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Provide PyLadies Slack guideline (and automate this) #23
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We can have the guidelines written as a doc somewhere, and just have the slackbot automaticlaly share link to the new member when they joined. |
One of the strategies that another team I am a member of (codebuddies) employs is to auto-subscribe users to specific channels when they join. One of those is a 'landing pad' that gives them a specific welcome message like the excellent one @AbigailMesrenyameDogbe has posted. Maybe we can do the same? Additionally, we can auto-subscribe new members to the channels mentioned in the welcome -- such as #conferences, #introductions, #general, #pyladies-support, and #africa, etc. Codebuddies also posts a separate "Slack Etiquette" doc for users to look over in the same "landing pad" channel. While I think it would need re-working for our groups, I've posted it here as a potential starting place. (since this is now in the pull request below, and this is a too-long comment, I'm removing the excess verbiage.). |
Two other thoughts:
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Slack now has a custom workflow where it can greet new member who joined the channel so we can use that. I would suggest instead of coming up with an image, we create it as a text file, either markdown or restructured text, then the bot should just provide a link to that text file. We can easily edit the text file whenever needed. While the image is really great, I find it is less flexible when we need to make changes. |
All the content that you all have come up with are great too. |
Is that custom workflow for new users Slack a paid feature? I'm an an admin for several Slack teams that are unpaid, and I can't seem to find where to set that up..... but that would be perfect, if we can use it. |
Perfect! I typed up @AbigailMesrenyameDogbe message as a |
Thanks @BethanyG and @AbigailMesrenyameDogbe |
@Mariatta @AbigailMesrenyameDogbe -- These are now under #44 @Mariatta suggested we work on some documentation for members joining our PyLadies global Slack who were unfamiliar with Slack as a tool -- and with our (sort of unspoken) rules and conventions as an online community. We want new members to feel welcome & comfortable in the space -- and clear on "where to go and what to do" within
The current working plan is to have the message or a link to the message greet new Slack members when they join the PyLadies Slack team and are added to a #welcome or #starting_place channel. We would also point them to the Slack etiquette doc, or incorporate that doc into the overall welcome message. Additional actions might include auto-subscribing them to a short list of channels we think would be useful/helpful. Open questions/points for feedback:
Open questions/points for feedback:
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This work has been merged in per: #44 and now closing the issue. |
It would be great if we have a general guideline for new slack members.
We can have a bot that automatically welcomes new slack members and share them some useful info like:
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