[Baypiggies] pythondev.slack.com for chatting

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Feb 2 11:36:31 EST 2016


Honestly it all sounds very exclusive and walled-off. But I've signed
up, maybe it'll be different this time.

(I have nothing against Slack -- I just doubt that their model is
right for open source communities.)

--Guido

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 8:15 AM, Thomas Nelson <tnelson at sfelf.com> wrote:
> Doing a quick search I found http://pythondevelopers.herokuapp.com/ which
> allows you to signup for pythondev.slack.com. Looks like the invitation
> system has already been set up.
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 1:36 AM, Karen Dalton <kd at karend.net> wrote:
>>
>> On a related note...I was thinking tonight, generally...about the Slack
>> accessibility problem... Slack is great (much better ability to share code
>> snippets, pin important info, search, notifications [including offline]) ...
>> but as I and Guido and many others in the world have experienced...sometimes
>> it is hard to discover how to get invitations/access to the innumerable
>> Slack channels in the world.
>>
>> And I happened to serendipitously stumble on this project tonight!
>>
>> http://rauchg.com/slackin/
>>
>> Food for thought, anyway. :-)
>>
>> IRC and freenode are great for (user) findability...but I like Slack
>> personally a lot better for usability. I don't know who operates the
>> pythondev slack channel but maybe they would be up for implementing
>> invitation system as above. Might be a stretch, but I thought I would pass
>> it along.
>>
>> -Karen
>>
>> p.s. I haven't used it personally, but I have been interested in trying
>> Sameroom (https://sameroom.io)... to accommodate my unfortunately
>> complicated IRC/Gitter/Slack world of chat clients I need to use daily.
>>
>>
>> On 2/1/16 7:13 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at freebsd.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Baypiggies members may be interested in this Slack group dedicated
>>>> to Python development:
>>>>
>>>> https://pythondev.slack.com
>>>>
>>>> Slack is a chat system, similar to IRC, but it has a much nicer
>>>> interface which can be accessed by web browser or iOS/Android clients.
>>>
>>> We use it at Dropbox. It's just chat rooms.
>>>
>>>> The person who set it up is very nice, and can create a #baypiggies
>>>> chat room if we want.  pythondev.slack.com is free.
>>>
>>> How the heck do you log in to pythondev.slack.com? It doesn't have a
>>> way to sign up that I can discover -- it just has a "sign in" page but
>>> no way to register.
>>>
>>
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