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The meeting was at 11pm GMT, Thursday 28 February 2008. | The meeting was at 11pm GMT, Thursday 28 February 2008. We had 42 participants and we covered everything in around two hours. | ||
''Meeting notes coming soon!'' | ''Meeting notes coming soon!'' | ||
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* HotPot module (Gordon) | * HotPot module (Gordon) | ||
* Performance tips | * Performance tips | ||
===Hotpot module (Gordon Bateson)=== | |||
* Working hard on new version of [[Hotpot module]] (original version written for Moodle 1.4 when there were no objects in the Moodle code) to make use of new objects - forms, tables - and to be compatible with new [[Grades|grades]] features | |||
* New Hotpot module enables people to administer quizzes made with any external quiz editor - Hot Potatoes, TextToys, Qedoc, ExamView quizzes etc. Teachers can create quizzes using the quiz software then play them in Moodle using the HotPot module. | |||
* Hotpot module new features: single Hotpot activity will encompass a collection of quizzes, caching, pre and post conditions on quiz results similar to lesson module, lots of other little things e.g. media players in quizzes | |||
* The new Hotpot module doesn't use Moodle questions currently, though this is a possibility for the future | |||
* The new Hotpot module will have an open source core (available through Moodle) and a closed source commercial side called Hotpot Pro to include various add-ons. Hotpot Pro will provide funding for continuing Hotpot module development | |||
==Other stuff== | ==Other stuff== | ||
Revision as of 14:13, 29 February 2008
Developer meetings > February 2008 meeting
The meeting was at 11pm GMT, Thursday 28 February 2008. We had 42 participants and we covered everything in around two hours.
Meeting notes coming soon!
Moodle 1.9
- Round up of major API changes - Grades, Events, Groups, Tags, Roles
- Journal (see Death to Journal - maybe forum discussion)
Moodle 2.0
- Repository API (Martin)
- Portfolio API (Martin)
- Conditional activities
- nWiki for Moodle 2.0
- Feedback module
- Turnitin Integration (Dan Marsden)
- HotPot module (Gordon)
- Performance tips
Hotpot module (Gordon Bateson)
- Working hard on new version of Hotpot module (original version written for Moodle 1.4 when there were no objects in the Moodle code) to make use of new objects - forms, tables - and to be compatible with new grades features
- New Hotpot module enables people to administer quizzes made with any external quiz editor - Hot Potatoes, TextToys, Qedoc, ExamView quizzes etc. Teachers can create quizzes using the quiz software then play them in Moodle using the HotPot module.
- Hotpot module new features: single Hotpot activity will encompass a collection of quizzes, caching, pre and post conditions on quiz results similar to lesson module, lots of other little things e.g. media players in quizzes
- The new Hotpot module doesn't use Moodle questions currently, though this is a possibility for the future
- The new Hotpot module will have an open source core (available through Moodle) and a closed source commercial side called Hotpot Pro to include various add-ons. Hotpot Pro will provide funding for continuing Hotpot module development
Other stuff
- Bugathon including an announcement of prize winners!
- How to write a good bug report The Tracker page on the docs.moodle.org has been updated (https://docs.moodle.org/en/Tracker), let's try to write good bug reports that would eventually save Martin (and other developers) a lot of time (to read and understand the bug reports...etc.)
- Introducing Contrib Coordinator
- Testing Moodle - do we need a more coordinated approach with people responsible for modules (see more comments on this page by Gary)
- Unmaintained modules - we could really use maintainers for them
- Other infrastructure, communication, and workflow related issues?
Google Highly Open Participation contest report (Helen)
- GHOP contest was a great success!
- Contest gave students aged 13-18 the chance to learn more about and contribute to many aspects of open source software development
- Quote from a contest participant: "I always thought you had to know PHP to be able to contribute to Moodle development. Now I know that it's not true - there are many other ways of contributing."
- Around 100 tasks were completed by 50 students
- Wide variety of tasks including lots of video tutorials explaining 1.9 features, a new language pack (Latin), selenium scripts, XMLDB developer documentation and database presets - see GHOP/2008 for the full list
- A big THANK YOU to everyone who helped reviewing tasks and suggesting new ones
- Hopefully Moodle will be involved in the GHOP contest next year, assuming Google decide to run it again
Google Summer of Code (Helen)
- Moodle involved in GSOC for 2 years now, since 2006
- The GSOC program pays university students to work on open source software products for about three months (over the northern hemisphere summer), mentored by existing developers
- Previous projects include social networking features (resulting in tags in 1.9) and user management improvements (resulting in bulk user actions in 1.9) - see GSOC for the full list
- We're going to apply to be included in GSOC 2008 next week. Assuming we're accepted, we need to come up with a list of suggested student projects ASAP, together with developers willing mentor them. Students will then browse the list of projects, discuss them in the student projects forum and apply by 31st March 2008/
- Anyone willing to mentor a project, please let me know. Mentor commitment: up to 5 hours per student per week.
- Even if you’re not able to mentor a project, you can still help and support GSOC students by answering their questions in the forums, giving feedback etc.
