Page Comparison

Discourse Forum

Community favorite

Discussion Forum: Questions, requests for help, announcements about Open edX software, new blog posts, events, feature deprecations, core contributor nominations, posting polls, getting community, job posts

Relatively high barrier to entry creating a new thread, moderation required, notification fatigue

Slack

2nd favorite

Messaging Platform: 1:1 conversations, coordinating meetings, working group discussions, community announcements, quick questions, opportunistic synchronization of work, sending reminders

History disappears after 6 months, limited searchability, requires invitation, encourages synchronous communication, very easy to post direct (i.e. private) messages, information can be lost in threads, proprietary software

Discourse Forum

Questions, requests for help, announcements about Open edX software, new blog posts, events, feature deprecations, core contributor nominations, posting polls, getting community, job posts

Relatively high barrier to entry creating a new thread, moderation required, notification fatigue

Confluence Wiki

not open source

Github

3rd favorite

Issue Tracking / Project Management: Open edX Roadmap, projects, issue tracking, product review tracking, bug reports, code reviews

Potentially intimidating for non-developers, communication is tied to issues, proprietary features, not everyone has a GitHub account

Confluence Wiki

4th favorite

Knowledge Bases / Wikis: 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

High cost, can be buggy, unclear what is documented in the docs and what is documented in the wiki, proprietary software

Github

Open edX Roadmap, projects, issue tracking, product review tracking, bug reports, code reviews

Potentially intimidating for non-developers, communication tied to issues, proprietary features

not open source

Google Meet

Video Conferencing: Working group meetings, ad-hoc meetings

Synchronous, excludes participants in different time zones, proprietary softwarenot open source

Zoom

Video Conferencing: Working group meetings, ad-hoc meetings

Synchronous, excludes participants in different time zones, free plans has time limits for group meetings, proprietary softwarenot open source

Email

Email: Contacting Core Contributors (by inputting a single email address in your email client)

Inbox fatigue— people become overwhelmed by the volume of emails they receive, leading to important messages being overlooked

Google Docs / Sheets

Collaborative Documents: Collaborating on documents

Long comment threads can be difficult to follow, version history not always clear, not open source

Google Forms

Surveys / Polls: Sending out polls, gathering feedback from community

Limited layout and design options, not open source

Figma

Collaborative Design: In-context design discussions, prototypes

Open edX Blog

Announcements, information about releases, events, meetups, posts about online learning

No commenting

Email

Is this used?

Miro

Is this used?

Newsletter

Does this exist?

Open edX Docs

Documentation for site operators, developers, educators, and documentors. how-to guides, OEP’s Relevant?

Unclear what is documented in the docs and what is documented in the wiki, various versions of the docs exist

YouTube

Conference presentations, Open edX Meetups, how-to videos Relevant?

Google Drive

Storing working group meeting recordings Relevant?

Google Calendar

Working group meetings, Open edX Meetups Relevant?

Eventbrite

Open edX Meetup information and registration, Open edX Conference information and tickets Relevant?

Sessionize

Relevant?Not open source, not always easy to collaborate across organizations

Miro

Collaborative Design: Collaborative brainstorms, mind-maps

High cost, not open source