Open edX Contributors Meetup

Working Groups
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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

Participants

Meeting notes

2. Working Groups Follow-Ups:

Marketing (@estebanetcheverry ) - start at 0:55:

  • The next Open edX virtual meetup will feature two experts in online education, focused on enhancing student engagement to optimize learning. Register now!

BTR (@Dean ) - start at 10:18:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!
  • There is a multilateral effort being led by several contributors regarding Kubernetes and Tutor in Open edX. Feel free to join the discussion.

Frontend (@arbrandes) - start at 15:18:

Request for help:

A review of Suggested changes to the MFE Config API would be very much appreciated :slight_smile:

Data (@andres @e0d @mafermazu ) - start at 16:56:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

DEPR (@feanil @dave @idegtiarov) - start at 20:53:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Product (@jmakowski) - start at 29:14:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!
  • Jenna prepared a great Group Charter proposal. Join the discussion!
  • Sarina started the discussion on the proposal to kick off a Product Manager role. Check it out!
  • Kyle McCormick shared a great chart of the product cores of Open edX as a product.

TOC (@antoviaque) - start at 33:33:

  • They are still working on figuring out the process for the election of the community members. Here you can find the proposal.

3. Events - start at 35:12:

  • The next Open edX virtual meetup will feature two experts in online education, focused on enhancing student engagement to optimize learning. Register now!

4. Projects

5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help (@Dean @antoviaque ) - start at 35:59:

  • @Dean and @antoviaque 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 contributors that are blocked, feel free to reach out to them!

Side note: We now have an Open edX Working Group Calendar!

Next meetup

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2022-08-23.

Video Recording

ConMeetup-23-08-22

Participants

Meeting notes

2. Working Groups Follow-Ups:

Marketing:

  • No members of this working group attended the meeting

BTR - start at 0:54:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!
  • There is a multilateral effort being led by several contributors regarding Kubernetes and Tutor in Open edX. Feel free to join the discussion.

Frontend (@arbrandes):

  • No members of this working group attended the meeting

Data (@andres @e0d @mafermazu ):

  • No members of this working group attended the meeting
  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

DEPR (@feanil @dave @idegtiarov):

  • No members of this working group attended the meeting
  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Product (@jmakowski) - start at 6:22:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

TOC (@antoviaque) - start at 10:27:

  • They are still working on figuring out the process for the election of the community members. Here you can find the proposal.

Architecture Coordination - start at 11:14:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

3. Events:

  • Here you can find the recording from the last event.

4. Projects

  • No updates here.

5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help (@Dean @antoviaque ) - start at 12:58

Side note: We now have an Open edX Working Group Calendar!

Next meetup

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2022-09-06.

Video Recording

ConMeetup-06-09-22

Participants

Meeting notes

2. Working Groups Follow-Ups:

Marketing:

  • No members of this working group attended the meeting

BTR - start at 0:52:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!
  • There is a multilateral effort being led by several contributors regarding Kubernetes and Tutor in Open edX. Feel free to join the discussion.

Request for help:

  • The team is looking for new members. Reach out to them if you are interested in collaborating.

Frontend (@arbrandes) - start at 3:38:

  • tCRIL already has a front-end development team that is working on maintenance and debugging. Lend them a hand with some reviews :slight_smile:

Data (@andres @e0d @mafermazu ) - start at 9:5:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

DEPR (@feanil @dave @idegtiarov) - start at 11:47:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Product (@jmakowski) - start at 14:42:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

tCRIL - start at 17:07:

  • 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.

TOC (@antoviaque) - start at 19:47:

Architecture Coordination:

  • No meeting was held during the last two weeks.

3. Events:

  • September Open edX Meetup will happen on September 22. Register and save the date :slight_smile:

4. Projects - start at 30:46**:

  • 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 :slight_smile:

5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help (@Dean @antoviaque ) - start at 43:42

Side note: We now have an Open edX Working Group Calendar!

Next meetup

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@jalondonot There’s still no event in the Working Group calendar for this meeting. Is there supposed to be?

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I haven’t been able to do it, @nedbat. Do I need special permission over that calendar for this?

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2022-09-20.

Video Recording

ConMeetup-09-20-22

Participants

Meeting notes

2. Working Groups Follow-Ups:

Marketing - start at 1:07

  • 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.

BTR:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Frontend (@arbrandes) - start at 4:36:

Data (@andres @e0d) - start at 9:25:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

DEPR (@feanil @dave @idegtiarov) - start at 10:37:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Product (@jmakowski) - start at 12:06:

TOC (@antoviaque) - start at 20:34:

Architecture Coordination - start at 24:30:

  • No meeting was held during the last two weeks.

3. Events:

  • September Open edX Meetup will happen on September 22. Register and save the date :slight_smile:

4. Projects - start at 27:47:

  • 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 :slight_smile:

5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help (@Dean @antoviaque ) - start at 40:15:

  • @Dean and @antoviaque 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 contributors that are blocked, feel free to reach out to them!

Side note: We now have an Open edX Working Group Calendar!

Next meetup

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2022-10-04.

Video Recording

ConMeetup-04-10-22

Participants

Meeting notes

2. Working Groups Follow-Ups:

Marketing - start at 0:54

  • 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.

BTR - start at 4:46:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Frontend (@arbrandes) - start at 14:12:

  • 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.

Data (@andres @e0d) - start at 27:23:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

DEPR (@feanil @dave @idegtiarov) - start at 31:41:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Product (@jmakowski) - start at 35:20:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

TOC (@antoviaque) - start at 35:54:

Architecture Coordination:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

3. Events:

4. Projects:

5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help (@Dean @antoviaque ):

  • @Dean and @antoviaque 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 contributors that are blocked, feel free to reach out to them!

Side note: We now have an Open edX Working Group Calendar!

Next meetup

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2022-10-18.

Video Recording

ConMeetup-18-10-22

Participants

Meeting notes

2. Working Groups Follow-Ups:

Marketing - start at 0:54

  • 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.

BTR - start at 1:50:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Frontend (@arbrandes) - start at 3:37:

Data (@andres @e0d) - start at 16:17:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

DEPR (@feanil @dave @idegtiarov) - start at 18:31:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Product (@jmakowski) - start at 20:17:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

TOC (@antoviaque) - start at 23:16:

Architecture Coordination - start at 24:30:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

3. Events:

4. Projects:

5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help (@Dean @antoviaque ):

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

https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-sprint-retro-1-october-15-october/8546/2

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!

Next meetup

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2022-11-01.

Video Recording

ConMeetup-01-11-22

Participants

Meeting notes

2. Working Groups Follow-Ups:

Marketing - start at 1:03

  • 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

BTR - start at 2:04:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Frontend (@arbrandes) - start at 3:28:

Data (@andres @e0d) - start at 16:41:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!
  • 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.

DEPR (@feanil @dave @idegtiarov):

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Product (@jmakowski) - start at 24:56:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

TOC (@antoviaque) - start at 34:13

tCRIL - start at 38:19

Architecture Coordination - start at 24:30:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here

3. Events:

4. Projects

5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help (@Dean @antoviaque ) - start at 51:07:

  • @Dean and @antoviaque 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 contributors that are blocked, feel free to reach out to them!

Side note: We now have an Open edX Working Group Calendar!

Next meetup

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2022-11-15.

Video Recording

ConMeetup-15-11-22

Participants

Meeting notes

2. Working Groups Follow-Ups:

Marketing:

  • 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

BTR - start at 0:39:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Frontend (@arbrandes) - start at 2:19:

Data (@brian) - start at 3:25:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

DEPR (@feanil @dave @idegtiarov):

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Product (@jmakowski) - start at 4:50:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

TOC (@antoviaque) - start at 9:05

Architecture Coordination:

  • No meeting was held during the last two weeks.

3. Events:

4. Projects

5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help (@Dean @antoviaque ) - start at 14:02:

  • @Dean and @antoviaque 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 contributors that are blocked, feel free to reach out to them!

Side note: We now have an Open edX Working Group Calendar!

Next meetup

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2022-11-29.

Video Recording

ConMeetup-29-11-22

Participants

Meeting notes

2. Working Groups Follow-Ups:

Marketing:

  • 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

BTR - start at 1:11:

Request for help:

Developer Experience - start at 16:47:

Frontend (@arbrandes) - start at 30:14:

Data (@brian) - start at 35:42:

  • The last meeting was canceled.

DEPR - start at 38:13(@feanil @dave @idegtiarov):

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Product (@jmakowski) - start at 39:02:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

TOC (@antoviaque) - start at 43:47

Architecture Coordination:

  • The last meeting was canceled.

3. Events:

4. Projects

Deploying Open edX on Kubernetes Using Helm - start at 11:15:

5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help (@Dean @antoviaque ) - start at 46:36:

  • @Dean and @antoviaque 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 contributors that are blocked, feel free to reach out to them!

Side notes:

  • We now have an Open edX Working Group Calendar!
  • There was a consensus on recording all working group meetings from now on since, in some cases, the meeting notes are not enlightening enough.

Next meetup

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2022-12-13.

Video Recording

ConMeetup-13-12-22

Participants

Meeting notes

2. Working Groups Follow-Ups:

Marketing:

  • 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

BTR - start at 4:36:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Frontend (@arbrandes) - start at 10:24:

Data (@brian) - start at 13:37:

DEPR - start at 15:28(@feanil @dave @idegtiarov):

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Product (@jmakowski) - start at 39:02:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

3. Events:

4. Projects

5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help (@Dean @antoviaque ) - start at 21:21

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 notes:

  • We now have an Open edX Working Group Calendar!
  • There was a consensus on recording all working group meetings from now on since, in some cases, the meeting notes are not enlightening enough.

Next meetup

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2023-01-10.

Video Recording

ConMeetup-10-01-23

Participants

Meeting notes

2. Working Groups Follow-Ups:

Marketing - start at 2:21

  • 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.

BTR - start at 11:03:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Developer Experience and DevOps - start at 17:52:

Frontend (@arbrandes) - start at 26:44:

Data (@brian) - start at 28:54

DEPR - start at 31:52

Product (@jmakowski) - start at 32:23:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

TOC (@antoviaque) - start at 44:43

3. Events:

4. Projects

Deploying Open edX on Kubernetes Using Helm - start at 51:28:

5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help (@Dean @antoviaque ) - start at 54:03:

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 notes:

  • We now have an Open edX Working Group Calendar!
  • There was a consensus on recording all working group meetings from now on since, in some cases, the meeting notes are not enlightening enough.

Next meetup

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2023-01-24.

Video Recording

ConMeetup-10-01-24

Participants

Meeting notes

2. Working Groups Follow-Ups:

Marketing - start at 2:09

BTR - start at 9:55:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Frontend (@arbrandes) - start at 14:24:

Data (@brian) - start at 20:40:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

DEPR - start at 23:25

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Product (@jmakowski) - start at 26:57:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

TOC (@antoviaque) - start at 31:32

3. Events:

4. Projects

5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help - start at 32:43

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 notes:

  • We now have an Open edX Working Group Calendar!
  • There was a consensus on recording all working group meetings from now on since, in some cases, the meeting notes are not enlightening enough.

Next meetup

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2023-02-07.

Video Recording

ConMeetup-07-02-23

Participants

Meeting notes

2. Working Groups Follow-Ups:

Marketing:

  • No one from this working group attended the meeting. @estebanetcheverry, would it be possible to get an async update from you here?

BTR - start at 1:11:

Frontend (@arbrandes) - start at 4:08:

Data (@brian):

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

DEPR - start at 15:45:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Product (@jmakowski) - start at 17:03:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

TOC (@antoviaque) - start at 18:54:

DevEx (@kmccormick ) - start at 22:25:

3. Events - start at 24:55:

4. Projects

5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help - start at 44:07

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 notes:

  • We now have an Open edX Working Group Calendar!
  • There was a consensus on recording all working group meetings from now on since, in some cases, the meeting notes are not enlightening enough.

Next meetup

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2023-02-21.

Video Recording

ConMeetup-21-02-23

Participants

Meeting notes

2. Working Groups Follow-Ups:

Marketing:

  • No one from this working group attended the meeting. @estebanetcheverry, would it be possible to get an async update from you here?

BTR - start at 2:27:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Frontend (@arbrandes):

Data (@brian) - start at 12:46:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

DEPR:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

Product (@jmakowski) - start at 14:03:

  • You can find the notes of the last meeting here!

TOC (@antoviaque) - start at 16:47:

DevEx (@kmccormick ) - start at 19:35:

3. Events - start at 22:10:

4. Projects

5. Improvements and Calls/offers for help - start at 48:56

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

Side notes:

  • We now have an Open edX Working Group Calendar!
  • There was a consensus on recording all working group meetings from now on since, in some cases, the meeting notes are not enlightening enough.

Next meetup

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2023-03-21.

Video Recording

ConMeetup-21-03-23

Participants

Meeting notes

Next meetup

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@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:

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 2023-04-18.

Video Recording

ConMeetup-18-04-23

Participants

Contributors Meetup Async Update

Red flags or blockers

Discussion topics

  • Review the blockers & request for collaboration from the last sprint, and try to figure out good next steps for them.
  • Formal contributor/community group creation - responding to ping from Feanil in discourse thread Community WG vs Core Contributors.
  • 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?
    • How to integrate the current changes with @ali_hugo 's work on Brainstorm: Better Planning, Collaboration, & Reporting for Core Contributor Work => should we join forces to produce one single nice report/update every two weeks?
  • Palm testing plan
  • Maintainers program update
  • Follow-up on past updates
  • Educators Working Group

Action Points

Next meetup

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Hi all! Here is the recap from the meeting we held on 05.16.2023

Video Recording

OpenedX Contributors Meeting - 05.16.2023

Participants

Contributors Meetup Async Update

Calls for participation

Discussion topics

  • We have a new working group! Educators Working Group
  • New Product Core Contributors: @faqir.bilal , @Santiago_Suarez and @marcotuts
  • 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.

Next meetup

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