Hey Everyone! I’m excited to be here for a week. Big thanks to the @imakefoss team for the invite. I'm looking forward to sharing my open-source journey here as an @outreachy intern with @inkscape .
- Kavya Jaiswal
Please welcome Kavya Jaiswal, @kavya_jaiswal_
Engineering student at the Univ of Delhi
2021 outreachy intern with @inkscape
Mar 21 to 28 on @imakefoss
Interview: https://imakefoss.org/curators/kavyajaiswal/
@imakefoss is a Twitter and Mastodon (https://fosstodon.org/@imakefoss) rotation curation account.
I have enjoyed posting on the @imakefoss curated account last week. But due to some circumstances, I was unable to post in the 2nd half. Sorry about that.
Thanks to @josp0001 again for inviting me to curate.
You can follow me at @LGuruprasad and @artfulsodger on #Fosstodon. 👋
Don't forget to submit your talk proposals for #GUADEC2022! This year we'll be celebrating 25 years of GNOME and encourage talks around that theme, but all proposals are welcome. Submit yours here: https://events.gnome.org/event/77/abstracts/
It allows all the improvements to be shared with the community and hence aligns with the #FOSS ethos. Sharing is caring and it benefits everyone.
By upstreaming all the changes and avoiding code drift, the maintenance burden is distributed within the community.
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It was developed by @edXOnline for the #OpenedX platform, which provides an #XBlock runtime that allows a wide variety of learning components, integrations etc. to be developed. https://openedx.org/the-platform/extensions-directory/ lists some of the popular XBlocks.
L. Guruprasad (@LGuruprasad)
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Most, if not all, of the components in the #OpenedX platform are licensed under the #AGPLv3 license #FOSS.
You can try out the platform locally using the #devstack (https://github.com/openedx/devstack) or #Tutor (https://docs.tutor.overhang.io/)
L. Guruprasad (@LGuruprasad)
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The #OpenedX platform is a collection of many sub-projects like the Learning Management System (LMS), Studio (the course authoring application), Ecommerce etc. which integrate with one another and provide a unified learning experience.
L. Guruprasad (@LGuruprasad)
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Today I am going to talk about #OpenedX, which is a #FOSS project that I have contributed a lot to.
It is a massively, scalable, learning platform used on http://edx.org and by many other universities and companies. #MOOC
L. Guruprasad (@LGuruprasad)
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@imakefoss Your thoughts mesh well with an analogy I had whereby a pen would refuse to write words critical of the government, and pencils were outlawed. Sounds like science fiction but in fact, we're so close to this precipice and have sleepwalked every step of the way. Thank you for your thoughtful contributions.
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