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

[Rebecca Kahn]

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.





-- 
Rebecca Kahn
Skype: rebekahn
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