[p2pu-dev] [p2pu-community] Notes from yesterday's community call...
Rebecca Kahn
bekka at p2pu.org
Tue Nov 20 09:54:38 UTC 2012
Totally. We've prepared something that I'm hoping to distribute today, so
that people have a sense of what is potting and how it's going to work.
Keep your eyes open!
On 20 November 2012 00:11, Jane Park <janepark at p2pu.org> wrote:
>
>
> 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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