[p2pu-dev] [p2pu-community] Notes from yesterday's community call...

[Jane Park]

Question re badges on beta.p2pu.org -- once beta is carried over to live
site, will badge capability be restored?

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Rebecca Kahn <bekka at p2pu.org> wrote:

> Thanks to all who joined in.
> As always, full notes and transcripts can be found on the etherpad:
> http://pad.p2pu.org/p/community-20121115
>
> Best
> Bekka
>
>
> Attendees (add your name here)
>
>    - Vanessa Gennarelli
>
>
>    - Bekka Kahn
>
>
>    - Dirk Uys
>
>
>    - Chris *the current P2PU sound engineering champion* w00t w00t
>
>
> *4P& an i  report back*
>
>
>    - *Progress (what we worked on this week)*
>
>
>    - School of Open Webinar [VMG]
>
>
>    - The tool was terrible - it kept cutting out, and people couldn't
>    hear what we were saying.
>
>
>    - We need to calibrate the crowd better when we give talks - this
>    crowd were all people who are just getting started on building courses.
>
>
>    - People had questions about the OBI, with very macro-level questions,
>    not questions about badges at P2PU
>
>
>    - People are excited about creating courses in School of Open
>
>
>    - Are people interested in creating courses on beta or p2pu.org?
>
>
>    - VMG: stressed to them that using beta was a good idea, but people
>    were confused about how the accounts would work - we need to do some
>    messaging around this
>
>
>    - questions: accounts (what carries over, will they merge, will the
>    history associated with one account get lost/duplicate in the other)
>
>
>    - answer: the beta accounts will be temporary - there are no badges
>    associated with these accounts, and the only thing that will be carried
>    over will be the person who created the course, and participation. Comments
>    will not be carried over.
>
>
>    - Dirk: we do need to communicate what beta is, what it means, what
>    happens there.
>
>
>    - We need to be upfront with people from the start - if people come to
>    P2PU becuase they want to award badges then the new UX will not give them
>    what they want.
>
>
>    - But at the moment, we want people to run courses in beta becuase you
>    can help us shape what courses can be going forward at P2PU.
>
>
>    - Next steps: Bekka to work on messaging, share for comments from staff
>
>
>    - Chris: is there anything we need to tell beta users that they CAN'T
>    do:
>
>
>    - They can't give badges within courses
>
>
>    - Comments are tied to the domain, so we probably won't be able to
>    carry comments over
>
>
>    - Merging history from main p2pu.org site
>
>
>    - But you CAN embedd more stuff.
>
>
>    - Feedback Taxonomy [VMG]
>
>
>    - Scaling our lifestyle [VMG, CE]
>
>
>    - A trend that has emerged in Vanessa's life is that people like being
>    around smart cool people doing interesting things.
>
>
>    - How can we make this into something liveable?
>
>
>    - Work on stuff you like, with people you like, and have the freedom
>    to go anywhere.
>
>
>    -
>
>
>    - Gratitude Awards Nomination [BK] (http://intersectionevent.com/)
>
>
>    - Some forensic accounting [BK]
>
>
>    - Community management strategy [BK]
>
>
>    - Listing of new courses now supported for old/new courses + schools
>
>
>    - MOOC issues [CE]
>
>
>    - Chris is using his amazing powers to fix this. It shouldn't be long.
>
>
>    - Music Hack Day - School of Sound [CE]
>
>
>    - Went great, Chris won, some beer was drunk, a blog post would be
>    amazing!
>
>
>    -
>
>
>
>    - *Priorities (next week's focus)*
>
>
>    - Feedback Taxonomy [VMG]
>
>
>    - DML Grantee Check in Reports [VMG]
>
>
>    - New courses for UX launch
>
>
>    - Humanities Hack Day @KCL with SoD
>
>
>    - CSS Framework [CE]
>
>
>    - MOOC - Email sending by everyone via email [CE]
>
>
>    - Course UX - tags
>
>
>    - Sysadmin
>
>
>
>    - *Problems (Walls I ran into on the way)*
>
>
>    - Mechanical MOOC signup problems - should we take down the signup
>    option? - Nope, it will be fixed very soon.
>
>
>
>    - *Process (org stuff)*
>
>
>    - Bekka's office hours - Mondays and Thursdays in an effort to not get
>    kicked out my Phd
>    -
>
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