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Attendees (welcome to any newbies)
- @alisonjeancole
- @varelidi (chloe)
- @jessykate
- @rebamex (I never tweet, though...)
- @johndbritton (when did we start using twitter handles?we should vote for the best handle (@rebamex wins so far) - thanks John!
- @brylie (identi.ca)
- @phastafrican (Emmanuel)
Standups
What have you been up to? Short written notes (we'll discuss only if there are questions)
- Alison
- Bekka
- Being sick (and getting over it)
- Open Ed week planning
- Contracting
- Finance stuff
- Tax stuff
- Chloe
- P2PU-wide community badges survey is out > go answer it! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WWTCXV3
- Open Education Week Challenge Party wt Bekka in London (there is bar hopping included)
- DML Materials & Prep for Philipp (we have a poster! and a two pager!) check our flickr page if you want to dowload them/use them http://www.flickr.com/photos/p2puniversity/
- SoW Report Data Viz http://bit.ly/z29Hw7
- NSF Grant writing (due next week @.@)
- Need following info asap regarding SoW:
- WHEN WAS IT LAUNCHED?
- HOW MANY have enrolled till now?
- Any other impressive numbers?i.e. # of comments
- How many users enrolled in last years badge pilot?
- Following up on this by email
- John
- Now
- Last Week
- Fixed up some stuff with stats.p2pu.org
- developer interviews
- Clean up webmaking 101 challenges
- Philipp
(travelling) on the phone - Zuzel
- On track with the preparations for the etherpad migration tomorrow (3pm-6pm EST)
- If there is no roadblocks we will be sending the survey about community badges launching across the site to all users on Monday
- Awarded badge to Ali: http://p2pu.org/en/badges/challenge-party/
- Alan
- jessykate
- preparing an open research proposal/outline of ideas for p2pu
- starting to design open science challenges/groups/badges:
- Add your name (optional)
News of the week
Written notes on what's going on in our world (bring up special announcements on the call)
- Blog posts you wrote
- Articles you read
- Initiatives you heard about
Key updates
Super short updates about P2PU
- Exciting new courses to check out (Alison)
- Development priorities (Zuzel)
- On the site
- New translations
- Languages can be set for courses/challenges/... (to be used on filters in the learn page) +1!
- Site admins can mark courses as deleted (spam, test courses no longer active)+1!
- Challenges have an estimated duration
- No recaptcha for replying to direct messages
- Priorities
- State of the mustard (Philipp)
Agenda
Core of the call. Focused on four types of conversations (invited guests, challenges you need help with, proposals you want feedback on, ideas you need collaborators for).
- Add your agenda items here. Provide a link to background materials you want the community to review prior to the call.
- Celebrity Challenges: http://pad.p2pu.org/celebrity-challenges (Members from the community develop exciting challenges endorsed or designed by notable figures for April 18 media sweep)
- People in our community have connections, and it would be great if people could reach out to (take advantage/manipulate) their contacts to either help out on, or at the least, endorse a challenge.
- All the action is taking place on the etherpad (link above
- Stake your claim
- Final Challenges due April 11
- Programming 101 challenge:
- http://p2pu.org/en/groups/programming-101/
- confirmed is listed on the learn page
- has anyone tried it? you can see from participants.
- how can we promote it a bit more? (it could use some improvements like some simplifications, images - but hard to know if people are even trying it or not?).
- do we want more along those veins if it's not being picked up?
- John -> working on a google adwords campaign, can add it there, and on the featured course page on the webcraft front page
- Chloe -> as people create more and more challenges we need to help them promote them
- I nominate Vanessa to try it and give feedback.
- http://help.p2pu.org/kb/learning/how-should-i-promote-my-course
- Promotion (of P2PU in general)
- badges - best process to propose some?
- Specifically for open science ones
- but what is the process in general?
- Users can send ideas to Chloe & Zuzel, and they will help (this is not super sustainable, but what we have for now)
- People have being also using the badge challenges party to get feedback about their badges
- Also there is this one Jessy > http://p2pu.org/en/groups/make-a-challenge/
- highjacking this item >> P2PU-wide community badges survey is out > go answer it! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WWTCXV3
- this will work for general badges that can by applied to all courses challenges or to a Set of Challenges (you would send the survey to that group)
- Survey
- Philipp -> question: is this the best way to figure out what people want? Or would it make sense to work with a smaller group of people and see what other orgs have done with badges before we go so broad?
- Do we know enough about what we're doing yet to try this process?
- Chloe -> We have been studying badges across sites as well as accessing the work that mozilla has done on web literacy
- Decision was to send survey to the community so that we could get the most objective response
- Concern that if we do more research it might delay the survey, or we go ahead and launch community-wide badges without the feedback from the community.
- Philipp -> people aren't very good at knowing what they want, so we need to have a look at what they're using, maybe see what people are using, ask what their experience has been, and use this information to inform our process
- Chloe -> If we look at what people are using, then we risk deciding for them which badges should be community-wide or not by including them or not in the survey
- Zuzel -> I think we shouldn't delay the launch of global community badges until we get feedback from our user base but start with a small set and them add to that when we get feedback. Including a few badges globally on the site is also a way to make our users familiar with the use of badges
- Philipp -> We should survey people who have recieved badges, people who have given badges, and people who might have been eligible but didn't do so.
- We might get more good stuff from people who are on the list who aren't super-involved but who have offered good ideas and are P2pU users.
- NEXT STEPS:
- chloe send survey link to community, philipp and chloe talk, possibly send to all users after that.
- Google Adwords update for the month of February
- we were given a grant from Google for 10k worth of adwords
- For the month of Feb we spent a little more than 7k on ads, and we've had about 10.5 thousand unique users come to the site
- Majority of the ad copy is about taking free courses online, but as we refine and tweak these and make them more course-specific this may or may not change
- Piwik analytics might help with the conversion tracking.
General discussion and questions
- Facebook: Find an avid FB'er to generate a good P2PU presence there?
- We have facebook, but we under-utilise it
- There are probably a lot of opinions about FB in the community
- But are there any people in this group / on this call who use it
- John ~ 20-50 new likes a week
