Axim + Schema are wondering if any of our customers are using content libraries and would be interested in being featured in a conference talk?
We were wondering if you’re aware of any OpenCraft customers who might be interested in sharing their perspective on adopting the new content libraries experience as part of a conference talk?
Hi @team !
I wanted to provide a consolidated update of what I understand to be the current assignments based on the history here:
Modern XBlock Development - @ChrisChV
The Upgrade Dilemma: Lessons from Real-World Open edX Migrations - @tecoholic
Beyond Paragon - A discussion about the Design System for Open edX - @rpenido
eLearning without Internet - @paulo
Learning Beyond Courses (Learning Paths) - @Agrendalath
Building Sustainable Open edX Businesses: OpenCraft’s 10-Year Playbook - NEEDS ASSIGNMENT
Managing Open edX Deployments at Scale - @gabor
Community Retrospective: The Post-Acquisition Transition - @Fox
Design Tokens: Plugin Slots but for Your CSS - @kaustav
Open edX in Action: 20 Stories of Flexibility and Global Impact - @Ali
Open edX should capture the professional training market. Why hasn’t it, and how can we change that? - @jordan
The Open edX Project at 12+: Community Evolution and Lessons from the Trenches - @antoviaque
How can I use AI on my Open edX Instance today? - @pooja
Mastering Asynchronous Collaboration in Distributed Open edX Teams - @tikr
Open edX platform: Are we doing a11y right? - @farhaan
The Open edX Project at 12+: Technical Evolution and Architecture Lessons - @samuel
Themed XBlocks with Paragon 23 - @kshitij
What’s next for XBlocks? - @braden
Tanstack DB: Overcome limitations of React Query - @navin
Works on my machine: how to debug Open edX on k8s cluster during runtime - @maxim
The folks who are unassigned are: @mtyaka @gabriel @cassie
One of these (or someone via trade) will need to take the higher voted “Building Sustainable Open edX Businesses: OpenCraft’s 10-Year Playbook.” I’d suggest @gabriel due to his history with the backend of the business and tenure 
The other two will need to pick from the following, or trade:
Content Libraries Demo
Learning Paths: What Authors and Learners Can Look Forward To
Working with Product: How the Product Proposal Process Makes Engineering Better
Importance of non-linear learning
Please let me know if there are any assignments I flubbed, and please comment to make any adjustments/assignments as needed.
I will take Content Libraries Demo.
Thanks, @mtyaka !
Ok. @cassie isn’t here to make her assignment, so I’m going to assign her to “Learning Paths: What Authors and Learners Can Look Forward To”, as I believe she would be well-positioned to speak on it.
@cassie if you get back to your break and have an objection, let me know.
I haven’t heard an objection from @gabriel on the tentative assignment I suggested above, so I think that means everyone should be assigned now. I’ll move forward the tickets later today to give some room for any last-minute objections
@Fox sorry for the delay; I missed your ping. The assignment works for me!
Likewise with this, I don’t feel qualified to dig into it. 
I’m happy to take one of:
Happy to take this 
on as I proposed it:
@Fox Just to clarify: Should we not post a link to our proposal on this thread, and rather liaise with our reviewers on our tickets? Can we assign anyone (relevant) as first reviewer and then assign Xavier as second?
You can post it if you like! If anything it can bring more hype, which is always great marketing-wise
It’s not required to do so, though. Adding Xavier as a second reviewer also isn’t required-- but @antoviaque let me know if you feel differently, and if there’s any talks you especially WANT to be second-reviewer on, feel free to assign yourself either way.
@samuel The two talks you selected are voted lower than the one you were assigned. We want to present the ones that were higher voted if at all possible.
I might suggest, if you need some places to try researching for this, checking some of the early commit history, and the release notes for all the named versions, and seeing what changed between them. If you take a look at the dates on those release notes and also search around what technologies were popular, you might get an idea of the reasoning behind those decisions.
However, if you still feel unqualified to do this research and come up with a presentation on it, I’m not sure I’m going to find an alternate volunteer on this one (and we’re very late in the assignment game now.) A topic you can confidently submit may result in a better talk than one you can submit but which you aren’t confident in.
NOTE: You are only submitting the proposal at this time. The actual presentation will have 20 hours of prep budget. And it sounds like you won’t be doing the ultimate presentation, so someone will have to help you either way if your talk is accepted. It might even be me. Please factor this in when making your decision.
Got it, ok I can work on the proposal for that topic.
Btw this thread got confusing fast; maybe next time a spreadsheet might make it easier to track. ;)
For anyone who is interested, I have submitted my talk proposal, titled “Community Retrospective: The Post-Acquisition Transition.”
Five years ago, 2U acquired edX and Axim was born. Looking back, what can we learn from the transition?
My proposal on The Upgrade Dilemma: Lessons from Real-World Open edX Migrations is ready. As there are a couple of days to go before the 15th Deadline, I thought I might share it here for some extra feedback.
Ticket: Log in - OpenCraft
I slightly renamed my proposal to “Themable XBlocks with Runtime Theming” since runtime theming was the more essential enabler and not Paragon. I’ve now submitted it as a lightning talk.
Hi all! I’ve given preliminary feedback to all talks submitted prior to January 15th.
By far my most common piece of feedback was this: “Please always use “Open edX” as an adjective (here and throughout your proposal/talk), eg, “the Open edX platform”, “the Open edX community”, etc.” Just flagging for those of you who missed the deadline.
@sarina Thanks for the feedback!
Hi @team !
I realize the current process/tickets don’t include in their scope the time needed to address notes from upstream. A few of you have reached out to me about notes you’ve gotten. If they’re uncomplicated and you can do them in under 15 minutes, please just log it to the existing ticket for the proposal submission you had before. If it’s more than that, ping me if you haven’t already so I can make a judgement call/create a follow up ticket if needed.
I’ll try to answer the more specific pings tomorrow if I don’t get to them today. Today turned out to be surprisingly full on my end.
I’ll make a note to update/correct this oversight in the process in this ticket.
Hi @team !
Axim has sent out emails to community members requesting assistance on evaluating talk submissions. If you have received one of these emails and would like to participate, please ping me on this ticket so that I can schedule a ticket for you to do so.
I’ve done it before, and I’m happy to do it again! I’ll ping you on the ticket.
Some of you might be wondering when we’ll be booking flights. TL;DR: we should schedule flight reservation tickets now for people whose destinations and dates are already known, to save on fares.
We’re waiting on the results of our talk submissions before booking flights so we know whether to fly people to the conference or directly to Vietnam (right, @Fox?). The talk submission deadline is March 6 (this Friday), and according to Axim we’ll receive acceptances or refusals starting April 1. That creates a problem: we can only book flights about seven weeks before the conference, which is outside the ideal 2–6 month window for cheaper fares.
This is a consequence of OpenCraft’s decision to only send people whose talks are accepted to the conference, rather than flying the whole team as we have in previous years. There doesn’t seem to be much we can do, so flights will likely be more expensive than they could have been.
That said, I think we should schedule tickets now for people whose destinations and dates are already known, since fares are likely cheaper now.
Thanks to @samuel for bringing up the issue!