Conferences, though sometimes exhausting, can be immensely valuable to us as individuals. They reinforce our sense of belonging to a community. Conferences can also be valuable to companies like Slack, as they provide an opportunity to show that we value and support these communities.
These are the communities who are building the foundations on which our success is built. They are an opportunity to meet up in real life, get to know people you find inspiring and discover new people and projects you may not have found otherwise.

This post surveys Slack’s history with PyCon, focusing on what we get out of it, and how important it is for us to give back. …
Slack apps allow teams to get quick tasks done, alongside their other work, without having to context switch into another product or browser window. But not every part of your service needs to be brought into Slack. “Deep work” that takes more than a few minutes — like setting up a project management board, building a wireframe, or creating a metrics dashboard — can sometimes be a better fit for your external service or web app.
Now with deep linking and link buttons — a new type of button that enables you to link out to an external webpage — you can build a user-friendly flow to guide people from Slack to your external service, then direct them back into a particular message in Slack to continue working. …

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