Re:Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in Its Wake
by hk__2 on Sunday December 09, 2018 @01:18PM
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> Every big open source project has a dedicated IRC channel on Freenode, still alive and kicking.
> Slack is not an alternative.
A lot of large open-source projects have Slack communities, often alongside IRC ones. Take Clojure for example, with its 14k-members “Clojurians” Slack project.
Re:Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in Its Wake
by mcintyre1994 on Sunday December 09, 2018 @02:14PM
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Do Slack give free access to open source communities like that? Otherwise the price to have search of over 10k messages would be over £70k/mo which I'm guessing they're not paying. Slack's pricing model seems horrific for communities like that.
Re:Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in Its Wake
by hk__2 on Sunday December 09, 2018 @02:37PM
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> Do Slack give free access to open source communities like that?
Yes. It’s free for non-profit orgs.
Re:Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in Its Wake
by dragandj on Sunday December 09, 2018 @07:09PM
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Not at all. Clojurians Slack does not keeps history for more than a few days because the community does not pay, and it's the major PITA. Slack does not offer any special treatment to large open source communities, other than tolerating their existence.
Re:Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in Its Wake
by hk__2 on Monday December 10, 2018 @01:50PM
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> Not at all. (…) Slack does not offer any special treatment to large open source communities, other than tolerating their existence.
I wasn’t clear. It’s free for non-profit orgs. Open-source communities that aren’t registered organizations are by definition not non-profit orgs.
Slack is not an alternative.