Community chat?

[Sebastián Magrí]

Is there any chat from the community?

I saw the freenode channel but it's pretty dead.

A lot of the time a more chat alike venue where to discuss stuff synchronously or just share ideas turns out very useful and estimulates the community.

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[Yuval Itzchakov]

A dedicated Slack would be awesome.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 22:57 Sebastián Magrí <[hidden email]> wrote:

Is there any chat from the community?

I saw the freenode channel but it's pretty dead.

A lot of the time a more chat alike venue where to discuss stuff synchronously or just share ideas turns out very useful and estimulates the community.

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[Marta Paes Moreira]

Ah! That freenode channel dates back to...2014? The community is not maintaining any channels other than the Mailing List (and Stack Overflow), currently.

But this is something we're looking into, as it's coming up more and more frequently. Would Slack be your first pick? Or would something async but easier to interact with also work, like a Discourse forum?

Thanks for bringing this up!

Marta

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 10:03 PM Yuval Itzchakov <[hidden email]> wrote:

A dedicated Slack would be awesome.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 22:57 Sebastián Magrí <[hidden email]> wrote:

Is there any chat from the community?

I saw the freenode channel but it's pretty dead.

A lot of the time a more chat alike venue where to discuss stuff synchronously or just share ideas turns out very useful and estimulates the community.

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Sebastián Ramírez Magrí

[Yuval Itzchakov]

Both have their place IMO.

There's a lot of value in synchronous communication for which I'd prefer Slack or Discord. 

For async communication, I think moving away from mailing lists into something like a Discourse forum would be good.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:36 AM Marta Paes Moreira <[hidden email]> wrote:

Ah! That freenode channel dates back to...2014? The community is not maintaining any channels other than the Mailing List (and Stack Overflow), currently.

But this is something we're looking into, as it's coming up more and more frequently. Would Slack be your first pick? Or would something async but easier to interact with also work, like a Discourse forum?

Thanks for bringing this up!

Marta

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 10:03 PM Yuval Itzchakov <[hidden email]> wrote:

A dedicated Slack would be awesome.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 22:57 Sebastián Magrí <[hidden email]> wrote:

Is there any chat from the community?

I saw the freenode channel but it's pretty dead.

A lot of the time a more chat alike venue where to discuss stuff synchronously or just share ideas turns out very useful and estimulates the community.

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Sebastián Ramírez Magrí

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[Sebastián Magrí]

I agree with Yuval.

If we wanted to keep chats in the open source world, there's also Matrix nowadays which works quite well.

On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 09:58, Yuval Itzchakov <[hidden email]> wrote:

Both have their place IMO.

There's a lot of value in synchronous communication for which I'd prefer Slack or Discord. 

For async communication, I think moving away from mailing lists into something like a Discourse forum would be good.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:36 AM Marta Paes Moreira <[hidden email]> wrote:

Ah! That freenode channel dates back to...2014? The community is not maintaining any channels other than the Mailing List (and Stack Overflow), currently.

But this is something we're looking into, as it's coming up more and more frequently. Would Slack be your first pick? Or would something async but easier to interact with also work, like a Discourse forum?

Thanks for bringing this up!

Marta

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 10:03 PM Yuval Itzchakov <[hidden email]> wrote:

A dedicated Slack would be awesome.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 22:57 Sebastián Magrí <[hidden email]> wrote:

Is there any chat from the community?

I saw the freenode channel but it's pretty dead.

A lot of the time a more chat alike venue where to discuss stuff synchronously or just share ideas turns out very useful and estimulates the community.

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Sebastián Ramírez Magrí

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Best Regards,
Yuval Itzchakov.

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