Contributor's Meetup 2021-11-30

[nizarmah]

Date, time, and location

Tuesday November 30th at 15:00 UTC (Timezone converter)

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• gcal

Agenda

Anyone can add additional agenda items by replying in the comments below, or on the discourse forum thread.

1. Intro

• Meet & greet newcomers if any
• Recap of the items in this agenda: anything to add or remove?
• Recap the results of the whenisgood poll.

2. Working group updates

• Marketing (@nedbat)
• Release (@BbrSofiane, @nedbat, @regisb)
• Frontend (@davidjoy)
• Core Contributors (@sarina)
• Data (@blarghmatey, @e0d)

3. Events

• Open edX Virtual Event in December

4. New or ongoing projects

Higher Priority

• Core contributors sprints (@antoviaque)
• Upgrades
  • Node.js 16
• Django Backend APIs: Django Signal Events, Django Filters (@felipemontoya)
• xAPI/Caliper, OEP-26 (@ziafazal)
• MySQL instead of MongoDB
• DEPR impediments - any tickets that need real-time discussion?
  • Entrance Exam - how can we remove this unsupported feature from the core?
  • Replace the Ecommerce Application - start the discussion
• [Tech Radar] We're live! Announcement: https://discuss.openedx.org/t/the-open-edx-tech-radar-is-live/6042
• MFE theming (@xitij2000)

Lower Priority

• Dev Onboarding Courses (@OmarIthawi)
• Contribution Course (@antoviaque)
• Contributor t-shirt (@gabrieldamours)
• Leaderboard (@e0d, @pomegranited)

5. Time permitting

• Review the board

Forum thread

https://discuss.openedx.org/t/open-edx-contributors-meetup/1450

To join

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Video recording & chat log

• Video
• Chat
• Text Overview

[ormsbee]

I think that we should remove "MySQL instead of MongoDB" as a recurring item. I'll post all updates in the discussion thread.