not google groups. That looks like something still stuck in the 90s.

For reference:
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-Gitter-vs-Slack
https://stackshare.io/stackups/gitter-vs-hipchat-vs-slack

Looks like Gitter is much more OSS friendly, and Slack would require to invite/request people to join.

Slack has built in integration to AppVeyor/Travis
Gitter can be hacked together to integrate with CI

Slack has a nicer UI.

I'm leaninga bit towards Gitter, but only because of the easier barrier of entry. Otherwise Slack wins.

So support the underdog... 🤓
Slack it is then.

On a related note, we should probably try to centralize the info for the repo. ie, should consider closing or adding a notice to https://bitbucket.org/pythonnet/pythonnet/src and http://pythonnet.sourceforge.net/

Too bad http://python.net/ is taken 😢

@vmuriart I just sent a reminder about sourceforge and copied you.

Yup, i saw the notice there. I meant we should probably add a link to the official repo. Something similar to https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox

pythonnet downloads on sourceforge are declining rapidly:

People can now get a working pythonnet wheel via "pip install pythonnet", don't they ? or via a Python distro.

yup. I'm surprised there's any activity on the sourceforge downloads.

@stonebig here are all download channels:

https://github.com/pythonnet/pythonnet/wiki/Installation

@vmuriart you will be surprised how much there is legacy python 2.5/2.6

I purchased this domain last year:

www.python4.net

SELECT
  file.filename,
  COUNT(*) as total_downloads,
FROM
  TABLE_DATE_RANGE(
    [the-psf:pypi.downloads],
    DATE_ADD(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(), -18, "day"),
    DATE_ADD(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(), -1, "day")
  )
WHERE
  file.project = 'pythonnet'
AND
  file.filename like '%2.2.2%'
GROUP BY
  file.filename
ORDER BY
  total_downloads DESC
LIMIT 1000

almost 5000 downloads of v2.2.2 in 18 days, all versions over 9000 downloads:

whoops. Sorry for derailing the topic of this issue. Looks like we are going w Slack then?

@vmuriart I'm fine with slack :) I'm going to invite core team. we can add slack tag on readme page later.

shields.io doesn't support Slack and I can't find a shield/badge for them. I may generate a generic badge similar to the LICENSE shield.

Closed by #384

public gitter channel added https://gitter.im/pythonnet/pythonnet