Active Working Groups
Joining Working Group Meetings
See our public Open edX Working Group calendar which contains the schedule of our recurring Working Group meetings. All the meetings for all working groups are listed on the calendar. If you click on a meeting, you’ll see the meeting details and you can join the meeting’s call - no invite needed. On that Open edX Working Group calendar, when you open it, you’ll see a button that looks like this:
Push that button (on the calendar, not here!) to add the shared calendar to your Google Calendar account. We also have the calendar ID to open in specific app in case that helps.
Full List
Plus the:
Paragon Working Group
Overview
Group Name |
| Description | Contact Information |
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Architecture Coordination Working Group | Coming Soon | Wiki: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3490840587 Slack: #wg-architecture-coordination | |
Data Working Group | The data working group is focused on building a set of community supported interfaces for supporting analytical capabilities related to the Open edX platform. | WIki: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3303931917 Slack: #wg-data Discourse: https://discuss.openedx.org/c/working-groups/data/34 | |
DevOps Working Groups | DevOps Working Group | Collect, discuss and resolve all matters related to the technical operations of an Open edX platform, both in development and in production. This working group is in close cooperation with the other DevOps sub-groups (see below). Issues related to their area of expertise are dispatched to them. Other issues are processed internally. | The primary communication channel of this working group is the forum. If you would like to report an issue, you should add it to the GitHub project (but discussion on the forum is strongly encouraged prior to creating an issue).
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Build-Test-Release Working Group (BTR) | This working group is chartered with the direction and ownership of the Open edX community releases. Its goals are to create and maintain Open edX releases for use by the global community. | Wiki: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/1022099494 Project Board: https://github.com/orgs/openedx/projects/28 Slack: #wg-build-test-release Forum: https://discuss.openedx.org/c/working-groups/build-test-release/30 | |
Developer Experience Working Group (DevX) | Cooperate to improve the experience for developers contributing to the Open edX platform and its extensions. | Slack: #wg-developer-experience Wiki: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3583016961 Meeting notes: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3582754851 Meetups: Every two weeks. See community working groups calendar. | |
Large Instances Working Group | Cooperate on the deployment and maintenance of large or multi-sites Open edX instances. | GitHub Issues/Projects Forums
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Deprecation Working Group (DEPR) | We work to remove old, outdated parts of the Open edX codebase in order to improve code cleanliness, readability, and extensibility. | Wiki: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/825983190 Project Board: https://github.com/orgs/openedx/projects/9 Slack: #wg-depr-slash-n-burn Meeting notes: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3290824766 | |
Educators Working Group | Coming Soon | Project Board: TBD Slack: TBD (#wg-educators, potentially) Meetings: Cadence TBD | |
Frontend Working Group | The Frontend Working Group is responsible for stewardship of the frontend of the Open edX platform. The working group exists as a technical advisory board, curators of our frontend strategic roadmap, and to empower the community to execute on our shared challenges and opportunities. | Wiki: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3090056949 Project Board: https://github.com/openedx/frontend-wg/projects/1 Slack: #frontend-working-group Meetings: Every week on Thursdays, alternating between 11:00 and 15:00 UTC. | |
Paragon Working Group | The Paragon Working Group is a cross-functional group of designers and engineers governing the design system and UI component library for the Open edX platform. | Wiki: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BPL Project Board: https://github.com/openedx/paragon/projects/6 Slack: #wg-paragon Meetings: Every week on Wednesdays at 16:00 UTC | |
Marketing Working Group | The Marketing Working Group is comprised of various Open edX Marketplace providers, who collaborate on increasing global visibility and marketshare for the Open edX platform. | Slack:
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Translations Working Group | The Translations Working Group consists of various community members to assist with submitting, coordinating, and reviewing translations in Transifex, in an effort to enhance our overall localization strategy vis a vis a centralized collaboration approach. | Wiki: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3157524644 Slack: Project Board: | |
Product Working Group | Coming soon | Slack: #wg-product Meeting notes: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3448864815 Meetings: Every two weeks on Tuesdays, starting 21 June 2022 at 1600 UTC (11am EST / 10am EDT) | |
Security Working Group | Help triage incoming reports and continuously improve the project’s security posture. | Wiki: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3624108053 Public Slack Channel: #wg-security Meetings: Private, if you have questions for this group, reach out via the above public slack channel or via security@openedx.org | |