[p2pu-dev] [p2pu-community] Notes from Community Call 23 June 2011

[Philipp Schmidt]

Thanks for the notes. I really like the proposed next steps for
dealing with courses and schools.

As someone who is usually participating in the call, it's great to see
how good and useful the notes are. I might just read the notes from
now on ;-)

P

On 24 June 2011 13:26, Rebecca Kahn <bekka.kahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Here are the notes from yesterday's community call. Mad props to all
> involved - those who were up late and those who woke up early.
> All notes from this and previous meetings can be found here:
> http://pad.p2pu.org/community
>
> 23 June 2011
> Agenda
>
> Accepting courses into schools, unhappy with current denial process
>
> how can tags help School orgs identify relevant groups?
> Z: Will it change if it becomes clear from the begining that it is a request
> for membership and not just a selection of which school the group is part
> of? -- How much work will be required of school organizers if they are the
> ones that have to search for compatible groups and add them to the school?
> Should the adition to the school be approved by a group organizer
> (invitation email + follow a link to join?)
>
> The survey:
>
> What are the  last issues regarding the actual questions / text?
> How to get it out to our users in a way that can be easily implemented right
> away?
> if you have admin access:
> http://p2puniversity.limequery.com/admin/admin.php?sid=35772
>
> Schools initial look and feel for release 0.9 (if there is nobody from math
> future or sosi we could skip this point)
>
> SoW already configured their look and feel in
> http://alpha.p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-webcraft/ -- We are going to use
> than one when updating the site on release 0.9
> Will Math Future
> (http://alpha.p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-the-mathematical-future/) and
> Sosi (http://alpha.p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-the-mathematical-future/)
> do the same? If not, we have to choose their initial look and feel so
> suggestions are wellcome. Should we use current look at p2pu.org, use
> current look at alpha.p2pu.org, or follow SoW customization on
> alpha.p2pu.org but with different colors? New logos for Math Future and
> Sosi?
>
> Attendees
>
> Zuzel
> Bekka
> Pippa
> John
> Jessica (just on pad -- at conf)
>
> Standups (add as you arrive)
>
> Zuzel
>
> Working on school tickets
> No news from dev meeting (people busy, only me on the meeting)
>
> Bekka
>
> Admin (bank account, contracts)
> Prep for Berlin
> general email
> communication
>
> Pippa
>
> SoW update - just posted: http://learninglearning.wordpress.com/?p=252
> SoW page styles
> SoW page content!
>
> John
>
> Working at P2PU now!+1
>
> Jessica
>
> Working on user tags and on travel/conf so slow
> Answering how to install Lernanta questions and spreading the word too about
> the project
>
> Notes
>
> John has given notice at his job and will be starting at P2PU very soon -
> his offical title is: Product Manager and we are all very excited. Welcome
> home, John!
>
> Accepting courses into schools, unhappy with current denial process
>
> At the moment people are choosing fairly random schools within which to
> place their courses, and this means schools organisers have to sometimes
> deny them, and might end up making more work for themselves. Not a greta
> process.
> Possible solution: tagging - schools organisers can then survey the tags and
> then "invite" organisers to join the relevant school. This is a way to avoid
> the "negative" process of denying people access.
> Intermediate solution: remove "pick a school option" and manually add them
> to schools
> Tasks High Priority (before release) for me (zuzel): Remove school field +
> send creation email to school organizers
> Task: school organizers need notification of new courses (Pippa)
> stopgap could be cc on creation or Alison said she could forward if the
> emails would be too much
> Zuzel has begun to implement the removal of the "pick a school" field and
> send a notification to the organisers about this - Alison, Pippa, Zuzel and
> John will liase and make this happen between them, and reort back to the
> community as the process continues. Ali will forward notification mails to
> school organisers who may not be recieving them.
>
> The survey - Alison is doing some final tweaks and we will be sending the
> survey out this week to everyone who has participated in a P2PU course.
>
> Zuzel will help us send it to all the registered users - at the moment, all
> mass mails are send by Alison, whether she knows it or not. But she's
> generally happy with this.
> All users of the old site were migrated to the new site, so we won't miss
> anyone.
> Alison will send the text of the email to Zuzel.
> Task (Alison): finalize survey + add email text
>
> Schools initial look and feel for release 0.9 (if there is nobody from math
> future or sosi we could skip this point)
>
> Pippa is delighted and thinks that the WebCraft school looks amazing. Happy
> days.
> We're waiting on feedback from SoSI and Math Future, and zuzel has made it
> possible for them to make changes, but no word yet.- will chase them -ALI
> Pippa is happy, once the school-specific tools have been built, to do some
> screencasts on how to customise schools pages.
>
>
>
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> Rebecca Kahn
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>
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