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  Tracy Levesque 7:53 pm on March 3, 2015 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  Recap of March 3, 2015 Meeting 

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  Status of Lesson Plans in Progress

  • How to find help with WordPress (@abuango)
    Abubakar received some feedback from @bethsoderberg and the rest of the group.

  Other Items

  • Style Guide (@bethsoderberg)
    Beth added Skitch and Monster Widget to the style guide. She is planning on writing a little Skitch tutorial once I add the new screenshots to @suzettefranck‘s lesson plan. The group discussed adding the XML sample content for themes to the style guide.
  • Profile Badges
    @samuelsidler got us up-to-date on the Training profile badge situation. Meta folks are trying to figure out why the training badge isn’t showing up. There is a ticket for it: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/918

    We also talked about automating badges. @liljimmi proposed: editing a lesson plan or having a user role of Editor and above earns a badge. People agreed that any edit should earn a badge, but not just having an author user role.

    @juliekuehl mentioned wanting to keep a manual option for folks who test plans.

  • WordCamp Lancaster was great! 5 folks from Team Training gave a presentation on non-code ways to contribute to WordPress.

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    Samuel Sidler 1:58 am on March 4, 2015 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    The ticket for automation is https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/929, but it’ll probably take a bit for us to get it done as there are other priorities.

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      Tracy Levesque 2:03 pm on March 4, 2015 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Thanks, Sam!

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  Courtney O'Callaghan 5:57 pm on February 24, 2015 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  Agenda for February 24, 2015 

  New people in Training welcome
  Assign new lesson plans
  Review lesson plans in progress
  Abandoned Plans
  Spreadsheet
  WP Lancaster (last time!)

   
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  Tracy Levesque 9:06 pm on February 17, 2015 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  Recap of February 17, 2015 Meeting 

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  Status of Lesson Plans in Progress

  • Managing Media (@mikemueller)
    Mike got some feedback from @suzettefranck and needs to add the quiz.

  Other Items

  • Style Guide
    We decided to add Skitch for screen shot annotations and the Monster Widget plugin for widget placeholders to the Style Guide.

    We would like feedback from folks on a preferred XML file for sample content https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test or http://wptest.io/

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    Courtney Engle Robertson 1:11 pm on February 18, 2015 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    While I like using what WordPress Codex provides (technically at https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/demo/theme-unit-test-data.xml), I also like having the demo site to know what I’m installing at http://wptest.io/demo/.

    The developer shares why his test unit data may be more thorough at http://wptavern.com/wp-test-unit-testing-data-for-wordpress-themes-and-plugins#comment-48407, such as “true non-breaking text tests in all areas it can be used”.

    I can see when WP Test was last updated at https://github.com/manovotny/wptest with explanations of what was updated and have a clear idea how to contribute to improving this moving forward. I can see when the Codex test data was last updated but am not clear on what was changed or how to help improve this moving forward. Likewise, I don’t have a demo to see before importing the file from Codex.

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  Courtney O'Callaghan 5:58 pm on February 17, 2015 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  Agenda for February 17. 2015 

  New people in Training welcome
  Assign new lesson plans
  Review lesson plans in progress
  Abandoned Plans
  Spreadsheet
  WP Lancaster

   
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  Tracy Levesque 9:35 pm on February 10, 2015 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  Recap of February 10, 2015 Meeting 

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  Today we had a full house – glad so many people could attend!

  News Lesson Plans!

  • How to find help with WordPress (@abuango)
  • Troubleshooting Basics (@ariwinokur)

  Status of Lesson Plans in Progress

  • Choosing and Installing Plugins (@suzettefranck)
    Suzette had a style question re: callouts and arrows. There should be examples of callouts. @bethsoderberg said you she would think about that and come back next week with a solution, because the style guide was unclear about what specific callouts should look like.
  • Managing Media (@mikemueller)
    Mike: “I would love someone to look over the managing media and let me know what I am missing” @courtneydawn and @suzettefranck volunteered to look it over.

  Other Items

  • Abandoned Plans
    We came up with a policy for contacting MIA lesson plan authors before a plan is considered abandoned and up for grabs. After 3 unanswered contacts and 3 meetings have been missed it will go back into the pool.
  • Spreadsheet
    Our Google Spreadsheet is woefully out of date. We want to open it up for more folks to edit. We decided to open it up to folks who are lesson plan authors and have regularly attended at least 3 meetings.
  • Supportflow
    We are up and running with Supportflow! Thank you, @iandunn
  • NUX
    Team Training is strongly encouraged to join the New User Experience Working Group. More info: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/02/05/4-2-community-initiative-nux-working-group/
  • WordCamp Lancaster – Feb 28 (@courtneyengle, @courtneydawn, @liljimmi, @bethsoderberg and @juliekuehl)
    Sildes are due 2/18. We can regroup here for that throughout the week. Just tag each other.

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    Alexandre Simard 2:38 am on February 11, 2015 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    I feel concerned by the Abandoned Plans item. I took one on at WordCamp San Francisco, but I have been swamped with work since then and I have not worked on it at all. It’s time for me to officially (cue the music…) let it go. I’m really sorry.

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      Alexandre Simard 2:41 am on February 11, 2015 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      The plan I had started is this one: Choosing and Installing Themes, in the User track.

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        Tracy Levesque 6:02 pm on February 12, 2015 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Aw, thank you for starting it. Everything helps!

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        Courtney O'Callaghan 5:55 pm on February 17, 2015 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Ditto what Tracy said – we are happy to have the help and will find it a new owner

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  Tracy Levesque 8:10 pm on January 20, 2015 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  Recap of January 20, 2015 Meeting 

  Slack log (Requires Slack login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account)

  Status of Lesson Plans in Progress

  • Managing Media (@mikemueller)
    Mike is almost done with Media Manager: “I have the document, image, and sound done, just need to do the video aspect and then the questions.””

  • Choosing and Installing Plugins (@suzettefranck)
    Suzette: “I have added screenshots and finalized the lesson, and it is ready for copy-editing.”

  Testing lesson plans

  • Intro to CSS (@kdrewien)
    Kathy reported back on testing Into to CSS at a Meetup: “Feedback from my colleagues afterward suggested a more thorough description of what CSS is before the walkthrough. The walkthrough took a lot longer than I anticipated even after eliminating one of the exercises. It took 45 minutes to get everyone logged in to multisite Practice Site Demo and 2 hours for exercises”
  • General
    We will make a column for time on the spread sheet and enter in the time it took based on live testing.

  Other Items

  • Copyediting (@bethsoderberg)
    Beth recruited a potential new copyeditor, Rob. She will coordinate with him.

  • WordCamp Lancaster – Feb 28 (@courtneyengle, @courtneydawn, @liljimmi, @bethsoderberg and @juliekuehl)
    Courtney set a deadline date of a week before WCLanc to get slide content done. Tracy is going to create a repo on Github of a base reveal.js deck and make Courtney, Beth, Julie and Courtney contributors. We can all work on it that way.
   
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  Tracy Levesque 6:40 pm on January 13, 2015 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  Recap of January 13, 2015 Meeting

  Slack log (Requires Slack login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account)

  Status of Lesson Plans in Progress

  • Choosing and Installing Plugins (@suzettefranck)
    Suzette needs another week to get the screen shots in.

  Testing lesson plans

  • Intro to CSS (@chanthaboune)
    Josepha reported back on testing Into to CSS at a Meetup: “our biggest problem was not having slides (I know this is a trouble spot for us). But we got overwhelmingly positive feedback on the content and the structure of the lesson. There were some nitpicky things people mentioned which I am still compiling and there were some presenter pain points as well.”

  Other Items

  • Slides (@bethsoderberg)
    Beth will work on a HTML mockup of slides and then we will find a plugin developer to help us turn it into a plugin we can submit to the Meta team.

  • WordCamp Lancaster – Feb 28
    @courtneyengle submitted a speaker submission to present on non-code ways to contribute to WordPress.

   
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  Tracy Levesque 7:40 pm on January 6, 2015 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  Recap of January 6, 2015 Meeting 

  Slack log (Requires Slack login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account)

  Status of Lesson Plans in Progress

  • Choosing and Installing Plugins (@suzettefranck)
    Suzette is done a first draft and got feedback from the group – it looks great! She is going to work on it more and have it ready for copyediting next week.

  New lesson plans!

  • Settings (@kdrewlen)
  • Basic WordPress Concepts (@courtneyengle)
  • Backing up Your WordPress Site (@suzettefranck)

  Other Items

  • Slides (@bethsoderberg)
    Beth and Jan are working on Slides

  • Supportflow (@liljimmi)
    @iandunn says he’s waiting on @nacin to create our account. We gave him a gentle reminder.

  • WordCamp Lancaster – Feb 28
    A bunch of us from Team Training will be there and are putting in a speaker submission to present on non-code ways to contribute to WordPress.

   
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  Courtney O'Callaghan 5:36 pm on December 30, 2014 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  Agenda for December 30, 2014 

  Agenda:

  • New people in the training chat
  • Status of lesson plans in progress
    • Lesson Plan, status (done/copyedited/etc), issues
  • New lesson plan assignments
    • Do you need a new/first assignment?
  • Other Items + General Q & A

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    bazargoogle 4:31 pm on January 2, 2015 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    http://www.bazargoogle.com/

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  Courtney O'Callaghan 5:34 pm on December 30, 2014 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  Recap of December 23, 2014 

  • Only @bethsoderberg and @courtneydawn attended the meeting.
  • Jan got back with a draft of the slides
    • https://cloudup.com/cVmE0LjWosz
    • Need to decide where these templates will be hosted (shelve until Jan)