Better communication channel

[jhilden]

I think experience has shown that our slack channel works well for organizing and for most of the coaches, but it hasn't worked at all for our participants.

My suggestion would be to find a different channel for our participants to communicate between meetings.

This could either be a public facebook group (most of our participants seem to be on facebook) or maybe a text message channel on WhatsApp, Telegram or so.

What do you think?

[tombaker]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 04:49:46AM -0700, Jakob Hilden wrote:

I think experience has shown that our slack channel works well for
organizing and for most of the coaches, but it hasn't worked at all
for our participants.

My suggestion would be to find a different channel for our
participants to communicate between meetings.

This could either be a public facebook group (most of our participants
seem to be on facebook) or maybe a text message channel on WhatsApp,
Telegram or so.

What do you think?

Do most participants have email? As this message also shows, the issue
tracker of colognerb/refugees has been (lightly) used for communication
for the past year [1], with the advantage that messages are mirrored to
email. For light traffic, perhaps that's enough.

FWIW, I have boycotted Facebook since I first heard about it in circa
2005 and would not sign up for WhatsApp because it belongs to Facebook.

Granted, that fits with the cranky choosiness of someone who still uses
mutt because it is the only software that still supports the mbox format
"as is" :-)

Tom

[1] https://github.com/colognerb/refugees/issues

Tom Baker tom@tombaker.org