For another perspective, a large proportion of my collaborators are outside Mozilla, and I've declined thus far to switch to Slack. In fact, I finally installed the client only a few weeks ago for some very specific use cases. Perhaps my experiences are different from the main, but spam on IRC has only ever been a minor annoyance in my life, on the order of a few messages every few days. I get more in my mail. OTOH, the lack of client choice on Slack would be a daily annoyance if I migrated: try closing a DM without using the mouse, or enjoy it signing you out quietly every so often, or let the inconsistencies of the Electron app with your platform of choice wash over you. They also seem to be ever tightening the screws—closing down their IRC gateway, for the most recent example. It doesn't seem like a place to invest my trust. I'm waiting it out as I did Yammer, in anticipation that an "open and accessible to all" platform wins the day. Hang in there!
Erik > On Oct 11, 2018, at 7:38 , David Teller via governance > <governance@lists.mozilla.org> wrote: > > I should add that there are partners who are simply not at liberty to > sign NDAs just to be able to chat with us. > > Cheers, > David > > On 11/10/2018 13:35, Dão Gottwald via governance wrote: > >> If the primary concern is IRC spam, then requiring an NDA seems overkill. >> There must be a middle ground between "anyone can join a channel" and "you >> need to sign an NDA", right? You seem to be suggesting that IRC is already >> a lost cause, which seems dangerous since Slack is basically unavailable to >> newcomers. >> >> I'm not a diehard IRC fan and Slack hater. If we could move all chat >> communication to Slack, require user registration, and reasonably open up >> or lock down channels as needed, I'd be happy with that. >> >> dao _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
