Hi Shauna, This is a fabulous initiative, and thank you for welcoming the community to help shape it. I'll be reviewing the google doc shortly to provide my feedback.
One suggestion that I have after hearing Jono Bacon's keynote at the Open edX conference <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCVPiqoDrls> is to make the onboarding process as smooth as possible, which means avoiding "insider lingo" that might alienate people who are not familiar with what we call things in the Open edX community. I'm going to ask the question that I already know the answer to, but one that might be lingering in the minds of others browsing on this list. ;) What are OSPRs and OEPs? If I'm a new would-be contributor, I shouldn't have to guess what these acronyms mean. I see that they're defined in your Google Doc, but the would-be contributor might be intimidated to click on that doc link in the first place if they're already getting lost in the alphabet soup. Just some friendly constructive criticism :) On Monday, October 3, 2016 at 11:06:47 AM UTC-7, Shauna Gordon-McKeon wrote: > > Hello Open edX community, > > Over the last couple of years, we’ve worked hard to make the OSPR process > efficient and easy to use. We’re always trying to improve, especially > around transparency and response times, but the process exists and it works > pretty well, we think. > > What you do when your contribution is bigger/more complicated than a > single OSPR is much less clear. We want to create a framework that helps > people make large contributions to Open edX and addresses questions like: > > > - > > Who inside edX do we need to talk to, and when? > - > > How do we move from “vague idea” to “clear design” to “implementation”? > - > > What are OEPs and when should we create them? > > > I’ve spent the last couple of weeks creating a first draft of this > framework, and I’d love to get your feedback. You can find the working > document here: > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B3zTtL4g1F9a98DGCAIoRHZc50K26sroLgjPf7lRICo > > You can leave comments on the doc if you’re so moved. I encourage you to > give broad/high-level feedback, especially feedback that might provoke a > significant discussion, on this email thread rather than in the comments. > > > Looking forward to hearing from you all, > Shauna > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/3383a5be-764a-47e7-b070-e484febc37c0%40googlegroups.com.
