Proposal: New system for meeting notes (HackMD + GitHub)

[ivirshup]

I would like to record the meeting notes somewhere open. I would also like to be able to easily refer to them on github.

I've been seeing a practice recently that I think would fit our workflow and tooling quite well (though I can't remember where I saw it at the moment 🙃).

The proposal

• Take meeting notes in HackMD (real time collaborative markdown editing)
• Post the notes to github or discourse after the meetings
  • Probably a github discussions board?

The reasoning

• markdown >> google docs
• Centralize organization on github
• Notes become searchable
• Meeting notes can link to and from github issues
• Same access controls

[Zethson]

LGTM.
Some things may need to be private and not public though. Imagining topics related to approval/removal of core members (discussion private, but decision public), money and hiring related things and more. But public by default is something I would support.

[giovp]

I've been using notion a lot and like it (it'a also markdown and it's also free). I think you can use it the same way as hackmd is used. I'd prefer notion for that but could do hackmd too.

I would also try to use github as much as possible, e.g. a lot of this can be discussed in the "discussion" panel in github which has great potential but haven't seen it used much

[ivirshup]

Many people have been suggesting notion, but you do have to pay for more than 5 people.

Also, just want to be clear this is purely meeting notes so scope is limited. My main goals here:

• Collaborative editing at meeting time
  • Open to all attendees
• Notes can be easily archived/ posted to github

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@gtca pointed out napari's meeting note repo as model: https://github.com/napari/meeting-notes

[Zethson]

Ewww, not a fan of paying for such a service. Simply downloading the markdown file and uploading it to GH like Napari would suffice I guess?