Stream: Zulip
Topic: use of zulip for new community project
Lee Surprenant (Oct 07 2019 at 13:56):
We've pushed our FHIR Server to https://github.com/ibm/fhir and we'd like to announce it sometime soon (once documentation is updated). First, I wanted to be sure that the following would be appropriate uses of this Zulip instance:
- creation of a dedicated stream for this project (where do we request it?) and heavy use of that stream for project collaboration
- a single message to #Announcements to notify the community that this project exists (with a link pointing folks at the new stream for further discussion)
For #1, the idea would be to move our internal discussions around our project to this public forum and connect with potential collaborators here. Today this discussion happens in one of two internal channels (on a private Slack):
- a small channel with the core developers (~5 active contributors with heavy collaboration)
- a large channel with almost 100 members, but limited activity
We'd keep the internal slack channels for private discussions, but ask all those members to join Zulip for discussions that can happen externally.
Is this the right place to ask wrt the appropriateness of those two items?
Lloyd McKenzie (Oct 07 2019 at 17:54):
I think the general leaning is that if the discussion is public, chat.fhir.org is fair game. If you want private discussions and the work isn't on an HL7-sponsored initiative (and private- discussions on anything HL7- sponsored should be rare), then it needs discussion/approval. That said, I don't think we have an official process. I'll add this to the FHIR Management Group's agenda for Wednesday.
(As an aside, this sort of question is best raised in #social. This thread is reserved for issues/feature requests for Zulip itself - the stream is monitored by our friends who maintain the application.)
Lee Surprenant (Oct 08 2019 at 01:23):
Thanks Lloyd. Public discussion around the new project would be the scope, so it sounds like we're good. I was debating whether #social or #Zulip was the right stream to ask on, but apparently I guessed wrong; will use #social for related discussions in the future (e.g. for appropriate naming wrt the dedicated stream).
Grahame Grieve (Oct 08 2019 at 02:48):
This stream is shared with chat.zulip.org and is for us to talk about how Zulip actually works / is working
Grahame Grieve (Oct 08 2019 at 02:48):
(Which is very good! -we love Zulip)
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