The Importance of Slack
Summit is a lot more than just an event. If you’ve been before, then you know it’s a collection of old friends. It’s a professional network of colleagues and peers. It’s helping each other solve problems all year, as well as figuring out where to meet up for dinner each night.
That’s where the devops-summit Slack workspace comes in. We’ve found that Slack is the best way to stay connected to everything happening at Summit. Want to find out about a last minute, unrecorded side session that’s about to happen? Read about it first on Slack.
Looking for a group for dinner, hop into #Dinner-Tonight and join the crowd. Slack is where it’s at. Feeling introverted and tempted to retreat to your hotel room? Nope, get on slack, start talking, and stay connected. This is why you’re here. This is what Summit is for.
A few weeks before Summit, we’ll send out invites to our Slack workspace, and we encourage you to log in. If you don’t see your invite by about 6 weeks out, please drop a line to summit@powershell.org. Include your e-mail address (we strongly recommend a personal one, as corporate email blocks the invites often) and your event confirmation number.
If you’re not familiar with Slack, it may seem like a lot of work for 5 days. But, it’s totally worth it (see above). We assure you that Slack serves a wide range of purposes beyond just Summit communications. Sure, it’s where we make ALL the important pre- and at-Summit announcements, but it’s also a year round event. Summit attendees keep in touch with one another long after Summit on Slack.
When you get back to the office and have the post-summit Monday blues, jump on slack, you won’t be alone. A month later, when you can’t remember the name of that super awesome module someone was talking about that one night at Summit, post it in slack. Someone will remember. 6 months later when just can’t take it anymore and you’re ready to find that amazing new job; yep, there’s a slack channel for that. This is the secret of Summit. Once you’re a part of the community, you stay a part of the community. Slack keeps you plugged in.
So please… give Slack a chance.