Open edX 2018 Montréal: Birds of a Feather
- Ned Batchelder (Deactivated)
- Nate Aune
- Bryan Wilson
Conference (Wednesday-Thursday)
The 2018 Open edX conference is May 30 and 31 in Montreal Canada, preceded by a day of tutorials and succeeded by Developer Summit 2018.
Birds of a Feather (BoFs)
There will be a board near registration detailing the times and locations of specific Birds of a Feather gatherings. This page is a place to pre-plan topics and gauge interest.
Proposed topics
Add your proposal for a topic here, and we will help facilitate finding a time and place for groups that show interest to meet!
| Title | Description | Proposer | Interested? (tag yourself using @{your name}) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Certificates and badges | Let's discuss how our organizations are using certificates and badges with our Open edX deployments, share best practices and stumbling blocks, and ideas for future enhancements or fixes. I can present a new approach for badges and experience with Badgr.io (hopefully including their just-released Pathways feature). Please join! Feel free to add any related specific topics or ideas here.... What are the best practices people are using to find instructors and courses? Posted on the table to the side of Registration this morning - Thursday at 2:55pm (coffee break). Please check for changes and/or ;location | Bryan Wilson, Appsembler | |
| Mobile Apps | If you're a mobile application developer or designer, come introduce yourself. This is free-form. Please add topics to this list, with your name next to it, if you're interested in discussing something specific with all of us:
| J'aime O of Appsembler | |
| UX and UI Design | If you're a designer, come introduce yourself. Let's get to know each other and talk about how we design, and want to design, engaging and delightful experiences for learners and authors. | J'aime O of Appsembler | |
| Authoring & Authoring tools | Made a cool XBlock lately? Done something unusual in a course? What tools are we missing in Studio to deliver awesome learning experiences? That's what I want to talk about! | Matthew Harrington, Appsembler | |
| Corporate & professional learning trends | What does it mean to be a “Learner First” organization?
| Appsembler | |
| Containerization of Open edX | While Open edX Devstack is Docker-based, it still depends on Ansible to build the images. This can slow down the developer's workflow and alienate newcomers to Open edX, as they have to learn all the intricacies of Ansible in order to debug installation issues. This BoF is to discuss a new pure Dockerfile-based (no Ansible) way to set up a local Open edX development environment, and also explore what a container-based production deployment of Open edX looks like using only Dockerfiles, and not depending on Ansible for the orchestration. See discussion of these two topics in this Google Doc "Running Open edX on Docker", which is the scratchpad to identify goals for the upcoming Open edX Development Summit. Posted on the table to the side of Registration this morning - Thursday at 3:40pm. Please check for changes and/or location | Nate Aune, Appsembler | |
| Backend/Frontend Split | Most frontends across all Open edX services are built using server-side templates and "older" Javascript libraries like Backbone. Efforts are under way to build modern frontends using React and Bootstrap that interact with the server via RESTful APIs exclusively. It would be great to get together and meet others who are interested in this idea. It would also be great to discuss the benefits to our mobile applications. As we move to more RESTful apis could we find benefits to our applications? Can we find more common ground between the two services? | Albert (AJ) St. Aubin (Deactivated) edX | |
| APIs | Have you extended the Open edX APIs? Had to deal with deprecation issues on upgrades? Looking for better standardization, documentation, and support for community-based extensions? Let's gather and talk through what we all need, and how we can work together as a community--and together with edX–to build a robust and well-documented set of APIs for Open edX. | Aaron Beals, Appsembler | Julien Maupetit |
| Developer Documentation | What documentation do you find very useful? What documentation trips you up? What documentation could you never find at all? Where do you go for documentation? Let's discuss our various documentation needs and try to discover what we wish to improve next. | Robert Raposa, edX | Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated), Nate Aune |
Other meetings
If you would like to schedule a private meeting, please contact one of the event organizers at the registration desk.