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.
Addressing PR review delays (by Ghassan ) Contributors Meetup Async Update - May 16th, 2023 - May 30th, 2023 - #3 by antoviaque
“Ghassan proposed this topic because often he’s having long delays for his reviews on his pull request which like we’ve all actually related to the experience that it has improved over some years and especially months but there are still some areas of the platform that are a lot less well-spotted than other so the situation is much better for timing and reviews and etc, on the well supported one but on a lot of areas it’s not so on of the remarks out of that is that there are probably two things to consider for that, the first, we can mapping a little bit better what to expect depending where we contribute and maybe a way for things to be less frustrating for new contributors in particular but even probably the older ones, and second part is about trying to find solutions to get those reviews earlier, even on places that are less well maintained or were under maintenance of that style, If you have more ideas share them with us here”
Follow-ups on Ghassan 's proposal to establish guidelines about the naming of feature toggles. Next step was to open a PR to amend OEP-17 - any blocker?
Action Points
How to make contribution better?: The discussion is going to be asynchronous, share your ideas here
We are an official working group! Kudos to @jalondonot for the work Introducing: The Contributor Coordination Working Group with the goal of “fostering effective communication and collaboration between different working groups and contributors within the Open edX community.”
Calls for participation
PR Review Delays: Follow-up on the discussion from the last meeting:
Discussion has kept going async on the forum in the meantime. - any comments/topics from the forum exchanges worth discussing synchronously?
Kudos to everyone from this meeting who commented btw
Tasks creation and assignation - on topics that already have consensus (like advertising the need for more core contributors, and for existing core contributors to extend their rights), is there anyone willing to create tasks for the work? To take some of them on?
Wafle flags. From @pdpinch: “For a feature that’s used so frequently, waffle flags are not well-documented – Neither the library nor the implementations.” – any suggestions?
