first time we were ever called
> elitist in my living memory...
>
>
> Sorry if my observations are wrong but what are the aims of this new
> group which are different from the current group?
>
>
> There is no new group, only new and diverse channels of
> comunication....its good to use different channels - some people like
> the immediacy of online chat, some like the ability to digest their
> convesations via email. I was only pointing to the QGIS channel by way
> of example of what we would get if we would get if osgeo-africa formed a
> chat room on gitter.im <http://gitter.im> (and also similar to what you
> would get on slack since the experience is almost the same).
>
>
> Is it still affiliated to GISSA?
>
>
> And by the way forming special interest groups is not a bad thing (I'm
> not sure why you used such pejorative language above) - if people want
> to share experiences and dive into detail in one particular topic area
> it's just a normal and healthy process of a community. osgeo-africa list
> is itself an example of this - otherwise we would all be subscribed to
> the parent osgeo list and not have regional chapters. And yes I believe
> there is still some affiliation with GISSA - Gavin could probably answer
> better exactly what that is.
>
> Have a good weekend!
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
> *From: *Tim Sutton
> *Sent: *Thursday 3 September 2015 23:47
> *To: *Africa local chapter discussions
> *Reply To: *Africa local chapter discussions
> *Subject: *Re: [OSGeo Africa] Slack Channel
>
>
> 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
>> <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>>
>>> 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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