[p2pu-dev] Tech call notes 2013-05-16

[Dirk Uys]

Parking Lot:

   - Hosting updates (Linode upgrade, MOOC hosting, heroku, AWS...)

Progress

   - Mechanical MOOC


   - swapped in ckeditor for the WYSIHTML5 rich text editor we were using
   before


   - email scheduler finished (you can now create an email and specify a
   date when it will get sent)


   - also supports group emails (sent to the indivdiual groups) and
   community emails (to everyone)


   - we now support running courses multiple times (sequences)


   - emails and groups can be assigned to a particular sequence (=round) of
   a course


   - setting up a new round, requires some shell magic


   - imported the sign-up data from ruby MOOC


   - Defines goals / planning for 3rd phase of badges (rolled out as they
   get completed)


   - See details under priorities below...

Priorities

   - Mechanical MOOC


   - set up regular backups for data to amazon S3


   - handle unsubscribes (currently, users are in stored in two databases -
   mailgun, and heroku - need to sync)


   - Badges


   - [2 weeks] Allow partners to issue/ endorse badges (restrict who can
   issue the badge)


   - The 2-step autorization for partner Badges


   - We set out to be implemented until June 1st


   - Dirk gave Erika task to make an wireframe to present to partners on
   how will we implwmwnt this


   - [1 week] Integrate badges more closely with courses


   - for a start this will be a IFrame that you can embed in a course (or
   anywhere else)


   - [1-2 days] Add elemet to the top level navigation where you can see
   all the badges


   - Some bug crushing tasks (Badge not yet awarded but project already
   published as a project which got the Badge, ...)


   - Question: What is the benefits of converting id to uri and back trough
   out the system?


   - not much within a system, but very usefull


   - Setting up the integration servers on AWS for testing purposes


   - Hosting


   - DU to cancel stats.p2pu.org


   - AWS API - PS and DU to go throught this next week

Problems

   - Running courses multiple times on p2pu.org


   - We don't currently support "cloning" courses


   - A few courses are running for the second time, and it's not clear to
   organizers what the best strategy is


   - Easiest solution (right now) -> Create a new course, and copy&paste
   content


   - DU to make sure this is one of the topics on our list of feature
   requests

Process

   - Keep better notes on the call so that we understand what we discussed
   afterwards


   - We tried! Is it working?


   - Talk about how do we build the community who would help us build the
   tools


   - Erika  wants some advice on how to attract developers to contribute to
   badges  (or/and lernanta, mechanical mooc,...) as an open source projects
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