2024-03-07 Developers Deep Dive Call

Overview

Date: 2024-03-07

Objective: Weekly space for deep dive topics

Participants: (kindly only add your own names, not those of other participants)

Topic Proposals:

  • discussion forum

Presentations / Attachments

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Minutes

Current options:

Forum options:

Feature requests of the forum:

  • account-less access without login at least for reading

  • user feeling: no fear to break something

  • voting functionality

  • categories

  • threads

  • client-free option vs. being on peoples phone

  • sustainability for the initiative

  • integration into existing landscape

Examples form other communities:

https://www.discourse.org/customers

  • Atlassian

  • openAI

  • Zoom

  • Elastic

  • Asana

  • Western Digital

  •  

  • openHIE

    • Discourse (SaaS)

    • Atlassian wiki (selfhosted)

  • ODK

    • Discourse ()

  • DHIS2

    • Discourse ()

  • Olibar

  • Odoo

    • custom build?

  • Digital Square

    • new platform

Questions

Limitations of current channels as a Forum:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service Desk

Not a Forum. Questions issues are not public, timing of reply is limited to availability of the service desk.

 

Wiki

Not a forum, not practical to have replies from users

 

Google Forum

More like a mailing list, not user friendly (lacks multiple features of Discourse)

 

Discord

Not a Forum, as per company’s motto it is a way to chat

 

WhatsApp

Not a Forum

 

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