Assessment of collaborative tools

Assessment of collaborative tools

What collaboration tools do yunity contributors use?

This page is a collection of all tools, including advantages and disadvantages.

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Sorted approximately by activity and/or number of participants.

References

Decision proposal: https://trello.com/c/QzSukfwO/1-choice-of-collaboration-tools

Work tracking: https://trello.com/c/mISMiYxT/57-assess-currently-used-collaborative-tools-and-competitors

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Regularly used

Slack

Pro

  • All messages and content saved
  • Well developed with ongoing development
  • Many useful integrations

Con

  • Can divert people from open documentation
  • Notifications can be overwhelming
  • Very 'heavy'

Confluence Wiki

Pro

ย 

Con

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Trello

  • License: Proprietary online service
  • Current usage: (Frequent) Organize short- to long-term tasks
  • Description: Task boards
  • Link: https://trello.com/yunity

Pro

  • ย Fast access to all tasks because of non chronologic structure

Con

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Etherpad

  • License: Open source online service
  • Current usage:ย (Frequent) Taking minutes & temporary co-editing
  • Description: Collaborative editor
  • Link: https://pad.riseup.net/

Pro

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Con

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GitHub

  • License: Proprietary online service
  • Current usage: (When coding) yunity source code and tasks
  • Description: Source code management
  • Link: https://github.com/yunity/

Pro

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Con

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Waffle.io

  • License: Proprietary online service
  • Current usage: (Sometimes) Developer task management
  • Description: Task board for GitHub
  • Link: https://waffle.io/yunity/yunity

Pro

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Con

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Google Docs

  • License: Proprietary online service
  • Current usage: (Frequent) Newsletter, Translation, Specification
  • Description: Word processor
  • Link: https://docs.google.com

Pro

  • Very interactive
  • Pretty easy to use
  • Option to change directly or just comment

Con

  • Can get messy very fast if noone accepts or declines suggestions
  • Hard to know when something is really finished

Google Driveย 

  • License: Proprietary online service
  • Current usage:ย (Frequent) Docs and Image storage
  • Description: Cloud storage
  • Link: https://drive.google.com

Pro

  • ย Free space that's accessible from everywhere

Con

  • Not very organized at the moment
  • Many people don't even know what's all on there

Sometimes used

Doodle

  • License: Proprietary online service
  • Current usage: (Sometimes) Organizing WuppDays participants
  • Description: Scheduling tool
  • Link: http://doodle.com/

Pro

ย 

Con

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Dudle

Pro

ย 

Con

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Invision

  • License: Proprietary online service
  • Current usage: (Seldom) UX/UI mockups
  • Description: User experience prototyping
  • Link: http://www.invisionapp.com/

Pro

ย 

Con

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Jitsi Meet

  • License: Open source online service
  • Current usage: (Sometimes) Video meetings for
  • Description:
  • Link: https://meet.jit.si/

Pro

ย 

Con

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Skype

  • License: Proprietary software
  • Current usage: (Seldom) PR channel and video meetings
  • Description: Video chat
  • Link:

Pro

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Con

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Mediawiki

Pro

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Con

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Proposed tools

Taiga

Pro

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Con

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Gitlab

  • License: Open source (community version)
  • Current usage: (None)
  • Description: code, test and deploy together
  • Link: https://about.gitlab.com/

Pro

ย 

Con

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agilefant

Pro

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Con

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openProject

Pro

ย 

Con

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ย ย 

MeisterMind

  • License:
  • Current usage: yucon
  • Description: collaborative mindmapping + task managment in combination with mindtask (kanban)
  • Link: https://www.mindmeister.com/

Pro

ย 

Con

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diigo

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Kolab

  • License: opensource (community version)
  • Current usage:
  • Description: e-mail, fileupload, calender, tasks etc.
  • Link: https://kolab.org/index.html

open-xchange.com

  • License: opensource (community version)
  • Current usage:
  • Description: connecting different opensource soultion into one plattform
  • Link: https://www.open-xchange.com/

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Pro

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Con

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