Hi everyone,
I am providing a quick summary of today’s open-source applications for GOSH meeting!
I was joined by @hpy, and we discussed the change in Gitlab’s free-of-charge tier and how that impacts GOSH - since GOSH is registered as part of the Gitlab open source program, we should be OK for now. We also briefly chatted about finding tools to do “digital gardening” for GOSH, but agreed it may be better to revisit this when there is more interest in digital gardening from the community.
We also realized that most of the needs we identified earlier for GOSH have been met!
- Surveys → SurveyStack and EUSurvey
- Polls → built-in discourse function
- Scheduling (i.e. finding a time for a meeting) → crabfit
- Newsletter → Mautic
- Video conferencing → Jitsi
The only need we are still waiting on is the Google Docs replacement, which will likely be Nextcloud. @hpy is currently talking to folks from open source ecology to see if we can join their instance for free! If not, we have this nextcloud option that @dusjagr recommended, and another inexpensive one that @hpy found.
These meetings are regularly scheduled for the first Thursday of each month (the next one is scheduled for May 5) - but it looks like most of the work we’ve needed to get done is close to being finished. Because of that, do you all still see a need to have these meetings? Should we still leave them open on a monthly basis, or do you think we are at an okay point to wrap them up?
Curious to hear what you think!
-Bri