#mahara-dev Meeting

Meeting summary

1. 1. anzeljg is Gregor Anzelj, developer and translator from Gimnazija Bežigrad, Ljubljana, Slovenia (anzeljg, 08:04:45)
   2. anitsirk is Kristina Hoeppner, Catalyst IT, Wellington, NZ (anitsirk, 08:04:50)
   3. dobedobedoh is Andrew Nicols, Moodle HQ, Perth, AU (dobedobedoh, 08:05:06)
   4. mingard is Jono Mingard, intern at Catalyst IT, Wellington, NZ (mingard, 08:05:13)
   5. robertl is Robert Lyon, Catalyst IT, Wellington, NZ (robertl, 08:05:31)
   6. aarowlaptop is Aaron Wells at Catalyst IT in Wellington NZ (aarowlaptop, 08:05:38)
   7. NameLess-exe is Leo Xiong, 2014 Catalyst OSA student, Hamilton, NZ (NameLess-exe, 08:06:52)
   
   
2. Items from last meeting: dajan to gather some information from tutors and ePortfolio assessors to find out their needs in this area (anzeljg, 08:07:20)
   
3. Items from last meeting: sonn will look at which OS's & versions we'll be cutting off if we drop support for 5.1. (anzeljg, 08:08:29)
   1. ACTION: sonn will look at which OS's & versions we'll be cutting off if we drop support for 5.1 (anzeljg, 08:11:09)
   
   
4. Status of Leap2a import (anzeljg) (anzeljg, 08:11:29)
   1. tobiasz is Tobias Zeuch, developer at the KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany (tobiasz, 08:14:36)
   
   
5. Profile "General" tab should have better options (https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1258067) (anzeljg) (anzeljg, 08:24:33)
   1. IDEA: move the "General" tab from "Profile" to the "Resume" as the fields apply there more readily. (anitsirk, 08:34:51)
   2. IDEA: Offer more fields and not only Occupation and Industry as these don't apply for everyone. However, since we'll always have people not needing fields, the admin should be able to hide certain fields that don't apply. (anitsirk, 08:35:36)
   3. when moving the "General" fields to the resume, they would be artefacts as they are now. they have to be selectable on individual basis, but grouped somehow at the same time - to be displayed together... (anitsirk, 08:45:27)
   
   
6. Next meeting and chair (anzeljg, 08:48:01)
   1. the 31st Mahara Developer Meeting will take place on 27 March 2014 at 8:00 UTC: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=31st+Mahara+Developer+Meeting&iso=20140327T08 (anitsirk, 09:01:14)
   2. anitsirk will chair the 31st Mahara Developer Meeting. (anitsirk, 09:01:51)
   
   
7. Any other business (anzeljg, 09:03:20)
   1. Feature freeze is in the first full week of February, 3-9 February 2014. See https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/6MonthlyCycle (anitsirk, 09:04:10)
   2. the first mahara conference in the southern hemisphere will take place in Wellington on 19 and 20 March 2014 followed by a one-day hackfest. Mahara Hui welcomes everyone to New Zealand. Hopefully, some of you can make it. :-) (anitsirk, 09:07:04)
   3. https://maharahui.org.nz (anitsirk, 09:07:20)
   4. currently, accessibility is not great for editing and administration, but thankfully most of those issues were easy to fix and there are already patches merged for 1.9. (anitsirk, 09:11:09)
   5. mingard is working on some of the harder stuff (like getting a keyboard-accessible version of the drag-and-drop page editor working) at the moment so Mahara should be fully compliant with WCAG 2.0 level AA (and therefore the accessibility standards of most countries and administrations) in 1.9 (anitsirk, 09:12:10)
   6. accessibility will stay a continued focus and there will be information available on the wiki for developers to ensure that basic accessibility guidelines are followed when fixing bugs and creating new features (anitsirk, 09:14:56)
   7. https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/2491/ (tobiasz, 09:26:40)

Action items

1. sonn will look at which OS's & versions we'll be cutting off if we drop support for 5.1

People present (lines said)

1. anzeljg (121)
2. anitsirk (101)
3. aarowlaptop (55)
4. mingard (30)
5. tobiasz (21)
6. robertl (17)
7. maharameet (5)
8. dobedobedoh (5)
9. NameLess-exe (3)