This week I’ve been:
- Supporting my wife during her first ever Great North Run. I’m very proud of her completing a half-marathon! We (our children and I) saw the Red Arrows do a fly-past while standing on the Tyne Bridge. Magical.
- Sending out Issue #315 of my Thought Shrapnel newsletter. This one was called ‘Minimalism FTW ’. Everyone hated the redesign, so I’ll be fixing that for the next issue. Thanks to those who back me via Patreon plus those who continue their support via Gumroad!
- Working on the MoodleNet project (Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri):
- Making an offer to a candidate for the MoodleNet backend developer (Elixir) position. All things being equal, they should start on Monday 24th!
- Finalising v0.7 of the MoodleNet overview slide deck.,
- Preparing for, and presenting at, the ALT conference in Manchester, UK. I was there with Gavin Henrick and Garnet Berry from Moodle, and you can catch up on everything that happened. The recording of my 30-minute session can be found here. Apologies for slightly sub-par sound quality, and you might want to skip straight to 02:00 to miss the sponsor info.
- Curating interesting things I came across on the Thought Shrapnel blog:
- Writing and thinking via my Discours.es blog:
Next week, I’m working from home all day Monday and Tuesday morning, then I’m off to London for a mini sprint on the front-end development of MoodleNet with Mayel de Borniol and Outlandish.
This week I’ve been:
- Sending out a special edition of my Thought Shrapnel newsletter. This one was called ‘ Post-holiday email-based survey 📋 🤔 💡 ’. Thanks to those who back me via Patreon plus those who continue their support via Gumroad!
- Recording, editing and releasing Episode 106 of the Today In Digital Education (TIDE) podcast with my co-host Dai Barnes. We entitled this episode ‘Keeping track of all the things’ and discussed MoodleNet milestones, Seth Godin’s approach to learning, assassination markets on the blockchain, keeping track of articles you want to read, and more!
- Working on the MoodleNet project (Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri):
- Interviewing applicants for the MoodleNet backend developer (Elixir) position.
- Debriefing about some drama that happened in the ‘fediverse’ at the end of last week, and what we can learn from it for MoodleNet.
- Doing some more thinking about data models.
- Working on v0.7 of the MoodleNet overview slide deck, which we’ll use as the basis for our presentation at the ALT conference next week.
- Presenting our Quarterly Team Review Report to the management team.
- Updating our milestones on GitLab.
- Hanging out with Mayel (and, sadly, only Mayel) for the first MoodleNet ‘office hours’. We’re reconsidering the format.
- Presenting to the Open Source team and answering questions. .
- Helping London CLC on Wednesday with a yearly retrospective of their work on. It was a We Are Open co-op collaboration with colleague Bryan Mathers who was in the room, while I joined remotely.
- Curating interesting things I came across on the Thought Shrapnel blog:
- Thinking about norming and performing in online spaces. More to come on this topic, I’m sure.
- Getting used to my new home on the fediverse at mastodon.social, which was actually the first account I registered back in 2016. I’m also posting occasionally to my Pixelfed account. (If Mastodon is like a decentralised Twitter, then Pixelfed is like a decentralised Instagram.)
Next week, I’m working from home on Monday, then in Manchester for the ALT conference from Tuesday to Thursday.
Image from p.118 of the excellent
This week I’ve been:
- Working on the MoodleNet project (Mon-Weds):
- Screening more applicants for the MoodleNet backend developer (Elixir) position.
- Checking in with Outlandish about UX and front end development.
- Meeting with Kaye Cheung about branding and the @moodlenet Twitter account.
- Planning and booking travel/accommodation for an upcoming mini-sprint around front end development with Outlandish in London.
- Defining sprints up to MVP release.
- Configuring our GitLab to work as we want it to. We had initially set up sprints as milestones, but are reconfiguring to make it more legible to the community.
- Creating the first draft of a quarterly team review report which I’ll be finishing off next week.
- Publicising the first ‘office hours’ for MoodleNet next Thursday. Further details on the blog.
- Collaborating with my We Are Open colleagues on some upcoming work (Thurs).
- Joining my family in Devon at the in-laws.
- Deleting my account on social.coop and reverting to an old account elsewhere on Mastodon.
Next week I’m back working from home working on MoodleNet and participating remotely in a thinkathon for London CLC.
