Assessment of collaborative tools

Owned by Douglas Webb
Last updated: Apr 29, 2016 by Paul Free
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What collaboration tools do yunity contributors use?

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

Feel free to add content and comments. Please do not delete or modify other peoples contributions without asking.

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

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

 

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

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

Pro

 

Con

 

Proposed tools

Taiga

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

Pro

 

Con

 

openProject

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

 

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

 


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