Ask HN: What's the best software for communities to co-ordinate?

2 points by nns 6 years ago | 1 comment

Hi All,

We are organizing a Mutual Aid group for our community to help any elderly or families who have to self-isolate due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. We are using WhatsApp to communicate, but I wonder if anyone has any suggestions for how a group of individual volunteers can co-ordinate with each other.

thepete2 6 years ago |

some quick ideas

- telegram group (you can pin messages and some other features that whatsapp doesn't have)

- mumble server with push-to-talk

- trello board

- etherpad / google docs

- possibly syncthing (if you're dealing with files and don't change them too much, be careful with conflicts)