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Agenda items

Roadmap

• Review new roadmap page on wiki

Competency map

• Deadline & next steps for finalizing competency map?
  

Incoming course ideas

• Cool course ideas are circulating on the P2PU newsgroup
• What's the process / best way to capture them on Wiki, Drumbeat project page, etc.
• Should we turn the course template into a simple web form for people to use?

Project update video

• Once the roadmap is further along, let's use it as the basis for a 60 - 90- second video script that we will record next week
  

Summit

Other items?

Notes

Course Template

• Who Are You?
• What you should know
• What you can expect to learn
• What you might learn if you work hard
• Things we won't cover
• Are you basing your course on existing courseware?
• If someone has a cool idea, make sure to bounce off the group to get more ideas

Comments on Template

• Next step is to get more people to run these courses
• Name in Template, added a field
• What will I build, added to template
• What course materials will be used

Proposed Courses

HTML5

• New developers or non-developers
• HTML5 / CSS3
• Story or theme around the project to keep people engaged
• Collect information on the web text/media/images
• Display and collect info related to the theme
• People will make something on the project website
• One website that everyone will work on

Web Development 101

• Fundamentals of web development
• Perhaps do a portfolio as first project

Logic (project Euler)

• Implementing mathematically and computationally challenging problems
• Build onto community of people who are already solving these kinds of problems

REST APIs

• Common APIs
• Twitter, Google Maps, etc
• Programmable Web

Reading Code

• Wordpress, Django, JavaScript Libraries
• Demystify the black box of 'core' code
• People can take advantage of open source

Data Mining on the Web

• Stream processing
• Real time data

Linux Servers for Web Development

• DB
• VirtualHosts
• Amazon EC2
• Shared Environments

Building Social on the Open Web

• Open protocols as a distributed social network
• Break up into groups and create an open source project
• Real Time activity streams
• PubSubHubBub, OAuth, OpenID, Activity Streams
• Build a roadmap with pieces, build component by component so we don't get overwhelmed
• All participants work on the same project

The Next Week

• Mozilla Summit in 27 Days
• Present P2PU Web Craft for feedback at the Summit
  • Other people in that community will want to teach
  • Better descriptions of each of the proposed courses
• blog post, public call for courses
  • Simple explanation of what we're doing
  • Link to proposed courses
• Competency map based on proposed courses
  • Won't be just a list on the wiki, should be graphical
• State of P2PU Open Web blog post