[olug] Slightly off topic: Ansible

[Jay Bendon]

Not to mention most business these days use slack as real time internal
communications from CEO to sales to engineering.  Sales people usually
don't get excited about setting up IRC.

--Jay

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Ben Watson <bwatson1979 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Slack workspaces like these (e.g. ansible-users) are free (for now) the
> caveat being that you cannot search your message history past 10K
> messages.  If you want that feature (and others), then you have to pay.
>
> I've been an IRC user for a long time and share your sentiment of "geez,
> yet another chat client", however, I have come to appreciate Slack's
> "batteries included integrations" and consistent UI across thick/thin apps
> on desktop and mobile platforms.
>
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm with Rob. Don't see what's wrong with IRC as a protocol. While the
> old
> > clients may not be as user-friendly as Slack may or may not be(haven't
> used
> > it myself), newer clients can implement various IRC commands, such as
> > listing/joining/leaving channels, connecting to servers, etc in whatever
> > user-friendly/Apple-esque fashion they like.
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 2:15 AM, Jay Bendon <jaybocc2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > You can connect to slack via your favorite IRC client.
> > > https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-
> > > to-Slack-over-IRC-and-XMPP
> > >
> > > --Jay
> > >
> > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 9:53 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Dan, appreciate your effort here and like Ansible.
> > > > i grudgingly joined because i do not see what is wrong with IRC.​
> > Slack
> > > is
> > > > not open source.  Slack costs money. yada yada...
> > > > Does one have to pay to start a channel like this?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Ben Watson <bwatson1979 at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Thanks for making this.  Look forward to some interesting chats and
> > > > sharing
> > > > > knowledge.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > It's not a good day for me and remembering URLs in emails...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > https://join.slack.com/t/ansible-users/shared_invite/
> > > > > > enQtMjQ3NjY5MjUzMzQ0LWVkYTgwMjU2ZTFkMGRkMDA1NWE0OWRlMjRiYjQ1
> > > > > > YjQ0N2RkNjk3N2QxMDkwOTViNzdiNTVlOWE5YWE4YmVjMzY
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Dan
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Justin Reiners <
> > > justin at hotlinesinc.com
> > > > >
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > It looks like I might need an invite
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org>
> > wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > For anyone who's using Ansible and wants to ask questions or
> > have
> > > > > > general
> > > > > > > > discussions around it, I've setup a Slack room:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > https://ansible-users.slack.com/
> > > > > > > >
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