Hackathon Five: Prep for the Gov!

The Hacks

• This will be a great run for the big hackathon that we are working on for next November time frame!

Why this would be useful

• Learn about parts of the codebase that we rarely touch
• Work with people we don't get to normally
• Want to get something done outside of the sprint
• Brainstorming and prototyping new features

The Schedule

1. Oct 10, 2013: hack
2. Oct 11, 2013: demo (3:30-5pm) (Google Hangout)

The Proposed Hacks

Advocate	Description	Interested Parties
Will	pip wheel: let's speed up virtualenv creation and stop the scipy recompilation madness!	DB
Sarina	Peer Grading data - go through and analyze a bunch of data on peer grading pulled from the Spring 2013 run of 6.00x
DHM	Restful CRUD for courses, xblocks, and definitions
DHM	Enable use by configuration of pymongo v Google DataStore
DHM	Prototype governance by domain for org, dept, course ids
Dave O	Alternative student courseware state storage, configurable on a per-course basis
Feanil	Break apart configuration cloudformation template by service and combine them programmatically
Marco	Google Hangout prototype feedback and discussion sessions, to be scheduled during hackathon twice for each of the following topics - discussion forums, lms redesign (content/navigation), visual analytics for instructors, learner profiles, SPOC experience, synchronous online group activities, (list can be adjusted)
Will	In-memory ModuleStore ==> fast tests