Document the guidelines for the community wide slack announcements channel

[MoralCode]

it might also help for us to define/document what kinds of announcements are considered to be "applicable enough" to the whole community to warrant a post in this channel compared to something else.

Things I think could be a good use for this channel:

• Election announcements
• CHAOSSCon announcements (in addition to public social media/external comms)
• Major news or announcements/blog posts from the board (new partnerships with other orgs, board membership changes, incident response)
• Infrastructure announcements that impact the whole community (incident response or rare platform/tooling changes for core community functions)

maybe "stuff that would be worth putting in a timeline of CHAOSS project history" is a good litmus test - AKA stuff that can be described as "the community" as a whole did something, rather than "this part of the community did something"

Originally posted by @MoralCode in #3

Splitting this off into a new issue so we remember to document the guidelines

[ArafatAbdussalam]

Hi @MoralCode I will like to work on the open issue.

[MoralCode]

I'd like to check with the infra team first to see where the best place/format is for our documentation.

Youre welcome to join CHAOSS Slack in the #community-infrastructure channel to chat with the team/help us decide though

[MoralCode]

Another guideline potentially:

Ensure that every announcement has a mechanism or location for people to provide feedback. (Separate slack channel, github issue etc) if threads are disabled

[ArafatAbdussalam]

Hi @MoralCode I have reached out to you on slack.

[MoralCode]

Another thing to document: procedures for getting announcements approved/getting posting permissions

[ArafatAbdussalam]

Slack Communication Channels

Overview: A communication channel is space that brings order and clarity among community members.

(This is still a WIP draft)

#announcements

• Purpose: This is a read-only channel intended exclusively for essential, company-wide updates on changes related to infrastructure, board membership, policy, elections, blog posts, new partnership with other organisations, and major news that impacts the community as a whole and requires the attention of every community member.

• People approved to post: Slack admins and selected community leaders.

• Procedures for seeking announcements approval:

• Discussion and feedback: Community members can reply to an announcement in a thread.