Have we actually talked to Slack and asked them if they might support an active open source community? Itâs one thing what is written on a website, another if the consortium actually approached them and explained the problem - mass communication in a community who want to use their tool both personally and open-sourecy but also in industry. The latter feels like the paid market they are after - the former might take their interest. Like others, I agree that the mobile clients are easy to use and take away the friction (and we donât need more friction in something we are often doing for the joy of making things better) I would get Stef or Marcus to reach out to them. Tim
On 10 Feb 2017, at 12:26, François Stephany <tulipe.moutarde@gmail.com> wrote:
There is a special price for non-profits organization:
The Slack for Nonprofits program offers eligible organizations a free upgrade to our Standard plan for teams of up to 250 members. For eligible teams above that size, we offer an 85% discount on the Standard plan.
With 322 users it means that we still have to pay...
See https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/204368833-Slack-for-Nonprofits <https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/204368833-Slack-for-Nonprofits> for more information.
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:18 PM, denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr <mailto:marcus.denker@inria.fr>> wrote:
I share many of what you say⦠but in the other point of view, Slack as really worked and there is a lot more happening now in Slack + mailing list than what was before just in mailing list. But most of that is lost because of Slack policies (also Slack pricing model is impossible for a community as ours), and we need to find a solution for that.
Yes this is too expensive for the Pharo consortium ?
It is per active member⦠which is defined as âhas logged in the last 14 daysâ. We have 322 members. No idea how many are active according to that definition.
Fot 322 it would be: $8 per user per month. Which means $2576 per month or $25772 per year (taking the special yearly price into account).
Marcus