Core contributor nomination: Samuel Paccoud

[antoviaque (Xavier Antoviaque (OpenCraft) - opencraft.com/help)]

I would also like to nominate Samuel Paccoud, also for a project manager role as a core contributor.

The TOC board member Catherine Mongenet has recently suggested Samuel as a replacement for her board seat, until the end of her current term at the end of 2022. If confirmed Samuel would be contributing as a TOC board member in the coming months. (Edited to reflect the fact that the change hasn’t been enacted)

Additionally, here are a few of the contributions from Samuel to the Open edX project & community:

• He has been an early advocate for the use of LTI and xAPI as first class citizens in Open edX, and breaking down the monolith by using the Mikado method to gain back control of the complexity and empower the community to create new experiences around Open edX.

• He is a participant to the nascent Product working group, with special interest to improve the experience around LTI in OpenEdX

• He has made presentations/workshops at Open edX conferences, to pass on the knowledge and code produced while running the national MOOC platform in France. FUN, where he is the CTO since 2017, is one of the oldest running Open edX instances:

  • Running Open edX in production with Docker
  • Workshop - Create a course catalog in 90 minutes
  • Participation to the discussions on How do we build collective ownership?, Open edX Dev Summit 2018

• He also has history participating and contributing to multiple open source projects, bringing the experience of a contributor, and from currently leading a team of 15 developers active in several projects directly related to Open edX:

  • Richie (GitHub - openfun/richie: An opensource CMS to build education portals): a CMS to build rich education portals with powerful search in front of OpenEdX
  • Ralph (GitHub - openfun/ralph: A learning events processor to feed your data lake (expect some xAPI )): a LRS that scales coupled with Grafana based charts
  • Marsha (GitHub - openfun/marsha: A self-hosted opensource LTI Learning Content Management System (LCMS)): an LTI first LCMS with modules for VOD, live streaming, BBB, file deposits, markdown editor and more to come

@sampaccoud Could you post the time/commitment you would put into the core contributor role (including your work as TOC member)?

As usual, this is a 2 weeks review, until September 26th.

[sampaccoud (Samuel Paccoud)]

Thanks @antoviaque I can commit 20 hours monthly.

[sambapete (Pierre Mailhot)]

Definitely a YES from me as we here at EDUlib have collaborated with FUN and Samuel on Richie in the past

[jill (Jillian Vogel)]

Big from me too FUN are passionate and involved contributors to Open edX, and @sampaccoud has been backing the platform for years. Thank you for your past work, and what is yet to come!

[Felipe (Felipe Montoya)]

I vote yes to this nomination. I first got a glimpse into the work of @sampaccoud at FUN many years ago and I think they have brought great ideas into the OpenedX ecosystem.
I am also very much in favour of the push to make LTI and xAPI first class citizens.

[sarina (Sarina Canelake)]

Late to the party but - impressive set of contributions! I look forward to your continued participation in the community, @sampaccoud !

That is to say: from me!

[sarina (Sarina Canelake)]

Hi all,

At this point the nomination thread is closed and @sampaccoud is a Core Contributor. Congrats

@sampaccoud - please review https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3359113457/Core+Contributor+Non-Committer+Onboarding and follow the instructions to get up and running.

Thanks!