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Do Slack give free access to open source communities like that? Otherwise the price to have search of over 10k messages would be over £70k/mo which I'm guessing
by mcintyre1994 8y ago
Do Slack give free access to open source communities like that? Otherwise the price to have search of over 10k messages would be over £70k/mo which I'm guessing they're not paying. Slack's pricing model seems horrific for communities like that.
- hk__2 8y ago> Do Slack give free access to open source communities like that? Yes. It’s free for non-profit orgs.
- dragandj 8y agoNot at all. Clojurians Slack does not keeps history for more than a few days because the community does not pay, and it's the major PITA. Slack does not offer any special treatment to large open source communities, other than tolerating their existence.
- hk__2 8y ago> Not at all. (…) Slack does not offer any special treatment to large open source communities, other than tolerating their existence. I wasn’t clear. It’s free for non-profit orgs. Open-source communities that aren’t registered organizations are by definition not non-profit orgs.