Hi all,
We mentioned some management tools to be used in the group, so I'm just
getting back to it before our next meeting. There are lots of management
tools out there. Personally I've used Slack in Coding Rights and
Derechos Digitales. I also used Trello in CR and in research groups.
Trello is OK if you have a tight deadline of different tasks to be done
in a big team and you need to keep up with what everybody is doing.
Slack is for more like a platform for all the work that is done
everyday, including ideas, reading, visual references and brainstorm.
Trello and Github (among other tools) can be connected to Slack, so
everything that is added on Github or tasks that are introduced or
completed on Trello is informed to the team on Slack. Since Derechos and
Coding Rights have a routine of working with fixed members of the team
that live in different cities and countries, Slack is where the follow
up about projects is made (they also use the chat on Slack, but I would
not recommend it). There are privacy concerns about Slack, some exploit
found but no actual breach happened. Just like Varoon, I don't have
lots of experience in free software management tools. I participated in
discussions with IFF groups on Mattermost but it was only during a
couple of months and it was a bit chaotic in my opinion. So if you have
any ideas, just let me know. Anyway, if we decide not to use any of
these tools we could just have the routine of copying the shared links,
texts, etc in this list on Github so it won't get lost in the emails.
Best,
Raquel
