Loomio
Fri 3 Jun 2016 7:20AM

Let's decide on our toolset

DB Doug Belshaw Public Seen by 292

Came up with this over breakfast. On reflection, I want things to 'just work' more than show that the hair shirt isn't that irritating.

So let's have a discussion about whether we want to use the following tools when communicating with:

Each other
* Email
* Loomio
* Slack
* Trello

Community
* Twitter
* Slack
* TinyLetter
* Medium

Clients
* Trello
* Email
* Google Docs
* Slack

BONUS QUESTION: Shall we just use Google Apps for email, etc. as well?

JBA

John Bevan (We Are Open) Fri 3 Jun 2016 10:42AM

I started to write a thing and yes, the "willing to take a bit of a hit" thing felt a bit forced.

Related to wanting people to choose us because we're better not just because we're a co-op.

Pasted the text into a pad so we can build out if desired once we've got agreement - https://weareopen.sandcats.io/shared/p1D9uyD8OkAzZpVJtYR6LgpDa3Nyfg9PQHlJnr1Mxqn

Your list looks good to me.

DB

Doug Belshaw Sat 4 Jun 2016 10:32AM

Just to mix things up a bit, I thought I'd have a bit of a go this morning in configuring Sandstorm.

  1. I've emailed you with instructions on how to authenticate using your Google account and weareopen.coop email address

  2. On a whim, I created http://weareopen.coop/tools

  3. Wildcard DNS is still beyond me, so I suggest we just keep Sandstorm at the sandcats.io domain

If we decided to go with WeKan and Rocket.Chat, that would change things to....

Each other

  • Email
  • Loomio
  • Rocket.Chat
  • WeKan

Community

  • Twitter
  • Rocket.Chat
  • TinyLetter (for newsletters; there's self-hosted options, though)
  • Medium (syndicated from our own blogs)

Clients

  • WeKan
  • Email
  • Etherpad
  • Rocket.Chat

What are people's thoughts on that?

LH

Laura Hilliger Wed 8 Jun 2016 8:26AM

FWIW At the moment I'm relying on email to notify me of when I need to sign into Loomio or another App. Usually, I would say "Let's select tools we already use on a daily basis because, you know, CPU and stuff."

I read John's etherpad and thought about the fact that not only am I comfortable playing with technology, but I get a kick out of experimenting. I like the list. Let's get it set up.

DB

Poll Created Wed 8 Jun 2016 8:49AM

Toolset Closed Sat 11 Jun 2016 8:02AM

Each other

  • Email
  • Loomio
  • Rocket.Chat
  • WeKan

Community

  • Twitter
  • Rocket.Chat
  • Mailtrain (for self-hostednewsletters)
  • Medium (syndicated from our own blogs)

Clients

  • WeKan
  • Email
  • Etherpad
  • Rocket.Chat

Results

Results Option % of points Voters
Agree 33.3% 1 DB
Abstain 33.3% 1 JBA
Disagree 33.3% 1 LH
Block 0.0% 0  
Undecided 0% 2 BM HB

3 of 5 people have participated (60%)

JBA

John Bevan (We Are Open)
Abstain
Wed 8 Jun 2016 10:34AM

I'm on holiday, happy for you to make this decision without me :beach_with_umbrella:

LH

Laura Hilliger
Abstain
Fri 10 Jun 2016 9:09AM

Agree with some of the proposal, don't have a strong opinion on some things one way or the other.

LH

Laura Hilliger
Disagree
Fri 10 Jun 2016 9:46AM

Agree with some of the proposal, don't have a strong opinion on some things one way or the other, disagree with others. Plus Doug made fun of me for Abstaining.

DB

Doug Belshaw Wed 8 Jun 2016 3:27PM

Wondering whether we're realistically all going to use Rocket.Chat.

LH

Laura Hilliger Thu 9 Jun 2016 8:11AM

We probably would if we stopped using Slack...

BM

Bryan Mathers Fri 10 Jun 2016 5:45PM

I haven't responded as yet because:
1. I'm a bit useless
2. I'm not sure how to respond. I'm not sure we need to define our toolset - as I don't know how good they'll be until I try them.
I find myself wondering what the purpose is behind this motion. For instance, is it to say to new members, "use these tools" ?
On the other hand - when it comes to tools, I'm not an early adopter...