There have been a number of threads discussing creating a Slack for the Spark community that I'd like to try to help reconcile.
Topic: Slack for Spark Why: Allows for the community to have the option to communicate with each other using Slack; a pretty popular async communication. Discussion points: - There are other ASF projects that use Slack including Druid <https://druid.apache.org/community/>, Parquet <https://parquet.apache.org/community/>, Iceberg <https://iceberg.apache.org/community/>, and Hudi <https://hudi.apache.org/community/get-involved/> - Flink <https://flink.apache.org/community/> is also using Slack and using linen.dev as its Slack archive (so we can surpass the 90 days limit) which is also Google searchable (Delta Lake <https://www.linen.dev/s/delta-lake/> is also using this service as well) - While there is an ASF Slack <https://infra.apache.org/slack.html>, it requires an @apache.org email address to use which is quite limiting which is why these (and many other) OSS projects are using the free-tier Slack - It does require managing Slack properly as Slack free edition limits you to approx 100 invites. One of the ways to resolve this is to create a bit.ly link so we can manage the invites without regularly updating the website with the new invite link. Are there any other points of discussion that we should add here? I'm glad to work with whomever to help manage the various aspects of Slack (code of conduct, linen.dev and search/archive process, invite management, etc.). HTH! Denny
