OERu/Planning/Technology working group

Aims

 * accommodate the needs and desires of the course development workgroup
 * maintain scalable, secure, cost-effective infrastructure for collaborative course authoring and delivery
 * interoperate with partner institution legacy systems, ideally federating similar systems
 * share open data formats, sources, and services to the greatest extent possible
 * deliver content in a variety of formats, including mobile (maintain separation between content and rendering)
 * implement solutions for customised local branding and theming of shared content resources
 * adapt to the increased importance of audio and video

Objectives

 * Define what a "community source model" would actually look like on the ground, what people could expect from it incorporating technology priorities and gaps we need to fill.

Project team

 * Brian Lamb (Convener)
 * Sarah Lambert
 * Wayne Mackintosh
 * Timothy McCallum - Course development, responsive design, web analytics, open educational resources and open access research output
 * Tim Klapdor - UI/UX Design + Graphics, Online/Offline Publishing
 * Dave Lane (co-Convener) - Open Source community, online collaboration, service prototyping, strategy, software development, workflow, system administration, usability, tech training

Discussion lists

 * Technology list on groups.oeru.org
 * IRC #wikieducator on freenode.net (or connect via Webchat)

Resource links

 * Software project ideas
 * Jim Tittsler's speed geek session on OERu Technology (Advance to 42:40 in the video recording)
 * Session 8: Distinctively open at 2nd meeting of anchor partners.
 * Jim's wiki tech blog
 * Dave Lane's open source technology notes

Community source links

 * Community source wishlist

2016 KPIs
(This table is extracted from the 2016 master KPI table)

2015 Technology WG Meetings

 * Fortnightly catchup - 12 December 2014
 * Fortnightly catchup - 09 January 2015
 * Fortnightly catchup - 06 February 2015
 * Fortnightly catchup - 20 February 2015
 * Monthly meeting - 20 March 2015
 * Monthly meeting - 17 April 2015
 * Monthly meeting - 15 May 2015
 * Monthly meeting - 18 June 2015
 * Monthly meeting - 17 July 2015
 * Monthly meeting - 21 August 2015
 * Monthly meeting - 18 September 2015
 * Monthly meeting - 16 October 2015
 * Monthly meeting - 20 November 2015

2016 Technology WG Meetings

 * Tech WG meeting - 22 or 23 September 2016

2016 OERF Tech team meetings

 * OERF meeting - 12 February 2016
 * OERF meeting - 1 March 2016
 * OERF meeting - 11 March 2016
 * OERF meeting - 8 April 2016

{| align="left" style="margin: 8px; white-space: normal;" class="tws collapsible collapsed" ! Previous meetings
 * Inaugural meeting
 * Weekly catchup - 30 May 2014
 * Weekly catchup - 06 June 2014
 * Weekly catchup - 13 June 2014
 * Weekly catchup - 27 June 2014
 * Fortnightly catchup - 11 July 2014
 * Fortnightly catchup - 08 August 2014
 * Fortnightly catchup - 05 September 2014
 * Fortnightly catchup - 19 September 2014
 * Fortnightly catchup - 3 October 2014
 * Fortnightly catchup - 17 October 2014
 * Fortnightly catchup - 28 November 2014
 * Fortnightly catchup - 4 December 2014
 * Fortnightly catchup - 28 November 2014
 * Fortnightly catchup - 4 December 2014

2015 OERF Tech team meetings

 * OERF meeting - 09 September 2015
 * OERF meeting - 28 September 2015
 * OERF meeting - 28 October 2015
 * OERF meeting - 6 November 2015
 * OERF meeting - 4 December 2015
 * OERF meeting - 17 December 2015
 * }
 * }

Reports

 * 1) 2015 Technology annual report
 * 2) April 2016 Minimum Viable Platform update

Active projects

 * 1) OERu website improvement project
 * 2) * Review of the current website
 * 3) * Specifications for communicating courses, pathways of study and assessment options
 * 4) Single Sign On for OERu Services
 * 5) Describing the OERu MVP Platform
 * 6) Mobile first conventions for course outlines and development

Open Source Technologist Role
Proposed Key Performance Indicators