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
The Open edX Conference 2023 announcement blog is now live, as are the sponsorship opportunities available. The call for conference proposals will close in January. More details here
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
Most of the testing for the Olive release is complete and it will happen soon. Only a small handful of test cases remain:
-HP5: AulasNeo has volunteered
-LTI with Grade Feedback: Need a volunteer
-Tutor Upgrades
@arbrandes has been the interim chair during the Olive pre-release. Once this is over, he will step aside and this important working group will require a new chair. In case you are interested, raise your hand and let them know. Here you can find a description of the role.
The Open edX Conference 2023 announcement blog is now live, as are the sponsorship opportunities available. The call for conference proposals will close in January. More details here
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
The Open edX Conference 2023 announcement blog is now live, as are the sponsorship opportunities available. The call for conference proposals will close in January. More details here
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
The January meetup is open for registration! more information here.
@jalondonot Thank you for the regular updates and changes here - it was helpful to be able to get caught up on recent discussions async btw.
Also for those who wonder where the updates have gone - they have been moved to individual threads each two weeks sprints. Get the latest ones at Topics tagged retrospective . This comes from the changes @jalondonot mentioned, about moving the updates from the synchronous meeting to asynchronous threads.
Agenda
For the meeting later today, I have some topics to submit for its agenda, if there is room:
Some of the updates are currently a bit repetitive - instead maybe the current groups’ focus summary could be posted? And maybe it would be more interesting to read something written individually by each working group, to allow them to highlight anything important?
15 minutes was a bit short to prepare the room lead for the lightning talks (added to the conference feedback doc) - The town hall was great! It would be good to have it more often, and maybe some concrete action items and follow-ups from it.
Review of recent changes - what worked and was useful? what needs to improve?
Identification of retro/update threads - using the retrospective tag? Topics tagged retrospective
Some of the updates are currently a bit repetitive - instead maybe the current groups’ focus summary could be posted? And maybe it would be more interesting to read something written individually by each working group, to allow them to highlight anything important?
Three new MFEs are candidates for inclusion in Palm, only two officially in Tutor MFE and one of them is going to be experimental with separate plugin.
Need for guidelines about the naming of feature toggles: next step is to amend OEP-17? any other suggestion/reference?
Training/onboarding courses:
Intro to the Open edX Project & Contributing: General project onboarding course; need a few reviewers both technical and non technical. If you’re interested ping Sarina in Slack
From marketing WG update (sprint 1): “We are hoping to create site operator training and would love to collaborate with BTR on this” → contribute to the onboarding courses?
Timeline for opening & public hosting - onboarding course about upstreaming getting ready (beta)
Action Points
Ghassan will help creating the plugin for a learner dashboard.