Slack

Shorter URL to this page: drupal.org/slack

Introduction

Slack is a proprietary, but free to use, platform for real-time threaded online chat. Chatting is organized into Slack workspaces, and within workspaces, into channels. The Drupal community has a primary Slack workspace known simply as "Drupal", which has over 800 channels. Subsets of the Drupal community have also created their own separate workspaces for discussions of particular topics, in particular languages, or in particular geographical areas.

The main Drupal workspace

The main Drupal workspace has a wide variety of channels for different topics.

Joining

Visit https://www.drupal.org/join-slack to join. You will be redirected to sign in to Slack or create a Slack account. Once you are logged in, type "/help" to find out what to do from there.

Channels

Some popular channels are:

• #announcements - The default channel, used for Admin announcements.
• #general - The main water cooler, used for general Drupal discussion and light support questions.
• #support - The main support channel, used for long or deep support discussions.
• #session-help
• #DrupalCon
• #contribute - Used for any discussion related to contributing to the Drupal project.
• #accessibility
• #diversity-inclusion
• #jobs and #jobs-remote
• #drupal-seo
• #governance
• #documentation
• #layouts - The Layout initiative have their meetings here.
• #search
• #ux - Used by the Usability team for discussions and meeting announcements
• #womenindrupal
• #australia-nz - Australia and New Zealand Drupal community
• #drupal-russia - Russian Drupal community
• #drupal-ukraine - Ukrainian Drupal community
• #drupal-saudi - Saudi Arabia Drupal community
• #drupal-google - This channel for students and mentors involved in the Google Summer of Code program and anyone interested in learning more
• #bugsmash - This is a Community Initiative to fix known bugs in Drupal Core
• #drupal-infrastructure - Discussion of the Drupal project infrastructure

Many modules and themes have their own channels - for example:

• #bootstrap
• #commerce
• #gutenberg
• #opensocial
• #paragraphs
• #views
• #webform
• #project-browser - This channel for the Project Browser makes it easy for site builders to find and install modules.
• #bootstrap_barrio

Administrators

The following users have administrative privileges in this Slack. If you are a victim of, or witness to, harassment, or need help with the administration of the Slack workspace (for example, renaming channels) please contact an admin.

• alannaburke
• davidhernandez
• drumm
• dyannenova
• hestenet
• justafish
• larowlan
• mlhess
• tim.plunkett
• cottser
• ultimike
• webchick

Slack Usage Hints

• Check the channel description and other details (such as pinned files and discussions) at the top before posting in a channel.
• When talking directly to other users in public channels, prefacing their user name with @ will cause them to be notified of your message. Also, Slack will help you complete their user name with pop-up suggestions.
• Using Slack's threading functionality (look for the reply icon on your first comment) is encouraged as it better allows multiple concurrent discussions in the same channel.
• You can set your status on the whole workspace by using the /status command. It can be an emoji or custom text. For example: /status :). At midnight, it’ll be cleared automatically. You can also type /status clear to do this earlier.
• You can use /active or /away to mark yourself as active or away.
• You can put yourself in Do Not Disturb mode with the /dnd command. You can also specify the time using /dnd [some description of time]. For example, using /dnd 11:50, you can switch on the Do Not Disturb session till 11:50.
• You can set a reminder to someone or a channel: /remind [@someone or #channel] [what] [when]. For example: /remind @johndoe “Give me permissions to the docs” 19:40.
• You can create a poll using /poll “question” “answer1” “answer2” “answer3” …. For example, /poll “What should I buy?” “Apple” “Orange” .

Topical Slack Workspaces

Note: some of these may require an invitation to join.

Drupal4Gov (GovDrupal)

A slack team focused on Drupal in the Government community: Federal, State, and Local governments and those that support them.

• Visit https://govdrupalslack.herokuapp.com/ to join

Higher-Ed Drupal (edudu)

A slack team focused on the Drupal in Higher Education

• Visit http://edudu.org to join.

Drupal Twig (drupaltwig)

A slack team focused on all kind of front-end topics, not only Twig itself.

• Visit https://drupaltwig-slack.herokuapp.com to join.

Drupal Event Organizers (drupalcamporganizers)

A slack team of Drupal Event organizers from all over the world, focusing on issues such as budget, marketing, training, outreach, volunteer coordination, website building and more.

• This Slack team has been archived in favor of the #event-organizers channel in the main Drupal Slack. Please join us there.
• Administrators include: froboy, rocketeerbkw, eatings, hrodrig, fluxsauce.

Location-based Slack Workspaces

Asheville (drupalasheville)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in/from Asheville, NC, USA.

• Visit https://www.drupalasheville.com/slack to join.

Austin (adug)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in Austin, TX, USA.

• Visit https://adug-slack.herokuapp.com/ and fill out the invite form to join.

Belgium (drupalbe)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in Belgium.

• Visit http://www.drupal.be/slack to join.

Bulgaria (drupal-bulgaria)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in/from Bulgaria.

• Visit http://www.drupal.bg to join.

Brazil (drupalbrazil)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in Brazil.

• Visit https://drupalbrasil.herokuapp.com to join.

Canada (drupalcanada)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in Canada.

• Visit Drupal Canada Slack channel to join.

Colombia (drupalcolombia)

https://drupalcolombia.slack.com
A slack team focused on the Drupal community in Colombia.

• Visit Invitation form in google to join

Colorado (dcco)

A slack team focused on Drupalcamp Colorado (USA) and organizing the event each year.

• Visit https://drupalcampco.herokuapp.com/ to join.

Delhi (drupaldelhi)

A slack team working on Drupal camp and meetups in Delhi and NCR region (India).

• Visit https://drupal-delhi.herokuapp.com OR https://join.slack.com/t/drupaldelhi/shared_invite/enQtNzM4Mjc1NDA2MDcwLWM5MDY3Y2UyYmEzNDYwNmE1MzkyZjdiOGQ5NjdhZDJiZWFiZTBlY2QzNjQyZDc5NDMxMDQ1MzFkMTc5N2NhOWMto join.

France (drupalfrance)

A Slack team for the French-speaking Drupal community.

• Visit this link to join or https://www.drupal.fr/slack for more information.

Cameroon (drupalcameroun)

A Slack team for Cameroon Drupal community.

• Visit Drupalcameroun to join or https://drupalcameroun.slack.com/  for more information.

Hungary (drupalhu)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in Hungary.

• Visit https://drupalhu-slackinvite.herokuapp.com/ to join.

India (drupal-india)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in India.

• Visit https://drupal-india.herokuapp.com/ to join.

Los Angeles (ladrupal)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in Los Angeles.

• Visit ladrupal.org and fill out the invite form to join.

MidCamp Conference & Chicago-area Meetups (midcamp)

A slack team focused on the organization of and participation in the MidCamp Drupal Camp and Chicago-area meetups.

• Visit https://mid.camp/slack to join.

Montreal (drupalmontreal)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in Montreal, Quebec.

• Visit https://slackpass.io/drupalmontreal and fill out the invite form to join.

Nederland (drupalnl)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in the Netherlands, by the Stichting Drupal Nederland.

• Visit https://www.drupal.nl/slack to join.

Norge (drupalnorge)

A slack team for the Drupal community in Norway, by the Norwegian Drupal Association.

• Visit https://drupalnorge.no/ and fill out the invite form to join.

NYC (New York City) (drupalnyc)

A slack team for the Drupal community in greater New York City.

• Visit drupalnyc.org/slack for details and to join.

Orlando (drupalorlando)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in Orlando

• Visit https://slackinvite.me/to/drupal-orlando to join.

Philippines (phdug)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in the Philippines and southeast asia.

• Visit PHDUG - Philippines Slack team

Pune

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in Pune - India.

• Visit Drupal Pune Slack Group | https://punedrupalgroup.herokuapp.com/ to join.

Romania (drupal-ro)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in Romania.

• Visit https://drupal-ro-slack.herokuapp.com/ to join.

Russia

A slack team focused on Russian Drupal community.

• Visit russian-speaking Drupal community to join.

Drupal Sacramento (SacDUG)

A slack team focused on Sacramento (CA, USA) Drupal User Group.

• https://sacdug-slackin.herokuapp.com/

San Francisco (SF-DUG)

A slack team focused on San Francisco (USA) Drupal User Group.

• https://sfdrupal.herokuapp.com/

Seattle (SeaDUG)

A slack team focused on Seattle (USA) Drupal User Group.

• Visit https://forms.gle/RdfUrBt7H2SfcSHU8 to join.

Serbia (DrupalRS)

A slack space for the community in Serbia, mostly in Serbian but feel free to join and speak in English. Very friendly and welcoming as we are 🙂

• Visit https://slack.drupal.rs to join.

Spain (drupal-es)

Spanish speakers channel for the Drupal community (as in #drupal-es in IRC). You may want to join #drupal-latina too!

• Visit Spanish Drupal community to join.

Toronto (DrupalTO Canada)

A slack team focused on Drupal Toronto. (Warning: contains Canadians.)

• Visit https://drupalto.herokuapp.com/ to join.

Twin Cities (@TCDrupal)

A Slack team for folks in the Twin Cities (USA), who attend Twin Cities Drupal Camp, or just have an interest in hanging out with TDDrupalers.

• Visit https://tcdrupal-slack-invites.herokuapp.com/ to join.

Vancouver (VanDUG)

A slack team focused on Drupal Vancouver (Canada) User Group.

• https://vandug.herokuapp.com