Slack Snap Pack allows you to communicate, collaborate with your team members, and get notified of events in other applications. Slack is now the backbone of communication for many enterprises often replacing email. Slack allows you to communicate with your colleagues, collaborate on campaigns, projects, and initiatives, and foster communication across functional areas. Slack and Snapchat could not have more different user bases. A data breach exposure on Slack carries more corporate than personal risk. The exact opposite of Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp. Slack is a new way to communicate with your team. It’s faster, better organized, and more secure than email. Slack can be installed from the Snapcraft store, as a snap package, or Slack repository, like a deb package. Install Slack with Snap: Snaps are self-contained software programs that provide all the dependencies necessary for the application that runs the binary. It is also reliable and easy to update.
Slack Snap Pack allows you to communicate, collaborate with your team members, and get notified of events in other applications.
Slack is now the backbone of communication for many enterprises often replacing email. Slack allows you to communicate with your colleagues, collaborate on campaigns, projects, and initiatives, and foster communication across functional areas. Given then Slack is used across the organization for communication, it can be integrated with a wide range of application endpoints. Here is a sample set of use cases where you can benefit from out-of-the-box connectivity to Slack Snap Pack.
- Team Communication
- New team member welcome and onboarding
- Sharing of meeting notes
- Project Collaboration
- Setting up a new channel for a project
- Employee Journey Workflows
- New hire account setup
- Deleting a departing employee
- Event Notification
- New lead assignment in a CRM system
- New high priority support ticket created for a customer
- Resolution of a high-priority support ticket
- And many more …
Slack Snap Pack provides the following Snaps
Workspace Operations: Enables operations such as Create Workspace, get details, retrieving the list of Workspaces, users, or Channels, and deleting Channel
Channel Operations: Includes operations such as create a channel, list members, invite users, archive/unarchive channels.
User Operations: Supports operations such as getting user details, add or delete a user, etc.
Search: Enables searching for a message and file using keywords, sender/recipient, date sent etc.
Send Message: Sends a message to a given channel with a given formatting type including emojis, code snippets,
Update Message: Updates a message
Delete Message: Allows you to delete a message
Upload File: Uploads a file to a channel/ group/direct message.
Delete File: Deletes a previously uploaded file.
To learn more, please check out the documentation.
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London, UK – 18th January 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced the first iteration of Slack as a snap, bringing collaboration to open source users.
Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively. Slack works seamlessly with other software tools within a single integrated environment, providing an accessible archive of an organisation’s communications, information and projects.
In adopting the universal Linux app packaging format, Slack will open its digital workplace up to an-ever growing community of Linux users, including those using Linux Mint, Manjaro, Debian, ArchLinux, OpenSUSE, Solus, and Ubuntu.
Designed to connect us to the people and tools we work with every day, the Slack snap will help Linux users be more efficient and streamlined in their work. And an intuitive user experience remains central to the snaps’ appeal, with automatic updates and rollback features giving developers greater control in the delivery of each offering.
“Slack is helping to transform the modern workplace, and we’re thrilled to welcome them to the snaps ecosystem”, said Jamie Bennett, VP of Engineering, Devices & IoT at Canonical. “Today’s announcement is yet another example of putting the Linux user first – Slack’s developers will now be able to push out the latest features straight to the user. By prioritising usability, and with the popularity of open source continuing to grow, the number of snaps is only set to rise in 2018.”
Snaps are containerised software packages, designed to work perfectly and securely within any Linux environment; across desktop, the cloud, and IoT devices. Thousands of snaps have been launched since the first in 2016, with snaps’ automated updates, added security benefits, and rollback features, with the option for applications to revert back to the previous working version in the event of a bug.
Slack is available to download as a snap by clicking here, or running snap install Slack.
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About Canonical
Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the leading OS for cloud operations. Most public cloud workloads use Ubuntu, as do most new smart gateways, switches, self-driving cars and advanced robots. Canonical provides enterprise support and services for commercial users of Ubuntu. Established in 2004, Canonical is a privately held company.
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