The Agile Open Community is your new agile home. The purpose of this server is to connect people to the agile community. It is a place for you, and all agilists, new and experienced, to discuss issues, form connections, find solutions, share knowledge, and discover new paths on your agile journey.
The Agile Open Community is hosted on Discord and is available 24 by 7 by 365. You can participate synchronously, in live breakout discussions, or asynchronously by reading and responding to posts.
The link to the Discord is https://discord.gg/agileopencommunity.
Discord is like Slack, but more social. Discord has easy-to-use features like text and voice chat as well as high-quality screen-sharing. These channels are available 24/7 and are accessible from most devices. All of these tools Discord provides makes connection and collaboration easy.
New to Discord?
Step one is going to the Agile Open Community on Discord: https://discord.gg/agileopencommunity.
Then setup your account by entering your email address, creating a unique username and a unique password.
Your date of birth is required as part of Discords terms of service to ensure that users are old enough to meet requirements of the servers that they are on.
Sensitive information including Date of Birth is not shared with the Agile Open Community or with Grow-Lean.
Press the continue button to go to the next step.
Complete the captcha, then Discord will send you an email with a verification link.
Open the email from Discord and click the verification link to continue.
Clicking the verification link from the email takes you to this screen which states that you have successfully verified your email.
Click the button to continue to Discord.
When you first enter Discord, this popup will appear.
Click the blue link at the bottom of this window.
Clicking that link opens this window where you can enter your invite link to the Agile Open Community server.
Enter this link in the box: discord.gg/agileopencommunity
Then click Join.
Once you click join, you will be brought into the welcoming screen of the Agile Open Community.
On this welcoming screen, you can click any of these options to take you directly to each respective channel:
On the left side of the screen, you will see the list of all available channels in the Agile Open Community. Click on any channel to view its contents.
In the server-rules channel, you can read the rules all members of the Agile Open Community must follow.
Under the server rules is a server invite link that you can copy and send to your friends or colleagues.
In the Agile Open Community, you can assign your own roles depending on which channels you would like to see.
You are now an official member of the Agile Open Community!
On the left side of the screen, you will see the list of available channels in the Agile Open Community. These are the default channels available to all members.
At the top, you will see any upcoming events. These are typically upcoming Agile Open Forums. If you click here, you will see all the details about the event and you can also select if you are interested in that event.
Below events, you will see the different channels which are separated into categories.