On several of the "Add section for I want to..." issues, there's an inclusion of information about Slack and DrupalChat.me.

We should probably standardize how it is written. Also, I think we should avoid telling exactly how to sign up, but instead link to
https://www.drupal.org/drupalchat
and
https://www.drupal.org/slack

These pages both have instructions for how to sign up, as well as lists of channels.

Text to use

Instant messaging tools, such as Slack (sign up, then join channel(s) #example_channel) and DrupalChat.me (sign up, then join channel(s) #example_channel).

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Here is my suggestion for a template for these items. I suspect the first phrase will need to be adapted for some sections, but I think this would do it:

Instant messaging tools, such as <a href="https://www.drupal.org/slack">Slack</a> (sign up, then join channel(s) [CHANNEL NAME(S) HERE]) and <a href="https://www.drupal.org/drupalchat">DrupalChat.me</a> (sign up, then join channel(s) [CHANNEL NAME(S) HERE]).
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I think that @jhodgon's suggestion and agree with the analysis about being able to change it for various documentation around getting involved with working groups, initiatives and regional communities.

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Not sure if [CHANNEL NAME(S) HERE] is really needed since there are so many, how are we going to decide which ones to list?

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Where there are obvious channels to list, we should list them. Just saying "Go to Slack" doesn't help because it is *really* unwelcoming just being dropped into a single channel and not knowing where to go to find the people you actually need.

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Note also that it is possible to hyperlink to the actual channels on Drupalchat with drupalchat.me/channel/{channel_name} (if anyone knows how to do this on Slack, I'm all ears)

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Did you take a look at the slack API? https://api.slack.com/docs/deep-linking

Sending users to a known channel by ID:

https://slack.com/app_redirect?channel=C0VD1QBZB

Sending users to a channel by name:

https://slack.com/app_redirect?channel=release-notes
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Ah nice one!!

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For the Drupal slack it would be: https://drupal.slack.com/app_redirect?channel=migration (e.g. migration channel)

Tested and working nicely :) opens browser login, and then asks to open slack app if you have it installed.

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So, updating the IS with the text...

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yep, looks good =)

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Great - I've also updated the template issue for cloning

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Yeah, so the idea is we would use this template for individual sections, where we are already pointing people to a few (1-3) channels. So for example on the "I want to find a Drupal job" section, we would point them to the #jobs channels. (This is in reply to comment #4, but you probably already figured this out, but just in case...).

Anyway, looks good! I guess we should update the other issues' text to use this? I just started looking at issue email so maybe you already did. :)

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A # was missing from drupalchat.me. Added here and the template.

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Actually, we should probably remove the www.drupal.org from the URLs. Generally we just want to start URLs we link to with /. Thoughts?

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yes - totally agree - start local links with /

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updated links and RTBC

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This is now the way we do things - thanks everyone!

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