2025-07-15 Core Product Meeting notes

5mins

Reviewing Status of Product Subgroups

• Added “Status” value to each of the product subgroups. Based on confluence activity, many groups are inactive, and the proposal is to mark them archived.

• Potential Archived Subgroups - last known meeting

  • Campus / Residential - Jan 19.2024

  • Data / Analytics - none ?

  • Social / Learning Community - none ?

• Active Groups

  • LTI / Learning Tools - April 1, 2025 ? - Bimonthly meetings

  • Mobile - Bimonthly meetings

    • Mobile: Design - Monthly meetings

  • UX / UI - Bimonthly

    • (Proposal to shift to full WG with charter & goals to be reviewed in next meeting)

New Product Subgroups ?

@Marco Morales

• At the Conference, through various conversations we discussed ways to potentially organize and accumulate shared alignment as a community.

• Recently we have had a number of Product Proposals / presentations that are overlapping or related, and we put work at the Conference in person into trying to coordinate for example on shared community directions for a couple key platform areas

  • (ex: Catalog Service / Discovery Replacement, Pathways/ Groupings / Programs → These proposals have had efforts by OpenCraft, edunext, Edly, Schema, and others all working toward similar goals)

  • Some of these groups discussed benefitting from continued meetings to further the alignment conversations and working toward a single community vision / direction!

• The work @Ali Hugo has driven to get alignment on expanded use of the Product Ideas concept we hope will add many more documented ideas to our community for further review as a group, building on the active community efforts around proposals.

• A potential discussion point here is to see if we can identify a small number of Platform Areas to have active product subgroups, while retaining out Feature Areas subgroups as an important outlet for projects and active development efforts (ex: Mobile, LTI, etc).

• Platform Areas v0.2 - Would it be possible to have planned conversations for each of these areas 4-12 times a year? Planned conversations with heads up that might encourage other community members to join product related working group meetings?

  • Learner Experiences - Subgroup?

  • Educator Experiences - Subgroup?

  • Administrator Experiences - Subgroup?

• Based on discussion can explore other options / paths or consider a proposal for this working subgroup shift?

20 mins

Catalog Subgroup

@Marco Morales @Cassie Zamparini

@Mahnoor Sarwat

In the lead-up to and during the Open edX 2025 Conference, we’ve seen a number of overlapping product proposals emerge - particularly around the Catalog Service / Course Discovery replacement and Pathways / Groupings / Programs.

Teams from OpenCraft, eduNEXT, Edly, Schema, and others have all been exploring solutions with similar goals in mind. At the conference, there was an effort to start coordinating across these teams to identify shared direction and potential for consolidation.

The following proposals are currently in discussion:

• [Proposal] Stackable Catalog

• [Proposal] Grouping Product (Catalog Concept)

• [Proposed] Catalog Plugin

• [Proposal] Learning Paths

Following the agenda item above, there’s interest across the group in forming a sub-working group to explore a unified community direction.

However, some have raised concerns that this could add complexity and slow progress. The alternative to forming a sub-group is holding a single strategy session that helps us:

• Align on goals and scope across the proposals

• Divide responsibilities among smaller teams

• Ensure each team drafts collaborative proposals to be forwarded for community review

This approach would support focused and efficient collaboration while maintaining visibility and accountability - without adding another layer of recurring meetings. All updates and key decisions would flow back through the Core Product Working Group.

5 mins

Update the Product Review Process

@Cassie Zamparini @Chelsea Rathbun @Mahnoor Sarwat

An update on the status of Updating the Product Review Process based on the outcomes from the conference.