Plan to join the
Board of OpenNTF as we hold our Annual General Meeting on June 16, 2022.
The Board will share updates on our recent activities in addition
to an update from our Chairman, and our various working committees. We
will also share the results of our work to review and update the future
direction of OpenNTF which has a focus on how we can serve our community
even better. There will also be time for open discussion where you
can bring your questions and ideas around open source initiatives in the
HCL Digital Solutions community.
This AGM will
take place on June 16, 2022 at 11:00AM (New York Time) to 12:30PM.
A few months ago,
OpenNTF started testing the waters of moving our Slack community over to
Discord.
The immediate impetus for this was the message-history limitation of our
Slack account: on the free tier, we were losing old messages, but upgrading
a community of our size to a paid tier would be cost-prohibitive.
Once we started
looking into using Discord, we found that it offered much more for us than
just avoiding history loss. Discord quickly proved itself a much-better
match for our community, with better community controls, better voice/video
chat with screen sharing, and just generally a more community-focused approach.
Joining
Since it's gone
so smoothly in a "soft launch", we think it's ready to invite
everyone more openly. To join our Discord community, visit:
We plan to use
Discord for more than just a drop-in Slack replacement, too. We did a small
trial run of having a "developer watercooler" chat in one of
the voice channels earlier, and we're thinking of doing that sort of thing
from time to time. We're also very open to ideas anyone may have for how
we can make use of this new tool.
Finally, there's
a bit of room here for some community participation beyond just chatting.
To add server capabilities, Discord uses a "Boost" system, where
individual community members can chip in to supporting the server. We boosted
the server to the first level, giving us a notch better audio and streaming
quality, but we'd like to get to the next tier. If you end up liking your
experience there, consider Boosting the server.