Thanks Alec. That was my whole point. We have standardized (after lengthy discussions) on IRC – and with tools like irccloud, IRC is pretty useable. If we want to change the tool – fine. But we should have one and not several tools – otherwise you divide the community which is worse than using “the wrong tool”.
Cheers, Frank From: Alec Hothan (ahothan) <[email protected]> Sent: Donnerstag, 23. April 2020 16:18 To: Heather Kirksey <[email protected]>; Frank Brockners (fbrockne) <[email protected]> Cc: Jim Baker <[email protected]>; TSC OPNFV <[email protected]>; opnfv-tech-discuss <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [opnfv-tech-discuss] [opnfv-tsc] Invite your teammates to Slack +1 “A bit more user friendly” is an understatement. I’ve been around quite a bit and I’m personally allergic to IRC. I was disappointed about IRC use when I started to interact with OPNFV about 5y ago. We need to realize that the new generation of younger developers tends to favor more modern tools and imposing the use of IRC could discourage some talents… CNCF is a great community made of both experienced and new developers and they did not chose IRC for a reason. However I’m not sure how meetings could conduct their interaction on IRC *and* Slack at the same time, so it is not as simple to please both crowds. IRC is great tool with lots of (often arcane) capabilities and we may have some people who would stick to IRC and hate Slack, but I think we need to adapt to the new world 😉 Just my $0.02 Alec From: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Heather Kirksey <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 6:04 AM To: "Frank Brockners (fbrockne)" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: Jim Baker <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, TSC OPNFV <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, opnfv-tech-discuss <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [opnfv-tech-discuss] [opnfv-tsc] Invite your teammates to Slack To address this further, we're not suggesting deprecation of IRC, but in our interactions with other communities, including the cloud native groups that make heavy use of Slack, we thought it could be useful to look at trying out another tool. It's certainly a bit more user friendly than IRC. It also provides opportunities to have multiple channels, including community building and "water cooler" type channels. I know certainly in our internal LFN use of Slack, we've found it very helpful to keep in touch, particularly right now when we're all working remotely and quarantined at home. If it's not useful, we don't have to use it, but it is fairly easy to make a workspace available, so we thought we'd try it out. Cheers, Heather On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:42 PM Frank Brockners via lists.opnfv.org<http://lists.opnfv.org> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Jim, Why do we need slack (which is a great tool) given that we have and standardized on IRC? Thanks, Frank Am 22.04.2020 um 21:38 schrieb Jim Baker <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>: Anyone for slack? ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Slack <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 1:37 PM Subject: Invite your teammates to Slack To: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> [https://a.slack-edge.com/80588/img/emoji_2017_12_06/apple/1f44b.png] jbaker, forward this email to the people you’d like to invite to your workspace. Anyone who has this message can use the link below to sign up. Manage your invite link<https://opfnv.slack.com/admin/shared_invites> [https://opfnv.slack.com/x-p1092522873809-1080106740707-1079908639250/img/slack_logo_240.png] Join OPFNV on Slack jbaker has created the new Slack workspace OPFNV. You can use the link below to join this workspace — it only takes a minute to create an account! Use this link to get started: https://join.slack.com/t/opfnv/shared_invite/zt-ds6zpmhf-4Wa0YH3CX80pJvBnSL5Acw What is Slack?<https://slack.com/is> Slack makes it easy for teams to communicate and get work done together. See Slack in action.<https://slack.com/is> [A screenshot of the Slack interface with a play button linking to a video tour of Slack.]<https://slack.com/is> Made by Slack Technologies, Inc<https://slack.com> 500 Howard Street | San Francisco, CA 94105 | United States Our Blog<https://slackhq.com> Email Preferences<https://opfnv.slack.com/x-p1092522873809-1080106740707-1079908639250/account/notifications> Policies<https://slack.com/legal> -- Jim Baker Linux Foundation Networking - Technical Program Manager mobile: +1 970 227 6007 -- Heather Kirksey VP, Ecosystem and Community LF Networking Mobile: +1.512.917.7938 Email/Google Talk: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> IRC: HKirksey
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