Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Consortium Technology Committee -- Working on focus and plan for the year

The Connexions Consortium has a technology committee charged with the technical direction, planning, and development of the Rhaptos software that powers Connexions and Enterprise Rhaptos.

The committee met just before Connexions Conference 2011 in February to start putting together a development plan for the next year. To start the process, we had everyone around the room suggest things that are strategically important for Connexions and Rhaptos. After a bit of discussion and consolidation we ended up with 11 focus areas and then had people “pitch” them to the group, explaining who they would benefit and how they would help achieve the Connexions/Rhaptos mission. The committee then voted on our top three focus areas. These focus areas are by no means exclusive or exhaustive. They just give the committee concrete goals to work on as a group. The following three areas had the most energy and we will be following up with each.
  1. Strengthening the Development Community, with an emphasis on upgrading to Plone 4 to expand the base of developers available.
  2. Creating APIs -- In order for members and others to build things that are not tightly integrated into Rhaptos, we need to have well defined APIs (application programming interfaces).
  3. Authoring: Authors and educators need easier authoring tools in order to share their OER (open education resources).
Do you have specific suggestions, additions, comments? Do you want to participate more actively with the committee? Please comment here, or email cnx at cnx.org with your feedback.
Posted by Katherine Fletcher at 11:43 AM
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  1. wolffanMarch 23, 2011 at 1:12 AM

    Dear CNX members.
    I'm part of a team in the IDP in UPC (http://upc.edu/idp) which wants to develop a system for content creation.
    We are thinking of CNX (or your open source fork) as part of the core of the system, but we think in some improvements in the import/export & edit fases.
    We are also focused in the storage standards (as future standards html5).
    The project will start in few months but we need some research on your system possibilities, for now on I'll be populating your mailing list (and maybe I'll try to apply for your GSoC projects which are very online with some of the improvements we want).
    Any advice?
    Our hope is on helping both organizations.

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  2. Ed WoodwardMarch 23, 2011 at 8:42 AM

    Wolffan - contact us at cnx at cnx dot org or on the rhaptos mailing list. We would like to hear about your project.

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