What collaboration tools do yunity contributors use?

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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

Regularly used

Slack

License: Closed source
Current usage: Frequent
Description: Richly featured chat-room.
Link: https://yunity.slack.com

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

License: Proprietary online service
Current usage: (Frequent) Organization of yunity content
Description:
Link: https://yunity.atlassian.net

Pro

Con

Trello

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

Pro

Fast access to all tasks because of non chronologic structure

Con

Etherpad

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

Pro

Con

GitHub

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

Pro

Con

Waffle.io

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

Pro

Con

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 Drive

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

Pro

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

Con

Dudle

License: Proprietary online service
Current usage: (Once) Organizing WuppDays participants
Description: Scheduling tool
Link: https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/

Pro

Con

Invision

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

Pro

Con

Jitsi Meet

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

Pro

Con

Skype

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

Pro

Con

Mediawiki

License: Open source
Current usage: (Seldom) foodsharing.de guideline translation on https://wiki.yunity.org/
Description: Wiki software
Link: https://wiki.yunity.org/ / https://www.mediawiki.org

Pro

Con

Proposed tools

Taiga

License: Open source
Current usage: yucon
Description: scrum and kanban
Link: https://tree.taiga.io

Pro

Con

Gitlab

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

Pro

Con

agilefant

License: Open source
Current usage: (None)
Description: scrum, storytree
Link: https://app.agilefant.com

Pro

Con

openProject

License: Open source
Current usage: (None)
Description: scrum, wiki, calendar
Link: https://yunity.openproject.com

Pro

Con

MeisterMind

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

Pro

Con

diigo

License:
Current usage: research
Description: helpful tool for research
Link: https://www.diigo.com/user/paul_free

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/

Pro

Con