[Biopython] How many of you are on Slack?

[Iddo Friedberg]

How about we start a Slack channel in OBF-BOSC regardless of other courses
of action? Would probably be a good way to communicate quickly
between users / developers.

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 11:19 AM Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> To be clear, the current OBF use of Google Groups is for things like
> the board, GSoC mentors, and BOSC committee (private groups, no public
> archive). I don't think we have any examples using a public Google
> Group (yet).
>
> Peter
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 4:34 PM Iddo Friedberg <idoerg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Slack sounds useful for developers.. especially if you have a quick
> :"how to" question or need to solve a problem quickly. Less troublesome
> than the email list. Perhaps Google Groups AND a slack biopython channel,
> just like OBF does?
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 12:02 PM Ivan Gregoretti <ivangreg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Migrating to Google groups sounds very appealing to this Biopython
> reader.
> >>
> >> Thank you.
> >>
> >> Ivan
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 11:00 AM João Rodrigues
> >> <j.p.g.l.m.rodrigues at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > My "issue" with having announcements in a blog or twitter or so
> (only) is that you have to make an active effort to read them as a user. I
> see your point with feeds (Feedly user here too) but it's an extra layer
> (in my opinion), and the more layers, the less involvement.
> >> >
> >> > An email is "passive": you subscribe and that's it, gets delivered to
> your inbox. It's also the lowest common denominator in terms of tech in the
> sense that everyone has/uses email.
> >> >
> >> > Migrating to a Google group should be simple too, you can (could at
> least) subscribe automatically all the members of the current list so that
> there's no action necessary on their end.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > A segunda, 28/06/2021, 10:38, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
> escreveu:
> >> >>
> >> >> My goal is both reduce OBF maintenance, and better connect with the
> >> >> Biopython community - it seems this mailing list is  sub-optimal on
> >> >> both front.
> >> >>
> >> >> As to consolidation/relocation, I was thinking blog (read only
> >> >> announcements),  free-tier Slack (real-time interactions including
> >> >> user support), and Github (dev support and discussions). But maybe
> >> >> with the slow decline in news reader popularity (I personally have
> >> >> used Feedly ever since Google Reader was dropped), you're right and
> >> >> there is still a role for some kind of email based announcements
> list?
> >> >>
> >> >> (Note that some of the smaller non-public OBF mailing lists have for
> >> >> some time forwarded to private Google Groups; your suggestion would
> >> >> not be such a big upheaval)
> >> >>
> >> >> Peter
> >> >>
> >> >> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 3:27 PM João Rodrigues
> >> >> <j.p.g.l.m.rodrigues at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I understand your points.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > If the purpose is to reduce the load on OBF to maintain and host
> all these things, what about creating a single mailing list on google
> groups (free, archived, easy to use) and use that for announcements and an
> initial point of contact? You could then combine google group
> (announcements), free-tier Slack (real-time user support), and Github (dev
> support) and cover pretty much all corners with remote hosted tools that
> archive the most important conversations.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Never used Gitter or other chat platforms.
> >> >
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