The other thing is that we have already started using Slack in the office for chat, and I have another slack channel for the Kurdish Wikipedia Project, so I've already gone down this path a bit of a way and to back out and start again because something else is open source would be quite disruptive for other work I'm doing. I'm trying to organise developers to come to one place to discuss this, and I've chosen Slack because it's easy and lots of people use it. I appreciate that it might not be ideal for some people, but I really can't spare the time and effort to start this all again from scratch. 

John

On 17 January 2017 at 13:19, Katherine Bavage <katherine.bavage@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not planning to join because I don't code (though I'm happy to join a channel if you get to a stage where end user or design process feedback is useful) but I would note that asking people to adopt new platforms 'just because they are open source', rather than ones that are used by a lot of people/ a lot of people are already familiar with, is pretty daft when your ultimate goal is to benefit the open source community through the work the channel fosters. 

As far as I know, for this type of work, Slack is the go to for most devs. The Foundation use it without issue. 

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 at 12:24 Gordon Joly <gordon.joly@pobox.com> wrote:
On 17/01/17 00:38, John Lubbock wrote:
> It costs a lot of money, as far as I can see (it says Try for Free and
> then takes you to a page where it asks you to pay $100 a month).

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We wrote Discourse, and we can host it for you, too.
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Yes, that is a hosting option. You can download and install for free. I
am suggesting WMUK host the code on their own server...

Gordo


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