KDEEdu/Artikulate/Meetings

Meeting Minutes

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