I participate in a lot of open source software communities, and I really enjoy chatting in real-time with other people. Almost all of these communities use an IRC channel on the Freenode.net network. I see someone already registered the #Quantopian channel, but no one is in there (except me).
Is anyone else interested in this?
@Tristan Rhodes I think an IRC channel would be great. We also have a Gitter channel for Zipline at https://gitter.im/quantopian/zipline, and a Google Group at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/zipline. But those channels tend to be more focused on the infrastructure engineering side rather than algorithm development, so if that's what you're interested in an IRC channel for Quantopian users would be cool.
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What about a slack, maybe quantopian could sponsor it? IRC is so hard to access from mobile, and there's a lack of chat history...
Simon: Great idea, I agree with all the advantages you listed. Actually, Slack is free for unlimited users and 10k lines of history...
It looks like someone has already created a team with this name... https://quantopian.slack.com/
which is probably what Q uses for their internal team.
What would be a good name for a community Slack team? "Q-Community"
Well, only 3 people showed up in the IRC channel (you guys are hard-core!). I think Simon's idea of using Slack would be much easier for people to use and it provides more features than IRC. Therefore, I have created a Slack team called "Quantopian User Community", which you can find at this URL:
https://quantopianusers.slack.com
Slack teams require an invite from the administrator (that's me!). If you want to join this team, simply fill out the form below and I will send invites as soon as I can (this is a manual process).
Is there a proper way to sign up? It prompts for [email protected] which we don't have.
Can't believe slack is set for IPO this year with such a quirky sign-up, apparently you don't have an across-the-board slack username and password giving you access to join any workspace that would welcome you, instead, to me, their process is incomprehensible, had to click 'Forgot password' (even though I'm already signed in on two other slack workspaces, that were similarly confusing), but this time, once through that, the Quantopian User Community page doesn't show any channels that I can see. Maybe someone can shed some light on it.
My answer: You have to take yet another "we'll send you an email" step, asking for a "magic link" for your mobile devices even though you're on your desktop machine, and click that, then there are channels. By the way, that magic link they say is only good for 24 hrs will expire in just a few minutes so be quick. From there, you're on your own. Good luck.
To answer the original question, clicking on Direct Messages, I counted 28 people in https://quantopianusers.slack.com now.
Then later I saw a banner like: "Your team is now 80 members strong, with 5411 messages sent across 6 channels". That text was not copyable. Only 3 channels showing under Channels. Click it to show and join more. I guess maybe writing things for a user perspective isn't as easy as I would think it could be. Wishing slack well and all the best.
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