Hackathon Seven: The Voorhees Special

Let's focus on APIs if we can, but completely understand if we want to focus on other things.

The Hacks

Demo day is Friday the 13th, hopefully the demos aren't too scary! Extra points for incorporating the theme into your demos!

The Schedule

Jun 12, 2014: hack (6:00pm - Dinner) Jun 13, 2014: demo (3:00-4:30pm) (Google Hangout, Drinks and Snacks!)

Dinner Attendees

• Andy A.
• Gabe
• Steve
• Adam
• Carlos
• Will
• Jay
• Ben
• Grady
• Dennis
• Ben McMorran

Hackathon Ideas

Team	Suggested By	Idea	Notes
	Adam	Analysis of "goals" field in auth_userprofile	Why do people sign up for edX? Do student goals correlate with success? Completion rates? Courses enrolled in?
clintonb	DB	Django 1.6!	It's a crazy idea. But I want to give it a shot. (the work begins here); (dave: maybe 1.7? It's almost out... cale: shoot for 1.7! Also, see https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/wiki/Moving-to-Django-1.7)
Christina, Frances, Mark	Christina	Improvement to Advanced Settings page in Studio	Display names, help, hide "deprecated" fields, possibly validation. Add some structure; links to docs for each
JZ, BenP	JZ	Create a rules-based risk calculation for PRs	I got started with this here
	Ned	Coverage measurement of Django templates	Last time was Mako, let's try Django.
Mat P	Will	Mobile study groups app
Steve	Steve	Group Project Assessments	Allow a group of students to collaborate on a single project, submit it for review, then grade peer groups. Yay!
	AndyA	[[XBlock Admin Views	xblock-admin-views]]
Brian, Dennis	Gabe	Hive Data Pipeline	Load all event data (and maybe some other sources) in to hive tables to experiment with and run adhoc queries against.
	Jarv	Packages for open-edx installations	Install edX without having to go out to pypi, github, with a package for every role. How about apt-get install edx?
dave	dave	Faster Grading	A few different possibilities, starting with reducing SQL queries.
	dave	Cert Generation via Celery Task
	dave	Improving LMS browser load times
	dave	Improving Studio browser load times
	dave	edX as an OAuth provider	i.e. SSO between edX apps
	dave	Submissions app as XBlock Runtime Service
	dave	Downloads service	A facility for writing files to S3 that would be made available for XBlocks.
	dave	Cheap pull-only course/item/user level notifications
	dave	Video source service	abstract away different locations/encodings
	dave	A better terminal-based viewer for profiling results	i.e. a better RunSnakeRun (something like/based on https://github.com/nedbat/memsee could be cool) (dave: python -m pstats already provides basic cmdline functionality, but I was looking to make a tree listing cumulative view and other context-specific data via something like urwid)
	dave	Middleware to automatically dump profiles of views in dev	to make performance debugging easier
	dave	PostgreSQL 9.4 modulestore!
	dave	User info XBlock Service
	talbs	Help move Sass/Bourbon/Neat update
	talbs	edX Mobile iOS UX Concepts	exploring experience and UI ideas
	cale	Turn modulestores into FieldDatas (to continue the XBlockification of edx-platform)
	cale	Micro-app to manage ratcheting up/down of values (coverage, pep8/pylint, etc)	Sarina: Am curious what you're thinking for this
	cale	Try out new load-test options (swarm? gatling?)
	cale	Test plan generator
	cale	Micro feature flags: need to migrate auth roles? Just disable things that create new auth roles
	cale	More db-backed configuration
	Marco	Make progress on LMS Redesign Phases 1-4 see: https://edx-wiki.atlassian.net/wiki/display/LMS/LMS+Redesign+-+Project+Phasing, summary
	Sef	Gather and send basic stats from open-source deployments, collect up for KPI's.	Reqts: Opt in. management command to preview what would be sent, send once, or send periodically (celery beat?). Aggregate stats only: enrollments, certificates, etc. Server to collect stats. What transport, email? I can't participate myself, but would be a fun feature to hack in
	cale	Try using http://django-compressor.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ instead of django-pipeline for our assets
	cale	Experiment w/ using django-storages to power our static assets (thorny issue: locked assets and one-time urls for same
	carlos	Provide some automatic extension points for external django apps to the LMS.	The idea is to move apps like psychometrics and licenses to their own reports, but still let people easily include them in their deployments with just changes to django settings (not to url.py)
BenM, Nimisha	nimisha	Update [[Studio Analytics	https://edx-wiki.atlassian.net/wiki/display/STU/Studio+Analytics]]
BenM, Nimisha	nimisha	Touch of gamification: crossword puzzle problem xBlock	Add a little "fun" way of testing students.
	dave	Log releases in New Relic	https://rpm.newrelic.com/accounts/88178/applications/1588430/deployments/instructions
	nikhil	API instead of iframes for Course about pages	https://edx-wiki.atlassian.net/browse/WEB-869
	nikhil	Integration of platform with interactive Raspberry Pi preview & code generator
	nikhil	Integration of platform with chat application
	grady	EASE --> EASiEr	I think that sums it up. Diving into EASE, doing a deep clean. Removing Redundancy, speeding things up. Not doing quadruple checking for ASCII formatting. Etc.
Olga	Olga	Analytics Wish List	Gather questions from teams about our courses and students
gprice	gprice	diff-quality 2.0	Productizing work from last hackathon
dmitchell	dmitchell	heartbeat	refactor heartbeat to scale and to test service