Add the GradleUp community Slack to the site

Author: oleg-nenashev

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Contributing to the Site
 
+[![Slack: GradleUp on the Gradle Community Slack](https://img.shields.io/badge/Slack-%23hacktoberfest-brightgreen?style=flat&logo=slack)](./docs/community/participate.md#slack)
+
 Any contributions, typo fixes and patches are welcome!
 The content is located inside this repository and in the
 linked repositories.

README.md

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 [![Website](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Website&message=gradleup.com&color=blue)](https://gradleup.com/)
 [![Docs](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Projects&message=10%2b&color=green)](https://gradleup.com/projects/)
+[![Slack: GradleUp on the Gradle Community Slack](https://img.shields.io/badge/Slack-%23hacktoberfest-brightgreen?style=flat&logo=slack)](./docs/community/participate.md#slack)
 [![Participate](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Contributor&message=Guide&color=lightgreen)](https://gradleup.com/docs/community/participate/)
 
 This repository hosts a [GradleUp website](https://gradleup.com/).

docs/community/governance.md

@@ -55,10 +55,12 @@ The decisions are made by the [GradleUp Team](./team.md) based on consensus and
 We intend to make decision making fast and light-weight,
 with minimum overhead when a consensus exists.
 
-At the moment the decisions are made in a GradleUp Team private channel.
-Once [public communication channels](./participate.md) are established,
-it is expected that most of the discussions will happen there,
-and all contributors and end users will be able to contribute to the decisions.
+Most of the decisions are discussed and made in
+[public communication channels](./participate.md).
+It is expected that all contributors and end users are able to participate to the decisions.
+Some exceptional decisions,
+for example Code of Conduct discussions,
+may be done in private.
 
 ## Components Governance
 

docs/community/participate.md

@@ -5,9 +5,13 @@
 Each project has GitHub issues.
 Please raise bugs and discuss feature requests there.
 
-## Public Channels
+## Slack
 
-!!! info "Coming Soon!"
+We have a `#gradleup` public channel on the
+[Gradle Community Slack](https://community.gradle.org/contributing/community-slack/).
+For now, this chat is used for all development and end user discussions.
+In the future, we may introduce more channels.
 
-    Community Channels will be published soon, stay tuned.
+The following components have custom channels:
 
+- `#dev-shadow-plugin` - development of the Shadow Plugin.

mkdocs.yml

@@ -171,6 +171,9 @@ extra:
     - icon: fontawesome/brands/github
       link: https://github.com/GradleUp
       name: GitHub
+    - icon: fontawesome/brands/slack
+      link: docs/community/participate.md#slack
+      name: Slack
 #  analytics:
 #    provider: google
 #    property: TODO