Co-working Sessions

[Wajahat43]

Co-working Sessions

This feature focuses on enabling scheduled co-working sessions within Circles, and optionally allowing community-wide co-working sessions. The purpose is for a group of people to share their screens and work on their tasks, providing an accountability mechanism.

Requirements (for Circles)

• Circle leaders can create scheduled meetings at specific times.
• Multiple members can join and share their screens.
• Members can work together on a shared goal or individually on their own tasks.

Optional: Community-Wide Co-working

• Any community member can create a meeting for a specific time.
• Others can join these meetings for accountability and co-working.
• Each participant can share their screen and work on their own tasks.
• These meetings are not Circle-specific; anyone in the community can join.
• We need to keep it simple and minimize load on the server. But maybe having a page that will list all the upcoming community wide co-working sessions with url for joining the session and metadata, ability to create/manage created sessions can be simple enough.

To Decide

• Whether sessions should be monitored or moderated in any way.
• How to verify that people are actually working or participating.
• How to track which members joined each meeting (attendance tracking).

Technology Options

Jitsi Meet

• Free and open source.
• Public instance: https://meet.jit.si/
• FAQ: https://jitsi.org/user-faq/
• React SDK: https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/dev-guide/dev-guide-react-sdk

Discord (Alternative)

• Offers voice, video, screen sharing.
• Since we are moving community to discord, we need to explore if sessions is possible through this feature.
• Provides stage channels, events, and permission controls.

Additional options may be explored as needed.

Proposed Next Steps

• Evaluate whether to use an external meeting platform or build it natively.
• Compare Jitsi, Discord, and other options for feasibility and constraints.
• Define minimum UI/UX flows for scheduling and joining sessions.
• Determine data model for meetings, attendance, and permissions.
• Create an implementation outline and break into sub-issues.