Forum Tools that can help you run your Affiliate Group!

[marcusbaw]

Hi all openEHR Affiliates,

Recently I found myself offering some suggestions to a new Affiliate group of tools that we have within Discourse that can be used to enhance the forum experience for your Affiliate group. I thought afterwards that the list may be of use to the rest of openEHR Affiliates so am dropping the info in here as well.

Tools that can help you within our Discourse forum (all the below are already installed in our Discourse):

• Wiki Posts (useful for persistent informational content) https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-and-creating-wiki-posts/30801

• Discourse Calendar and Events (great for Affiliate events, meetings etc) Discourse Calendar (and Event) - Plugin - Discourse Meta

• Discourse Chat Discourse Chat - Plugin - Discourse Meta

• Kanban Board (useful for project planning) Kanban Board - Theme component - Discourse Meta

• PDF Inline Previews (nice way to bring existing documentation into forum) https://meta.discourse.org/t/inline-pdf-previews/157649

• Page Publishing (good for some website-y content which you just want to have at a regular URL - for examnple an Affiliate ‘landing page’) Page Publishing - Site Management - Discourse Meta (note that only Admins can publish a page, but you can write the page first and I just publish it for you)

Please do feel free to explore these features and do let me know if you have any issues or requests.

[siljelb (Silje Ljosland Bakke)]

Thanks Marcus, many of these are really useful! I thought I’d just mention that some also are overlapping with functionality in Confluence and Jira, which affiliates also can use at https://openehr.atlassian.net/wiki/home

[HHeiser (Hendrik Heiser)]

Dear Silje,

that sounds great! It could also be interesting for the Swiss Affiliate Group openehr.ch Would that be free of charge for affiliates?

Do you know who I could approach to see if we could get our own space on the openEHR Confluence?