P2PU Community Call
26 September 2013

We're hanging out here: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/a93aa5f001c9e5177b0a2bfd4cc51fa72d93e822?authuser=1&hl=en - join us!

Attendees:
    Bekka
    Dirk
    Vanessa

List of Projects (delete as needed):

• MOOC Maker (Dirk)
• P2PU Homepage (Erika)
• Courses UX (Dirk)
• P2PU Internal Tech (Dirk) 
• Boston Workshop (Bekka) 
• Lab Reports (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 (Vanessa)
• Music MOOC (Vanessa)
• New Projects (Philipp)

Agenda

• Progress (what we've been working on)
  • Badges
    • DML Narrative Report
    • Now people can edit already published Badge
    • Linking od courses is now possible
  • Music MOOC
    • Splash page, copy, syllabus
    • www.playwithyourmusic.org
    • waiting on some partners to be able to announce 
    • nothign open for signup yet
    • Bekka to start drfting a press release to be ready to go when it is happening. 
    • Using echonest to group users by music preference. 
  • Writing MOOC
  • Assessment blog posts
• Priorities (focus next week)
  • Music MOOC 
    • permissions & badges
    • grouping users by the music they like
  • Data Explorer Sync
  • Badges
    • Dashboard
    • LRMI
    • Blogpost about editing a Badge
    • Data Sync
  • Writing MOOC scenarios and partners
    • Science fiction
    • Short stories
    • Nanowrimo?
    • Existing Stack Exchange community: http://writers.stackexchange.com/?as=1
  • MOOC class photo
    • almost ready for testing
  • Translation
    • mobilize or organize the translating community
    • possible partners: anywhere that has regional branches
      • Global voices
      • CC regional affiliates
  • Python MOOC
    • we need to follow up with Steve and find out how it went/when the next run will be
• Problems (walls we ran into on the way)
  • Nervous about board meeting - why?
• Process (org stuff)
• Ideas (on the horizon)

Discussion

P2PU Staff Q&A - you turn to ask us any question about anything we do. 

Everyone: How are we liking HipChat?

• <3 I like that we are dishing
• I'll throw in a fractured thumb (it's halfway up)

Vanessa: What's the best yoga studio you've been to? 

• Moksha Yoga in Toronto: http://downtown.mokshayoga.ca/ (it's hot yoga and I did my first handstand there)

Bekka: What's the recipe for that amazing cake you posted on Instagram recently? 

• Any Nigel Slater cake recipie is going to be brilliant: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2003/sep/28/foodanddrink.shopping

Dirk: How is your wrist? 

• fractured

Erika: Can you say Ljulblijana? 

• The question is can you say it?

Everyone: There was some concern in Boston about too many standing meetings (that are unproductive). How is that going? 

• VMG: there are a lot of meetings still, but I'm learning to live with them
• Dirk: Most of the meetings are pretty good at the moment - but there are a lot. 
• Erika

Who always fills in the community pad template? Bekka

From VMG: 
@Erika: Do you have a revised approach to design now that you've been working on front-end stuff for a while? What is it?

• short answer: no :)
• Long answer: blah blah blah, some hippy sh*** , <3

@Dirk: Which technical skill should every P2PUer know/be able to do?

• github + HTML
• I'm teaching myself to do that as we speak! word!

@Bekka: We've talked about our theory of learning--what's your theory of community?

• leave them alone and hope they don't kill each other - keep bananas out of your hair

@Philipp: Which P2PU staffer is the most difficult? (Me! MEEEEEEEE!!!!)


From Erika:
@Dirk: How do you find your development process now that you moved (e.g. more difficult to focus, you could sit on a footstool and develop, is all the same to you,...)

• A bit more challenging, but ok in general. It depends more on the work that needs to be done. When I know what to do I don't struggle to focus

@Vanessa: How do you do the multitasking and jump from project to project in a span of minutes and manage to buy a dress or two (I have not been shopping for ages, so it is a serious question)

• ADD :)
• more chalenging to figure out role in different projects

@Bekka: How do you approach solving problems that are "scary" to you (e.g. editing reports directly on github, telling Philipp he is wrong,...)

• Tech stuff is not scary - and if it breaks EP will fix it :)
• Try to not be too emotianally attached to it

@Philipp: do you lose any sleep over P2PU (staff or otherwise) or you just belive that everything is going to be fine even when problems occur?
@Everyone: What is the most "heavy" problem that met you while working with P2PU (e.g. I find the lack of contact sometimes gets me in peril creative wise, which gets me stuck with the work I am doing)

• a 50kg bar bell
• 
  

From Dirk
@Erika: when do you normally focus best

• not in the morning, trying to avoid the night

@Vanessa: what part of what you do would you rather not do?

• Assesment paper

@Bekka: do you feel like the community calls informs you enough about whats happening in the tech? (EP)And how deep you want to be informed at all?

• Not from the community call, but from the tech call notes yes

@Philipp: do you prefer a maker schedule or a manager schedule?
@everyone: did we fall out of love with discourse?

• more on hipchat
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HAS COMMUNITY FALLEN OF THE BUS?