2026 Open edX Conference Talk Topics Brainstorm

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@pooja Not to steal your talk suggestion, but I think I’d rather do non-linear. I don’t have the experience in the community IMO to properly write that one. @Fox I’m okay to do non-linear, but if Pooja wants it I can do something else as it was her idea :smiley:

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Same for me, I definitely don’t feel qualified to look at this one. I’m happy to pick up any that don’t delve into history that I wasn’t around for. ;)

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Or, as the bizdev guy, @jordan if you’d like to select my talk proposal titled “Open edX Should Capture the Professional Training Market: Why Hasn’t It, and How Can We Change That?” I think that would be great. My perspective for this prospective talk is business-oriented. My assumption is that the professional training/HR market hasn’t adopted Open edX because the platform doesn’t cater to their specific needs. Alternatively, it could be that we haven’t yet found an effective way to engage and attract this market. What business-specific requirements do they have that the platform currently doesn’t address?

Additionally, I can’t attend the conference in any case, so feel free to take the proposal. I’m happy to help and review it as needed.

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This was one I submitted, and since I worked on the case studies, I think it would make sense for me to propose it. Is that ok with you, @cassie?

Open edX platform: Are we doing a11y right? - @Ali

I only know the very basics of a11y and don’t feel experienced enough to propose this. @farhaan since you proposed this initially, would you like to take it on?

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I can take this one. :backhand_index_pointing_up:

Also, I just want to remind that I (and most of us with no visa from India) won’t be able to attend the conference due to visa appointment unavailability (more than 5-6 months of wait time).

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This is a big problem.

Sure, I can take this one, but the talk I have is

I think this one can be a crowd puller @pooja do you want to do AI talk part 2? :stuck_out_tongue:

Then @Ali will have to do

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@gabriel That’s great, I was interested in writing about that originally. I’ll take: “Open edX should capture the professional training market. Why hasn’t it, and how can we change that?”

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Thanks @Fox!

I’m good with my assignment :+1: (Wasn’t sure if we were supposed to confirm explicitly but anyway :stuck_out_tongue:)

A number of people (myself included) will be away over the course of next sprint, so I’m assuming that submitting in the sprint after next (= Sprint 368) will be fine, too?

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Whoops!

It’s actually not next sprint. It’s the sprint starting on the 6th of January. I’ll update the original post.

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@Fox, I’ll be off for the next three sprints, so I believe I’d better get started working on it. Can you get me a ticket?

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Your ticket for submission is here. Go for it!

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Oh I would love to do this one!

@Ali or @cassie Would either of you want to take this?

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I’ll pick this one.

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@farhaan @pooja Thanks for being flexible :slight_smile:.

This is a talk that @antoviaque suggested, and the description mentions that it’s told “through the eyes of one of its first contributors.” @antoviaque Would you prefer to submit this talk, or the one you’ve been assigned: Building Sustainable Open edX Businesses: OpenCraft’s 10-Year Playbook?

Cassie is currently on holiday. When she’s back, the two of us can divvy up:

  • (depending on @antoviaque’s answer) The Open edX Project at 12+: Community Evolution and Lessons from the Trenches
  • Open edX in Action: 20 Stories of Flexibility and Global Impact
  • Learning Paths: What Authors and Learners Can Look Forward To (although this one sounds very similar to @Agrendalath’s talk: Learning Beyond Courses (Learning Paths). What do you think @Agrendalath?)
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These are both titles of @cassie’s talks (ref). I proposed a similar talk, but from a technical perspective rather than a product perspective. Both points of view may be interesting for this topic, but we should separate them, as the target audience will be slightly different.

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Thanks for clearing that up. :slight_smile:

Sounds like a good plan.

@antoviaque I imagine Cassie would prefer to do a Learning Paths talk over the The Open edX Project at 12+ one since that’s what she proposed, but I could be wrong!

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@antoviaque In previous years the review process for talk proposals has been slightly ambiguous. I think much of the time they were posted right in thread and then you reviewed them. I think it would be good to nail down a preferred method since we already have one team member that has drafted their proposal (@paulo ). I’ve asked him to post the result here when he gets a bit to follow previous years’ behavior.

I’m thinking we should just do this like a normal ticket, though-- have people draft their ideas, have someone review them (I’d need to go through and shuffle in reviewer assignments) and then, once approved, have them submit.

Alternatively, we could select some handful of reviewers (perhaps yourself and/or team members who specialize in writing, which we have a few) and spread them among those reviews for more critical feedback, since these are somewhat close to sales copy, I’d think.

Which one would you prefer, or perhaps something else?

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Here’s my eLearning without internet proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ntjk6zb_n2vRhSVFOG69saGlbjlC5kDqCy238PWLIfk/edit?tab=t.0

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@Ali @pooja I’m fine with submitting either; it’s true that for “The Open edX Project at 12+” I can bring having been there at the very beginning, which is useful to tell the project’s history. The one about building a sustainable Open edX business could probably be told by others here.

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@Fox That works for me :+1: Even in past years we still had a normal ticket & reviewer, I was just a second reviewer.

Also early submissions get early feedback, which is another pass of review.

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