Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects

Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by st3v3r on Monday February 01, 2016 @05:27PM (#11016091)

And don't dismiss your non-technical users out of hand like that. It's elitist, and it sends precisely the wrong message.

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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by wcummings on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @11:13AM (#11020319)

I'm not dismissing non-technical users, I'm acknowledging that plenty of them seem to use IRC just fine, contrary to what people are saying itt.

The barrier isn't skill or knowledge, it's investing a small amount of time in figuring out IRC. Anyone can do it, there's loads of resources about setting up IRC expressly written for a non-technical audience (which you can provide to new contributors).

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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by st3v3r on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @05:50PM (#11023346)

"I'm not dismissing non-technical users"

Yes, you are. You may think you're not, but you are

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