Recap of the Kids Event Working Group Checkin Chat | Thursday 9 May 2019

Attending: @sunsand187 @melindahelt  @michelebutcherjones

Start: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1557432030338900

We Covered

  1. Updates from volunteers.
  2. Discuss Meeting Time Change
  3. Discuss next steps.

Updates from Volunteers

@sunsand187 is working on getting a handbook shell built. This will make it easier to house documentation.

The goal is to spend about 12 months creating, documenting and polishing the documents and then creating a handbook on the https://make.wordpress.org/community/ site for all organizers to easily access.

https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WordPress-Workshop-for-Kids-organiser-kit–AZQlFlZU7eZKdGm_j7OFHj2bAg-kxmOjjycWysa3jFYoaBTv

Needs for Researching

We have several camps looking to add on kids events in various states and need some help vetting laws and requirements.
We need to document a process for new camps that will provide easy to follow steps.

@michelebutcher-jones is going to work through some of the Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana and Missouri laws and report back in the coming weeks.

@sunsand187 mentioned having a grading system to eventually rate how easy it is to hold a kids event in a particular state, but also said that is a ways down the road.

Meeting Time Change Request

The meeting will now be held at 2000UTC on the Second and Fourth Thursdays of the month. This is to not conflict with the community-team meetings.

Translations and Editing

We still need editors and researchers. If you know anyone who is good with hunting down legal research and making legal speak sound human or if you are good with editing documentation we could use your help.

Please comment if you are available to edit and/or do some research.

Project Management Information

So I know a lot of people expressed interest but not everyone made it to todays meeting. I am sure more people will be getting involved over time. I did create a TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. Board so that we have some jumping off points for anyone to just dive in and start on micro pieces.

https://trello.com/invite/b/GryYJ7P9/0a44a78f320c0eb04013fa193b0663ce/wordpress-kids-events-planning

End: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1557432914349500

Next Actions

  1. @sunsand187 Will Document process for a new camp to vet state laws and requirements. And create the handbook structure.
  2. Team, Look over Trello and this post to stay up to date and provide feedback. https://trello.com/invite/b/GryYJ7P9/0a44a78f320c0eb04013fa193b0663ce/wordpress-kids-events-planning
  3. @michelebutcher-jones is working on state laws for Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and MIssouri

Next Meeting is Thursday, 23 May 2019, 2000 UTC/ 4pm EST. This chat will occur in the Make WordPress Community-Team 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/. channel.

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