Slack discussion for Racket

[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt]

A while back, Jason Yeo created a Slack for talking about Racket at
https://racket.slack.com/ After talking with some other Racket
developers (and with Jason's permission), we're planning to make this
an official part of the project. So you may see more people there, and
it can be a place to talk with more Racket developers than previously.

To sign up, you'll need to go to: http://racket-slack.herokuapp.com/

Many thanks to Jason for creating this resource for the community!

This doesn't mean that the IRC channel is going away, for anyone that
likes it. That's also an important community resource, and a popular
one, and it will be maintained.

Also, I know the various limitations and problems with Slack. It's
something many of us are comfortable with, and it's successful for
many other open source projects.

Sam

[Neil Van Dyke]

Over time, will Racketeers who decline to use Slack.com be marginalized?

(Addressees trimmed to "racket-dev".)

[Matthias Felleisen]

I hope not. I do not intend to spend much time on a synchronous medium.

> On Jan 10, 2017, at 7:09 PM, Neil Van Dyke <ne...@neilvandyke.org> wrote:
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> Over time, will Racketeers who decline to use Slack.com be marginalized?
>
> (Addressees trimmed to "racket-dev".)
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[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt]

No, just as Racketeers that have not used IRC over the past several
years have not been marginalized.

Sam

[Neil Van Dyke]

For example, over time, Slack.com will take users of one medium, and get
them to adopt Slack.com-specific other media. And this other media will
be used for some things that otherwise the email lists (and their many
mirrors) would've been. Racketeers who object to Slack.com would then
not be participating in community activity that had effectively been
moved to Slack.com.

I'm just noting one of the factors to be weighed, in case it had not
been considered. For me, it's mostly an on-principle objection to being
Slack.com's b-word. And an objection to promoting thinking like
Slack.com, to students and others.