2023-04-19 Data WG Meeting notes

Date

Apr 19, 2023

Time	Item	Presenter	Notes

Time	Item	Presenter	Notes
5 min	Funded contribution updates	@Brian Mesick	Google Analytics 4 is moving along, first PRs merged, will back port to Palm as well as Olive Redis event bus has merged producer and consumer, working on configuration, docs, and Tutor plugin Feelers are out for contractors for OARS data modelling work
10 mins	OARS updates	@Brian Mesick	Lots of cleanup from the big conference push Thanks to Cristhian and Maria from EduNEXT! dbt prototyping work started
15 mins	Graded Discussions	@Edward Zarecor	A long time interest in the community has been to have credit associated with discussions participation. There’s a roadmap ticket for it and some current projects need this feature. Brian has proposed that we avoid pulling analytics into grading, but… Would summarizing discussions participation via events as input into a discussion grade be a good path forward? One advantage is potentially making graded discussions more easily available beyond a specific forum implementation. Another advantage would be not implementation a “tallying” system in the comments services.
mins	Ideas for future work	Roundtable	We’ve got OARS and the funded work in progress, and tracking log event cleanup / formalization coming this year. What else should Data be looking at for the future? Are there pain points in the platform that we should tackle? Deprecation of MongoDB and/or memcached? Moving from MySQL to PostgreSQL? What’s on your mind?