A list of communication tools used across the Community, how they are used, and any overlaps or inefficiencies.
Tool | Uses | Drawbacks | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1:1 conversations, coordinating meetings, working group discussions, community announcements, quick questions, opportunistic synchronization of work, sending reminders | Need to request a Slack invitation | Google Meet | Working group meetings | Github | Open edX Roadmap, list projects, issue tracking, product review tracking, bug reporting, code reviews | Discussion History disappears after 6 months, not always easily searchable, requires an invitation, very easy to post direct (i.e. private) messages | |
Questions, requests for help, announcements about Open edX software, announcing new blog posts, events, feature deprecations, core contributor nominations, posting polls, getting feedback from the community, job posts, feature deprecations, announce events, collaborate | |||||||
Working Current and past projects, programs like the Core Contributor and Maintainer programs, working group agendas and meeting notes, product proposals, release information, upcoming features, how-tos, code of conduct | |||||||
Documentation for site operators, developers, educators, and documentors. How-to guides, OEP’s, | |||||||
GithubGoogle Calendar | Open edX Roadmap, projects, issue tracking, product review tracking, bug reports, code reviews | ||||||
Google Meet | Working group meetings, ad-hoc meetings | ||||||
Zoom | Working group meetings, Open edX Meetupsad-hoc meetings | ||||||
Announcements, information about releases, events, meetups, posts about online learning | |||||||
YouTube | Conference presentations, Open edX Docs | Developer documentation, OEP’s | Tutor documentation | Meetups | |||
Google Docs / Sheets | Collaborating on documents | ||||||
Google Drive | Storing working group meeting recordings | Google Forms | Sending out polls, gathering feedback from community | ||||
YouTube | Conference presentations | Figma | In-context design discussions, prototypes | ||||
Email (is this used?) | |||||||
Newsletter (does one exist?) | |||||||
Google DriveSessionize / Eventbrite | Storing working group meeting recordings | ||||||
Google Calendar | Working group meetings, Open edX Meetups | ||||||
Open edX Meetup information and registration, Open edX Conference information and tickets | |||||||
Sessionize / Miro (relevant to list here?) |
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