Slack

We use Slack, a chat client, as Discord, as our primary form of team communication.

1. Register an account at uwmidsun.slack.com.
2. Join the general room.
3. Join your team's room - Electrical, Mechanical, or Business. 
4. (Optional) Download and install the native client.
5. (Optional) Download the mobile app.
6. Introduce yourself in the general or your team's room!

Note that in order to be involved in discussions, you must keep your client open.

By default, you will receive offline notifications only from mentions and 1-to-1 chats. We recommend leaving at least these enabled.

Highlights

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Keep all Midsun communications in the server and out of DMs! Transparency in all our communications is key so that all parties involved can stay in the loop with what's going on. Private group chats leave people in the dark and have significantly hampered our ability to put in a coordinated effort in the past. If you get DMs about Midsun, kindly ask them to move back to the server! If you aren't sure which channel to use, don't worry, just take your best guess. If it's not the most appropriate channel, someone will point out where it should be moved to.

Confluence

This is Confluence, the team wiki. Here, we document our projects, knowledge, and experiences.

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JIRA is an issue tracker. We use it to track tasks, issues, and progress. Each task can be assigned to a member, placed into different statuses and can be reviewed by other team members before being signed off as completed. 

Trello

Trello is a task manager currently being trialed by the business teammanager that is used by a few of the teams.