SKSI/MeetingNotes/2022-02-16 Meeting

Present

 * Varunesh, Will, Roland, and Dave
 * Apologies: Wayne

Agenda

 * review actions in last week's meeting notes.
 * discuss new tutorial videos since last meeting.
 * discuss the first demonstrator project.
 * graphic design for badges and certificate backgrounds (William)?
 * check on progress regarding identifying 2 local moderators/facilitators (William)...

Meeting notes

 * We had a quick tour of the new Lifelong Learning Lab facility, with all the hardware in situ (but needing Will to set it all up :) ) - ready for handover from UNESCO to MESC.
 * Will has been experimenting with graphics software to create badges. Looking for guidance on creative direction from the rest of the team. Dave offered to help with using Inkscape and Krita/GIMP as tools for those tasks (as a way of 'modelling' the use of FOSS tools for others in the education system rather than Adobe products).
 * Will will engage a MESC IT staffer who does graphic design to look into the Certificate background (with the logos included).
 * Roland queried which Certificate plugin the OERF uses on moodle.oeru.org - we use the Custom Certificate plugin. Roland identified the "Workplace Course Certificate" plugin as being the one anointed by the Moodle development community, and we (the OERF) should investigate it to see if it offers better functionality (e.g. QR codes for verifying certificates) than the plugin currently in use.
 * We went through the DS4OERS training 'demonstrator project' description.
 * Dave mentioned the issues in emailing MESC (and NUS) staff, due to the use of the [ http://www.uceprotect.net/rblcheck.php UCEProtect Real-time Blackhole List (RBL) service], which the staff at Digital Ocean have indicated is not a credible block list service (i.e. they are a scam service, engaging in a 'protection racket'). Roland also provided this reference regarding that service's credibility.
 * Dave showed the SKSI video tutorials added during the past week (6 of them) and shared a link on Rocket.Chat.
 * Varun says he, Roland, and Will and (perhaps others at MESC) will be setting up the Lifelong Learning Lab facility and computers.
 * Will asked that Dave provide recommendations for configuring the LLL servers and desktops/laptops. We discussed how to save costs on the server, by saving VMWare licenses for internal MESC systems and use, say, VirtualBox on the server to allow Windows Server 2019... Dave will provide a draft recommendation for workstation (laptop) and server configurations for discussion and iteration with the rest of the MiLLL project team (folks from UNESCO and MESC).

There is a recording of the meeting.