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Originally Posted by MailmanDelivers
Hello! My team has been looking into slack as a way to do team communication. I have a few questions:
1. How did you have your slack channel set up? (i.e subgroups, build groups, etc)
2. Does your team have any guidelines to follow, such as rules that people have to follow?
3. How big is your team?
4. How has it worked out so far?
5. Anything we should know about Slack before we use it?
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1. We have a General channel (of course) plus channels for programming, manufacturing, design, public relations, electronics, announcements, and a social channel for chit-chat. We also have a private mentor channel and team lead channel. We also create temporary channels for build season and each competition.
2. No Slack during school hours. At all. Also, usernames must be firstname.lastname
3. We have a big team. 50+
4. It's worked out really great. We've been using it for about a year and I love it. We used to use a combination of Google Hangouts/texts/emails. Slack has been great for keeping all information in one place, but still organized. Information can be disseminated in the appropriate channel so there's less confusion. For example, a designer can ask for help with a certain problem with Solidworks without disturbing PR, who may be talking about new sponsor acquisition. The only issue we really have is making sure everybody checks it regularly.
5. Use the integrations. We have ours integrated with Google Drive, Github, GrabCAD, and a few others. It's a lifesaver for file sharing.