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- Review of what Hack the Hood is from @dcole: They’re an Oakland-based organization that focuses on helping low-income students of color to learn coding skills. I believe they’ve been using Weebly for building websites, and we’re looking forward to helping them use WordPress. They often build a site for a local business, so it’s a win-win.
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Tier One Progress (beginning user lessons)
- We have some lesson plans that are ready to test (Installation, Dashboard Overview, Plugin Intro, and High Level Overview).
- We could repurpose the High Level Overview lesson plan to make sure that we’re including the concept of the WordPress open source project.
- @anthonypaul is close to being done with the User Management lesson plan.
- @torlowski will work on the Google XML Sitemap plan.
- @torlowski has already started the Contact Form 7 plan.
- @skarjune will work on the Content Editor Overview plan.
- @juliekuehl will work on the Overview of Common Plugins plan – @chanthaboune to clarify what this should be.
- @chmchm will work on the Local Install plan – @chanthaboune will post something in our blog to get consensus from the group about what this lesson plan should cover.
- We’ll add an Introduction to the Customizer lesson plan to Tier One.
- We need to add an Introduction to Common Plugins to Tier One.
- Remember that our audience is novices. The lesson plans will be taught by teachers of novices, but their end goal/responsibility is to those students/novices.
- Status of Tier One Lesson Plans
- Choosing and Installing Plugins – copyedited and tested once
- High Level Overview – copyedited and tested once
- Choosing and Installing themes – currently being worked on by @jcasabona; @chanthaboune will take a look and see if this should be rolled into the What is a Theme plan
- What is a Theme – started, not too far from completion
- Overview of Common Plugins – not started
- Introduction to the Customizer – not started
- Upcoming holiday season – many folks will be taking time to unplug and this is great!
To-dos from this meeting:
- Add an Introduction to the Customizer lesson plan to Tier One if the lesson plan that @jcasabona just copyedited (Using the Customizer) is not what we’re thinking for this
- Add an Introduction to Common Plugins to Tier One
- Add a post to the P2 to talk through what our approach should be to local installs.