I'm also using slack for work in my new company. It makes sense for us as a lot of the activities imply real-time synchronization between members of teams spread around the world.
But as part of my job is to enhance the community supporting tools, I'm finding that slack is useful, but, as previously said, tends to fuzzy decision making and documentation, something that does not bode well with repeatable processes and knowledge consolidation. Search is limited 10k last messages for the free teams, so I'd recommend that if projects want to use it we look for a (donated or paid) comprehensive plan. That one of the key features they charge for is full searchability says it all about how important knowledge consolidation is in the contexto of collaboration... El vie., 7 ago. 2015 a las 0:02, Ted Dunning (<ted.dunn...@gmail.com>) escribió: > I use slack for work. The Apache Mahout project has been using it as well. > > There is a huge danger of off-list discussions that go unreported (as with > IRC, but seemingly more so because of a better interface and easier access > to one-on-one conversations). The problem is not the tool itself or the > people, it is just the social drift that happens and which must be > forcefully counter-acted. > > > > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Achim Nierbeck <bcanh...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > > Same here using slack at work and irc for apache chats > > > > Regards, Achim > > > > sent from mobile device > > Am 06.08.2015 9:33 nachm. schrieb <beancinemat...@gmail.com>: > > > > > I use Slack at work, but favor the openness of IRC for everything else. > > > > > > Mo > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > > > On Aug 6, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Peter Hunsberger < > > peter.hunsber...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Outside of Apache, the NEO4J project uses Slack. It seems pretty > > active > > > > with a pretty global user base. > > > > > > > > Peter Hunsberger > > > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts < > lui...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> Hi, > > > >> I’m curious who here also uses Slack. Besides me, that is. > > > >> > > > >> One thing I’m interested in is, How global is its reach? > > > >> > > > >> -louis > > > > > >
