Async Update - Contributors meetup
March 21, 2023 - April 5, 2023
Welcome to our Core Contributors async update!
1. Working Groups Updates
Working Groups Calendar 
Marketing Working Group
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Chair: Eden Huthmacher
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Headlines:
- Brainstorming Session: Document to outline objectives in the Open edX Conference 2023 Marketing Goals 2023
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Meeting notes:
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Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
- Could you kindly share the notes of what was discussed during the MWG session at the conference?, @Eden_Huthmacher @estebanetcheverry
DevOps Working Group
Hi @regis ! what would be the right place to get this information from?
- Chair: @regis
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- Meeting notes:
- Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
BTR Working Group
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Chair: Jorge Londoño
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Headlines:
- Product Quality - definition: Here is the [Draft] Product Quality Definition Presenting the Product Working Groups definition of Product Quality.
- Software Testing Life Cycle:
- Testing for the Palm release: Getting started, when/how/who
- MFEs for Palm:
- List of new MFEs Palm: List of new MFEs · Issue #250 · openedx/wg-build-test-release
- Looking through GH to see which MFE will be tagged (not necessarily included) for Palm.
- Both Frontend WG and BTR need to decide: which MFEs to include
- Olive.3 tag and Palm.1 cutting will be done on Tuesday, April 11 instead of Monday, April 10 due to the Easter holiday.
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Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
DevEx Working Group
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Chair: Rebecca Graber, Kyle McCormick.
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Headlines:
- Here is a summary with the lightning presenters who participated at the WG session in the conference 2023 Open edX Conference DevOps meetup
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Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
Large Instances Working Group
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Chair: Braden MacDonald, Felipe Montoya.
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Headlines:
- Status of the harmony project: If you want to know the status of each issue you can check the following link
- Devops Working Group: Formalize the sub-working group participation, here is the project in github DevOps Working Group • openedx
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Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
Frontend Working Group
- Chair: Adolfo R. Brandes
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Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
- Is there anything you would like to add here, @arbrandes?
Data Working Group
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Chair: Edward Zarecor, Tobias Macey.
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Headlines:
- Funded Contribution Roundup:
- GA4 upgrade kicked off, expected to go quickly
- Redis bus on track, producer is merged consumer is under review
- Collecting BI consultant suggestions for writing OARS reports
- OARS updates:
- Pre-alpha code getting in for the conference
- Running end-to-end in Tutor, but missing some critical functionality
- Datasources, configuration, reports are working but will be revisited and refined post-conference and with the input of consultants
- Clickhouse Coursegraph:
- Necessary for getting block names and course structure to OARS, hopefully will merge in the next couple of weeks.
- FC Roundup: Google Analytics 4 upgrade is moving, expecting first PRs to land soon
- Conference data followup:
- Tutor / Cairn purchase
- Lots of interest in AI
- Lots of interest in improving community analytics
- Lots of interest in OARS slides, demo seemed to go over well
- Pooling anonymized analytics across instances for research
- Funded Contribution Roundup:
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Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
DEPR Working Group
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Headlines:
- MFE Rewrite Status
- State of the WG update
- Django 4.2 RC is out, so we should be preparing to have deprecation warnings and upgrade things.
- Removing
botofrom edx-platform - making progress!
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Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
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Is there anything you would like to add here, @feanil ?
Product Working Group
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Headlines:
- Here is the agenda and notes about the in-person WG meeting at the 2023 Open edX Conference
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Meeting notes:
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Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
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Is there anything you would like to add here, @jmakowski ?
TOC
Hi @antoviaque! what would be the right place to get this information from? would you like to add any updates?
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- Blockers and Calls/offers for help
- Record meeting link
- Meeting notes link
Maintainers
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Headlines:
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Blockers or Calls/offers for help:
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Is there anything you would like to add here, @sarina, @e0d?
2. Improvements and Calls/offers for help
If you think you can lend a hand to any of the core contributors that are blocked, feel free to reach out to them!
3. Events
- The Open edX Maintainer’s Program, New Features & Open Source Integrations Meetup will be on April 27th, 2023 at 10 AM (EDT)
4. Projects
Would anyone like to highlight any new or ongoing projects?
5. Next async update and meetup
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Monday April 17th - Update async here!
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Tuesday April 18th - Join the meetup here!
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Details and draft agenda on the GitHub board
Please reply to this post with any questions or comments you may have!
