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Slack #24

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directionless opened this issue Sep 11, 2019 · 12 comments
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Slack #24

directionless opened this issue Sep 11, 2019 · 12 comments
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@directionless
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We should figure out what the state of slack is. I believe it's currently owned/paid for by Facebook. We should understand what it costs, and what we want to do with it going forward. https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/204368833-Slack-for-Nonprofits may be an option.

Relates to: #4

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I have submitted a request to slack to consider us a non-profit. I'm not sure anyone else can see this, but it's trackable at https://osquery.slack.com/help/requests/2525211

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I got a rejection from slack (we're a c6, they're looking for a c3). But this doesn't really match my expectations. I'm following up

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My backchannel tells me it's c3 only, without signoff from CEO/CTO level

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They expanded their policy to include c6 when we last chatted with them: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/03/01/slack-gives-back-k8s-cncf-community/

maybe [email protected] can help internally over there

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Interesting I submitted through the official thing, and was rejected as we're a c6, not a c3. I followed up with some other slack peeps, who said 501.c3 only, or special exception from the CEO.

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I re-pinged the feedback@ thread I have with that blog post.

@theopolis theopolis reopened this Dec 22, 2019
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The techsoup feedback people said:

Thank you for the follow up to your organization’s application. It is true that back in 2017, Slack did try to support 501c6 organizations, but unfortunately, that only lasted for a couple of months and they decided to go back to only accepting 501c3 Public Charity organizations into their program.

I’m sorry we don’t have better news for you.

Thomas, TechSoup Validation Team

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caniszczyk commented Dec 23, 2019 via email

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Hey folks, hope all is well, any update on this?

@theopolis theopolis added the moving parts This involved infra, accounts, or services we need to manage label Jul 8, 2020
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Hey @caniszczyk, thanks for volunteering to follow up, have you heard any word back? Slack and AWS are the final two moving parts we need to sort out to be fully transitioned to the foundation.

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Heads up that we should switch to the Free tier before the 8/2 renewal. I did some cleanup of old integrations and user groups and I think we should not be impacted by downgrading other than being restricted to the last most recent 10k messages.

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IIRC slack does not lose data. They keep it as incentive to upgrade again. So out be able to downgrade and upgrade again. My general feeling is that moving to free is fine. I think keeping slack archives is a weird mis-incentive. It implies data is useful, but finding things is very hard.

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