Agenda for December 1, 2015

We will consolidate this meeting post to serve as the agenda and recap this week.  Safe travels for those attending #WCUS.

1. Welcome
2. Lesson plan updates
3. Testing updates
4. WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US
   1. Logistics/finding each other (in person/virtually on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ & Twitter)/what to bring
      1. Use the Training Slack Channel to stay in touch throughout the event
      2. Need to touch base with @courane01 or @bethsoderberg?  Use Twitter DMs.   https://twitter.com/courtneyengle &  https://twitter.com/bethsoderberg
      3. Travel help
         1. Septa Independence pass $12/day
         2. Map of all WCUS venues (thanks @liljimi)
         3. Moovit for public transportation routes & schedules and Waze for GPS
         4. Laptop needed only for Dec 3 Community Summit Workday and Dec 6 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. (Power strips and projector adapters = bonus)
   2. Community Summit – Dec 2 Unconference Day 9am-5pm EST
   3. Team Working Day Agenda December 3 9am-5pm EST – We already have basic scheduling constraints. Each possible agenda item below has any backup documentation listed under it. Please add anything we’ve missed in the comments.
      • Google hangout for team members unable to attend in person on December 3
        • DM @courane01 in slack with your preferred address to be invited to the hangout
        • Submit your preferred times to join via hangout
      • Slides
        • General slides post
        • List of slide decks (or not) that people have used to test the plans
        • July 31 special slides meeting recap
      • Organization of website (make.wordpress.org/training)
        • Training handbook draft outline
        • Basic site map of what the site has now
          • @courane01 created a Google Doc of Training Team Sitemap and a mindmap visual version
          • @bethsoderberrg will move each piece to a post-it note
          • During #WCUS we will arrange these with our desired site structure
      • Identifying priority lesson plans
        • Spreadsheet of lesson plans in progress
        • List of workshops/lessons/statuses
        • Proposed workshops
      • Lesson plan testing process
      • Revisit last year’s agenda and unfinished to dos
        • Recap of 2014 prep meeting
        • 2014 agenda
      • Roadmap for the future
      • Work time – we will forgo individual work time to afford more team collaboration time
      • Coffee/breakfast before Community Summit on Dec 3 at http://www.elixrcoffee.com/  Elixr Center City 207 S. Sydenham St Philadelphia PA 19102
   4. Contributor Day
      • Work on lesson plans that have been identified as a priority
      • Speaker lesson plan tasks
      • Lesson plan testing training
        1. We’d like to have a few folks from our team available that day to train new people in testing lesson plans
      • Auditing of existing plans that are ready for testing
        1. Draft guidelines on how others can do this with hopes to share it to new people at Contributor Day
   5. Questions