Notes from Community Call - 25th August 2011

[Rebecca Kahn]

What a meeting! We had fires, we had hurricanes, we had tears and laughter and tears of laughter. And we finished in record time. Thanks to everyone who joined us. These notes, and those from previous meetings can be found on the pad: http://pad.p2pu.org/community

Agenda

• Standups
• Lots of development work (too much)
• patting ourselves on the shoulder (school of ed, webcraft progress)
• vocabulary - information hierarchy (schools specifically) [John]

Attendees

• Jessica on travel & pad only
• Bekka
• Alison
• Philipp
• John
• Gunner
• Erin
• Jamie

Standups:

• Assessment & Badges [Erin]
• Aligning webcraft challenges with badges functionality
• Chloe coming onboard next week - working on defining a model for challenges and aligning that with the badges
• Metrics [Jessica]

• https://github.com/p2pu/lernanta/wiki/Course-Metrics-Roadmap

• Lots of commits. More testing. Hope to have on a dev web server so that Karen and others can test

• User Support [John/Alison]

• http://help.p2pu.org

• Added live chat (John, Ali, Bekka)

• working on single sign on

• Webcraft [John]

• http://blogs.p2pu.org/blog/2011/08/19/state-of-webcraft-webmaking-101/

• post by Jamie coming today<<on that now

• good feedback from mozilla call

• UX - starting with sitewide review, group page next

• Tech [Zuzel]

• Arranging call about Sow and Badges objectives next Tuesday

• Call yesterday about UCI pilot (new courses on School of Ed and integration with external website)

• Doing last spring on this milestone features

• Set up two demos on alpha for Jessica and Arlton (alpha.p2pu.org:8091 and alpha.p2pu.org:8092)

Notes

• Lots of development work (too much)

• Can we find more volunteer developers? Should we try? Or makes more work than is useful? 

• Yes, it would be easier for Zuzel to set up working systems with developers who can be responsible for distinct projects.

• Reach out to Mozilla/webcraft community?

• Budget to hire more full time developers?

• not unrestricted funds - could push a little more on webcraft specific things, or assessment related things

• or could raise funds from shuttleworth for a full-time developer short-term (but takes a few weeks to get the money)

• Some of the projects are paying for their development work out of their budgets, and everything is "paid for" at the moment

• But we don't have an unlimited amount of money for all the devleopment work that needs to be done

• Possibility: to motivate for a short-term developer fellowship from  Shuttleworth foundation

• Next Steps: 

• Philipp to follow up with Zuzel for overall dev support

• Philipp to follow up with John/Jamie on short-term webcraft need

• John to reach out to volunteer developers

• http://help.p2pu.org

• Email to go to community list once there is more content there - but feel free to look at the link

• Please include some info on how this relates to all the other support options we've had in the past (bascially short version of your answer to zuzel)

• Looks great!!!

• What are we shutting down/ replacing?

• Definitely remove "contact alison" - make support a public / group effort

• help desk group will go

• Handbook content will move across

• Uservoice page - this wasn't used for site feedback, but we can export the data and close that down too. 

• i like the uservoice link - would prefer to keep (it's easier to leave feedback that way, than to move to help.p2pu.org). maybe refocus on "real feedback" rather than "suggest a course"

• Is there an ask to the community to contribute content?

• Not right now. Ali and John moving content. 

• But people can ask and answer publicly and turn that info into knowledge base. 

• John will add a call to action

• UX / Navigation - vocabulary - information hierarchy (schools specifically)

• Site navigation is a bit confusing at the moment (Learn, Blog, Help) are all top-level items but some of those links take users away from the site and it's hard to get back

• UX opinion is that Schools doesn't belong in the main section on the site - how do we manage this / argue the point / get buy in from the community on this?

• talk to people that are most affected 

• people who are running schools

• somtimes experts lack foresight of the future of the project

• Proposal: 

• to remove the schools dropdown, and replace it with actions (Learn/create whatever gets decided)

• Schools get moved down to the footer for navigation

• But are prominently featured on the p2pu home page & the "learn" page

• Visual representations of this will make it easier to get buy-in and communicate the proposals to the community and schools. 

• demo of the navigation design -- http://alpha.p2pu.org:8091/en/