Suggestion for Discord: List of all projects and activity level

I checked out Discord and it still has a lot of friction. The sign-up process is a little counter intuitive (filling out a form and then writing down the same info for the introduction post). I also had to explore a bit to discover this is what I had to do in order to participate.

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I would like to see a big list of all active projects. One example is using a combination of Google Sheets and Trello Boards. The master Google sheet lists all projects and a column for last updated based on Trello activity.

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Each Trello workspace should be systematized. For example the first column may always be a list of cards seeking active owners. That way someone could easily drop into the Trello and see if any tasks interest them.

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Pending tasks from all boards could also be aggregated on another Google worksheet.

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Of course this can also be aggregated into Discord with API calls or Zapier or whatever.

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I hope there will be a more systematized approach rolled out -- a sort of "standard operating procedures, operating doc, etc." for each project. Not only will this approach allow easy on boarding for new volunteers but it should also offer one-button launch of new projects.

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All of this can be done in a few days, and is not particularly challenging. But without a system similar to this in place there will be too much inefficiency for a movement to develop around working towards common but separate goals.

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2 cents.