[p2pu-dev] Tech call notes 2013-04-18

[Dirk Uys]

Progress

   - PyCharm (Python IDE) licence


   - http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/


   - We got a PyCharm Free Licence for opensource projects in case anyone
   wants to use it.


   - Licence was issued for the whole project so anyone that works with us
   can use the licence. http://etherpad.p2pu.org/p/PyCharm_Licence


   - Licence is valid for a year, we can ask for renewal before the year is
   over.


   - Data expeditions kicked off - basic email composer & scheduler running
   ( https://github.com/p2pu/mechanical-mooc/ )


   - How does the scheduler work?


   - Super simple.


   - There is a list of emails. For each email you can specify a date/time.


   - You can still send manually.


   - Each email is sent only once (manual overrides scheduled)


   - Merged updated Swedish translation, new Korean translation and partial
   Hebrew translation


   - Future: Differentiate between "quality" translations and "in progress"
   translations


   - DU to reach out to community about translations


   - Linode server upgrades (kick self)


   - Dev server has been upgraded (runs etherpad server, and also
   beta.p2pu.org)


   - never assume something like this will Simply Work


   - always backup, always be cautious, always do it when you have time to
   deal with resulting problems!!


   - DU to reach out to Zack Chase about course running on beta.p2pu.org


   - Badges coming along


   - a little slower than expected


   - Reach out to community to test rich text editor

Priorities

   - Badges


   - push to OBI


   - rich text


   - integration with p2pu.org


   - Course communication


   - course announcements


   - disqus notifications, etc


   - LRMI blog post


   - Music MOOC


   - give feedback to Chris

Problems

   - WYSIHTML5-bootstrap has several problems


   - adding links


   - making a single word bold


   - would be good to have a goto editor for richtext/HTML


   - my suggestion is stil CKeditor (clientside) http://ckeditor.com/ . It
   needs a bit testing before we could use it as default.


   - Question about data mail accounts (bounces).


   - Goal: Never expose/send-from an email address that bounces


   - If we only show the address that bounces during the test mailings,
   that's fine. If users see the address (or if it is set as reply-to) then we
   should make sure not to bounce replies)

Process

   - Board update was written for geeks (and lots of good stuff wasn't
   articulated in a way that gets it the attention it deserves) - Have a look
   at what I did with it (for next time)
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