GSoD 2020 - Improving Technical Documentation for New Developers

[jennifer (Jennifer Antilla)]

Hi @rainbow!

Here are a couple of resources that might give you insight into how we’re using IRC and Slack:

https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/RES/Communication+Channels

Trialing Slack for the OpenMRS Community

We’ve had several conversations over the years about trying Slack.[1, 2, 3] We’ve also run into some downsides of Telegram.[1] When the Micro Frontends work started up this year, it began fairly organically amongst teams who were already using Slack for their work. In order to try to pull those conversations into a community space without being disruptive to those developers, we dusted off our Slack workspace. Yes, Slack has downsides for an open source community. But it’s also one of the most …

Also, @burke has created a bridge from IRC to our #general Slack channel so that conversations in IRC are also visible in Slack.