Geeboard is a web site for small group coordination for specific tasks.
Which tasks? Mainly those nasty tasks that require calling more than one person more than once, and where the calls are not part of the fun. Why “where the calls are not part of the fun”? Well, if you enjoy making the calls to coordinate a task , why try to reduce the amount of calls?
We all have things we need or want to do, that require more communications than we like to do.
We've started this because Ron, one of our beloved founders, needed to coordinate rides for swim practice twice a week. There are five members in the group, all going to the practice, and taking turns as drivers. They needed to know who is driving, and who is coming.
This is what ron's board looks like: (names changed)
is this elf language? No! It's hebrew. I'm assuming by the time non hebrew readers get here, I will have already changed the images to an English (more cosmopolitic I guess) layout.
So, what have we here? I hope the board is self explanatory. This is actually a super simple application – on the right table column are user names, and the left column shows the user's decision – arriving/not arriving/maybe/not set.
Every user can edit his and other users' decisions. That is for a reason – some people might not be connected to the internet at some time, and we want others to be able to update on their behalf.
The key word is simplicity – because if this isn't simpler than picking up the phone – why bother to use it?
The chat on the right is a nice extra – but this board's users don't usually use it – this super simple board does the job remarkably well.
Tune in for my next post – about recurring events and reminder mails.
