
The advanced settings section provides an option for only showing channels that have unread messages.Many people use airport codes instead of city names to indicate their location. Otherwise, your colleagues need to view your profile to see that information. This is a great way to be remote-friendly and gender inclusive.
If you customize your profile with your location or personal pronoun, consider also adding those details to the Last Name field so they appear alongside your messages. Slack provides some formatting tips to make your messages extra fancy. Don’t say something on Slack that you wouldn’t feel comfortable appearing on the news. Everything in Slack is public and is therefore potentially part of the public record (written words that are attributable back to you). For saying hello and where all new users begin. For discussion of cc-europe and activities. Watch this channel for news that everyone should know For official Creative Commons announcements. For discussion of cc-latinamerica and activities. For discussions related to CC's participation in Google Summer of Code. For chat related to CC's open source development community. For discussion of cc-africa and activities. Naming conventions can be modified based on community input. Regional channels will be formatted as follows: cc-region. Channels that end with -community are community channels, designed to find other people with your specific commons interest. If you would like to suggest a channel via email, please email Simeon or ping him on Slack Channel naming conventions Any channel with fewer than 10 users and little to no discussion in 30 days will be deleted. We create channels based on how discussions are shaped around specific topics. Start in the #general channel, and explore the other channels that may interest you! Accept the email invitation that is sent to you once you fill out the form.Ĥ. Steps to sign up: Access the “Steps for new users” document Note: We got in touch with Slack and they are in the process of translating their documents, but for now it’s English only.ģ. You can login online or download the desktop or mobile clients.ġ. The best news? You don’t have to give up IRC if you don’t want to! We’ve built a bridge from IRC to Slack so you can continue hanging out in #creativecommons if that’s where you feel most comfortable.īecause Slack is a web application, there’s no installation necessary. In addition, Slack scores high for accessibility, public familiarity, and adoption. While IRC has been a good choice in the past, Slack is more mobile friendly and integrates with the workflows of users who are using Slack for other projects, creating a more robust (and chatty) community.
Slack is a chat client that allows us to chat with each other and engage with our community in real time and asynchronously.