[Network-Centric Resources] Our Next Online Discussion: Workflows and Tools to Build People-Driven Resources

Tue Oct 3 19:39:14 CEST 2017

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Exciting topic -- hopefully I'll be able to join.  If not, a few
things in-line below.

On 10/03/2017 09:59 AM, Dirk Slater wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
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> Over the last few weeks, we have been having a number of one-on-one
> conversations with network-centric resource builders about tools
> and their appropriateness. Some questions we have heard lately:
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> • Is Etherpad the right tool for collaborative writing? • Is Git
> the right foundation for getting comments on final drafts?

For live or very active content sprints, etherpad and/or google docs
are both great.  I think git is less useful for comments in my
experience (google docs or shared document files seems better?) ...
but more useful in long-term collaborative work -- though onboarding
is pretty painful.  It allows for constant creation of product while
staying open for editing (as opposed to a workflow of taking something
out of etherpad into a different format/file/whatnot.

If Jun isn't already on this list, he could also provide a lot of
insight here based on his content as code work.

> • Is Mattermost/Slack right for network/project coordination?

A bit of cross-pollination from the orgsec.community work on
mattermost/slack options (there are more, possibly better options!):

* Self-hosted Rocket.Chat (OSS Slack clone with OTR and STRP (secure
multi-party voip plugins) https://rocket.chat/
* Self-hosted Mattermost https://about.mattermost.com/
* Keybase Teams https://keybase.io/blog/introducing-keybase-teams
* Slack

Specifically, Rocket.Chat has a lot of the functionality of Slack (and
has slack bridge plugins!), but is OSS, self-hostable, and has built
in OTR chatting and SRTP (jisti style) multi-party voice calls, with
mobile apps to boot.

Keybase just launched a pgp-based slack clone with everything
end-to-end encrypted, but at the cost of being pretty visible with
your contacts (it's like the web of trust on steroids)

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> Choice of tools if very much dependent on where you are within your
> workflow and development process. As often is the case, the
> conversation can be very tool focused, when it really comes down to
> who we are trying to involve in the process and when. For this
> online discussion, we will put a lens up to the tools we have been
> trying to use at different points within our workflows, and examine
> their practicality for getting people involved and engaged in the
> development of our resources.
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> Join FabRiders and other Network-Centric Resource builders on
> Friday, October 13th at 8:00 PDT, 11:00 EDT, 16:00 BST, 17:00 CEST,
> 18:00 EAT, 20:30 IST. For details on how to join, please RSVP at
> https://wp.me/p2vRK9-Or
> 
> See you then!
> 
> Dirk
> 
> Dirk Slater FabRider www.fabriders.net Wire: @FabRider 
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