Slack has no F/OSS discounts, but they *do* have a discount for charities like the ASF. The ASF has not (yet) chosen to purchase a license, though, as we encourage mailing lists rather than synchronous chat services. We also want the discussions *recorded* on ASF hardware for archival/review purposes. Mailing lists are easily archived, but not so easily for chat.
At Apache, chat services should be viewed as *supplemental* to a project's dev@ list. This is why we're not spending $$ on them. Projects should be more concerned about keeping discussion on-list, rather than what chat service to use. Cheers, -g On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 8:59 PM Abhishek Tiwari <a...@apache.org> wrote: > Are you okay with message count limitation with Slack? or is there any > license that they have for open source projects? > > Abhishek > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 3:48 PM Sid Anand <san...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi Folks! > > The Airflow community would like to move to Slack from Gitter. Is there > any > > guidance on this list on how to do that? We would essentially like to > > shutdown Gitter. > > > > -s > > >
