Recap of May 19, 2015

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Weekly meeting: Thursdays 00:00 UTC

Dev-squad GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ triage: Thursdays 07:00 UTC

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Slack Log

Overview of last week

Need recap – @bethsoderberg volunteered to write up

Lesson Plan (LP) review

@bethsoderberg plans to copyedit @abuango‘s LP
@bethsoderberg will update spreadsheet
@michelebutcher working on contributing model
@melindahelt interested in testing plans

Evolving team priorities and needs

Roles we have or need (current person)
- Team Leads (@courtneydawn and @liljimmi )
- Copy editor (@bethsoderberg)
- Maintenance – style guide (@bethsoderberg)
- Point Person – Upcoming 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. 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://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.
- Maintenance – Spreadsheet (@bethsoderberg or @courtneydawn)
- Maintenance – Abandoned LPs (@bethsoderberg or @courtneydawn)
- New PL page maker
- Maintenance – Website
- SupportFlow – contact us form (@liljimmi)
- Welcome Wagon
- Point Person – Testing LPs
Priorities of the team in order
- Fully test all of the finished LPs
  - slides
  - standardizing length/ease of use
  - make edits across all LPs as testing results come in
  - tightening feedback loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop.
- Make new LPs

Planned actions + timeline

Next Meeting
- Slides (review history + progress next meeting)
- Page discussing teaching challenges (Yay/Nay? next meeting)
- Come up with ideas to make testing possible (discuss next week)
Immediate
- Volunteer for role(s) (via blog all week)
  - Add time it took to the testing questionnaire (not a role, but need volunteer)
- DM Tracy/Courtney about Lead (via 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/. all week)
- Decide on time to discuss Nigeria and WC
  - Probably Monday 1700UTC (alternate suggestions in Slack please)
  - Talk to outreach about this on Thursday (need volunteer)

#procedures, #roles

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