List of Slack Channels for local communities by region
๐บ๐ธ USA:
New England
Where the morning can start with 80ยฐF, rain 10" at noon, and everybody drinks Dunkinโ. The home for Harvard, MIT, Yale, Brown, and the W3C has a blossoming tech comunity:
- Boston Javascript - Invites at https://bostonjs.herokuapp.com/ (co hosted by http://bostonjs.com/)
Mid-Atlantic
If you live in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania or Washington D.C., it is worth taking a look at these channels:
- DC - DC Tech Slack
- NY - BoroJS, NYC Tech, KaggleNYC and NYC Devs
- MD - Baltimore Tech
- PA - in Pennsylvania there are several channels:
- Philadelphia: Philly Startup Leaders and PhillyDev and Code for Philly and Phl Design
- Northeast: NEPA Tech & NEPA.js and Wilkes-Barre Programming Community
- Pittsburgh: Code & Supply
The Midwest
In Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin, there are some active channels below:
- IA - In Iowa there are several channels:
- IL - In Illinois there are several channels:
- IN - Indy Hackers
- KY - [Louisville.io] (http://louisville.io) & (http://louisville.slack.com)
- MI - Startup Lansing in St.Louis
- MN - MSPTech
- MO - STL Tech
- OH - in Ohio there are several channels:
- WI - Madison Community
- Midwest - The Midwest Dev Chat
The South Candidates
Join these local Slack channels in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia or West Virginia:
- AL - Magic City Tech
- AR - Northwest Arkansas Devs
- FL - in Florida we have:
- GA - Tech 404
- KY - Louisville.io(http://louisville.slack.com)
- NC - Triangle Devs
- SC - Charleston Tech
- TN - MTF Slack
- TN - NashDev
- TN - KnoxDevs
- VA - in Virginia we have:
The Southwest
Local Slack channels in Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas:
- AZ - AZ WebDevs
- OK - Techlahoma
- TX - Refresh Austin
The West
From Alaska, Hawaii and Washington down to California there are several local channels below:
- CA - California groups:
- CO - in Colorado there are several channels:
- OR - in Oregon there are several channels:
- UT - UtahJS
- UT - Utah Ruby User Group
- WA - in Washington there are several channels:
Other Countries
๐ฆ๐ท Argentina
- Buenos Aires Meetup.js Argentina
- Buenos Aires freeCodeCamp BA
๐ฆ๐บ Australia
๐ง๐ท Brazil
- iOS Dev BR - Brazilian slack for the iOS communitiy
- Android Dev BR - Brazilian slack for the Android communiny
๐จ๐ฎ Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
- Code d'Ivoire - Slack community for developers in the Ivory Coast
๐จ๐ฆ Canada
- BC - Vancouver Developers (YVR Dev)
- ON - Ottawa Startups
- ON - Startup6ix in Toronto
- ON - TorontoJS Toronto
- ON - YOWDev Ottawa
- ON - CodePen Ottawa Ottawa
- QC - Sketch MTL Montreal
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland
- Angular Finland community w/ Slack mostly targeted for Finnish Angular enthuasists, but also international discussion.
- Koodiklinikka a finnish developer slack community that has over 1024 registered members
๐ซ๐ท France
- France - FranceJS very active Slack group of FranceJS meetups communities
- France - Android Dev Fr active slack group for android french community
- France - Swift Baguette active slack group for swift french community
- Alsace - GeekDpt in Strasbourg (but not limited to the region)
- Alsace - Elsass-dev (ping @xtuc to get an invite)
- Bretagne - RennesJS Slack group of Rennes JavaScript community
- Lyon - LyonJS (ping @Paul_Mougel to get an invite)
- Lyon - LyonTechHub
- Nantes - Nantes Dev Community
๐ฌ๐ญ Ghana
- Accra - DevCongress Ghana's most active online community of developers and tech enthusiasts. Join DevCongress on Slack.
๐ฎ๐ณ India
- Friends of HasGeek - HasGeek runs a variety of tech events primarily in Bangalore, but not limited to it.
- GDG Pune - Local Meetup group of Pune who host the technical and non-technical events.
- GDG Ahmedabad - Ahemdabad Based GDG group who organise TechTalks, Hackathons, Tech Seminars around Google developers technologies and open-source to encourage knowledge sharing.
- GDG Baroda - Official Slack group of Google Developers Group Baroda (GDG Baroda). We organize meetups, hackathons, tech-talks, study-jams, DevFests & much more. An open community for tech-enthusiasts.
- Mindorks Community - Mindorks is a India based Group who organize the meetups and encourage contribution for open source.
- React JS Bangalore - Meetup group for Bangalore's React JS community
- React Native Bangalore - Meetup group for Bangalore's React Native community
- GDG Bangalore - Official Slack group of Google Developers Group in Bangalore. Our monthly meetups are FREE and open to the public. We feature talks, workshops, open discussions, and more that focus on development strategies relating to Google developer products. We welcome developers from the community to host talks or workshops with our group.
- BlrDroid-Bangalore Android Developers Group - BlrDroid, is a group of enthusiastic android developers who love creating apps. We provide a platform for developers and enthusiasts either working within the Android ecosystem or interested in learning more about Android to collaborate and network among each other.
- openEBS - An opensource workplace in Bangalore for learning and contributing to the Cloud Native Storage happenings.
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland
- Irish Tech Community - Many channels devoted to multiple subjects, from design and development of tech, to conferences and diversity.
๐ฎ๐น Italy
- BEAM Italia - The italian community about BEAM programming languages. They mainly chat about Erlang and Elixir.
- Coding Jam - Community behind the italian programming blog www.codingjam.it. They chat about different programming languages, mainly about JVM ones.
- DevDay Italia - Community based in Campania. They chat about different programming languages, for example Java, Javascript, .NET.
- Italia JS - The italian Javascript community.
- RomaJS - The Javascript community from Rome, Italy.
- Scala Italy - The italian Scala community.
- CodeGardenRome + GraphRM - A slack channel for multiple communities: Java, functional programming and Connected data from Rome, Italy.
- Rust Italia - The italian Rust community.
- GrUSP - Community mostly about web development. They also organize big international conferences such as UniversalJSDay, PHPDay, ReactJSDay, ContainerDay etc.
- Milano Front End - Milan local community for everything about front end development
- Laravel-Italia - The italian Laravel community
- Italia WP Community - The italian WordPress community
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia
- GDG Malaysia - Official Slack group for Google Developer Group Kuala Lumpur, Google Developer Group George Town and Google Developer Group Kota Kinabalu. We organize meetups, talks, codelabs & workshops and introducing developers and non-developers to the Google Developer platform.
Nigeria
- Laravel Nigeria - The Nigerian Laravel Community
- Devcenter Square - Devcenter Square created to connect more developers and designers to an ever expanding network to foster software development excellence.
๐ต๐ฑ Poland
- Wroclaw - Callstack Open Source
๐ท๐ด Romania
๐ฌ๐ง UK
- London - Front End London
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam
- Ruby Vietnam - The most quality community in Vietnam. Not only about Ruby but also JS, Elixir, DevOps...
Conferences (public slack communities)
- Mobile Era, Norway - discussions about mobile native, mobile web, PWA development
- ngVikings, Nordics - discussions about Angular and its ecosystem
Bonus channels
General Tech Slack Communities
Below are some other interesting Slack channels for different technologies and programming languages that welcome anybody worldwide:
Frameworks
- Angular Beers
- Angular Chat
- BabelJS
- EmberJS
- FeathersJS
- Hashtag NodeJS
- Ionic Worldwide
- NativeScript - Invites at https://developer.telerik.com/wp-login.php?action=slack-invitation
- NativeBase
- Reactiflux
- ReactJS
- Vue.js
- Vue.js (Discord Chat)
- VueJs Brasil (in Portuguese)
- WordPress - More Details at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/
- AMP-Accelerated Mobile Pages - More Details at https://www.ampproject.org/
Languages
- BeerJS
- clojurians
- Elixir
- Erlang
- Gophers
- Java Dev BR (in Portuguese)
- Laravel
- Laravel Brasil (in Portuguese)
- Python developers
- Ruby Developers
- Ruby on Rails
- Strapi
- WeLearnJS
- Kotlin
Design
Technologies
- Chromium Dev
- Firebase
- Kubernetes
- MongoDB
- Node.JS
- Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)
- Polymer
- Socket.io
- Firebase
General Dev
- DevChat
- Developers
- deviofoundation
- Digital Nomads
- European and Dev Explorer
- Hashtag Developers
- Launch.Chat
- Microsoft Developer Chat
- Modern Agile
- Front End Web Developer - Invites at http://frontenddevelopers.org/
- Mr Frontend
- TechMasters
General Testing & QA
- A/B Testing - modern testing, data science, agile development & (http://moderntesting.org)
- Ministry of Testing
- Testersio
Intro to Dev & Learning
Women
Misc Interest
Community Groups
- FEDs on Slack
- Slash Rocket
- Triangle Devs
- /r/TeenDeveloper
- ReasonML
- GravCMS
- PyroCMS
- We are Developer Evangelist and YOU CAN TOO
- Animation at Work
- Sitecore Community