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HackW/E@LinuxHotel Ouch. A large OpenStreetMap group has been using a proprietary chat platform as a community space for ~10 yrs. Now they gotta pay a $80k/yr (or $10k??) for usage. 
Slack (now Salesforce) now wants to charge @OpenStreetMapUS for all ~6k users on their server. Ouch.
This sort of bait & switch is why open, community owned platforms (like this!) are vital!
read more on the slack (while you still can??!): https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1705438543546349
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #FreeSoftware #Cassandra
@amapanda @OpenStreetMapUS To be clear, it's not payment for usage, it's payment to maintain status quo in terms of scrollback/history.
I wish there was something equivalent to Slack in the OSS world!
@ian @amapanda @OpenStreetMapUS I have used Rocket Chat in the past, it seemed to work fairly well, though I don’t know how it would work at this scale.
@thibaultmol@en.osm.town@jimkreft
pretty sure it does, and rocket chat now uses Matrix iirc. So it's interoperable with other matrix clients/servers (iirc)@ian @amapanda @OpenStreetMapUS