Overview

Date: 2024-03-07

Objective: Weekly space for deep dive topics

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

• @Uwe Wahser

• https://openimis.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OP/pages/835682333

• @Harry Larbi

• @Hiren Soni

• @Patrick Delcroix

• @Jan Dołkowski

• @Wojciech Zgliniecki

• @Andrea

Topic Proposals:

• discussion forum

Presentations / Attachments

Minutes

Current options:

• Service Desk

• Wiki:

• google forum

• discord: https://discord.gg/7mebU575

• WhatsApp:

Forum options:

• GitHub Discussion (option)

• slack (option)

  • integration into anything from atlassian

  • most developers use it

• Discourse (self hosted/SaaS):

  • https://www.discourse.org/customers

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:

• 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:

Additional Resources