[Patternfly] Move to Slack

[Greg Sheremeta]

+1 to Andrés's points.

I'm in favor of the move, plus paying so we don't hit the 10000 chats limit.

Greg

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Andres Galante <agalante at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> PatternFly is a unique community that joins developers and designers.
>
> Designers do not use IRC. Since I love IRC and I believe in the power of
> freenode, I did try to push them there. The ones that finally land on IRC
> just ignore the channel.
>
> Slack is less scary than IRC :) and many designers are already there. The
> core team of designers building PatternFly is on Slack.
>
> I want to bring the communication channel to where the core committers
> are, instead of pushing the core committers to use a new tool.
>
> I would like to include the rest of the community to the discussions the
> UXD team is already having on Slack, and the only way I can think of doing
> that is by moving our communication channel.
>
> if the mountain won't come to Muhammad...
>
> Maybe I am wrong, I know this move is controversial. It's not about Slack
> itself, it's about been more open.
>
> I'd like to know if there are other options to solve this problem.
>
> Thank,
>
> Andrés
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Alexandre Porcelli Bakos <
> porcelli at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Andres,
>>
>>  What makes you think that by using Slack instead of an IRC channel
>> (that, as you mentioned) is usually crowded would improve the
>> discussions?
>>  I've been on OSS for a while now, I've been part of so many vibrant
>> communities... and all in common using the good old IRC.
>>
>> Regards,
>> ---
>> Alexandre Porcelli
>> Principal Software Engineer
>> Red Hat Business Systems and Intelligence Group
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Andreas Nilsson <anilsson at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On 2016-09-29 22:17, Andres Galante wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi!
>> >>
>> >> I want us to move the PatternFly community chat to Slack.
>> >>
>> >> I feel that even though the IRC channel is usually crowded there is not
>> >> enough discussion.
>> >>
>> >> I love IRC but since the UXD team is on Slack, all of our designers and
>> >> most of our developers are on Slack.
>> >
>> >
>> > It would be one more app for me to install and keep open, but if it
>> allows
>> > for one less client for the rest of you to have open, I'm happy to
>> carry the
>> > burden. :)
>> >
>> > PS. This is more of an internal company thing, but I'm happy to join
>> the UXD
>> > slack channel too, because I'm a bit isolated out here in my department.
>> > Totally up for taking that discussion off-list.
>> >
>> > - Andreas
>> >
>> >
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