TAG Meeting 2016-08-03

Owned by Eric Jansson (inactive account)
Aug 05, 2016

Participants

  • Matt Warden
  • Erik Gomez
  • Mark Walls
  • Neal Schuh
  • Don Dailey
  • Dan Retzlaff
  • Josh Klein
  • Geoff McElhanon
  • Mark Reichert
  • Chris Moffatt
  • Eric Jansson

Notes

The goal of the meeting was to assemble possible topics for the planned TAG in-person meeting at the Summit (Summit dates Oct 11-14, TAG meeting on Wed, Oct 12). Ideas were presented in a round-robin style.

Mark Walls

     - Certification process +1 (Dan)

     - Improving ongoing troubleshooting: QA environments for Ed-Fi technology, available test data 

      - Step away from Ed-Fi ODS: vendor-to-vendor APIs and technical strategy and actions

      - IMS/Ed-Fi collaboration - guiding assumptions and state of the work +1 (Josh)

Neal

        - Error messages: improving these and making more descriptive and actionable

        - Dashboards deploy-ability: documentation gaps in particular.; general deployability of the Ed-Fi technology, including ODS (Mark) +1

Don

   - Performance metrics: what should the community maintain in this area, how to aggregate best practices, etc.

   - Profiles:specifiying types seems to be limiting, code-gen architecture limits ability to change these as needed

Josh

   - data validation: how to have a more robust layer for data validation

   - data load utility with fuzzy-load matching

   - Certification for partner network: models for this; general ecosystem maturity

 Dan

     - Performance and scalability concerns and architecture: also how to coordinate the community to share implementation lessons learned (Ed-Fi contact directory? etc.)

     - Data validation: is it possible to share state validation work and business rules for federal reporting

     - gaps in data workflows relating to student transfer, other workflow gaps

     - Improving vendor onboarding resources (possibly aligns with Certification topic)

     - looking at assessment integrations specifically, via Ed-Fi, both data in and out of an ODS or other aggregation system; SEA use case for distribution to LEAs specifically 

Matt

  -overall directions and objectives for Ed-Fi project

Mark R

  - temporal data update from the SIG