Yep, that’s a good idea
Closely related topics that jumped out at me when looking at previous posts again:
@maxim @braden @tecoholic Feel free to include course cloning in your proposals if you think it would be a good fit.
@tikr Btw, for you in particular, it would be really interesting to get your experience as driving the OSPR process, along with Michelle (maybe a shared talk?). Some stats, details about what has been changed/improved, what challenges remain, where people in the community can help… It would be a good one to have strongly opiniated, especially about being blunt and direct about what needs to improve. I’m happy to contribute to that talk too, or review it.
I had briefly thought about this topic too, but more from the perspective of presenting it as a finished product. Which made me discard the idea because I don’t expect we’ll be able to address all the remaining challenges in time for the 2024 conference
The angle that you’re suggesting is interesting though, and definitely makes the topic a better fit for a talk that would be presented 6 months from now.
And to making it a shared talk with Michelle. While our experiences are similar in a lot of ways, her perspective on the process is unique in that she’s handling OSPRs for edx-platform, where there is no 1:1 mapping between repos and maintainers/code owners. (So the process for finding reviewers is different and often more challenging than for repos that are fully owned by a single team.)
I’ll reach out to Michelle to see what she thinks, and if she’d be on board with doing a shared talk.
Lastly, depending on when I’ll be coming to South Africa I might not be able to co-present the talk, so I’ll need to talk to Michelle about that too.