Ken and I are contemplating opening up our Slack instance to the AP community for discussions on AP, SGP, and, primarily, Cat Memes. If you’re unfamiliar with slack you can find more info here: https://slack.com/ Basically Slack is a chat client that supports channels (rooms for you IRC types). The entire instance is generally dedicated to a large topic (ours would be Astrophotography with some smatterings of the visual stuff). Channels have more specific purposes within that topic. So things like “CCD Cameras”, “Mounts”, “SGP”, “Images”, etc.
Just wondering if this is something people would find useful or if it’s something you would care to to partake in. It’s a nice way to get more real time conversation about AP things and I think it would be pretty awesome for the community as well!
This is NOT FOR SUPPORT! Our forums will still serve that purpose. However we’ll likely have a #sos channel where you can ask for help during an imaging run from other SGP users that happen to be online at the time.
interesting! i am too old to have ever had to have used slack at work but i understand it is all the rage now. sounds like it could be useful to have a ‘real-time’ community.
We’re going to open it up in a couple of days. I’m still working out channels. There’s always a mix between “Too Generic” and “Too specific”. Channels will be locked down. But people can and should feel free to recommend new ones at least initially.
