Figure out default channels

[simonwex]

There are many ways to organize our channels.

There are two (potentially conflicting) goals:

• Ensure people across the organization see this as a place for their conversations, not just engineering chatter (This shouldn't feel like IRC)
• Make sure that engineering, design, etc have a place to have their conversations

  Division of conversations

At least in the case of engineering, the organization of the current IRC channels seems to be vestigial. To better facilitate communication, there are a few ways to consider creating channels

Software project

• Webmaker
• Teach
• Donate
• Science

  Role

• PM
• Engineering
• Design
• etc

  Business Unit

• Advocacy
• MLN
  • Open Science

[alanmoo]

There's also the

"Let it grow" approach

There are 2 channels created by default with a Mattermost instance- Off Topic and Town Square. You can't leave Town Square, so that would be the de-facto All MoFo channel. From there we may want to create channels as conversations in other channels become crowded. This will probably result in a combination of all 3 of the above approaches. For example, I'd bet engineering chatter plays a pretty significant roll in Town Square that we don't want to bother the rest of the org with, so we could start off with a channel for it. If certain projects become conversational focuses, or if someone wants to have a conversation about something specific but there isn't a place for it, they could simply create a channel. Channels could even be useful for smaller temporary groups, like organizing a small work-week.

[alanmoo]

@simonwex do you want to go with my approach? Anyone can create channels, so I think this problem will solve itself organically. Let's close this?

[simonwex]

@alanmoo yeah, let's. We might need to revisit this after a couple weeks of engineering + design playing around.

[alanmoo]

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