Technical Collaboration Tools for Non-Technical Tasks

In this post, I want to explain how my colleague and I used Gitea to coordinate our event planning to-do list and document our process as we prepared to take our team of participants to an international competition. This method can be applied to other types of event planning as well, and it showcases some management planning tools and techniques that you might find useful. Repository Setup As with any project using Git, the first step is to set up a repository. Ideally, each event would have its own dedicated repository, making the management planning process more streamlined. In Gitea, repositories can be tagged with specific topics, which function similarly to labels. This allows for better organization and searchability within the system. Think of these topics as the equivalent of top-level folders in Google Drive—they provide a clear structure for your event planning documents and to-do lists. Since I didn’t have the necessary permissions to create my own repository, I organized ev...

I'm part of a volunteering association that organizes competitions and teaching sessions for teenagers, helping them solve algorithmic riddles. Like any team working towards a common goal, we need to coordinate our efforts efficiently and effectively. Currently, task management, event organization, and collaboration are mainly done through Google Docs. In this post, I'd like to argue why we should switch to a Gitea-based system. Why do we need a tool in the first place? When working on a collaborative project, especially one with multiple people and tasks, it’s easy to lose track of what needs to be done next. A lot of time can be wasted just figuring out the current state of tasks. This includes determining which tasks have already been completed, which ones are still pending, and how much work is left. A good task management tool should help answer these questions quickly and easily, while also being able to write down even small tasks without friction. It should allow the te...