Members can volunteer to be reviewers and contributors to the How-To’s videos.
The first version of the videos is going to be done in each member’s Open edX instance, but for the second version, the videos are intended to be in the sandbox.
Each member will choose a video topic and start working on it.
Esteban has volunteered to provide support in a video comparison of Open edX and Moodle
The Nutmeg release testing process is going well! The progress is around 85%. Nevertheless, they still require help from the community to get this done by the end of the month.
Request for help: Dean Upgrading and testing the remaining work. They require some help from the community to achieve the goal of getting this process done by the end of the month. Please reach out to @dean in Slack to see how you can help!
The discussions they are holding are still in an exploratory phase. If they reach a more specific and detailed proposal on something, they will probably reach out to the community through Discuss or an OEP.
They are running a survey to set a meeting time that could fit a majority! if you are interested in contributing to this group, check it out!
3. Events:
Most of the Open edX Con videos have been released! watch them here
Mark your calendars to join us virtually on June 9th, 2022 between 10 AM and 11 AM (EST) in Gather to learn about Raccoon Gang’s K-12 use of the Open edX platform in Ukraine!
More info here.
4. Projects:
Django events and filters (@mgmdi - @Felipe): Few remaining PRs to be merged! the team will make sure they are properly backported to Nutmeg.
5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help (@antoviaque)
Xavier has prepared a great recap of what was discussed at this point of the meeting:
There’s now a public Google calendar for Open edX working groups. I don’t know who owns the calendar invite for the Contributors’ Meetup these days, but you can add “Open edX Working Group calendar” to the event, and it will show up on the public working group calendar.
Members can volunteer to be reviewers and contributors to the How-To’s videos.
-There have been several international events that the Open edX community did not attend as a group. There might be an opportunity to improve our presence in this type of event, as a community.
@jmbowman has a new front-end squad! they will be focused on maintenance tasks while they onboard but please let them know in case you have any good ideas of how they can start contributing and lending a hand to the community.
Mark your calendars to join us virtually on June 9th, 2022 between 10 AM and 11 AM (EST) in Gather to learn about Raccoon Gang’s K-12 use of the Open edX platform in Ukraine!
More info here. This will be the first of several monthly events to stay tuned!
4. Projects:
Django events and filters (@mgmdi - @Felipe): Few remaining PRs to be merged! the team will make sure they are properly backported to Nutmeg.
5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help (@Dean@braden )
Dean and Braden prepared a great recap of what was discussed at this point of the meeting:
If you think you can lend a hand to any of the core contributed that are blocked with their contributions, feel free to reach out to them.
The creation of the Open edX vs Moodle video comparison is in progress. Led by Esteban and Eden. This is the document where they have put the key information it should contain.
A list of How-To videos is available here. The idea is that everyone records the videos with the themes they select to collaborate on. Then the videos will go through a revision phase and, finally, they will be edited to give them the same visual identity.
Updates and testing of the Open edX Sandbox are in process.
The creation of videos that tell the story of Open edX is also pending.
2U front-end maintenance team is already working on maintenance tasks related to security issues and bugs. In case you’d like to collaborate with them or report anything, reach out to the Front-End Working Group. That work will be tracked in Main · GitHub.
This is the frontend-triage team tasked with evaluating incoming issues and review requests: Sign in to GitHub · GitHub
5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help (@Dean@braden )
@Dean and @antoviaque prepared a great recap of what was discussed at this point of the meeting:
Highlights:
@ghassan: "When I suggest a change to a repo (Open a PR). Which I don’t have commit history with, the tests won’t run, unless someone trigger them. I found that to be really unproductive for me… Specially when I can’t replicate the tests locally i.e. codecov. Is there anything to be done to enhance this experience?"
@sarina said it is a security matter. There is no way to change this policy, at least for now. It seems getting help from a maintainer or being a maintainer would be the proper approach to do it. Investigating how the CI infrastructure works could be something the community can take a look at, and it might be the next logical step.https://github.com/openedx/open-edx-proposals/pull/290
@andres: "K8s should have a dedicated space for collaboration. There are many things that are not working, or that need special consideration to implement."
For now, taking a look and raising your hand in the Discuss thread where this is being discussed seems like the best approach.
If you think you can lend a hand to any of the core contributors that are blocked, feel free to reach out to them!
The creation of the Open edX vs Moodle video comparison is in progress. Led by Esteban and Eden. This is the document where they have put the key information it should contain.
A list of How-To videos is available here. The idea is that everyone records the videos with the themes they select to collaborate on. Then the videos will go through a revision phase and, finally, they will be edited to give them the same visual identity.
Updates and testing of the Open edX Sandbox are in process.
Next Open edX Meetup - Integrating Text to Speech for Inclusive Learning - Registration here for July 21.
We are still waiting for reviews to be sent from Open edX in E-learning Industry at this link
The creation of the Open edX vs Moodle video is in the process (in charge of Esteban). Here is the script
In regard to the How-To videos, It has not yet been decided if someone will go to NY or if everything will be worked remotely. For this, it was proposed to discuss the topic on a card created by Eden to collect all the opinions of the group. The commitment is that for the next session all the scripts of the videos on the list will be presented.
A new hosted Grimoire Labs dashboard is running and is viewable by anyone in the community. The dashboard aggregates community data from across the Open edX project. Take a look!
Lista Flow tool was discussed, to measure the time spent on contributions to the community. However, the possibility was mentioned that it should not be measured per person, but per organization and, for practicality, that it should be weighted in results/deliverables and not only in time spent.
Update of the Open edX Sandbox. Discussion on the legal approach to using the Sandbox and the edunext brand. Next steps: agree on a solution, either through a royalty payment to edunext for the development of the Sandbox or another alternative.
Discussed the need to generate incentives within the Working Group to help ensure that contributions are completed in a timely manner.
They are thinking of ways to make reviews easier and faster by introducing issue labels to identify which PRs need urgent reviews or considering using sandboxes. Reach out to Adolfo to join the discussion! this will also be discussed in the multilateral effort several contributors are leading regarding Kubernetes and Tutor in Open edX.
@Dean highlights the importance of each working group to join and contribute to the Product WG with at least one member in order to be aligned and keep the same north in mind.
Last Open edX Meetup - Integrating Text to Speech for Inclusive Learning: The communication, transmission, and recording worked better than the last Open edX Meetups. The time management improved as well
Community onboarding course: It seems the effort has slowed down a little bit. They will focus on enumerating the courses the community would require for this purpose to restart the work.
The next Open edX virtual meetup will feature two experts in online education, focused on enhancing student engagement to optimize learning. Register now!
The next Open edX virtual meetup will feature two experts in online education, focused on enhancing student engagement to optimize learning. Register now!
tCRIL’s team is currently working on an interesting project to reduce and simplify the Open edX platform core. The effort is still in a very early stage, but feel free to reach out to them if you are interested in contributing to the discussion.
Raccoongang and tCRIL are working on a Verifiable Credentials feature for Open edX. The project is still in the specification phase and they are eager to share what has been discussed until now. Reach out to them if you’d like to contribute to the project
How-to Videos: IBL Collaboration. The How-To videos will be filmed in New York with the sponsorship of Open edX.
The Open edX 2023 Conference will take place during the last week of March 2023 and planning activities are beginning. There is this draft to leave ideas about it.
Raccoongang and tCRIL are working on a Verifiable Credentials feature for Open edX. The project is still in the specification phase and they are eager to share what has been discussed until now. Reach out to them if you’d like to contribute to the project
How-to Videos: IBL Collaboration. The How-To videos will be filmed in New York with the sponsorship of Open edX. tCRIL will decide who (5 Persons) is going to travel to the recording session and cover the travel expenses of each. For this, 2 people sent the casting to participate (Juan Camilo from edunext and Esteban from Auslasneo). At least 3 more applications are needed.
The Open edX 2023 Conference will take place during the last week of March 2023 and planning activities are beginning. There is this draft to leave ideas about it. Eden mentioned that they want to recognize outstanding contributors during the event.
The main discussions in the working group have been around improving the phase of approving PRs through improving PRs testing instructions but the root cause seems to be a matter of availability. Strengthening the Maintainers Program should be a priority.
How-to Videos: IBL Collaboration. The How-To videos will be filmed in New York with the sponsorship of Open edX. tCRIL will decide who (5 Persons) is going to travel to the recording session and cover the travel expenses of each. For this, 2 people sent the casting to participate (Juan Camilo from edunext and Esteban from Auslasneo). At least 3 more applications are needed.
The Open edX 2023 Conference will take place during the last week of March 2023 and planning activities are beginning. There is this draft to leave ideas about it. Eden mentioned that they want to recognize outstanding contributors during the event.
An awards ceremony is being planned to recognize the efforts of contributors and community members. If anyone has ideas on what this awards ceremony could look like, it would be helpful to the community. Consideration has been given to having the categories be the working groups (but the award will be individual).
The Conference 2023 announcement blog is now live, as are the sponsorship opportunities available. The call for conference proposals will close in January.
Open edX can provide visa application letters as long as:
-Applicants have an appointment available at the local embassy prior to the date of the conference
-Applicants have an assured ticket to the event
In the past two weeks there’s not been a ton of movement - two big things happening are moving existing documentation into docs.openedx.org, and redocumenting the events to make sense/removing events that no longer exist (this is started & ongoing, 1st pr has landed)
Shout out to Jill - she’s done a bunch of discovery work on how we can make Apache superset work with our permissions model - impacts how we do insights replacement. If we can’t use it we’ll have to take some serious thought. Superset is what Cairn and Figures use, so the community is using it and we’d rather do what people know.
The Conference 2023 announcement blog is now live, as are the sponsorship opportunities available. The call for conference proposals will close in January.
Open edX can provide visa application letters as long as:
Applicants have an appointment available at the local embassy prior to the date of the conference
