[p2pu-dev] Announcement.README.txt

[Zac Chase]

A huge +1 on this. Tons of talk of badges and badgers here at DML.

The P2PU booth at the Science Fair last night was packed from the moment go 
and Vanessa did a great job explaining the process, answering questions and 
helping people see how P2PU badges could fit into their programs.

It was excellent to see so much excitement around a project I know the dev 
team has spent this much effort on.

Plus, personally, it looks great and plays nicely!

- Zac

On Friday, March 15, 2013 10:39:14 AM UTC-5, Vanessa Gennarelli wrote:
>
> *HELLO P2PU!*
>
> Some things you should know:
>
>    1. Badges.p2pu.org is live, fully functional, and ready for your 
>    badging needs. 
>    2. We demo'd the new site at the Digital Media and Learning Conference<http://dml2013.dmlhub.net/>yesterday to an extremely positive response. Seriously, the booth was 
>    crowded and Philipp and I never stopped talking for 2 hours. 
>    3. Go ahead and create a badge<http://badges.p2pu.org/en/badge/create/>. 
>    You won't be disappointed. 
>
> Congratulations to Dirk, Erika and Chris on a job very well done.
>
> Your very happy Learning Lead, Vanessa
>
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Dirk Uys <di... at p2pu.org <javascript:>>wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone
>>
>> You may or may not know that we have been working on badges.p2pu.org (
>> github.com/p2pu/badges) for the last 3/4 weeks. At this stage I would 
>> like to reflect on a few things.
>>
>> What went well?
>> - Using OAuth for user authentication worked really well
>> - Structuring the model as an API and hiding the ORM objects from the 
>> view 
>> -- This helped a lot with testing
>> -- Also made dependencies between different parts of the application 
>> explicit when it needs to be
>> - Using ansible for sysadmin tasks (see github.com/p2pu/marvin)
>> - More thorough testing for the model 
>> - Using notifications API to send email notifications (badges.p2pu.orgknows only the username)
>>
>>
>> What could/can we improve upon?
>> - Use API for user info
>> - User roles like admin not implemented on badges (will need this to 
>> handle)
>> - User uploaded media - scaling images, async upload, storing files on S3
>> - Testing of views
>>
>>
>> Other thoughts
>> - Modularity of the model vs modularity of the view (Django app metaphor 
>> doesn't feel like a good fit for everything)
>> - Notifications as part of the model. Notifications tends to be more view 
>> like and have more dependancies
>> - Slightly concerned about performance with API, but only time will tell
>>
>> Let me maybe say a few things about the modularity and notifications, I 
>> think they're actually related. The application model and the application 
>> view doesn't feel to me like it fits that well with Django's concept of 
>> applications. The views normally have more dependencies than the model and 
>> even though you can use a django app where the view has more dependencies 
>> on other apps, it starts making less sense.
>>
>> This brings us to notifications, which have several similarities with 
>> views: they are exposed to the user, normally supply more context to the 
>> user that the event triggering the notification in the model, needs to be 
>> translated based on user preferences and probably also uses a template. I 
>> guess it's possible to create notification events in the model and then 
>> hook that up with the actual notification sending code? This obviously adds 
>> a bit of complexity.
>>
>> So, just felt like sharing this for those who may be interested. Any 
>> feedback will be very welcome! 
>>
>> @Erika & Chris, feel free to add any thoughts that you have.
>>
>> Enjoy the weekend!
>>
>> Cheers
>> d
>>
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> Vanessa Gennarelli
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