Unofficial OMS CS Slack Group

How to Join

  1. Visit the signup page.
  2. Sign up with a @gatech.edu email address.
  3. Check your email. :tada:

Can’t get in? Don’t panic. The following steps are rumored to be useful:

  1. Panicking.
  2. Signing out, clearing cookies, and trying to sign back in.
  3. Checking your spam folder for Slack’s “magic link.”
  4. Emailing areyes37 at gatech dot edu

Community Guidelines

  1. Don’t share private files.
  2. Don’t share large files, like zip and pdf files.
  3. Be nice and keep it professional.
  4. Don’t use @everyone or @channel. Your classmates live in different timezones.
  5. Don’t violate the honor code. Your TA’s are probably in the same channel.
  6. We’re on the free tier, so we have limited integrations (10). Chances are, your integration request to add all cat pictures to a private Dropbox folder will be rejected. If it doesn’t help the whole community, it likely doesn’t deserve a spot in the Top 10.

File Space

We have limited storage for file shares. If you notice that we’ve hit the limit early (happens near the end of semesters), please contact an admin (see below). Otherwise, a scheduled job, file-purger, runs daily to delete all files older than 10 days.

#general, or lack thereof

Due to the very large community, we’ve changed the main, default channel to #announcements, which is read-only, and reserved for community announcements. The “general” channel you may join (or leave) is #lobby.

Issues

We take a pretty light hand towards administration and moderation, but if you have any issues, e.g. harassment or abuse, you can contact the admins:

  • @allan
  • @arkaaito
  • @csaden
  • @fsgeek
  • @rcabrera

If you encounter any issues with Honor Code violations, it’s recommended that you contact your course staff directly.

Privacy

Certain channels that have opted in to archiving and have the @archivebot user present persist all messages (but not files), which for… reasons… are publicly available. It’s recommended not to share any sensitive or personal information in any channel, but more so in archiving ones.

Useful Links

  • GT Registrar Calendar
  • OMSCentral
  • Slack Archive

Contributing

Contributions are openly welcomed!

  1. Open up a Pull Request with a brief description of the change.
  2. Post a quick message in #lobby.
  3. Others may vote (:thumbsup: or :thumbsdown:) on it.
  4. After a couple days, a repository admin will merge or close it.