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
Design: Course Navigation, Notifications	UX/UI	BOF
Student and author experiences		BOF
New Relic	devops	BOF
Monitoring Deployments	devops	BOF
User Testing XBlocks	extending	hands-on
Themeing		talk
Mobile Themeing	mobile	BOF
Mobile Themeing	mobile	talk
XBlocks Talk with Braeden	extending	talk
Open edX Architecture	platform	talk		roadmap
How we integrate on campuses	use	talk
XSS		talk		specifically how it related to internationalization and accessibility
Security	devops	talk
Build Systems		talk		potentially from test eng
Metrics		talk		potentially from test eng
Module Stores		talk		purpose, tools
API Gateway		talk
Video Workflow	use	talk
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)
Interesting Bugs and How We Fixed Them	platform	talk
Interesting Bugs and How We Fixed Them (Comm.)	platform	panel		community panel
CAPA		talk
Making Courseware Faster		talk
Writing Module Store Tests		lightning talks
Byte Sized Bugs		lightning talks
Building the Mobile App		tutorial/workshop
Setting Up Insights		workshop
Extending Otto		talk
Localization (Best Practices)		talk
Accessibility (Best Practices)		talk
Extension and Extending the Platform		talk		possibly a how-to
Implementing SSO		talk or workshop
Survey of What's Happening with LTI and SSO		talk
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
Installing and Debugging Devstack		talk or workshop
xBlocks on Mobile - current and future strategy	mobile
Block Transformers
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).