Local Slack Channels by Region

There are many technology-based Slack channels, but in this article we have collected an ongoing list of Tech community Slack channels by geographical location.

This is an attempt to promote local tech communities and encourage all to join and engage in their local community.

There is an updated list AND the ability to submit a PR to add your city or tech slack on github here.

For 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 and NYCTech

• PA : Philly Startup Leaders

For the Midwest

In Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin, there are some active channels below:

• The Midwest Dev Chat

• IL : Chicago Tech

• MI : Startup Lansing

• MO : Startup Lansing in St. Louis

• OH : TechLife Columbus

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

• FL : in Florida we have:

1. GNV Connect

2. Orlando Devs

3. Suncoast Developers Guild

• GA : Tech 404

• KY : Louisville.io

• NC : Triangle Devs

• SC : Charleston Tech

• TN : MTF Slack

• TN : NashDev

From the Southwest

Local Slack channels in Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas:

• TX : Refresh Austin

The West

From Alaska, Hawaii and Washington down to California there are several local channels below:

• CO : Denver Devs

• OR : in Oregon there are several channels:

1. Infinite Red Community

2. Node PDX

3. Portland ReactJS

4. PDXstartups

• UT : UtahJS

• WA : Tech Seattle

In Canada

• ON : Ottawa Startups

• ON : Startup6ix in Toronto

As mentioned before, this is an incomplete and ongoing list and although there maybe some great Slack Channels of interest not listed here, we hope this will be a good list to help anyone find their local channels to start networking.

Bonus channels

Below are some other interesting Slack channels for different technologies and programming languages that welcome anybody worldwide:

General Tech Slack Communities:

• BabeJS

• BeerJS

• clojurians

• Design Talks

• Designer Hangout

• DevChat

• Developers

• deviofoundation

• DevOpsChat

• Digital Nomads

• Elixir

• EmberJS

• Erlang

• European and Dev Explorer

• FEDs on Slack

• FPChat

• Gophers

• HackerX

• Hashtag Developers

• Hashtag NodeJS

• JS-Data

• JuniorDevs

• Launch.Chat

• Learn Coding

• Microsoft Developer Chat

• Mr Frontend

• Node.JS

• Python developers

• ReactJS

• Ruby Developers

• Ruby on Rails

• Scotch.io

• Slash Rocket

• Spec

• Strapi

• The Meteor Chef

• Triangle Devs

• WeLearnJS

• Women in Tech

So, the real question isn’t, “Should I join a Slack community?” It’s, “Which Slack communities should I join?”.

Happy networking!

This article was co-written by Sara Nopsittiporn and Tracy Lee.

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