Newsletter: Maple Release, Core Contributors, Open Source Theme
Posted by Gabriel D'Amours on November 1, 2021
Here is a recap of our October 2021 newsletter:
Maple Release Update
The master branches for Maple, the next Open edX Release, have been prepared and announced! Note that the prepared branches are mainly for community members interested in helping review and build Maple, and not for public consumption. Tutor also recently added support for the master Maple branch.
If you’re a community member interested in helping build Maple and/or Tutor support, please set up Maple using Tutor and report any issues you face to the build/test/release working group on the official Open edX forum.
The Open edX Core Contributor Program has recently confirmed several additional members in its ranks, including additional OpenCraft team members. This brings the current number of Core Contributors to 16, including eight OpenCraft team members!
The Program, which initially focused on technical contributors called code "Committers", has now expanded to also include Non-Technical Contributors who help with platform translations, marketing activities, project management, and more. Open edX Core Contributors earn their designation through committing 20h+/month of active participation in the Open edX community by contributing code or translations to the project, serving on working groups, etc. Our team currently features 7 code Committers, and 1 Non-Technical Contributor.
OpenCraft is on a mission to build an improved and great-looking open-source Open edX theme! We’ve started wireframing the course pages of our new theme and would love any feedback from the community.
What a cool-looking wireframe!
You can access the theme's Gitlab repository for the latest progress, and use the official forum thread linked below to suggest changes.
The Transifex Working Group has been making good progress over the past few months on advancing the Open edX's platform translations. The working group is still looking for community members to submit and review translations in the following languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Mandarin, Hindi, Portuguese, and Arabic. Let us know if you're interested in contributing!
This year, the Open edX Conference will be held from July 2 – 5, 2024 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. I’m so excited for the community to visit my beautiful country! And what’s more, we have some awesome talks lined up by our very own OpenCrafters. Getting Started with Frontend Pluggability Tuesday 10:00 AM | Braden […]
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Open edX presents Content Tagging! "Tagging" has been a long-requested feature for managing content in Studio, and now OpenCraft is finally designing and building it for Axim Collaborative! While there are big plans, the first release will be a user-friendly, minimal viable product. Here are some of the things everyone can look forward to: So, get ready for more organized learning content. Tagging […]