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

Tue Nov 20 00:11:15 UTC 2012

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Dirk Uys <dirk at p2pu.org> wrote:

> Hi Jane
>
> I don't know if we've been that great at communicating this, but the whole
> drive behind courses as they are running on beta.p2pu.org is to improve
> our current courses on p2pu.org.
>
> We want to eliminate subtle differences between courses, challenges and
> study groups that we currently have. These differences includes how things
> are displayed, badges, signups and a few other things.
>
> Badges remains important to us and we are planning to keep supporting
> badges that are compatible with the Open Badge Infrastructure (
> openbadges.org).
>

Great! Just wanted to make sure we're not nixing badges.. whew. Looking
forward to blog post/announcement about the updated course UI -- what it
entails, etc. I'm getting lots of questions that I keep forwarding on to
folks. A simple list of bullets, eg. What will change? What will stay the
same? would suffice for people I think.

At the moment badges are also slightly more complex than we would wish, but
> that is a whole different project that we are tackling on its own!
>
> Ask in anythings not clear
>
> Cheers
> Dirk
>
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Rebecca Kahn <bekka at p2pu.org> wrote:
>
>> Good question  - I would assume so, but perhaps the dev team can give a
>> bit more clarity?
>>
>>
>> On 16 November 2012 16:23, Jane Park <janepark at p2pu.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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