[p2pu-dev] Announcement.README.txt

[Dirk Uys]

And of course Vanessa! Thanks!

d

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Paul Osman <paul at eval.ca> wrote:

> Huge congrats to Dirk, Erika, Chris and everyone else for getting this
> launched so quickly. It looks amazing!!
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Vanessa Gennarelli <vanessa at p2pu.org>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 <dirk at p2pu.org> 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
>> Learning Lead, Peer 2 Peer University
>> vanessa at p2pu.org
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