Attendees (welcome to any newbies)

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• Alison @alisonjeancole
• Philipp @schmidtphi
• Bekka
• Niels
• The rest is off to the museum

Standups What have you been up to? Short written notes (we'll discuss only if there are questions)

• Alison
  • catching up on all the exciting new badges, and features!
  • gathering all the courses ready to be promoted on July 18th
  • July is my last month at P2PU
• Bekka
  • So much stuff
  • Budgets, admin, taxes (and death by them)
  • learnt how to make and implement a badge
  • PLanning for the next round of course promotion
• Vanessa
• John
  • Berlin is awesome. I've been spending time working on the Mechanical MOOC and some other tech stuff. Next up working on the course experience and getting ready to launch the Mechanical MOOC. Museum tour today, scooting around town and some beer gardens on the agenda. P2PU should keep the format of having an office for a month or two (way better than just a few days).
• Philipp
  • Performance Reviews with staff
  • Helping everyone as much as I can
  • P2PU School of Ed South Africa - finalized proposal
  • Overall berlin madness
• Dirk
• Alan
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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)
  • Webcraft --> https://p2pu.org/en/groups/pybossa/
  • Lingerie --> https://p2pu.org/en/groups/personal-learning-plan-sewing/
  • Youth Voices ---> https://p2pu.org/en/groups/citing-evidence-in-conversation-level-1-2/
  • Jessy --> https://p2pu.org/en/groups/cern-summer-student-webfest/
  • Alison adds new courses to the giant spreadsheet on google docs, and from that sheet, she finds courses that are being particualrly innovative 
• Development priorities (Dirk)
• State of the mustard (Philipp)
  • Revamping metrics, working with Nadeem
  • But we saw a big spike in activity/comments this week. 
    • Still trying to find out if it's because of reply-by-email or start of school of ed

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). 
 
General discussion and questions

• Badges being gamed: https://p2pu.org/en/badges/challenge-creator/submissions/279/
  • This user is gaming badges - he's created multiple accounts (or has friends reviewing his submissions) and empty courses, and uses them to give himself badges
  • Probably just experimenting, or possibly a group of people who are sitting together and reviewing each other from the same accounts 
  • Philipp -> this particular case is not a big deal, but does raise the issue that badges are VERY easy to game
  • Also creates empty courses on the site.
  • Ali -> is it possible to add a request for a mechanism that allows us to flag or request reviews for this kind of badge gaming.
  • User profile with badges -> https://p2pu.org/en/aligh/

• Interview requests from CBS SF & BosInno - anyone else been contacted by these folks?
  • Boston Inno went to Vanessa and Philipp as well / Vanessa is following up (deadline Friday)
  • cc Philipp on media requests

• Niels: trying to evaluate courses that we currently have (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqWmy-7v8kDLdFFTNEVpRGFqWksydWs4SVNndEx4R2c&pli=1#gid=0) 
  • A lot of people use P2PU as a platform for learning with a community who are already learning somewhere else, or who have a set group who are looking for a space in which to learn.
  • Has done some evaluation (columns L, M & N) of "quality" and likelihood of courses being sustained over the long term. 
  • Community review: This functionality exists, but the permission does not exist for all users at the moment, it's just for admin users. 
  • Ali: don't know if organisers recieve notification of the reviews that Ali sends them becuase she has never had feedback from an organiser.
  • https://p2pu.org/en/groups/ - Ali walking us through the community review process - (at the moment only admins can do this)
  • "Mark as reviewed" is functionality for the future
  • "Mark as a community pick" is functionality we can use now. 
  • To showcase a course, you have to do it through the Django admin setting
    • There wasn't a lot of thinking in calling it "showcase" so we might want to consider working around this
  • Once a course has been reviewed, there is no way for people coming to the course to see the review, 
  • Recommendations from Ali: 
    • This is powerful feature with a lot of potential to engage the community
    • If we make it public (and the useabiluty is clear) we'd get a lot of people using it
    • It would up the ante in terms of people working to make courses better
    • Ideally all courses on P2PU should be community reviewed
    • This would be easy to bring to the public level by tidying up the UX stuff, and terminology and managing the functionality.
    • Philipp: could we use the community call to make the community picks
    • Ali: good idea to give more people admin permissions so that they can get involved in the review process. 
    • Philipp -> 2 processes here: 
      • giving good feedback to the course organisers
      • Getting people involved in the reviewing process with no "reward" - how do we make sure that people will do this ouside of those who have to becuase it's their job, or because they are interested in in it in the short term. 
    • Niels: a lot of the courses i have seen exist in the minds of their creators, some people are willing to put in a huge amount of time and effort, but I don't know about whether it works for all courses
    • Alison: in my perspective historically this feature has been tied to the idea that courses were created in stages, and staff would work with creators to get their courses onto the site in stages. Maybe this has changed, and the process is too complicated for what we need it to be. This could be a very simple, easy way for creators to get feedback. 
  • Problems: Can't see any kind of archive or "outbox" of messages that have been sent.