I would be in support of using IRC as well, simply because it is the standard for open source. Slack is great, but it's for businesses. They explicitly discourage its use by open communities. If you find most IRC clients to be user-unfriendly, you can use irccloud.com, which is almost as nice as Slack, but is just IRC. This way we won't be locked into the platform of some 1.5 year old startup. On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Shane McCarron <shane@halindrome.com> wrote: > We could also set up a bot / logger and capture the IRC logs all the time > if people think that is useful. > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Xavier Vas <xavier@tr80.com> wrote: > >> On 03/08/2016 10:09 PM, Adrian Hope-Bailie wrote: >> > I'd also like to revisit the discussion of tools as a number of people >> > have indicated they're finding it challenging to work via email alone >> > and IRC unfortunately isn't friendly for asynchronous comms as you >> > miss any chat that happens while you're not logged in. >> The *combination* of IRC and mailing list seems good enough. Works for >> many open source projects that I am on. Rgd. "missing chat on IRC" you >> can leave your IRC client always logged in (most have that options) >> and/or use a bouncer with logging -- the last bit is a bit "pro". >> >> - Xav >> >> >> > > > -- > -Shane >
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