KDEEdu/Artikulate/Meetings

Meeting Minutes

Monday, 2013 Juni 17th, 6 pm UTC

Proposed Agenda

1. review tasks from last week/reports
2. progress in skeleton work
3. discuss structure for contributor documentation
4. Akademy contributor recruiting
5. Trainer UI mockups
6. tasks until next meeting
7. miscellaneous

Monday, 2013 June 10rd, 6:00 pm UTC

Agenda

1. review tasks from last week/reports
2. progress in skeleton work
3. discuss structure for contributor documentation
4. plans for Akademy contributor recruiting
5. tasks until next meeting
6. miscellaneous

Notes

Attendants: Andreas, Magdalena, Myriam, Oindrila

1. Reports
   • Magda:
     • added blog to planetKDE
     • created developer account
     • added 4 new units: Weather, Sport, Family, and Countries and cultures
     • added recordings for British English
     • drafted plan for contributor handbook
   • Oindrila
     • working on Hindi phonology
     • added blog to planetKDE
   • Course overview has new column
   • work at course editor
2. Course Skeleton Progress
   • progress is good!
   • Newly finished: Weather, Sport, Family, and Countries
   • we update the course planning page with unit descriptions
3. Contributor Documentation
   • Magda presents concept (now at wiki)
   • contributor documentation will be at techbase
   • we will start creating stub pages for the main topics
   • major part must be finished until Akademy
4. Akademy Event
   • Oindrila will ask Jeff about lightning talks for GSoC students
   • we will organize a BoF to talk about how to contribute courses
   • course editor, basic course skeleton and contributor documentation must be finished (and tested) for this
5. ToDos
   • all: add unit descriptions to planning page
   • Oindrila: add Akademy event concept to wiki
   • Magda: create pages for contributor documenation
   • Andreas: create mockup for new traning screen
6. Misc
   • nothing

Monday, 2013 June 3rd, 6:00 pm UTC

Agenda

1. discuss proposed unit list
2. project responsibilities for OPW/GSoC 2013
3. milestones for OPW/GSoC 2013
4. promotion (subscribe to planet.kde.org, etc.)
5. workflows/technical stuff:
   • usage of reviewboard
   • creating developer accounts
6. tasks until next meeting

Notes

Attendants: Andreas, Magdalena, Myriam, Oindrila

1. Units
   • overall look OK
   • "Emergency" unit will cover natural calamity, theft, accident (but not medical)
   • "Proverbs" will not be included in basic course skeleton, but moved to list of "interesting topics" (reason: proverbs differ too much even for simliar languages)
   • Oindrila will add column "Descriptions" to course list and we all will add some details what the units will be about
2. Coordination Responsibilities
   • Learner UI & Feedback mechanisms: Oindrila
   • Course Distribution & Course Integrity Checks: Magdalena
   • Languages:
     • Bengali (Oindrila)
     • Hindi (Oindrila)
     • French (Magdalena)
     • Polish (Magdalena)
     • American English (Andreas)
   • Documentation
     • Contributor Part: Magdalena
     • End User/Learner: Oindrila
3. Milestones
   • look OK
   • will discuss again next week and check if time points seem reasonable
4. Organization
   • Oindrila and Magdalena will register blogs at planet.kde.org
   • Magdalena will request KDE contributor account