RVWG 2020-05-27 Meeting

Date

27 May 2020

Agenda

Welcome
- Please note that participation in this work group meeting or other governance activities occurs under the terms of the Ed-Fi Community Intellectual Property Disclosure Policy
- Moving to a "self-check in" approach for recording meeting attendance
Dashboard POC’s
- Follow up on Dashboards POC proposed by ESP – discuss the planned project and scope
- Update from INSITE on their “Dashboards-Lite” project
General topics
- Discussion : How does the announcement of Ed-Fi’s move to open source impact Ed-Fi Dashboards future
- Updating the RVWG charter

Participants

First Name	Last Name	Organization
Billy	Buchanan	Fayette County Public Schools
David	Clements	Ed-Fi Alliance
Rosh Joshua	Dhanawade	Indiana University/INSITE
Fred	Edora	AEM Education Services
Shane	Fairbairn	NEFEC
Carolynn	Fallon	Volusia County Schools
Stephen	Fuqua	Ed-Fi Alliance
Glynn	Ligon	ESP Solutions Group, Inc.
Chris	Moffat	Ed-Fi Alliance
Chris	Sprague	Eduphoric
Jeremy	Thigpen	ESP Solutions Group, Inc.

Meeting Notes

Item

Notes

Dashboard POC’s

Chris reviewed the intended plan for dashboard POC that will be undertaken by ESP solutions
- The goals of this project are:
  - Demonstrate that a technical modernization of the Ed-Fi dashboard UI is viable.
  - Provide a framework for estimating the cost of modernizing the entire Ed-Fi Dashboard.
  - Provide a hand off to a subsequent project that will explore how to replace the existing Dashboards ETL/data pipeline and security mechanisms with an approach that is integrated with the Analytics Middle Tier.
- The scope of the project is illustrated below (Phase 1)

Rosh provided an update on the Dashboard project they are doing.
- Rosh Dhanawade - can you provide a summary here?

How does the announcement of Ed-Fi’s move to open source impact Ed-Fi Dashboards future

The group discussed options.

Leave as is, under the current Ed-Fi license in https://github.com/orgs/Ed-Fi-Alliance
Move to Apache 2 license, in https://github.com/orgs/Ed-Fi-Alliance-OSS. This assumes the Alliance has a long term intent to maintain the dashboards past the current Suite 3 generation
Move to Apache 2 license, in either https://github.com/orgs/Ed-Fi-Exchange-OSS or a 3rd party repo.

There was a general consensus to leave the current Dashboards as part of the legacy Ed-Fi license (and repository) unless/until there was a plan for continued investment in them - by either the Alliance of a 3rd party.

Updating the RVWG charter

From March 3rd meeting:
- Focus RVWG on establishing general best practices and "playbook" for reporting and analytics using the Ed-Fi stack (Rosh's idea!)
- Propose a revised approach for the technical sub-group, that includes (a) taking a dependency on the Ed-Fi Analytics Middle Tier and (b) proposing to work with Ed-Fi technical team & roadmap to build out a POC of the infrastructure to support the MVP.
Rosh has started a draft document for revising the charter.
- It can be found here: RVWG Charter Revision Spring 2020.
- RVWG members are encouraged to review and comment on it, and we will plan to finalize at the next RVWG meeting, and then submit to the Governance Advisory team for review and approval.