So you want to join in? Great! We look forward to meeting you. The information below will help you get involved right away.

Application form

Please fill in this application form to register your interest. We only ask for a minimum of personal details to keep in touch with you, and those details will be kept private. We aim to get back to you as soon as possible.

Online

You are warmly invited to use the same user name and profile picture consistently across the online yunity world. It is preferable to use the the name people call you in person as your user name, but if you would prefer to use another name that's fine - please just use it consistently. It is also preferable to have a clear picture of your face as your profile picture, but if you would prefer to use another picture that's also fine - please just keep it consistent. Creating a consistent identity helps us to recognize each other and build relationships in the different scenarios we meet both online and offline whilst embracing the right to present yourself as you wish.

Slack

Slack is a chat-client that we use as our primary way to communicate with one another. Discussions are held on different channels, such as #development. Please consult the guidelines below

Slack guidelines

yunity is a network from the people for the people that is based on self-determination, trust and cooperation. To expand this vision we have formulated recommendations and guidance for the use of slack to maintain a harmonious communication.

After joining slack, please present yourself in the general slack, e.g. what you are doing in your life, where do you mostly live, why you want to be involved and what your skills are. That will help everybody who is involved to understand better who you are and why you are here ;-)

We ask you to:

Be friendly to each other: We are all contributing into the project out of free choice, because we share a common dream and we want to actively commit ourselves to actualize it. Instead of competition and exclusion our project requires collaboration and solidarity.
Use respectful language: Obscene, derogatory, threatening, or hateful language is not expedient for yunity. This includes harassing or directing serious insults at another user, or being rude in a fashion that cannot be interpreted as joking and is not conducive to conversation.
Consider the topic of the board you want to post in: Please stay on topic and respect the topic being posted about.
Avoid spamming: Spamming consists of repeatedly entering the same message or flooding a chat with irrelevant text. Please post messages with informed opinion contributing positively to the workflow.
Post in English language: yunity is a global project. To allow everyone to understand your post, please write it in English (You can attach a post in another language to your post in english language.).

Confluence (this wiki)

Confluence is the wiki software powering the words you're reading right now. Please consult the guidelines below before signing-up here.

More details

Confluence is a well developed, feature-rich organisation platform from Atlassian (primarily a wiki, but also profiles, calendar, etc).
Although closed-source and commercial, they are 'open-source friendly' and have given us the open-source, cloud license.
Permissioning is very flexible and works by creating groups with certain permissions then adding users to those groups.
Anyone can sign up which adds them to the 'confluence users' group (can see people, calendars, etc)
To be able to edit and create content, 'confluence users' must be added (manually) to the 'wiki-editors' group by someone in 'site-admin'.
Currently Douglas Webb is the only 'site-admin' - throw things at him until he adds you to 'wiki-editors' (NB: currently only adding people met in person)
- Tilmann is the backup 'site-admin' for now. Responsible for IT things, but you can also contact him for everything else.

Trello

Trello is a solution for recording and working on tasks. You can create an account here, but to be added to the yunity Trello organisation you must pester someone to add you on Slack (currently no better method)

Trello guidelines

Welcome to the trello boards of yunity.

yunity is a platform from the people for the people that is based on self-determination, trust and cooperation. We are very happy that you are able to contribute to the project. In order to maintain sustainable task management, we have formulated recommendations and guidance for the use of trello.

We ask you to:

Be friendly to each other: We are all contributing to the project out of free choice, because we share a common dream and we want to actively commit ourselves to actualize it. Instead of competition and exclusion our project requires collaboration and solidarity.
Use respectful language: Obscene, derogatory, threatening, or hateful language is not expedient for yunity. This includes harassing or directing serious insults at another user, or being rude in a fashion that cannot be interpreted as joking and is not conducive to conversation.
Consider the topic of the board you want to post in: Please stay on topic and respect the topic being posted about.
Avoid spamming: Spamming consists of repeatedly entering the same message or flooding a chat with irrelevant text.
Post in English language: yunity is a supranational project. To allow everyone to understand your post, please write it in English (You can attach a post in another language to your post in English).

When using Trello, please follow these guidelines :

Use a short and precise title.
Put all necessary information into the description.
Discuss your opinion in the comments.
Update the description with decisions made while the task is being done.
Talk to people before you add them to a card.
Respect the rules that can be set by the board admins.

Discourse (our forum)

For deeper conversation, connections in a online manner join here: http://yunity.trydiscourse.com (or: discourse.yunity.org)

WuppDays

WuppDays are the residential work sprints of the project, check out the calendar to see when they are planned. Are you at a WuppDays right now? There might be something useful for you in the WuppDays section.

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