[Agenda Item] Can we open up slack for everyone?

[Willmish]

Overview: Most open source foundations/communities have widely available IRC, Discord servers/Slack servers that anyone can join and ask a question, open a discussion. If It is not done so already, can we openly share slack invite link, and add an invite link to slack here: https://greensoftware.foundation/join-us . Also maybe share it on the github page?

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• [ ] Governance: New project
• [ ] Governance: Other
• [ ] Process
• [x] External Engagement
• [ ] Technology
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• [x] Community
• [ ] Open Source
• [ ] Policy
• [ ] Standards
• [x] Oversight Committee

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[adamj89]

We are currently trialling having our discussions centralised on GitHub. It would be good to see how this plays out as many GSF members do not have Slack access at work.

[Willmish]

E.g. - Zephyr Project community has a public ~Slack~ Discord anyone can join and is widely used for project involvment, onboarding etc (while Steering Committee meetings etc are run seperately on Teams/Zoom)

[tmcclell]

Discussions around Slack for informal discussions and direct messaging. @seanmcilroy29 will review to see if we can have a channel for informal communications for DM and General Discussion? Discussion for consolidation of public channels for non-GSF members and keep private channels for internal GSF. Recommendation to resolve the non members proposal and return to the tooling.

[jawache]

This is an old issues and since the conversations have moved over to GitHub discussions: https://github.com/orgs/Green-Software-Foundation/discussions

Closing this issue since we have a lot open, re-open if there is more to discuss.