Working Groups are teams dedicated to a project or projects that fit under an easily definable business process. They are designed to create and/or facilitate a particular feature set within the Open edX platform. They are also an authoritative body giving the community structure and a process for decision making. All up to date Open edX Working Group information can be accessed here. Opens a link in a new tab
Join the Open edX community and take part in our collaboration efforts!
Marketing Working Group
Description: The Marketing Working Group is a group of Open edX Marketplace providers and Axim employees, who collaborate on increasing the global visibility and adoption of the Open edX platform. The Marketing Working Group has added informational content to the Open edX website, generates blog content, optimizes SEO, organizes quarterly events, and much more. Click here Opens a link in a new tabto learn more about the Marketing Working Group. Contact Opens a link in a new tabthe organizers today to find out how you can get involved!
Organizers: Eden Huthmacher (Axim/Open edX) & Nicole Kessler (Abstract Technology)
Project Board: https://trello.com/b/d8oWzNoy/community-working-groupOpens a link in a new tab
Slack: https://openedx.org/slackOpens a link in a new tab join the channel #marketing
Meetings: Bi-weekly on Wednesdays at 10 AM (EST)
BizDev Working Group
Purpose: The Biz Dev Working Group serves to bridge the Open edX community and the global market, aligning platform development with market needs, expanding adoption, and identifying & creating sustainable revenue streams. Our focus is on market expansion, product development, and building strategic partnerships to ensure the platform’s long-term success.
Vision: To establish Open edX as the foremost global platform for scalable, adaptable, and innovative e-learning solutions by driving strategic business development efforts that expand market reach, foster partnerships, and enhance platform competitiveness.
Mission: To support the global growth and sustainability of Open edX by identifying new markets, establishing strategic partnerships, and influencing product development to meet market demands. We aim to ensure that Open edX remains at the forefront of educational innovation, delivering value to both learners and educators.
How to join us
All public Working Group meetings follow the Recording Policy for Open edX Meetings
Join our Slack Channel, #wg-biz-dev
Join our meeting every three weeks.
Build-Test-Release (BTR) Working Group
Description: The BTR Working Group is chartered with the direction and ownership of the Open edX community releases. Its goals are to create and maintain Open edX releases for use by the global community. Click here Opens a link in a new tabto learn more about the BTR Working Group.
Organizers: Sofiane Berbere and Ned Batchelder
Project Board: https://github.com/openedx/build-test-release-wg/projects/1
Slack: https://openedx.org/slackOpens a link in a new tab join the channel #wg-build-test-release
Meetings: Bi-weekly on Mondays at 10 AM (EST)
DevOps Working Group
Charter
The DevOps working group handles all matters related to the operations of an Open edX platform, both in production and development.
The working group is composed of a couple sub-working groups, including:
The Build/Test/Release working group
The Large Instances working group
The Tutor Users’ Group.
These sub-working groups are devops projects that focus on a more specific topic. When a devops issue is raised, it might be assigned to one of these projects if it fits within the scope of the working group.
The DevOps working group is currently chaired by @Régis Behmo.
Links
Coordination:
GitHub repository: wg-devops
Communication:
DevOps working group category on the forum
Each sub-group has meetings and a Slack channel. Click into them to learn more.
How to join?
Thanks for asking! We’re glad you want to help 
Please have a look at the contributing section of the working groups docs.
Translation Working Group
Description: The Translation Working Group consists of various community members, who assist with submitting, coordinating, and reviewing translations in Transifex, in an effort to enhance Axim Collaborative’s overall localization strategy vis a vis a centralized collaboration approach for crowdsourced translations. The group covers ten target languages and ensures 100% translation completion of all Open edX software releases, as well as the translation of user documentation. Click hereOpens a link in a new tab to learn more about the Translation Working Group.
Organizers: Esteban Etcheverry and Eden Huthmacher
Project Board: https://trello.com/b/1aktBBrA/transifex-working-groupOpens a link in a new tab
Slack: https://openedx.org/slackOpens a link in a new tab join the channel #translations-working-group
Meetings: Bi-weekly on Wednesdays at 10 AM (EST)
Data Working Group
Description: The Data Working Group is focused on building a set of community supported interfaces for supporting analytical capabilities related to the Open edX platform. Click hereOpens a link in a new tab to learn more about the Data Working Group.
Organizers: Ed Zarecor and Tobias Macey
Project Board: https://discuss.openedx.org/c/working-groups/data/34Opens a link in a new tab
Slack: https://openedx.slack.com/archives/C023AGJJWLVOpens a link in a new tab
Meetings: Bi-weekly on Wednesdays at 12 PM (UTC)
Frontend Working Group
Description:The Frontend Working Group is responsible for stewardship of the frontend of the Open edX platform. The working group exists as a technical advisory board, curators of our frontend strategic roadmap, and to empower the community to execute on our shared challenges and opportunities. Click hereOpens a link in a new tab to learn more about the Frontend Working Group.
Organizer: Adolfo Brandes
Project Board: https://github.com/openedx/frontend-wg/projects/1Opens a link in a new tab
Slack: https://openedx.org/slack join the channel #frontend-working-groupOpens a link in a new tab
Meetings: Weekly on Thursdays at 11 AM (EST)
Deprecation Working Group
Description: The Deprecation Working Group collaborates to remove old, outdated parts of the Open edX codebase, in order to improve code cleanliness, readability, and extensibility. Click hereOpens a link in a new tab to learn more about the Deprecation Working Group.
Organizer: Diana Huang
Project Board: https://github.com/orgs/openedx/projects/9Opens a link in a new tab
Slack: https://openedx.slack.com/archives/CGB0S3L12Opens a link in a new tab
Meetings: Bi-weekly on Tuesdays at 3 PM (EST)
Educators Working Group
Description: The Educators Working Group is a community of practice for educators and course-builders on the Open edX platform, representing a cross-section of instructional contexts and ways that the Open edX platform is being used. Our group will share best practices, examples, and showcase the various ways that we build on the platform. In doing so, we’ll create a more innovative, relevant and welcoming space to other educators who want to start or want to expand their online learning initiatives. Click hereOpens a link in a new tab to learn more about the Educators Working Group.
Organizers: John Swope, CEO of curricu.me
Slack: https://openedx.slack.com/archives/C053CTC8L04Opens a link in a new tab
Meetings: Monthly on Mondays at 1 PM (EDT)
Large Instances Working Group
The goal of the working group is to cooperate on the deployment and maintenance of large or multi-sites Open edX instances.
Historically, such collaboration was done through the edx-configuration repository, which was maintained as the main deployment method for Open edX by edX. Following the deprecation of the edx-configuration repository, there is no such common ground for collaboration on the deployment of large instances of Open edX. Tutor took over a part of the official deployment process, but focuses on small instances and immediate ease of use, leaving aside the specificity of larger instances. As a result, many Open edX operators and providers have redeveloped custom solutions, often duplicating the work and its maintenance.
This working group is a place where community members come to put their resources in common, to collaborate on the development of solutions specific to running large or multi-site instances, and share its direction and maintenance.
Anyone who participates in the Larges Instances working group is considered a member. There are several ways you can participate:
- Chat with us on Slack or the Open edX forums
- Discuss or review issues and PRs related to Helm Charts for Open edX
- Join the meetups
- Take on issues yourself
Governance Working Group
The Governance Working Group aims to improve and establish spaces and mechanisms for collaboration between core contributors and other members of the community by:
- Fostering effective communication and collaboration between different working groups and contributors within the Open edX community
- Facilitating the sharing of knowledge, updates, and best practices across teams.
- Coordinating the efforts of different working groups to ensure alignment with the overall goals and objectives of the Open edX community.
- Actively seeking to identify blocked contributors, and helping to resolve the blockers
- Identifying dependencies, and promoting cross-team collaboration.
- Actively seeking opportunities for continuous improvement within the Open edX community. Encouraging working groups to identify areas of improvement, propose solutions, and drive initiatives to enhance efficiency, productivity, and quality.
- Establishing feedback channels and mechanisms to gather input, ideas, and concerns from different working groups. Regularly collect feedback, address issues, and ensure that the voices of all teams are heard and considered.
- Encouraging active participation and engagement from all working groups within the Open edX community. Foster a sense of belonging, inclusivity, and shared ownership in collective decision-making and community initiatives.
- Establishing metrics and reporting mechanisms to track the progress and impact of the working group’s initiatives. Regularly communicate updates, achievements, and challenges to stakeholders and the wider community.
- Embracing an adaptive mindset and encouraging agility within the working group. Continuously evaluate and refine the charter’s goals and strategies based on the evolving needs of the Open edX community.
Anyone who participates in the Governance WG is considered a member. There are several ways you can participate:
- Chat with us on Slack or the Open edX forums
- Join the meetups
- Propose and take on Community improvement opportunities
Maintenance Working Group
The Maintenance Working Group will focus on the following goals:
- Ensure the repositories that support the Open edX core product offering are well maintained.
- Support maintainers of Open edX Repositories
- Find/Replace maintainers as needed
- Prioritize and coordinate major dependency upgrades
- Discover and prioritize improvements to make the Open edX ecosystem more maintainable
- Develop and document best practices for using maintenance tooling such as Dependabot and Renovate and serve as a center of expertise for such tools.
Product Working Group
The Product Working Group drives and coordinates centralized product leadership and decision-making. The Group owns and manages the high-level product vision for Open edX. It defines and manages the Core Product Offering, and prioritizes and reviews product-level initiatives across the ecosystem.
The Product Working Group is comprised of the following subgroups. Each subgroup owns the roadmap for their area of the platform and holds their own bi-monthly meeting.
Community Release Planning
Not a Working Group, per say, but a convening of key stakeholders from across Working Groups to coordinate and plan the Community Releases.
Security Working Group
We help triage security issues and continuously improve the Open edX project’s security posture. We:
- Send security issues to the right maintainer.
- Tell the maintainer how important the security issue is using CVSS.
- Follow up with maintainers to ensure that vulnerabilities have been patched.
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Documentation Working Group
The Documentation Working Group focuses on:
Comprehensive Documentation: Assist in developing detailed guides and references for all user roles (educators, course operators, site operators, and developers).
Improved Discoverability: Implement strategies to make documentation accessible, easy to find, and navigate (with a clear structure, table of contents, indexing, and search functionalities).
Enhanced Reliability: Ensure that documentation is always up-to-date and easily accessible.
A Sensible Ecosystem: Prioritize and support an Open edX® documentation ecosystem that has clear sources of truth that are best suited for their purpose or need.
Community Engagement: Encourage a collaborative environment where community members can contribute and find support.
By concentrating on these areas, we aim to provide a robust and user-friendly documentation ecosystem on Read the Docs that supports the Open edX stakeholders.
How to join us
All public Working Group meetings follow the
Recording Policy for Open edX Meetings
- Join our Slack Channel, #wg-documentation
- Join our monthly meetings – available on the WG Meetings Calendar (see
Active Working Groups for instructions, at the top)
Paragon Working Group Meeting
This meeting is the place where we will review component proposals and discuss topics related to coordinating our efforts or planning for Paragon’s future.
AI Extensions Working Group
Description: The AI Extensions WG focuses on the responsible integration of AI into the Open edX platform. We work together to identify high-impact use cases and define shared architectural patterns for ethical and sustainable AI adoption. Learn more on our Wiki.
Organizers: Felipe Montoya and Santiago Suarez
GitHub: openedx-ai-extensions
Slack: #wg-ai-extensions
Meetings: Monthly, every second Thursday at 13:00 UTC. Calendar