[Cialug] Slack group?

[David Champion]

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On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 8:09 AM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let me be clear:  There's nothing inherently wrong with your proposal.  We
> need you to keep proposing things.  I just don't like _this_ proposal.
>
> Having exactly one archived, searchable channel of group communication is
> an advantage in that it forces one channel to be authoritative and suitable
> for all things official.  An example is when time/date of the monthly
> meeting is changed, so when discussion happens off of this list, some
> people wouldn't get the information.  If the group were to abandon this
> channel and somehow import all of the past emails into slack, then slack
> could be the new authoritative, archived, searchable channel of group
> communication.
>
> My employer uses slack.  I personally don't.  If my employer used
> freenode's irc, I would no longer use it for #cialug without going through
> extra motions to keep those accounts isolated from each other and from
> being easily correlated--none of which are available to me on my
> smartphone.
>
> By all means, start up a free slack channel.  If the phone app serves a
> single ad, sucks too much battery, or if people flood it w/ animations,
> don't be surprised if people here don't use it.
>
> --jim
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:
>
> > I'll put a plug in once more for Rocket Chat
> >
> > https://rocket.chat/
> >
> > Open source and seems to have the features people like from Slack.  As
> > well as specific mobile clients.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> This group tried Google Wave back in the day.
> > >> <https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cialug>
> > >>
> > >
> > > I thought that Google Wave was pretty interesting.  It's main problem
> was
> > > that browsers, and especially their JavaScript implementations weren't
> as
> > > optimized as they are now.
> > >
> > > --
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