[OOTB-hive] New communication platform for our community?

[Tahir Malik]

Because we're physically so far away from each other communication is 
key to make anything a success.
And if your communication sucks then the result probably won't be as 
planned and people will engage less.

Same for this akward mailing list:
Mail with subject: Re: [OOTB-hive] New communication platform for our 
community?
Mail with subject: Re: [OOTB-hive] OOTB contribution issues
Mail with subject: Re: [OOTB-hive] Slack

Wow and yes they all seem to be talking about the same subject...... and 
how is to blame? People who can't find their way on which topic is 
discussed where and have to read them all otherwise someone discussed 
something somewhere else he/she didn't read?

I hear this quite a lot, yes this/that has been discussed on IRC.
So someone needs to go to IRC, to the archives find the discussion which 
can be discussed in different timelines and by different people and then 
respond to it in IRC or start a new mailing.
Who un-controlled is this for our communication.

We are volunteers and If I need to spend more time to communicate in 
this community then at work & pesonal life, then Yes I will be less 
engaged in this. So the question is not why are people not engaged? 
Questions is why do we make it hard for people to engage.

Just some quick facts:
- average count on IRC whenever I logon 10 users
- count of different users reply on mailinglist at least 20 users from 
the past 6 months (if I do a total of 2 years there are probably more)
- users in the Order 30

So these facts clearly state the point I and some others are making.

I've got some ideas/projects to start with, but I'm not sure how to 
communicate efficiently with the users who might want to contribute.
Efficiently is to add them on Skype and start discussing stuff instead 
of the current communication platform used.

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*From:* Martin
*Sent:* Wednesday, July 27, 2016 10:47AM
*To:* Ootb-hive
*Cc:*
*Subject:* Re: [OOTB-hive] New communication platform for our community?
>> To be clear: I am not against changing the platform per-se. But I 
>> have strong reservations against doing something "for the heck of it" 
>> / "because X is cool" without tangible indicators / evidence that 
>> it's necessary / objectively benefits the Order or its role within 
>> the Community, especially if any effort could very well be spent on 
>> other activities with more direct results.
> +1 to this, I just thought I would try out mattermost since I had time 
> to do so.
> As I mentioned in IRC to Olivier this morning, for me content previews 
> etc from github gists or wherever is not compelling to me, however the 
> ability to share files inside the communication application is a 
> pretty good feature that is always really hard to get working in IRC, 
> despite the protocols for it having been around since I've been using 
> IRC (which is nearly 20 years now!)
>
>
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