2024 Open edX Conference: Talk Topics Brainstorm

  1. A presentation about bringing type safety to the Open edX platform
    • why typing is helpful
    • how type checking works in edx-platform today (backend)
    • how to add more type hints and type checking
    • how to use type hints in your IDE
    • how to add type information/checking to frontend code (like we’ve been doing in Course Authoring MFE)
    • how to use those type hints in your IDE
    • how to add and enforce an OpenAPI spec for REST APIs
  2. Join in any talk about Modular Learning, Tagging/Taxonomies, Copy/Paste, Content Libraries, etc.
  3. Lightning talk: React Query - why you’ll love it and how to use it
  4. a talk about how we can make XBlocks more mobile-friendly and MFE-friendly and/or Building XBlocks with React. (possibly focusing on neXBlocks proposal)
  5. (Not me but I would love to hear:) a talk about how the move to Kubernetes has substantially cut our number of fires and improved uptime. Probably a lightning talk.
  6. (Not me but I would love to hear:) a talk about our new k8s-based sandbox system

That sounds like something that Dave and/or Kyle from Axim would be likely to speak about :)

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