<div dir="ltr"><div>Yes -- just to confirm, we don't have to move off Slack. This was just a sales email that I decided to respond to.<br><br>--Naomi<br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Patrick O'Doherty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p@trickod.com" target="_blank">p@trickod.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>FWIW I don't think this means that we have to move off of slack. I think this is just a generic upsell email that was sent, even though we currently have a free non-profit account with them. <br><br></div>I'll double check, but I strongly suspect that we're good to continue using slack in the meantime.<br><br></div>I think it'd be neat to explore using IRCCloud if at all possible. Would a) mean we could use actual IRC instead of slack but b) retain the nice mobile clients, and the web UI which folks have grown accustomed to w/ Slack.<br><br></div>I'll reach out to the IRCCloud folks to see if this is something that'd be possible. <br><br></div>p<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 21 September 2015 at 20:02, Naomi Most <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pnaomi@gmail.com" target="_blank">pnaomi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">For the edutainment of the group, here was my response to Slack today when they sent us an email encouraging us to sign up for Premium service.<br><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Naomi Most</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:naomi@nthmost.com" target="_blank">naomi@nthmost.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:00 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Slack] Free trial for Noisebridge<br>To: <a href="mailto:feedback@slack.com" target="_blank">feedback@slack.com</a><br>Cc: "<a href="mailto:treasurer@noisebridge.net" target="_blank">treasurer@noisebridge.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:treasurer@noisebridge.net" target="_blank">treasurer@noisebridge.net</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hello Slack,<br><br></div><div>Thanks for going door to door making this incredible offer [1].<br></div><div><br></div>Noisebridge is a 501c3 educational institution, funded entirely by member dues and totally stochastic donations. We rent a 5000-sq-ft workshop in the Mission, and we just had our rent jacked up by 10%.<br><br>We get internet access courtesy of MonkeyBrains, who dropped a giant-ass internet laser on our roof one night and then said, "why haven't you installed this yet; it's a freaking internet laser." (We installed it.) <br><br>Our power bill is... high. We are ever-vigilant for the roughly 3x-a-year event where someone thinks they can hide a Bitcoin miner in our Definitely Not a Server Closet and then conveniently forget that they left it plugged in.<br><br><div>We do love Slack. Slack has been instrumental in our community cohesiveness in the past year and a half.<br></div></div><br></div><div>However, while we'd be super stoked about being on your premium plan, the added
bill every month is not likely to ever make sense for us. <br><br>If you guys have any kind of nonprofit support programs, we can provide a method for you to write something off on your corporate taxes. It's probably easier than putting a giant internet laser on our roof and expecting us to install it.<br><br></div></div>No matter what happens, Slackers, remember: don't lose your cool! [2]<br><div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Naomi<br><br>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raKjDI4umiQ" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raKjDI4umiQ</a><br><br>[2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnzL5-X4QyU" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnzL5-X4QyU</a><br><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Slack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:feedback@slack.com" target="_blank">feedback@slack.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p style="font-size:17px;line-height:24px;margin:0 0 16px">Happy Monday! We'd like to offer Noisebridge another <b>completely free, no obligation 15-day trial of Slack's premium service</b>. Activate it and find out how the <a href="https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202878523#benefits" style="color:#439fe0;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word" target="_blank">added benefits</a> — like unlimited message archives, unlimited integrations and even more tools — can work for your team.</p>
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<p style="font-size:17px;line-height:24px;margin:0 0 16px">Two more things: first, we've extended you $150 worth of credits — which were meant to expire September 30th — till October 13th. Second, we have an additional gift of $162 worth of credit for you when you activate the trial for a <b>total of $312 of credit</b>, (which is <b>a month of service</b>, for free).</p>
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