February 13th 2020

Owned by Xavier Antoviaque
Last updated: Feb 14, 2020
3 min read

Date, time, and location

Thursday, February 13th, 15:00 UTC

Video recording

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gGZUOMXXDXPTvIHjfzUufZtf67Ee4YI6/view?usp=sharing

Agenda

  • Meet & greet newcomers if any

  • Recap of agenda items - any to add? comments?

  • Wiki page & publication discussion:

    • Presentation of current page/section

    • Process for agenda items

    • Do we allow everyone to join & publicize?

    • Public posting of recording?

  • Address complaint about Insights support (Slack, Discourse) & general availability of help within the community

  • List of architectural investments listed by Nimisha: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AC/pages/1165461538

    • Overview/discussion of the points

    • Who is interested in partnering with the edX Architecture team on some of these points?

  • Marketing workgroup kickoff:

    • Goal: make the brand "Open edX® " itself more visible and increase the awareness on the global market for decision makers, for developer, it specialist, business developer etc.

    • Potential topics (pick one for this meeting to start things off, schedule a dedicated recurring meeting for the marketing workgroup to follow-up?)

      • Open edX Website (under control of edX)


        • Improve the list under "Marketplace"; Who and which companies are already using Open edX? -- Increase the awareness

        • Create and publish a full Moodle vs. Open edX or Canvas vs. Open edX comparison chart (see dedicated topic below)


        • Offer Free Trials

        • Offer a technical and understandable spec of the product


      • Open edX Training (controlled by edX, community and marketing groups)

        • Continuous supplementation of the training material for developer, devops and front-end developer.

          • we can create courses

          • we can offer more training in different countries and locations

          • we can offer training during sprints

          • more training during the conference

        • Support for Newbies, IRC Channel?


      • Open edX on digital publications (controlled by marketing groups & edX)

        • Increase the channel of information, where decision makers can find the latest information about the product Open edX 


        • Increase comparisons concerning the current lms market, learning management tools, best practices of elearning platforms etc; Which LMS suits your needs best (Raccoongang, 2018)


        • Publish more reviews from use cases


      • Conference, Meet-Ups, Hackathon, Events etc.


        • The product Open edX itself should be more present in general but especially on small and bigger e-learning conferences/events/meeting

          • Python, Python US, Europython

          • Local events

          • Webinars


      • Create and publish a full Moodle vs. Open edX or Canvas vs. Open edX comparison chart

        • Potential base: the elearningindustry features list overview: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GzPtK8_fuKryay-mgshY6XnUOGyCJDpNor9PxkK2gJI/edit?usp=sharing

        • Do better: adding more details, adding correct supported or not supported features, adding new features like "prerequisites, learner progress tracking and completion API, override learner scores, GDPR support, video transcription etc. etc".

        • In Addition, this empty page in Confluence is more frightening than uplifting, we should use it or delete it, on the Open.edX website will be in my option be a better place.

        • We can add integration opportunities and add-on lists based on work we have done in projects, this makes the software as more attractive for decisions makers. I know we have a XBlocks directory list here, but this page is more for insider and IT-centric people then for marketing purposes. We should use the power of all this pieces and our knowledge and try to bring all information together.

Chat log

00:02:03 Gabriel: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/1203634177/Feburary+13th+2020 00:04:47 Nate Aune: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/1203634177/Feburary+13th+2020 00:07:04 Régis B.: what do you think about insights? 00:14:36 Peter: +1 00:18:53 Gabriel: I'd go for Discourse? 00:22:12 stetrabby: or we call it OpenSpace 00:23:24 Nimisha Asthagiri: https://codeascraft.com/2018/10/10/etsys-experiment-with-immutable-documentation/ 00:23:59 Nimisha Asthagiri: ^ Something we’re using within edX to provide support to each other on debugging issues. 00:26:57 Xavier Antoviaque: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AC/pages/1165461538/Needed+Architecture+Investments 00:37:57 Nimisha Asthagiri: Frontend Plugin Framework 00:38:01 Nimisha Asthagiri: Toggles 00:38:05 Nimisha Asthagiri: Documentation 00:38:06 Nimisha Asthagiri: Tests 00:42:39 Régis B.: https://github.com/edx/code-annotations 00:51:32 Nimisha Asthagiri: Regis: Will help via BTR group; mega PR
Felipe: Will help to doc features (not necessarily operation settings) 00:58:54 Gabriel: I have comments and questions to share on each topic, my proposal since we have 2 minutes lefts is to take the discussion to Discourse : ) 01:00:00 Peter: +1 01:00:20 Nate Aune: We (Appsembler) has created a feature matrix that could get cleaned up and contributed as marketing collateral for the Open edX website. 01:00:29 Peter: RG will join the marketing call 01:00:45 Gabriel: Separate meeting is good for me too +1 01:01:17 Nate Aune: one Discourse thread per topic? 01:02:56 Nate Aune: There is Learning Technologies conf today in London, but neither edX nor Open edX are not listed as exhibitors. https://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/ 01:03:47 Nate Aune: Moodle has a large booth from our people on the ground there. 01:03:58 Peter: EduCause is coming 01:04:04 Gabriel: It would be useful to build a common list of relevant conferences :) 01:04:18 Gabriel: And do pub crawls 01:04:32 Juan Camilo Montoya: +1 (on both) 01:05:01 Nimisha Asthagiri: List of conferences would be great!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HR7-W8W79hYlS5K0aOOA3jcl_n6pOPPr/view?usp=sharing