For a few weeks now, a few of the project contributors have started setting up an online meetup, meant for community members interested in contributing to the platform, getting information, offering help or coordinating efforts with others. We would like to convince more people involved in Open edX to invest in it.
The next online meetup is next Thursday, Feb 27th, at 3pm UTC (time converter)
Does anyone has anything they would like to include in the agenda?
@abstract-technology Will you want to include a point in the meeting about the marketing workgroup? To update about its status, and if you need specific contributions, plus time for questions?
@nimisha Would you want to include a point about the collaborations with edX? We had to cut it short a bit last week.
@natea Would you like to include a point in the agenda?
On my side I’ve put one about commitments - it would be useful to record what we each commit to do, and for when? That would allow us to have more precise goals for each contributor.
Thank you @antoviaque. Yes, I’d be happy to give an update on the proposed architectural investments and share what edX is committed to doing in the next few months. Per your point, I’d love to see where others can commit to helping on this front.
sure, I will recap and write some notes, I will probably be able to summarize it next week. sorry for my inactivity since the last meeting due to the work.
People who attended the first BTR working group meetup were added to the openedx-btr-wg organization on Github, so they are now able to contribute to this PR. If anyone would like to join the effort, I will be more than happy to add them to the organization as well. Just PM here or on slack with your Github nick.
I’ve started drafting such a “commitments” page - can everyone attending the meetings check if what I’ve put on this page for everyone matches the actual commitments you have made? Don’t hesitate to update the wiki page directly, this is just meant to serve as a basis to review.
I have updated the commitments page based on the discussions from the last meetup, and on commitments that have been met since then - for example @abstract-technology 's organization of the marketing meeting. Have a look to see if it accurately portrays your own commitments, and whether you see things to add/change do it there:
With the start of daylight savings time here in the US, the usual time for the Contributors Meetup now conflicts with a long-standing edX meeting that at least Nimisha must attend. Other edXers who had not yet been to the Contributors Meetup (like Ed Zarecor) were hoping to start, but are also caught in the scheduling conflict.
Xavier has added an agenda item to discuss shifting the Contributors Meetup an hour earlier to ease the conflict.
Note that it will be at 2pm UTC, ie 1h earlier in that timezone than the previous meetings, to allow @nimisha, @e0d (and maybe @marcotuts?) to attend. We discussed this in the meeting, and there was no objection, but if someone who couldn’t attend today has an issue with that meeting time, let me know. I’ll also update the meeting invite shortly.
Also don’t hesitate to edit the wiki page if you would like to add items to the agenda, or expand the recurring items I’ve already included from @nimisha@regis@abstract-technology@nimisha and me.
I have also updated the meeting page from today, to include the video recording:
Note that the meeting will remain at 2pm UTC, but Europe is switching to daylight saving on Sunday, so the meeting will be one hour later than this week there. Check the timezone converter if you are not sure of the time, or your calendar invite for the members of the group.
As discussed in the last meeting, I have moved the tasks listed on the commitments page to the new Trello board started by the marketing group. This should make it easier to manage the work discussed during the contributors meetup, and make progress on these points asynchronously between each meeting.
Note that I couldn’t assign a number of tasks yet there, it requires the assignees to have joined the Trello board first. I’ve pinged you accordingly on the commitments page if you are in that case.
I’ve also looked into the ability to filter specific types of tasks there - it is possible, using the tags. For example, to show only the tasks related to “Development & Architecture”, you can use a filter on that tag. @nimisha does that address your point?
Don’t hesitate if you see anything missing or wrong, or if you would like to handle some of this differently.
Here is the video recording of yesterday’s meeting:
I have also added it to yesterday’s meeting wiki page, and added the new tasks discussed during the meeting to the Trello board - note that I’m doing this to make sure to not forget things, but if anything is incorrect or missing, feel free to go and edit the tasks there
Here is the video recording of yesterday’s meetup:
As mentioned in the previous message, the meetup page including the agenda and the chat logs from the meetup have been moved to the Trello board. Here is the card of yesterday’s meetup:
It was a pretty packed contributors meetup yesterday! Thank you for everyone who participated, and is contributing to the initiatives. Here was the agenda:
Marketing workgroup follow-up (Stefania)
Open edX usage of Honor mode (Dillon, 10mns)
Release working group & documentation update (Regis)
With a few days of delay as I was off last Thursday, here is the recording of last week’s contributors meeting - thank you @nimisha for running it in my absence!
The agenda was:
Intro
Meet & greet newcomers if any
Recap of agenda items - any to add? comments?
Marketing workgroup follow-up (Stefania)
Release working group & documentation update (Regis)
