so is there any real ideas/projects/goals/interests in a FOSS (possibly/hopefully) Clojure alternative for Slack?

is the plan to make a Slack replacement, or just have something for the Clojure community?

@ian: Initially The idea is to create something to scratch our own itch, written in clojure and showcasing everything our ecosystem has to offer. Not only in terms of a chat, but the clojure community website itself? what kind of things can we create to enhance the community?

It stands to reason though, that the chat side will be FOSS, and available for anyone to use for their own purpose

I will get some repos created on the clojurians github organisations, but I want this to very much be a community thing, created for the community by the community. All ideas are welcome

Neat. Sounds fun. Obviously there are a number of alternatives for slack now (mattermost, for example), but looking at this as a showcase of Clojure sounds neat.

@gjnoonan: this is very exciting to think about.

@ian: I agree, I think it can be a really good thing

I know this is very early, but I like the potential for a chat program that's more programming-oriented. Slack has good syntax highlighting and whatnot, but it would be cool to have a local (or distributed, or both?) REPL, for example. Or easier code sharing, or whatever else.

collaborative repl, hmm. So potentially spin up a docker container running leiningen/boot inside

Yeah, unless there's already an existing API available for that (which would be neat itself).

closest thing I know is http://ideone.com/

which apparently uses http://sphere-engine.com/ as a backend

To be honest I think any kind of deeper code integration is nice but not critical to the longevity of this community.

@martinklepsch: I agree it is not critial, the critical thing for me is for discussion/chat, and community collaboration

There is this issue in the Reactiflux repo which lists tons of Slack alternatives: https://github.com/reactiflux/volunteers/issues/25#issuecomment-148406893

I think, for me, although one of the end goals would be a slack alternative, that is just a byproduct. The main focus is a community driven project created by us, and for us. A showcase of all the amazing things we have in the clojure ecosystem. We’re in the fortunate position of being able to have clojure in the full stack Clojure/Clojurescript, electron apps, iPhone app etc. A real sense of community ownership is what I am after.