[Numpy-discussion] did anyone create numpy.slack.com?

[Ralf Gommers]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 2:51 AM Juan Nunez-Iglesias <jni at fastmail.com> wrote:

> FWIW we use Zulip for scikit-image and we are very happy with it. See
> https://skimage.zulipchat.com . Advantages over Slack:
>

There's a NumPy Gitter as well, but most core devs are not using it. Note
that this is mostly meant for dev discussions and (the reason I'm creating
it) mentoring new people 1:1 or in a small group. All actual new volunteers
said in the community call that they expected Slack, and people like
Sebastian, Stefan and myself are on Slack very regularly as well.

This is related to https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14027. Public
channels (mailing list, GitHub) are our preferred communication mechanism;
this and a new numpy-team at googlegroups.com are additions for private
communications to lower the bar to start contributing. It turns out not
everyone is comfortable with their first question or code being seen by
1000+ people.

tl;dr the usual worries you post below aren't very relevant in this case,
and anything but Slack is pretty much a non-starter.

Cheers,
Ralf



> - free for FOSS, including unlimited archives (
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> - login with GitHub
> - Zulipchat is itself FOSS (I have successfully set up my own instance
> before)
> - (upcoming) public archive (read without login)
>
> Juan.
>
> On 6 Aug 2019, at 7:38 pm, Pankaj Jangid <pankaj.jangid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 10:24:28PM -0700, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>
> I was trying to create a Slack workspace named numpy, but it turns out that
> numpy.slack.com already exists. Does anyone have access to it or knows who
> is administering it?
>
>
> A lot of users try to grab all possible IDs available. A friend of mine
> had reserved gmail-IDs of almost all celebrities, as if they will
> register on Gmail. :-)
>
> I guess, it is one of those. Try using some combination - 'numpy-xxxx'.
>
> Regards.
>
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