# Open edX Contributors Meetup

**URL:** <https://discuss.openedx.org/t/open-edx-contributors-meetup/1450>\
**Category:** Governance\
**Created:** [February 20, 2020, 12:15pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/open-edx-contributors-meetup/1450 "2020-02-20T12:15:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 16, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/open-edx-contributors-meetup/1450/107 "2022-08-16T15:09:05Z")

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2022-08-09.

## Video Recording

[ConMeetup-09-08-22](https://youtu.be/r9rSVAElH20)

## Participants

- @arbrandes
- @mgmdi
- @Felipe
- @jalondonot
- @antoviaque
- @ghassan
- @sarina
- @Dean
- @mafermazu
- @estebanetcheverry
- @pdpinch
- @idegtiarov

## Meeting notes

### **2. Working Groups Follow-Ups:**

#### Marketing (@estebanetcheverry ) - [start at 0:55](https://youtu.be/r9rSVAElH20?t=55):

- The next Open edX virtual meetup will feature two experts in online education, focused on enhancing student engagement to optimize learning. [Register now](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-edx-meetup-optimizing-student-engagement-in-online-learning-tickets-393068858537?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)!

#### BTR (@Dean ) - [start at 10:18](https://youtu.be/r9rSVAElH20?t=618):

- You can find the notes of the last meeting here!
- There is a [multilateral effort](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/tech-talk-demo-deploying-multiple-open-edx-instances-onto-a-kubernetes-cluster-with-tutor/4641/66) being led by several contributors regarding Kubernetes and Tutor in Open edX. Feel free to join the discussion.

#### Frontend (@arbrandes) - [start at 15:18](https://youtu.be/r9rSVAElH20?t=918):

#### _Request for help:_

A review of [Suggested changes to the MFE Config API](https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/pull/30830) would be very much appreciated 🙂

#### Data (@Andres.Aulasneo @e0d @mafermazu ) - [start at 16:56](https://youtu.be/r9rSVAElH20?t=1016):

- You can find the notes of the last meeting [here](https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3481436163/Data+WG+2022-07-27+Meeting+notes)!

#### DEPR (@feanil @dave @idegtiarov) - [start at 20:53](https://youtu.be/r9rSVAElH20?t=1253):

- You can find the notes of the last meeting [here](https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3290824766/DEPR+Meeting+Notes+2022)!

#### Product (@jmakowski) - [start at 29:14](https://youtu.be/r9rSVAElH20?t=1754):

- You can find the notes of the last meeting [here](https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3497754727/2022-08-02+-+Product+WG+Meeting+Notes)!
- Jenna prepared a great [Group Charter proposal](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/draft-product-working-group-charter/7825). Join the discussion!
- Sarina started the discussion on the proposal to kick off a Product Manager role. [Check it out](https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/2759460357/Core+Contributor+Role+Definitions#Product-managers---Sarina)!
- Kyle McCormick shared a [great chart](https://lucid.app/lucidchart/84a2f62c-2ed9-4f03-8222-42c326a19257/edit?invitationId=inv_98b3a38a-dd5f-49d4-9cf9-9fa816fbb95f&page=0_0#?referringapp=slack) of the product cores of Open edX as a product.

#### TOC (@antoviaque) - [start at 33:33](https://youtu.be/r9rSVAElH20?t=2013):

- They are still working on figuring out the process for the election of the community members. [Here](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/toc-community-members-elections-brainstorm-thread/7314/3) you can find the proposal.

### **3. Events - [start at 35:12](https://youtu.be/r9rSVAElH20?t=2112):**

- The next Open edX virtual meetup will feature two experts in online education, focused on enhancing student engagement to optimize learning. [Register now](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-edx-meetup-optimizing-student-engagement-in-online-learning-tickets-393068858537?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)!

### **4. Projects**

### **5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help (@Dean @antoviaque ) - [start at 35:59](https://youtu.be/r9rSVAElH20?t=2159):**

- @Dean and @antoviaque prepared a great recap of what was discussed at this point of the meeting:

> [@Core Contributor Sprint Retro - July 22nd - August 5th](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-sprint-retro-july-22nd-august-5th/8040):
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> This is the retrospective for the most recent Core Contributor (CC) sprint from July 22nd - August 5th: Congratulations to the following people for crossing the 100 hours mark: Felipe Montoya - eduNEXT Maria Grimaldi - eduNEXT Congratulations to the following people for crossing the 200 hours mark: Sarina Canelake - tCRIL 1. Calls/Offers for Help This is what the core team needs help on now. Note that anyone can help – you don’t need to be a Core Contributor (yet!) for that. Is there…

If you think you can lend a hand to any of the core contributors that are blocked, feel free to reach out to them!

#### Side note: We now have an [Open edX Working Group Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_v86shrnegshsqgp4fj2k94u7bc%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FNew_York)!

## Next meetup

- Tuesday August 23th at 15:00 UTC ([Timezone converter](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Open+edX+Contributors+Meetup&iso=20220222T15&p1=1440&ah=1)).

- Details and draft agenda on [the Github board](https://github.com/openedx/community-wg/issues/71).

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