Proposed Specs for Competency System
there are two parts: Competency repository and the competency-to-product mapping module
Competency Repository
The repository is a space/site dedicated to storing community defined Drupal-related competencies. But what is a competency? How are competencies organized? I have been doing some pondering and tested my thoughts with a google search.
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Learning Drupal working group: competency brainstorm
This week's meeting will be held on-screen and in #drupal-dojo IRC
Please login to Go to meeting: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/927094632
Eric will be managing the session. Gus set up the room, thanks!
1) We're continuing the brainstorm of the competency list.
2) Look again at survey, maybe turn into analysis tasks, people can pick a part to analyse.
3) How are we going to communicate these outcomes to the community?
Learning Drupal - group goals (week 4)
Background:
* Learning Drupal BoF at SanFrancisco DrupalCon
* Week 1: Drupal Training and Curriculum Chat
* Week 2: Drupal Learning Objectives Chat
* Week 3: http://groups.drupal.org/node/69358 - we set up the survey
This week let's hammer out the group goals. See the wiki page:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/69413
Survey: What do Drupalistas do?
We worked on this survey collaboratively to gain an understanding of what people really do in Drupal. We formed a hypothesis that 'roles' exist conceptually, but maybe not in the wild. Read some background to the working group.
Take the survey http://gs-survey.com/s.asp?s=12001
About it: This survey is a first step in understanding what Drupalistas do.
Who should take it? People who develop, design and maintain Drupal websites.
The survey takes approximately 8 minutes to complete.
Please help spread the word, thank you!
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The conversation started in a BoF at San Francisco on "Learning Drupal". One of the most active discussions was around the idea of an open curriculum. We decided to meet online and continue the conversation and open it to the wider community.
Next Steps from Week Four
- Analysis of the survey results,
- development of the "starter taxonomy", and
- filling out of the learning areas indicated by that vocabulary
These are the beginnings of competencies and objectives in Drupal learning.
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Learning Drupal - roles discussion (week 3)
A working group is forming, we're looking at how we can mediate a discussion in the community on curriculum. The group is open to all who are interested in delivering learning services and opportunities; materials and training events.
Background:
* Learning Drupal BoF at SanFrancisco DrupalCon
* Week 1: Drupal Training and Curriculum Chat
* Week 2: Drupal Learning Objectives Chat
Roles in Drupal development
Open Curriculum: Definitions – Scenarios – Roadmap – Skill sets – Open certification – References - Roles
Join the upcoming IRC meeting! Follow discussions here on g.d.o, on IRC at #drupal-skillmap, or on Twitter with the tag #drupalskillmap!
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Some possible characteristics of a successful/useful open curriculum
I'm reposting this here from http://drupalkata.com/curriculum/node/466 at Gus Austin's request.
Inspired by the IRC discussion on 3 May, here are some notes on criteria by which we could judge the success of a curriculum design project. Sorry, it's all very sketchy and provisional but perhaps can serve as some sort of contribution to the discussion.
A useful/good curriculum will have the following properties (sort of a unit test for the curriculum):
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Drupal Learning Objectives Chat
Last week's Training and Curriculum Chat ( read transcript ) on #drupal-dojo led us to a few actionable items:
- Our next meeting will be Monday, May 10th, 3PM Eastern time (US)
- Come up with an agenda for next week's meeting. Also, Ryan needs more experience moderating meetings on IRC.
- Interested parties should use a wiki page to collaborate on a list of possible Jobs or Roles. See below.
Examples of community mediated curriculum in open source software
Have an example of a community mediated open curriculum?
In the most recent #drupal-dojo chat we had last night (or yesterday afternoon) we laid out some plans to start stirring a discussion around a community-mediated curriculum. We're first talking about developing a common language and working on our goals for the group.
To this end, it's good to look at how other open source communities have traversed the same ground.
The WaSP Interact project is a great example. http://interact.webstandards.org/
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