I’ll also post an update for the core contributors, for the past two sprints:
Hours
Contributed by core contributors: 543h (270h/sprint)
Accomplishments
Conference work
Many of us last month were attending, giving talks, volunteering to organize it. Catching up with everyone.
Product
- Restarting the campus working group - meeting at the conference between several projects (ASU/Ethiopia, Spain, edX)
- Meeting about the future of ecommerce and associated extension APIs (Felipe)
- Nominated Marco for product cc (Felipe)
- Collected feedback from the Product Working Group’s brainstorming session at the conference (Sarina, Ali)
- Design work for the Marketplace page (Ali)
- Draft of a Typeform survey on improving CC processes (Ali)
- Discussions with the Axim/2U Product Team about the Navigation Sidebar project: #231 (Ali)
Development & DevOps
- xAPI - Event routing backends- Making agent IRI configurable
feat: Make xAPI User Identifier configurable by ziafazal · Pull Request #274 · openedx/event-routing-backends · GitHub (Zia) - Maintenance of openedx-events (Felipe)
- OARS demo, shown at the conference (Jill)
- Identified a likely candidate list of MFEs for the Palm release (Peter)
- Investigated bug related to feat: feature flag to disable Advanced Settings by 0x29a · Pull Request #32015 · openedx/edx-platform · GitHub (Peter)
- Installed a version of Olive.3 in our EDUlib pre-test environnement (Pierre)
Marketing
- Discussion about new initiatives for 2023 and prioritization (Juan)
- Creating the OKR’s planning for the Marketing working group (Angie)
- Created a matrix to analyze the main criteria of our competitors, enabling us to take informed actions in our marketing strategy (Angie)
Governance
- TOC meetings & preparation (Ed, Stefania, Samuel, Xavier)
Documentation & translation
- Videos How-To (Ana)
- Translations (Ana, Pierre)
- Upstreaming “Open Source Masterclass” - Reviewed & merged changes from last sprint, set a date for the next sprint (Xavier)
Plus the usual: working group attendance, discussions on forums & Slack.
Retrospective
Things that went well
The main comment seem to have been how much people have enjoyed the conference. 
| It was great to see everyone at the conference! | Peter Pinch |
| palm.master branch was created: GitHub - openedx/edx-platform at open-release/palm.master | Peter Pinch |
| Enjoyed collaborating with Axim and 2U product teams. | Ali Hugo |
| Got to meet some of my fellow Core Contributors in person and get to know them better. The conference also helped me feel more a part of the community. | Ali Hugo |
| The conference was amazing. Lots to think about now. So many things to collaborate on | Felipe Montoya |
| The conference was awesome! And it was really nice to see everyone who attended
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Xavier Antoviaque |
| The conference was great! | Braden |
| The Open edX Conference
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Brian Mesick |
| The OpenCraft/eduNext coworking day, together in Bogota! : ) | Xavier Antoviaque |
| We are coming from the conference with renewed energy and new group members. | Juan Montoya |
| We arre getting more organized | Angie Ruiz |
Blockers & request for collaboration
| - 15 minutes was a bit short to prepare the room lead for the lightning talks (added to the conference feedback doc) - The town hall was great! It would be good to have it more often, and maybe some concrete action items and follow-ups from it. | Xavier Antoviaque |
| - Can fix: BadOraLocationResponse error by dyudyunov · Pull Request #168 · openedx/frontend-app-ora-grading · GitHub or fix: BadOraLocationResponse error by dyudyunov · Pull Request #168 · openedx/frontend-app-ora-grading · GitHub get reviewed and merged, so we can include frontend-app-ora-grading in the Palm release? | Peter Pinch |
| - Can someone review and merge this PR, which is blocking the ORA grading MFE from being included in the Palm release? fix: locationId should strip PUBLIC_PATH prefix by arbrandes · Pull Request #146 · openedx/frontend-app-ora-grading · GitHub - I’d love some feedback on which MFEs should be included in the Palm release. You can see the list of candidates and share your thoughts on this issue: Palm: List of new MFEs · Issue #250 · openedx/wg-build-test-release · GitHub | Peter Pinch |
| - What’s going on with codecov? A token error is causing tests to fail in cs_comment_service. Does it need to be removed from all repos? | Peter Pinch |
| Looking for data analytics use cases to guide the charts shipped with OARS: OnlineQuestions.org: A free online tool to ask and upvote questions Reach out if you or your team are interested in helping us build it! | Jill |
Planning
Coming up next for core contributors the upcoming sprint:
Governance:
- Contributors working group creation follow-up (Xavier)
Product:
- I’m on leave for week 1 of the sprint, but would like to post the CC processes survey during week 2 if it’s ready (Ali)
- Watch videos of platform user interviews that 2U is conducting next week (Ali)
- Put the feedback received during the conference brainstorming session together in an easily-digestible format and share it with the Product Working Group (Ali)
- Check on public roadmap updating (Xavier)
- Campus WG - Review roadmap (Xavier)
Marketing:
- Take the lead in one of the new MWG initiatives (Juan)
Dev & devOps:
- Palm testing (Peter)
- Try to help with Palm: List of new MFEs · Issue #250 · openedx/wg-build-test-release · GitHub (Peter)
- Discussions and improvements to OARS (Jill)
Documentation:
- Upstreaming course - Project management (Xavier)
- OEP for escalation process to TOC - Draft (Xavier)
- Palm release notes (Peter)