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Matt Tuchfarber (Deactivated)Michael RoytmanAdam StankiewiczGeorge Babey, Michael Terry (Deactivated)Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated)Jeff Witt (Deactivated)
TitleFedX Meeting
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CharterEmpower the edX development community by continually defining, evangelizing, and supporting front end best practices.

Working Group

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A weekly "scrum of scrums"-style update from team representatives across the edX organization.  We use this meeting to share our learnings and challenges, to plan our future Frontend Study Group topics, as well as input into the Frontend Working Group's backlog and roadmap.


Overview

The FedX meeting is attended by frontend stakeholders from across edX’s engineering and product teams. FedX holds weekly meetings Thursday mornings at 11am and public office hours in the cafeteria Thursday afternoons at 2pm. Anyone is welcome to join the group – speak with one of the members listed above if you'd like to be added to the meeting.

The goals of the group are as follows:

  • Share our teams' FED frontend challenges and triumphs
  • Streamline the frontend development process
  • Set, plan, and achieve long term architecture goals
  • Define implementation best practices for use across the organization
  • Stay up to date on evolving browser features, language specifications, and web standards
  • Discuss and plan to evaluate emerging technologies
  • Review and prioritize routine infrastructure work
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  • Plan frontend training and knowledge sharing initiatives.
  • Gather input for the Frontend Working Group's backlog and roadmap.

See the FedX 2018 Meeting Notes for each week's agenda meeting notes and action items.

Operating Principles

FedX is a supportive, tight-knit group of people with varying skillsets, concentrations, and levels of frontend involvement. To sustain this community, we follow a loose set of operating principles:

  • Work as a community
  • Share knowledge
  • Find common ground
  • Welcome everyone
  • Celebrate successes publicly
  • Support without smothering
  • Be kind

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Communication

The working group uses the following communication channels: