Actually some objections have been raised to using Slack because it is not open source. So the options will be either zulipchat if a group of people want to use it, or Riot if it is just me.
Thanks, Eric On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 1:20 PM Eric Barnhill <ericbarnh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am going to set up a Slack to communicate with my GSoC mentees. > > I know official policy is to communicate on this list, but especially with > small setup questions the mentees might have, or gaps in their knowledge, > that will create unnecessary spam for everyone. Larger-scale decisions will > be posted here so they are on the record. > > I didn't know what scope to make this Slack. So I called it > apachecommonsnumbers.slack.com . If more people in commons are interested > in this idea, I could change its name to apachecommons.slack.com, and we > could all set up our own channels on it. It's free if that concerns anyone. > > Give me a +1 if you want to use it and I will invite you. Otherwise it > will be lonely, just me and my mentees. :) >