SKSI/MeetingNotes/2021-11-03 Meeting

Present: Varunesh, Roland, William, Wayne, Dave, Nehru

Meeting notes
William informed us Nehru is unlikely to participate in these meetings until January due to exam-related commitments.

Wayne discussed plan to promote and conduct surveys. He suggests the technical one should be run first. And proposed running a 'webinar' for both tech and educators to help make them aware of the various FOSS technologies we're proposing as the subjects for training.

Nehru joined us - suggested waiting until early February for the educator survey as they're they'll be busy in the meantime. Nehru suggested he and William could work with the Sector ICT Subcommittee (technical staff group made up of tech staff in NUS, SQA, MESC) to promote the survey to the right people in schools.

Dave explained the tutorial options he's defined: Ubuntu Linux Docker Compose host and  Installing BigBlueButton via Docker on an Ubuntu Linux server

Wayne then mentioned the PO file translation. Dave showed the 'Register Enrol' WordPress plugin's strings in the poedit software. Nehru informed us that he has already (in his spare time) started translating the PO file into Samoan, and has already done 40-50 of the 193 strings.

Roland asked about whether we already have a 'media conversion' (e.g. for video wrangling, e.g. converting it into various formats for different users, e.g. those on mobile with slow connections, vs. desktops with high-speed network connections) to provide the need

Nehru will check with the CE regarding the proposed pilot projects (the 'School WordPress site template' and the 'Train the trainers for DS4OERS running on the course platform').

Varunesh mentioned his familiarity with Opencast and that it would be valuable to have the ability to subtitle content or adapt video resolutions, etc.