MoodleNet-meetings

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This page is a record of meetings about MoodleNet, in the spirit of working openly.

Helen is Moodle Community Manager. She and Doug Belshaw (MoodleNet Lead) discussed:

Moving MoodleNet project documentation from user docs area to dev docs.
People like group icons and badges, which are awarded by helping (some automated, some manual)

Helen kindly put together a list of things that work well:

Educators and developers mixing in the forums
Groups with group icons in the forums - Particularly helpful Moodlers, Core developers, Plugin developers, Testers etc.
Useful ratings - used to calculate PHM group membership
Badges
Moodle jobs database
Answering questions by posting links to the documentation
Moodle translation site
A clear policy on what is and isn’t allowed with regard to advertising in the forums plus making the effort to enforce the policy
Giving trusted people moderator and editing rights
Communities for different languages
Forums for different areas of Moodle e.g. themes - though not all areas of Moodle need a separate forum

...and things that are sources of frustration / not working:

People don’t have any idea about the tracker and find it bewildering to use
Having a different Moodle Docs wiki for each version of Moodle - causes problems when people do a Google search
Moodle Buzz - used to work a long time ago but nowadays nobody adds anything
Moodle.net sharing courses and content
Less active communities on moodle.org attract spammers
Newcomers confuse moodle.org with their own Moodle site
People think they need to register their site for others to access
Crowdfunding database - set up but never really used
Front page of moodle.org!
Moodle.org site policy - nobody notices the link in the footer of each page and you’re not required to agree to it when you sign up for an account
Tags on moodle.org
Confusion with moodle.org and moodle.com

Juan is Mobile Lead at Moodle. He and Doug Belshaw (MoodleNet Lead) discussed:

Whether we need a new app specifically for MoodleNet (undecided)
UX around searching for Moodle installation - vs. typing in URL of organisation's instance
Blocks within the mobile app and example of course completion being available via 'course option' in app
Ways authentication / login currently works (OAuth / tokens) and whether it would be possible to login to a self-hosted Moodle site with a MoodleNet account
The appear of Stack Overflow and the importance of building / maintaining reputation within a community
Well-formed questions, moderation, and serving up answers to common questions within Moodle installations
Improving search (which is poor at moodle.org)
Creating progressive web apps vs native apps for MoodleNet functionality - e.g. integration with Siri / Google Now / Alexa
Pursuing small experiments (e.g. 'MoodleNet Help' app)