Slack

Last updated on

14 November 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.
#migration - Support for the migration ecosystem, with regular meetings.
#search
#sustainability-team
#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
#experience-builder

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.

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

Higher-Ed Drupal (edudu)

A slack team focused on the Drupal in Higher Education

Visit highereddrupal.org 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.