The board discussed this a couple of weeks ago and agree generally with a path that would engage Entwine to get the QA work rolling quickly and to engage the community to bring resources to the table to build an extended team. This issue will be a big agenda topic for our conference in late January (Location and final dates to be disclosed soon…).
Mara ================================== Mara Hancock Director of Educational Technologies University of California, Berkeley Director of Online Learning, UC Online Pilot Project Mobile: 510-407-0543 Skype: mara_hancock On Nov 8, 2011, at 11:09 PM, Nils Birnbaum wrote: > Hi All, > >> Entwine doesn't wan to own the QA process, but we are certainly willing to >> lead the way to getting to a stage where there is a dfined process in >> place that has been proven to work. > > Sounds good to me. As always when we talk about to A the Q of Matterhorn, > I'm on board. I hadn't dare myselfe to get this weel rolling but I would > like to help pushing it. Sould we found a workgroup? > >> Total agreement here as well. We are not looking to own anything here >> (especially given that QA is something that usually nobody wants to be >> owning). It just seems that at the current state, the project needs more >> defintion around QA, while there is hesitation to invest into it. People >> still prefer to invest into "features", mostly because this is much easier >> to sell to your donors (and more fun). > > Totaly agree too. Most institutions regonize in the long run that > stabilty, robustness and reliability are more important to deliver a > stable service for the students. > > Regrads from Wolfsburg > Nils > > _______________________________________________ > Community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > To unsubscribe please email > [email protected] > _______________________________________________
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