Square Chatting Guide

Welcome to Square's Chatverse.

We are currently using Slack for discussions around our projects. Please read through this guide, before joining our Slackverse.

Once in, introduce yourself--let's get to know you, your preferred linguals, tools and what not--in the #welcome-meet-nd-greet channel, a little summary will do.

While chatting or interacting in Square Slackverse, please be courteous, friendly and accommodating. If you need a set of words to go by, you can follow these two rules as quoted from Richard Maybury's book Whatever Happened to Justice

1. Do all you have agreed to do
2. Do not encroach on other persons or their property

And something extra; "Do to others what you would like done to you."

These are very simple but yet very effective guides, as you will see when you abide by them.

Each room or channels' purpose has been defined--by the channel creator, and so please use the channels accordingly. If you post or use any channel wrongly, the message will be deleted and the individual maybe suspended.

Below are a list of some of the channels, groups and tribes in our Slack community. For a full list, check here.

Channel Name	Channel Purpose
#algorithms	To discuss and solve algorithmic problems.
#android	For everything Android (side eye Java). Ionic don’t come. React stay away. HTML and CSS or even Xamarin, we shoot on sight!
#angular-export	For discussions around the Angular Export app.
#auto-testing	For testing of integrations into Square's Slackverse.
#coding101	For collaborations on a creating a guide which would help people learn how to code.
#dev	You can ask your code related questions here. Please be patient for your answers.
#disease-info	For discussions around the Disease Info API and PWA.
#general	This channel is for team-wide communication and announcements, that concern the whole team, and not just some members of the team.
#gigs	For announcements and discussions of paid gigs, jobs and the likes.
#github-activity	Integration with GitHub to see activity on various Square repos.
#ios	For everything iOS and a home for enthusiastic Cocoa Touch developers.
#lagos_flag_redesign	For discussions around the redesign of the current flag of Lagos city
#machine-learnin	The goal of the channel is to enlighten and point people to the right path in becoming an ML Expert. Also, to foster communication between Machine Learning Practitioners while coming up with Projects to solve problems in Nigeria using M.L
#open-source-ideas	For sharing ideas on stuff that would benefit the society or improve on already completed projects. All ideas and projects shared here should be open source.
#random	A place for non-work-related flim-flam, faffing, hodge-podge or jibber-jabber you'd prefer to keep out of more focused work-related channels.
#js	For tutorials and discussions around JS.
#squaredex	For discussions on the SquareDEX project, Square's open source point ranking system.
#states_cities	For discussions around the States & Cities API. Get data as JSON using the REST API.
#design	For designers and the colorfully right-minded.
#welcome-meet-nd-greet	For introductions and documentations.

Only use the global mentions (@channel, @everyone, and @here) for genuine channel or everyone related questions or announcements. The global mentions have been switched off for now.

If you have any issues, you can DM or mention @sprime.

Its nice to have you here, and don't forget to contribute 🙂 ❤️