How to Integrate Slack with Github, Google Drive and more A few years back, the primary mode of communication for a team was via mailing lists (for example, those old Python mailman lists — remember those?) As time passed, Google Groups came to the rescue, and managing threads for team communications became a lot easier. Teams all around the world began to use it, and most were happy with its features. In recent years, however, tools like Redmine and Trello have arrived, providing greater control over projects — with features for project management a step ahead of forums. At IMG, IIT Roorkee, we used Google Groups as our primary mode of communication, until we realized the time had come to take it to the next level. Slack is a collection of chat rooms, both public and private. Getting Started If you are the team lead, just head over to Slack and create your team. You can create public or private chat rooms, with the option of one-to-one messaging as well. Here’s a bonus — you can customize almost everything. Search Custom notifications 1. 2. 3.
Team Collaboration With GitHub GitHub has become the corner stone for all things open source software. Developers love it, collaborate on it and are constantly building awesome projects through it. Apart from hosting our code, GitHub's main attraction is using it as a collaborative tool. One thing that I find very useful is integrating the Github Wiki into the main source code project. This tutorial assumes that you are already familiar with Git, the open source distributed version control system, created by Linus Torvalds in 2005. In the world of software projects, it is inevitable that we will find ourselves working in a team to deliver a project. Adding Team Members - Organization & CollaboratorsPull Requests - Sending & MergingBug Tracking - Github IssuesAnalytics - Graphs & NetworkProject Management - Trello & Pivotal TrackerContinuous Integration - Travis CICode Review - Line Commenting & URL queriesDocumenting - Wiki & Hubot There are generally two ways of setting up Github for team collaboration: