<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Amye Scavarda <span dir="ltr" class="">&lt;<a href="mailto:amye@redhat.com" target="_blank" class="">amye@redhat.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">From today's community meeting, we had an item from the issue queue:<br class="">
<a href="https://github.com/gluster/community/issues/13" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/gluster/<wbr class="">community/issues/13</a><br class="">
<br class="">
Should we have a Gluster Community slack team? I'm interested in<br class="">
everyone's thoughts on this.<br class=""><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><br class=""></font></span></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">As fancy as Slack is, I really don't like how dependant so many projects have become on it, it's not open source, the desktop client is dreadful (heavy javascript webframe), you're at the mercy of the companies decisions around the direction of their 'black box' software platform etc...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Personally I've found that discourse is a fantastic platform for project discussion, help and ideas:&nbsp;<a href="https://discourse.org" class="">https://discourse.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and for chat I've found that if IRC + a good web frontend for history/search isn't enough using either Mattermost (<a href="https://about.mattermost.com/" class="">https://about.mattermost.com/</a>) or Rocket Chat (<a href="https://rocket.chat/" class="">https://rocket.chat/</a>) has been very successful.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just my 2c and I'll be happy to be a part of the community no matter where it ends up.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">--</span><br style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Sam McLeod</span><br style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a href="https://smcleod.net" class="">https://smcleod.net</a></span><br style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/s_mcleod" class="">https://twitter.com/s_mcleod</a></span></div></body></html>