Do we want vanhack.slack.com to offer invites to anyone who wants one, or keep it primarily members only?
- open to anyone
- members only, with manually applied exceptions
Discussion:
Slack has effectively replaced IRC as our VHS chat mechanism. It has a nicer UI than most IRC clients, and doesn’t have quite the learning curve of IRC. On the other hand, IRC has the advantage of openness - anyone can connect to it without requiring an invitation.
We currently have the ability to generate invitations for members though Nomos, our membership interface. If we wanted to, we could move that invitation generator to a public page so that anyone could invite themselves.
I don’t know if ‘Slack spam’ is a thing or not, but @jarrett seems to think that removing spammers would be easy enough.
So do we want Slack to be more open to non-members, or are we fine with it as is?