SKSI/MeetingNotes/2022-02-09 Meeting

Present

 * Wayne, Varun and Roland, Will, Dave

Agenda

 * Discuss potential tutorial topics

Meeting notes
Roland offered apologies for lack of contact with Will and Nehru at MESC regarding the "demo projects".

Wayne reviewed the two demonstrator project ideas, and followed up on the idea of MiLLL or SKSI-specific badges for a lock instance on the  DS4OERS course for Samoa (DS4OERS = digital skills for Open Educational Resources) for developing Samoan-specific OER courses (to be run on MiLL's own course infrastructure), asking if Will can follow up on engaging the MESC graphic design team to create digital badges for the MiLLL programme, as well as a background for the completion certificate.

Wayne asked whether end of March would be a good time to offer the DS4OERS course and he's keen to have MESC nominate one or more Samoa-based educators to help him running the course as facilitators so they can see how the 'back end' works... Will said things are up-in-the-air due to the Covid restrictions, so hard to say.

Will has 2 people in mind to act as facilitators - Timothy and Will himself. Will also needs to canvas the team of trainers at MESC who might be more appropriate.

Will has been studying graphic design software, and might be able to do the badge development. Roland suggested that Canva (free of cost but not open source) can be used to create badges quickly in-browser.

We discussed the branding of the badges, and which organisations' logos should appear. Wayne suggested that on the badges, just the MESC logo should appear due to the size constraints (400px square), but MESC, SKSI, and MiLLL logos could appear on the certificate which is less space-constrained.

Will noted Nehru is running Moodle training (for educators) right now at schools... (for this whole week).

Wayne reviewed the responses to the survey (update with Survey link!) which are very limited (presumably due to the Covid distractions).

Will talked about the desire to shift schools using the current "Moodle Cloud" instances of Moodle to the MiLLL Moodle instance. We agreed that we'll look at consolidating the various independent MoodleCloud instances into the single Moodle.

Dave encouraged Will (who now has admin access on bbb.milll.ws, which we used for the meeting today) to 'invite' other MESC staff and educators to have accounts on the MiLLL BBB instance. Roland and Varun both have admin access on bbb.milll.ws as well.

Dave and Will discussed setting up a team of MESC colleagues to do a tutorial on 'creating remote (or local) Docker server backups (including MySQL/MariaDB)' onshore in Samoa (on MESC infrastructure). It would required some preparation (e.g. Dave having SSH access to a Linux server based on MESC's onshore hardware) requiring MESC's help.

Wayne suggested that the first tutorial should be 'creating a new generic Docker-Compose server based on a Digital Ocean snapshot suitable for installing most of the OERF's FOSS services', so Dave will work to prepare a tutorial on that.

Varun and Roland asked Will about how to achieve the handover (from UNESCO -> MESC for the MiLLL facility) of the hardware that's been delivered to UNESCO to MESC so they can put it into the MiLLL facility.

Will recommended they email the CE and deputy CE about the handover, and use the [OERu Rocket.Chat https://chat.oeru.org] to communicate more quickly than waiting for people to check their emails.

Meeting recording