{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/IEEERobotics/bot/issues/473","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/IEEERobotics/bot","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/IEEERobotics/bot/issues/473/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/IEEERobotics/bot/issues/473/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/IEEERobotics/bot/issues/473/events","html_url":"https://github.com/IEEERobotics/bot/issues/473","id":150431954,"number":473,"title":"Slack Vs. IRC","user":{"login":"AhmedSamara","id":2405319,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2405319?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/AhmedSamara","html_url":"https://github.com/AhmedSamara","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AhmedSamara/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AhmedSamara/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AhmedSamara/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AhmedSamara/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AhmedSamara/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AhmedSamara/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AhmedSamara/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AhmedSamara/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AhmedSamara/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2016-04-22T17:49:57Z","updated_at":"2016-05-04T15:15:10Z","closed_at":null,"body":"During the post-mortem meeting it was pointed out that communication on the team would be a little bit easier if we had a slack or IRC channel for communication like most open-source projects do.\r\n\r\nDoes anyone have any preferences as to which one we should use?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/IEEERobotics/bot/issues/comments/216897293","html_url":"https://github.com/IEEERobotics/bot/issues/473#issuecomment-216897293","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/IEEERobotics/bot/issues/473","id":216897293,"user":{"login":"dfarrell07","id":880273,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/880273?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfarrell07","html_url":"https://github.com/dfarrell07","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfarrell07/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfarrell07/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfarrell07/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfarrell07/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfarrell07/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfarrell07/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfarrell07/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfarrell07/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfarrell07/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-05-04T15:15:10Z","updated_at":"2016-05-04T15:15:10Z","body":"Both are widely used and would be good experience. In my experience, IRC is used in more open source projects and Slack is typically integrated with other Atlassian tools like JIRA.\r\n\r\nMost open source projects that use IRC also use various plugins, like Meetbot for taking notes or logging.\r\n\r\nhttps://meetings.opendaylight.org/opendaylight-meeting/2016/tsc/opendaylight-meeting-tsc.2016-04-21-17.00.html\r\nhttps://meetings.opendaylight.org/opendaylight-integration/2016/integration/opendaylight-integration-integration.2016-04-28-16.00.html\r\nhttp://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/\r\nhttp://meetbot.opnfv.org/eavesdrop/%23opnfv-cperf/"}}