Recap of August 23rd Meeting

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1. Welcome
2. Lesson Plan Updates
   1. We combined the theme workshop we’ve defiend recently with some lesson plans from the spreadsheet to make a new list of lesson plans to focus on. Our draft of this was:
      • Finding a Theme for Your Site/
      • Evaluating a theme/
      • Activating Themes on Your Site/
      • Basic Theme Configuration/
      • How to Find Theme-Specific Documentation/
      • Theme Documentation/
      • Font Management/ Complete
      • Customizer: CSS Changes/ Complete (I believe)
      • Customizer: Taglines/completed by @epetrashen and is in copyediting
      • Customizer: Static Front Page vs. Content Feed/
      • Customizer: Site Icons and Logos/
      • Customizer: Header and Background Images/
      • Customizer: Menus/ @mindsize
      • Templates/ @juliekuehl
      • Themes/Plugins Relationships/ @coachwp
      • Widget Areas/ completed by @epetrashen and is in copyediting
      • Custom Post Types/ completed by @epetrashen and is in copyediting
      • Theme Accessibility/
      • Theme Internationalization/
      • Theme Troubleshooting/
   2. To review, theme-related plans that are already in testing are:
      • Anatomy of a Theme
      • Child Themes
      • Conditional Tags
      • Intro to CSS
      • Local Install
      • The Loop – @melindahelt noted that this lesson plan had factual inaccuracies when tested in Pittsburgh
      • Template Hierarchy
      • What to Include in functions.php
   3. @chanthaboune will wrangle this discussion into a plan for priority workshops.
   4. We are working on a goal of having materials prepped for a workshop in November that will be a week long. It will likely be a mixture of both the configuration lessons and the beginning developer lessons, according to @chanthaboune.
3. Copyediting updates
   1. @bethsoderberg will work on copyediting the ones @epetrashen wrote that haven’t been copyedited yet that fall into the theme category first
   2. @mindsize is still working on the copyedit for the Introduction to Woo plan
   3. Unassigned plans in need of copyediting are:
      • What is Contact Form 7
      • What is Google XML Sitemap
      • building a sitemap for a site
      • Improving Your Site’s Performance
      • What is W3 Total Cache
      • Web Fonts (higher priority than the others)
      • Dashboard Icons (higher priority than the others)
      • Help Regenerate Thumbnails
4. Other things
   1. @mindsize is talking to the organizer of WordCamp Peoria about a one day 101 training prior to the main conference.
   2. @mindsize wants to inspire outside contributions and involvement on the developer training post. We talked about reaching out to various WordPress news outlets, through the Outreach channel, and potentially through Central.
   3. If you know any developers who would want to chip in with infrastructure or curriculum development, send them this way
   4. @bethsoderberg will pick through the responses to the website post and come to this meeting with a sense of next steps to move forward on that.