edX presentation ideas
We had a brainstorming session at the edX office and generated some ideas of what we think would be interesting to talk about at Open edX Con. These are ideas, not sessions that will definitely run during the conference. After all of the CFP responses have been reviewed, we'll go back to this list and see what we can fit in and what works best with the rest of programming.
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Session | Theme | Session Type | Interested | Notes |
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Design: Course Navigation, Notifications | UX/UI | BOF |
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Student and author experiences |
| BOF |
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New Relic | devops | BOF |
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Monitoring Deployments | devops | BOF |
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User Testing XBlocks | extending | hands-on |
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Themeing |
| talk |
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Mobile Themeing | mobile | BOF |
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Mobile Themeing | mobile | talk |
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XBlocks Talk with Braeden | extending | talk |
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Open edX Architecture | platform | talk |
| roadmap |
How we integrate on campuses | use | talk |
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XSS |
| talk |
| specifically how it related to internationalization and accessibility |
Security | devops | talk |
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Build Systems |
| talk |
| potentially from test eng |
Metrics |
| talk |
| potentially from test eng |
Module Stores |
| talk |
| purpose, tools |
API Gateway |
| talk |
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Video Workflow | use | talk |
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Payment Providers |
| talk |
| otto? |
DevOps: How We Operate | devops | talk |
| operate, scale, deploy, monitor - could be separate or combined |
UX | UX/UI | talk |
| work we've done, work we will do, how you can use it |
Analytics | analytics | talk |
| best practices, eventing, research |
Devstack Bugs Ned Has Found |
| talk | @Ned Batchelder (Deactivated) |
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Interesting Bugs and How We Fixed Them | platform | talk |
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Interesting Bugs and How We Fixed Them (Comm.) | platform | panel |
| community panel |
CAPA |
| talk |
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Making Courseware Faster |
| talk |
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Writing Module Store Tests |
| lightning talks |
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Byte Sized Bugs |
| lightning talks |
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Building the Mobile App |
| tutorial/workshop |
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Setting Up Insights |
| workshop |
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Extending Otto |
| talk |
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Localization (Best Practices) |
| talk |
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Accessibility (Best Practices) |
| talk |
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Extension and Extending the Platform |
| talk |
| possibly a how-to |
Implementing SSO |
| talk or workshop |
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Survey of What's Happening with LTI and SSO |
| talk |
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Contributing to the Analytics Pipeline |
| talk |
| how to event your contribution |
Pipeline to Contributing |
| talk |
| possibly tutorial |
Pipeline to Contributing to the UX Pattern Library |
| talk |
| possibly tutorial |
Building and Running Tests |
| workshop |
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Installing and Debugging Devstack |
| talk or workshop |
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xBlocks on Mobile - current and future strategy | mobile |
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Block Transformers |
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Contributing documentation as well as code |
| talk or workshop |
| https://opensource.com/business/15/8/docs-or-it-didnt-happen https://speakerdeck.com/thatdocslady/foss-docs-101-keep-it-simple-present http://docs.writethedocs.org/writing/beginners-guide-to-docs/#id1Read |
Running Open edX Instances | DevOps | panel |
| Members of the community who are running Open edX instances will be invited to share experiences/best practices. Would be good to have edX represented, since that's the largest Open edX instance - maybe someone from DevOps would be interested? |
Elasticsearch and its use in edX | platform | talk |
| Elasticsearch, edx-search, course-discovery, elasticsearch modulestore? |
Content Libraries | XBlocks, platfrom | lightning talk |
| Use and authoring of Content Libraries, different modes through different consumer XBlocks: random (exists), org-affinity (proposed), by-tag (proposed), etc. (proposed) |
Thanks to meeting attendees, @Adam Palay (Deactivated), @Joel Barciauskas (Deactivated), @Ned Batchelder (Deactivated), @Dave Ormsbee (Deactivated), @Ben Patterson (Deactivated), @Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated), @Olga Stroilova (Deactivated), @Calen Pennington (Deactivated), @akivaR (Deactivated), @Christine Michael (Deactivated), and @Molly DeBlanc (Deactivated).
Comments
This space is about ideas, rather than plans. Please add as many as you think might be interesting, and we'll cull the list later.
@Molly DeBlanc (Deactivated) Would it be worth adding the panel I suggested about managing Open edX instances? edX remains the largest Open edX instance, it might be worth having someone from edX attending it if we do it.
This space is for ideas that will require the participation of edX employees. If you are interested in asking people from the office to participate, then it should be added.
Great - I have added it to the list above then. Thank you!
Also added my two ideas - I've already submitted them, but it would be cool to have people from edX at least for Elasticsearch. I've talked to some guys already - they were not even sure if they're going to the conference, so we have delayed the final decision on their side. But if anyone else is sure he's going and interested in either of those - feel free to join.
If anyone is interested, I'd like to propose an unconference regarding video creation Best Practices (or potentially a presentation + unconference). Based on some chats with Ned and Molly, I think this could be a good value-add to the conference.
Do we want another panel? I think another panel would be cool as well. I only see one here but could see that being cool if we come up with a good topic.