[WIP] Conformance to Key Criteria
- Ali Hugo
When selecting communication tools for an open-source community like ours, certain key criteria should be considered. The table below highlights what we believe to be the most important ones and indicates which of our tools and the tools used by other communities meet these criteria and which do not.
| Open source | Searchable | Public | User-friendly | Retains history | Adoption |
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Discourse Forum | widespread | |||||
Slack | widespread | |||||
Github | moderate | |||||
Confluence Wiki | widespread | |||||
Google Meet | widespread | |||||
Zoom | widespread | |||||
widespread | ||||||
Google Docs / Sheets | widespread | |||||
Google Forms | minimal | |||||
Figma | moderate | |||||
Miro | minimal | |||||
Discourse Chat | minimal | |||||
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Important Criteria for Open Source Community Tools
[WIP] Key Criteria (used as rows in the above table)
Open source
[criterion_description]
Searchable
[criterion_description]
Public
[criterion_description] Allows for public discussion
User-friendly
[criterion_description]
Retains history
[criterion_description]
Adoption (minimal / moderate / widespread)
[criterion_description] Adoption with the Community
Other Criteria (not included in table)
Mobile-friendly
Asynchronous
Archivable
Filterable
Follow/Unfollow
Commenting
Threads
Content sharing
Translation
Media support
Fosters public discussion
Exportable
Offline support