# GSoD 2020 - Improving Technical Documentation for New Developers

**URL:** https://talk.openmrs.org/t/gsod-2020-improving-technical-documentation-for-new-developers/29916
**Category:** Google Season of Docs
**Tags:** new-developers
**Created:** [August 18, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/gsod-2020-improving-technical-documentation-for-new-developers/29916 "2020-08-18T15:26:09Z")
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### Author: ![jennifer](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/jennifer/32/8531_2.png) [@jennifer](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/jennifer)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/gsod-2020-improving-technical-documentation-for-new-developers/29916/25 "2020-09-04T18:23:41Z")

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

> [@Trialing Slack for the OpenMRS Community](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/trialing-slack-for-the-openmrs-community/23484):
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> We’ve had several conversations over the years about trying Slack.[[1](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/what-real-time-chat-platform-should-openmrs-be-favoring/10862), [2](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/suggesting-slack-for-better-collaboration/14078), [3](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/a-slack-irc-bot-for-manageable-project-discussion/7831)] We’ve also run into some downsides of Telegram.[[1](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/telegram-chat-has-no-admins-and-is-having-spammer-issues/21591/26)] When the [Micro Frontends work](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/micro-frontends-architecture-for-openmrs/22557/10) 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](https://openmrs.slack.com). 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.

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