Stooa

Stooa

The open source online fishbowl tool

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Stooa allows you to create participatory online events with automatic facilitation based on the fishbowl method. Start creating a fishbowl now! Nothing to install. Free to use.
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Web App•Events•Open Source
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Fran López
Maker
👋 Hey there Hunters! Fran López, CEO at Stooa 🚀 As a part of the team, I'm super excited to share Stooa with you and get your feedback! It all started during the pandemic. We needed meeting venues for co-creation and sharing knowledge or complex information. We love to debate and share opinions in unconference formats such as fishbowls. A fishbowl is a great group dynamic that ensures an orderly, free-flowing and participatory discussion. We love it as it’s an outstanding way of giving all employees or members of an association, community or team the chance to have their say and to get them more involved in the conversation. More about fishbowls and why Stooa was born: Fran's article How to manage a fishbowl online We first tried it with other video conferencing tools, proposing some simple rules to manage it. Despite the team having technological comfort, the thing didn't quite work. We looked for specific tools but found nothing so we decided to develop it ourselves. ✅ Stooa allows you to set up online fishbowl events with automatic facilitation for groups of more than 5 people and to ensure the participation of all attendees in a fluid and orderly way. 🎉 Now we’ve made it, we are pleased to share it with whoever might need it. 👉 Please enjoy it by visiting https://www.stooa.com/ and we’d be unbelievably thankful if you try Stooa and let us know what was your experience, what we need to improve and which other features you’d need. 😊
Tsz Hoi Lee
Hey @mrfranlopez ! Congrats on your launch! Are there any direction Stooa's roadmap will be focusing on?
Fran López
Maker
Hi @tszhoi_19 ! The main goal we have in mind is to improve the host onboarding, but we also have other milestones: – Management of Fishbowls – Management of Host/Users – Architecture enhacements – More unconference tools : open space, dot voting, world cafe – Empowering the onboarding experience You can check the full roadmap on our github → https://github.com/Stooa/Stooa/p...
Tsz Hoi Lee
@mrfranlopez Love that! Looking forward to the build and world cafe sounds interesting!
Annachiara Sechi
Maker
@mrfranlopez @tszhoi_19 😘 🌏 ☕️
Aleks Bochkov
@mrfranlopez Looks interesting! Congrats on the launch 🚀
Noosh Baratpour
Nice tool! I also really enjoyed your roadmap on github! Good luck @mrfranlopez and Stooa team!
Annachiara Sechi
Maker
@mrfranlopez @merno0sh Thank you for you feedback, Mehrnoosh. We are glad you like it. 😊 Is there any suggestion about the roadmap and new features you would like to make?
Noosh Baratpour
@mrfranlopez @annachiara_sechi Absolutely! Yes, login with LinkedIn also would make it much easier to start :)
Annachiara Sechi
Maker
@mrfranlopez @merno0sh Good point, thanks! It is actually on the Stooa backlog https://github.com/Stooa/Stooa/p... 😁 We hope to release it soon. 🤞
Noosh Baratpour
@mrfranlopez @annachiara_sechi Yay! I saw Google and others but didn't see LinkedIn. Great then!
Vanesa Tejada
I have used the product and I liked how the dynamic flowed with so many participants. Would it be possible to record the sessions? Thanks!
Jordi Hernández
Maker
@vanesa_tejada Hi Vanesa. Thanks for your comment. It's great to know you enjoy using it! About the recording, I must say it is something that we are discussing in the team but that raises some doubts because of the risk of affecting the climate of trust that is generated in a face-to-face fishbowl, precisely because it is not recorded. We are afraid of putting at risk the transparency and privacy of the conversations that are generated by the fact that it is being recorded. It is not entirely clear to us, although it is true that it could be done as long as all users agree that it is being recorded. What do you think about it?
Raquel Lainde
@vanesa_tejada @jordihg Can I participate? Recently I took part in a debate in other plataform that was recorded and uploaded without our permission and it was very disappointing, so I understand the team concern... But said that: if there is a clear signal (like in jitsi and others) at the beginning of the recording, this problem is solved... and taking care of the privacy don't rely on the organizer goodwill only, so in the end you take better care of the participants trust ;) One of the online event's advantage is that can be recorded and can reach more people with little effort, don't underestimate that competitive advantage :)
Jose Eduardo Saura
Maker
@vanesa_tejada @jordihg @raquel_lainde Raquel you are so right, thanks for that feedback!