tl;dr: http://discourse.ros.org is the latest and greatest in ROS community communication channels. Go check it out.
Good morning,
We'd like to officially invite you to Discourse, the latest stage of evolution in ROS Community communication.
After
feedback about the failings of Google Groups and the non-open,
proprietary nature of Slack, we launched an experiment migrating the
ROS Java SIG from a Google Groups mailing list to Discourse.
We've
had positive feedback so far. The forum interface is a vast improvement
on plain old email, there is support for integration with Github, and
the project is free and open source.
We would like to move
in the direction of using Discourse for new SIGs and migrating currently
active SIGs to their own "Categories" on Discourse, if the members of those SIGs are interested. If you are the leader/owner of a ROS SIG, post in Site Feedback on Discourse if you'd like to start the migration process.
Slack
is officially deprecated: you are free to continue using it, but if you
want something to come onto the radar of the ROS team, you should
prefer to use Discourse, IRC, Github or email.
answers.ros.org remains your resource for asking specific technical questions about ROS, while Discourse should be used for more open-ended discussion and community organization.
Sign up
and take a look around (you can use Github or Google accounts to log
in). Use the "Site Feedback" category to give feedback, including
suggestions for new categories.
http://discourse.ros.org
"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue." - Izaak Walton