Hackfest UK 2014

Developer meetings > UK Hackfest April 2014

When	Thursday 17 April, 2014
Where	Moodlemoot Edinburgh, UK
Hashtag	#mootuk14

What happened?

A Hackfest brings together Moodle developers to brainstorm future Moodle developments.

This hackfest had a group of around 40 developers. We met in Edinburgh on 17th April 2014 to discuss a range of topics (decided by the participants in unconference fashion), with the aim to distil knowledge into some blueprints for specifications of future Moodle features.

Specifications

Specifications from subsequent work will be linked from here.

Element Library

• Specification
• Notes taken during Hackfest
• Links
  • Tracker issue
  • Example
  • Forum discussion

Analytics

• Specification
• Notes taken during Hackfest

LTI Usability Improvements

• Specification
• Notes taken during Hackfest (Is this the start of a spec?)

Lesson activity module reboot

• Specification
• Notes taken during Hackfest

Email Logging and Reporting

• Specification
• Notes taken during Hackfest (Is this the start of a spec?)

Bootstrap3

• Specification
• Notes taken during Hackfest (Is this the start of a spec?)

HTML5 Player

• Specification
• Notes taken during Hackfest

Drag and Drop activities

• Specification
• Notes taken during Hackfest

Add-ons Trust Model

• Specification (This was more of an advisory brainstorm, perhaps a spec is not necessary.)
• Notes taken during Hackfest

Tools

During the Hackfest, there was a session where developers named tools they were using. If you haven't heard of the tools below, you might want to check them out.

• PHP Xref
• Xdebug + IDE
• XHprof
• Code checker plugin
• PHPUnit
• MDK
• Moosh
• Grunt
• Git

Other suggested topics

These are topics that were suggested, but were not chosen for sessions (unconference style), but may be worth future consideration.

• MUC best practice discussion
• Converter for Word docs to pages (possibly with drag-and-drop)
• Student > Group > Course > Qualification > Body hierarchy
• Internal verification and validation
• Course reset for blocks and local plugins
• RTL CSS as a separate file
• Global change data recorded on database tables
• In course search
• Resource tagging / Index
• Sharepoint integration repository
• Scheduled fileless backups
• How the OU does "View as student"
• Better way to hide activities, but have them available
• All communication via messaging sends multi-part emails
• "Safe" group membership upload/import
• Facebook style "Like" button or + and - buttons for ratings (MDL-45394)
• Blind marking issues for administrative users