Tech call notes 14 November 2013

Progress

  • Homepage
  • Added a Lab Reports section
  • Made some minor style tweaks (e.g. margin on community section)
  • Added Mythical Erika’s face to the community section (home page is now complete) - haha!
  • Pull request has been sent.
  • We have successfully moved archive.p2pu.org to GitHub pages. Now this page is static, so it probably lost some of the features, like search and login
  • It comes up faster (GitHub “CDN” is better)
  • Blog post about Echonest grouping
  • PWYM email problem resolved
  • Almost done with group photos for PWYM
  • DLMOOC pilot debrief
  • Questions about grouping, but need to discuss how to group (and what we want to use to support groups)
  • How to organize (and support) chat back channel for live sessions
  • Recommendation: use unhangouts instead of candy
  • Migration to Hackpad - Turned off creation of new etherpads on http://pad.p2pu.org

Priorities

  • DLMOOC talk with HTH (Thu 4pm US Eastern)
  • Mech MOOC Strategy Call (Dirk will confirm date/time today)
  • What’s our long term strategy? Are we building a commodity platform for reasonably technical people - or - are we building an experimentation toolkit that we can deploy easily? What’s the size of the audience?
  • Noting revised strategic direction - P2PU as resource/knowledge hub - mech MOOC should add to that
  • What’s long term strategy? Are we building a commodity platform for reasonably technical people? Are we building an experimentation toolkit that we can deploy easily?
  • Push homepage changes to server
  • Backups for info.p2pu.org
  • Backups for thepeople.p2pu.org
  • Talk with CR about some tech status, process and strategy
  • Shut down dev linode, haven’t received any objections to this so far
  • PWYM group photo: get copy from vanessa and schedule when needed

Problems

Process

  • How do we manage support requests for MOOC users going forward? This is especially an issue for larger MOOCs.