Hi everyone, I thought it might be useful to create a Slack channel for LilyPond, particularly with the advent of another Google Summer of Code term.
Most GSoC orgs encourage some sort of IRC or other chat protocol for students / mentors / admins to interact, but of course the downside is that these aren't usually public spaces. However, this paradigm for faster (and probably more casual) communication could be a good way of maintaining students' enthusiasm, productivity, and general *bonding* with each other and the more interested community members. GSoC students shouldn't ever use the channel to ask questions that should be answered by the general community, but it might be the place to ask quick questions that really don't need a whole email dedicated to them. Also, people can arrange times to meet and chat this way, similar to Skype or whatever. So I'd like to know general thoughts about the use of such a system in the first place, for GSoC, but also if people might see a use for it outside of the scope of LilyPond. Other than the tradeoff between (potential) pace/efficiency and permanence/archivability, the only other tricky part of Slack is the way that new members are invited to the channel. Admins for a channel can individually invite anyone, and can also allow anyone whose email belongs to a certain domain (such as *@gnu.org) to find and request to join the channel. But the upside to that is that it is easy to curate membership and to even have private threads (created by admins) within the channel. If you want to have a look and try it out, I'd be happy to invite individuals. Please just let me know - it takes two seconds to send the invitation, and I am hopeful that this is something others are interested in. The Slack channel is: https://lilypond.slack.com/ Looking forward to your thoughts. Best, Jeffery -- Jeffery Shivers jefferyshivers.com soundcloud.com/jefferyshivers _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
