[p2pu-dev] Announcement.README.txt

[João Menezes]

Congrats fellas. I'll probably be creating some badges for my fellow ESL
learners :)

Kudos!

2013/3/19 Dirk Uys <dirk at p2pu.org>

> And of course Vanessa! Thanks!
>
> d
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Paul Osman <paul at eval.ca> wrote:
>
>> Huge congrats to Dirk, Erika, Chris and everyone else for getting this
>> launched so quickly. It looks amazing!!
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Vanessa Gennarelli <vanessa at p2pu.org>wrote:
>>
>>> *HELLO P2PU!*
>>>
>>> Some things you should know:
>>>
>>>    1. Badges.p2pu.org is live, fully functional, and ready for your
>>>    badging needs.
>>>    2. We demo'd the new site at the Digital Media and Learning
>>>    Conference <http://dml2013.dmlhub.net/> yesterday to an extremely
>>>    positive response. Seriously, the booth was crowded and Philipp and I never
>>>    stopped talking for 2 hours.
>>>    3. Go ahead and create a badge<http://badges.p2pu.org/en/badge/create/>.
>>>    You won't be disappointed.
>>>
>>> Congratulations to Dirk, Erika and Chris on a job very well done.
>>>
>>> Your very happy Learning Lead, Vanessa
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Dirk Uys <dirk at p2pu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey everyone
>>>>
>>>> You may or may not know that we have been working on badges.p2pu.org (
>>>> github.com/p2pu/badges) for the last 3/4 weeks. At this stage I would
>>>> like to reflect on a few things.
>>>>
>>>> What went well?
>>>> - Using OAuth for user authentication worked really well
>>>> - Structuring the model as an API and hiding the ORM objects from the
>>>> view
>>>> -- This helped a lot with testing
>>>> -- Also made dependencies between different parts of the application
>>>> explicit when it needs to be
>>>> - Using ansible for sysadmin tasks (see github.com/p2pu/marvin)
>>>> - More thorough testing for the model
>>>> - Using notifications API to send email notifications (badges.p2pu.orgknows only the username)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What could/can we improve upon?
>>>> - Use API for user info
>>>> - User roles like admin not implemented on badges (will need this to
>>>> handle)
>>>> - User uploaded media - scaling images, async upload, storing files on
>>>> S3
>>>> - Testing of views
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Other thoughts
>>>> - Modularity of the model vs modularity of the view (Django app
>>>> metaphor doesn't feel like a good fit for everything)
>>>> - Notifications as part of the model. Notifications tends to be more
>>>> view like and have more dependancies
>>>> - Slightly concerned about performance with API, but only time will tell
>>>>
>>>> Let me maybe say a few things about the modularity and notifications, I
>>>> think they're actually related. The application model and the application
>>>> view doesn't feel to me like it fits that well with Django's concept of
>>>> applications. The views normally have more dependencies than the model and
>>>> even though you can use a django app where the view has more dependencies
>>>> on other apps, it starts making less sense.
>>>>
>>>> This brings us to notifications, which have several similarities with
>>>> views: they are exposed to the user, normally supply more context to the
>>>> user that the event triggering the notification in the model, needs to be
>>>> translated based on user preferences and probably also uses a template. I
>>>> guess it's possible to create notification events in the model and then
>>>> hook that up with the actual notification sending code? This obviously adds
>>>> a bit of complexity.
>>>>
>>>> So, just felt like sharing this for those who may be interested. Any
>>>> feedback will be very welcome!
>>>>
>>>> @Erika & Chris, feel free to add any thoughts that you have.
>>>>
>>>> Enjoy the weekend!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> d
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Vanessa Gennarelli
>>> Learning Lead, Peer 2 Peer University
>>> vanessa at p2pu.org
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