2022-3-22 Minutes

11:00 AM

Welcomes

Eden Huthmacher

11:05 AM

2022 Open edX® Conference

Eden Huthmacher

• Eden has posted a blog: https://openedx.org/blog/sessions-speaker-sponsor-highlights-2022-open-edx-conference/
  Call for community members to kindly share the above blog within their network.

• Manoel from Class Central has posted an article: https://www.classcentral.com/report/open-edx-conference-2022/

• Friday Conference Plans:
  There would be blocked time for all working groups to gather in the morning. Then, all the working groups will gather in a  colloquium format, in which they would report on plans, progress, and challenges by way of 10-minute presentation led by Juan Camilo Montoya and slides from Esteban Etcheverry. Please view further information here and feel free to comment:
  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NhzZmGjP1P2duQmiU9SMVOLVVQDIsbvOhUhZlG1GhnA/edit

11:13 AM

tCRIL survey on Open edX® global impact

Jenna Makowski

• The submission deadline is March 31st:
  Community members such as AulasNeo, EduNext and more have already started submitting their anonymous data. Learn more here: https://openedx.org/blog/open-edx-survey-help-us-quantify-the-impact-of-open-edx-globally/

• Call for community members to kindly submit their anonymous data

11:16 AM

Open edX® Sandbox

Juan Camilo Montoya

• Link to proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KGc0JDd0TZtXs85Cs5B3Yj7E_OOzwxRNfy0x-PNTYAY/edit

• EduNext has started developing a truly beautiful Open edX® Sandbox for people to learn more about how Open edX® works:
  (https://sandboxopenedx.edunext.io/)
  https://sandboxopenedx.edunext.io/

• Logo: draft design to be finalised then approved by Legal:

  

• Visibility in Catalog: The courses that people create will not be visible on the catalog/public view. Juan Camilo Montoya's team wiIl wipe data regularly each week.

• Interactive Walkthrough:

  The sandbox includes Interactive Walkthroughs.

11:27 AM

Publicising the goals of the different Working Groups

Eden Huthmacher

• Dedicated page on Open edX® website: A summary of WGs has been posted publicly here: https://openedx.org/open-edx-community-working-groups/

11:34 AM

How To videos

Dean Jay Mathew

• Placement: How To videos are tentatively planned to be placed under the Get Started section of the Open edX® website.

• Quality Control: Juan Camilo Montoya and Esteban Etcheverry are supporting this initiative and said we could use a similar video template to the recent Meet the Marketing WG Members series, and that the template should be strictly adhered to. We need to add a quality control step (audio, graphics etc must be reviewed for quality).

• tCRIL: Jenna Makowski mentioned that she is busy with a similar initiative and suggests collaboration. tCRIL are doing a How To series in text format, so the video could support and enhance that. Here is an example of a similarly styled tutorial with video and text from Elegant Themes: https://www.elegantthemes.com/documentation/divi/video-slider/

• View the document here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T_KToyp8uIlAJuJbmGD5fzXppx7769UhQKM5p8S1ezI/edit

11:47 AM

Meet Ups

Nicole Kessler

• The Virtual Event Committee is taking the lead

11:48 AM

Code of Conduct

Nicole Kessler

• This is a high priority and must be updated/finalised soonest.

11:50 AM

Open Source Platforms Comparison

Eden Huthmacher

• “apple-to-apple“ comparison: is being done between different open source platforms, starting with Open edX® vs Moodle.

• Document: We need a new person to take over this role and Jenna Makowski mentioned she is already working on a document comparing how Moodle does documentation. Jenna says she can broaden her work to start comparing platforms from a product viewpoint. Strengths vs weaknesses, etc. It overlaps with the Product Working Group a bit so collaboration between these two WGs is on the table. For this “Competitive landscape research”; we need to first agree on what do we want to present, then we can work backwards from there. Feel free to get involved here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kNBQTrkWlt9TReuq-ZyGfnoeXEWktPdPAtlLhkt4u4Q/edit

11:52 AM

Recording Meetings

Eden Huthmacher

• We may record meetings: henceforth to post on the Trello board as complimentary to the text minutes.

11:57 AM

Wikipedia

Esteban Etcheverry

• Pushed back: this task is to be pushed back to after the conference.

11:59

Close of Meeting

Eden Huthmacher

Nicole Kessler

Thanks to all who joined the meeting today or gave kind apologies in advance. Do you want to join the next meeting? Meetings are bi-monthly on Wednesdays at 10 AM (EST) or 11 AM during daylight savings. Contact the organisers in advance if you are unsure about how to join: