Program Management for Open Source Projects

Choose the Medium

Problem: You’re not sure what medium to use for a meeting. Text, phone, and video are all options, and these days it seems everyone is on every platform.

The question of how you meet is as important as when you meet. Broadly speaking, you can choose from three categories of meetings: text, phone, and video. Let’s take a look at the different options and consider when to use each.

Of course, in-person meetings are also a thing (and they are different enough from video meetings to warrant their own treatment), but they’re rare enough in open source projects that we can ignore them for now. Arguably, virtual reality represents another distinct type of meeting. But the only VR meetings I have ever done were social events. I don’t ...