Slack

Last updated on
14 February 2024

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 workspaces, and within workspaces, into channels. The Drupal community has a workspace known simply as "Drupal", with over 800 channels. Subsets of the Drupal community have also created their own separate workspaces.

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.

The main Drupal workspace

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

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
  • #nonprofits
  • #australia-nz - Australia and New Zealand Drupal community
  • #drupal-belgium - Belgian Drupal community (no longer using their own Slack Workspace!)
  • #drupal-colorado - Colorado Drupal Community
  • #drupal-germany - Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein and other German speaking Drupal community
  • #drupal-nl - Netherlands (and other Dutch speaking) 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
  • #needs-review-queue-initiative - Group of volunteers focussing on keeping the NR list for Drupal Core short
  • #drupal-infrastructure - Discussion of the Drupal project infrastructure

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

  • #bootstrap
  • #commerce
  • #feeds
  • #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
  • star-szr
  • ultimike
  • webchick
  • xurizaemon

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.

Higher-Ed Drupal (edudu)

A slack team focused on the Drupal in Higher Education

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.

Austin (adug)

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

Bulgaria (drupal-bulgaria)

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

Brazil (drupalbrazil)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in Brazil.

Canada (drupalcanada)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in Canada.

Colombia (drupalcolombia)

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

Czech Republic (drupalcz)

A Slack for the Czech-speaking community.

Delhi (drupaldelhi)

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

France (drupalfrance)

A Slack team for the French-speaking Drupal community.

Cameroon (drupalcameroun)

A Slack team for Cameroon Drupal community.

Hungary (drupalhu)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in Hungary.

India (drupal-india)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in India.

Los Angeles (ladrupal)

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

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.

Montreal (drupalmontreal)

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

Nederland (drupalnl)

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

Norge (drupalnorge)

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

NYC (New York City) (drupalnyc)

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

Orlando (drupalorlando)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in Orlando

Philippines (phdug)

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

Romania (drupal-ro)

A slack team focused on the Drupal community in Romania.

Russia

A slack team focused on Russian Drupal community.

Drupal Sacramento (SacDUG)

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

San Francisco (SF-DUG)

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

Seattle (SeaDUG)

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

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 🙂

Spain (drupal-es)

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

Toronto (DrupalTO Canada)

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

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.

Vancouver (VanDUG)

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

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