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

[Daniel Gradecak]

Tahir, you have the point. However I wonder why we could not start
integrating those bits with slack, instead of starting using it
immediately. Step by step could be, add all channels to slack, configure
slack to get the information from anywhere we want, and make it the single
point of all the information and channels we are all using at this moment.
Just talking out loud, might be something we could start with, and we keep
the existing infrastructure as is. What do you think?

For my self I am using slack a lot for email communications, trello
cards/tasks and some other tools, just that I have everything in a single
place when I need to find something. I am not sure what kind of integration
slack has with IRC but a simple search offers a couple of possibilities,
however someone needs to investigate of course and cofnigure it. And to
spice this thing up
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/03/24/slack-is-quietly-unintentionally-killing-irc/#gref

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Tahir Malik <tahir.malik at contezza.nl>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> ------------------------------
> *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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