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).
We wrote Discourse, and we can host it for you, too.
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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