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NOTE: Next week we will be having a video call for our meeting instead of a chat in Slack. We’ll post the connection details in Slack next week in advance of our meeting time!
- Welcome
- Lesson Plan Updates
- @beckster is working on the WordFence lesson plan
- @melindahelt‘s assigned plans could be taken over by others if they have time to do them before WordCamp Pittsburgh (September 17th)
- @epetrashen has completed What is Contact Form 7, What is Google XML Sitemap, Custom Post Types and Improving Site Performance
- @chanthaboune and @bethsoderberg took a look at what we have in the pipeline and what folks have been planning to work on, etc. and @chanthaboune suggested a pivot to take a breather on Plugins and look at the Themes for a while for a few reasons:
- There is still considerable confusion around Plugins that isn’t there for Themes. Themes is fairly straightforward in its current state.
- A bulk of Themes lessons have folks who are active on the team that are experts on the info in them, so we would all probably feel more at ease working with those.
- There is an actual deadline coming up for a Theme workshop (November 14-18).
- The initial theme workshop we’d identified in the past were:
- Basic Theme Configuration
- How to Find Theme-Specific Documentation
- Font Management
- Customizer: CSS Changes
- Customizer: Taglines
- Customizer: Static Front Page vs. Content Feed
- Customizer: Site Icons and Logos
- Customizer: Header and Background Images
- Customizer: Menus
- attendees (@melindahelt, @meaganhanes, @mindsize, @bethsoderberg, @chanthaboune) agreed to move forward with the focus on the intro to themes workshop next. We’ll set Plugins aside for another day folks can choose whether they want to finish out their current lessons or not, but no one should feel bad about leaving it as a Work In Progress for later.
- @melindahelt and @bethsoderberg may be able to test this workshop in November.
- @mindsize wrote a post on outlining a development set of courses. Please read and comment on it! There was a general feeling in the chat that moving to development lessons after the intro theme workshop could be ideal.
- Copyediting Updates
- @skarjune is working on copyediting the What is Open Source plan
- @c3zh is working on copyediting the What is W3 Total Cache plan
- The current list:
- @bethsoderberg and @meaganhanes will divvy up the other plans and try to catch up on copyediting throughout this coming week or two.
- @bethsoderberg would like to formalize copyediting training and materials after we rework the website structure.
- Testing Updates
- None this week!
- Announcements and Questions
- @epetrashen did stellar job of pulling together that teacher resource outline. It is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QavwoLOYYL8tzrFuE-BdgDFt8j9U77R8Ti250k8C1c0/edit. Please comment on the Google Doc or DM @epetrashen with your comments!
- @melindahelt will attend WordCamp Columbus, which is expected to have a small contributor day. She’ll work with anyone there who is interested in the Training Team.
- Please continue to comment on the post about the user experience of the website!
- NOTE: Next week we will be having a video call (using Zoom, which will require a download) for our meeting instead of a chat in Slack. We’ll post the connection details in Slack next week in advance of our meeting time!