P2PU Community Call
8 August 2013


We're hanging out here: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/be6ff6cc7bdd88ec3c7892042baa6b893f8d024c

Attendees:
    Vanessa (from Toronto!)
    John (back in NH after presenting at Podstock in Wichita, Kansas)
    Bekka
    Jane
    Dirk

List of Projects (delete those that have no news):

• MOOC Maker (Dirk)
• P2PU Homepage (Erika)
• Courses UX (Dirk)
• P2PU Internal Tech (Dirk) 
• Boston Workshop (Bekka) 
• Communications (Bekka)
• Offline MOOC (Karen)
• Assessment Framework (Vanessa)
• Badges platform (Vanessa)
• Data Explorer Mission 2 (Vanessa)
• P2PU Strategy 2013 (Philipp)
• Python MOOC (???)
• School of Open (Jane)
• School of Ed (Karen)
• School of Data (Question about how to list here - managed independently)
• Research (Vanessa)
• School of Webcraft (Vanessa + Philipp)

Agenda

• Progress (what we've been working on)
  • Post:Boston working on gathering all paperwork, doing reimbursements, sorting finances
  • The Boston Playlist - Spotify https://play.spotify.com/user/rebamex/playlist/11E0LGMmSMQMdBKYL4iUgd
  • Badges: 
    • Blog post: We Made it to 100! http://info.p2pu.org/2013/08/05/we-made-it-to-100-badge-creation-increased-200-in-july/ Nice!
    • Collecting feedback for improvements (especially from Karen and Paul Oh)
  • Data Explorer Mission
    • Project plan hammered out with Anders: https://docs.google.com/a/p2pu.org/document/d/1uVsat4_ev4n0E6z5LYjMiCt8Z51zgrjU_q_qJltZ7co/edit
    • Trello board fleshed out: https://docs.google.com/a/p2pu.org/document/d/1uVsat4_ev4n0E6z5LYjMiCt8Z51zgrjU_q_qJltZ7co/edit
  • Webcraft
    • Proposal hammered out
  • Lernanta
    • new homepage, please test and report any problems
    • fix for error incorrectly being shown when reordering content
• Priorities (focus next week)
  • Badges:
    • Improvement spec: usability improvements, discoverability of Badges to increase project submissions
    • DML final report (due October 1)
  • Data Explorer Mission
    • Bring together folks from Unhangout to work on Project Plan
    • Sync with OKFN folks on plan
    • Sync with Dirk on tech requirements that come out of these meetings
      • when do you want to sync? I'm awol between th 19 Aug - 2 Sept
  • Research
    • Meet with June on MRI proposal
  • Writing up Boston meeting for blog (to time with the feedback community call)
  • Planning Lab reports for next 12 months
  • Mechanical MOOC
    • getting data in a useable format for June
    • new MOOC: deeper learning mooc
    • working on getting slightly more data for signups (kind of a very low friction profile)
  • Blog mention - SkilledUp - Bekka did you still want to mention briefly?
    • Yes - sorry!
• Problems (walls we ran into on the way)
  • Etherpad - large pads may become slow
    • Maybe we need to archive old pads better (mine are massive)
    • It also helps if you clear authorship colours
• Process (org stuff)
  • Spending tomorrow reflecting on my projects / portfolio in light of my review and Hewlett stuff
• Ideas (on the horizon)
  • London P2PU and CC School of Open meetup: http://pad.p2pu.org/p/london_soo_meetup
• Course Feedback & Suggestions check-in: https://trello.com/b/AxNhy4Ey/feedback-and-suggestions
  • P2PU/Disqus single sign-on: http://info.p2pu.org/2013/07/25/three-updates-to-make-your-life-easier/
  • New feature request: display usernames with profile pictures on People tab page of courses
  • Badges.p2pu.org - language - stylesheet? Vanessa, where are we on this?
    • Vanessa is doing a suite of wireframes to badges.p2pu.org
    • Call about this post-global summit
  • Course organizer toolkit/support page - are we done?

Discussion

Course on p2pu https://p2pu.org/en/groups/music-theory-101/
does anyone know https://p2pu.org/en/PaulFredericks/