Attendees (welcome to any newbies)
- Bekka
- Vanessa
- Alan
- Zuzel
- Philipp
- Ali
Standups What have you been up to? Short written notes (we'll discuss only if there are questions)
- Alison
- New courses --> LOTS of JUNK
- Setting goals for next promotional round:
- Bekka
- Berlin planning
- Finance switchover and process work
- HR
- John
- Putting together a roadmap, adding to github, consolidating lots of things
- Philipp
- HR (getting ready for employees)
- Finance
- Proposals (berlin office, school of data, MOOC workshop)
- Zuzel
- Finished sorting out ownership of tech lead responsibilities
- Badges Project call earlier today -- http://pad.p2pu.org/p/badges
- Talked with Dirk about what is on lighthouse earlier today
- Demo what is done of multi-task edit/create/order/delete -- see link on the dev priorities section
- Dirk (probably on my way to the airport while this call is happening)
- Did small release with Zuzel
- Busy with handover tasks
- Added ability to remove challenge/course organizers
- Alan
- Vanessa: has been a *total P2PU slacker* this week (she has finals, take pity on her) <-- *pity*
- 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 (Dirk starting next week -- Zuzel this week)
- Upcoming Release (21/22 May)
- robots.txt
- some minor config changes
- removing course organizers
- email notification subject improvements
- link to page enabling multi-task edit/create/delete/order added to challenges home page.
- Past Release (4 May)
- Bug fixes and other small improvements
- This week demos:
- State of the mustard (Philipp)
- Mustard sabbatical
- Discussing with John how to use scorebard / metrics going forward
- Found that our monthly metrics are driven by "special events" more than we'd like to
- The month stays on the same (or a lower) level, then we'll have some media, which prompts lots of activity, and that's how we're making our 5% growth targets.
- We should be doing more events that drive activity and metrics, but some are out of our control and we have very little involvement.
- Objective: to get to a point where we have more control over these metrics
- and making more strategic decisions around events.
- Question: can we measure metrics around new features? As we roll them out, can we measure the responses to this?
- Answer: hopefully we will be able to at some point.
- To attribute specific changes to specific features is hard right now, but hopefully we'll be able tie specifics together as we improve the tools and methodologies.
- Vanessa -> One thing that keeps coming up in the research homestead is the bundlig of email and comments, and it's worth finding out if making these changes would have an effect on participation.
- Philipp has been working hiring new staffers as employees in the US (we need to do this so that we don't go to jail)
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.
- Item ...
General discussion and questions
- Reducing Junk Courses
- http://p2pu.org/en/groups/dddb/
- Linking to external sandbox does not work.
- Adding text to encourage people to use sandbox does not work.
- Eventual roll-out of new course creation will help. When is that due?
- Q: How can we modify the form/process now to deter junk?
- Zuzel -> usually what is more important is not to reduce the junk (it's a clear indicator of people coming to the site)
- creating "junk" is the normal use of a site
- but there is a tool where admins can mark a course as such.
- There is also the community review tool which should help surface what is not junk.
- Not enough courses have been reviewed yet to use tool.
- Philipp -> some people are creating courses saying what they want to learn - they're looking for a feature we don't support.
- Some people create courses to just play around and get a sense of the site. Right now, we should be making it clearer to them that there is a better place to do this
- Different strategies:
- Make sure non-junk is more visible than junk -> use community review
- Make it easier to clean up junk
- "Test course only" button on the create a course form might help people self-select the junk
- Using a spreadsheet to track course creation to help us better understand the evolution
- How do we decide if we should delete the course?
- what is the technical process for this? It can be done on the Admin site right now by the staff who have admin access
- Possible to add a "when do you want to delete this course" date option, but this will require additional functionality.
- Problem is that "under development" stage contains lots of different types of courses
- Next steps:
- Get involved page -> http://cl.ly/2W1Q263B2R2X3U2P252X
- On the page add text "If you want to test the course creation process, you can try it out in the [sandbox]."
- Course creation form -> http://cl.ly/2c393W0O0w0i1Y1J030Z
- On the form, add button to select that a course is a "test course" ->
- make it not listed
- don't send notification
- don't include "not listed" courses in scoreboard
- Process for next steps: John and Dirk to be notified by Ali (via email) on recommendations, and next steps