Recap of January 20, 2015 Meeting

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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 CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. (@kdrewien)
    Kathy reported back on testing Into to CSS at a MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area.: “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 multisiteMultisite Multisite is a WordPress feature which allows users to create a network of sites on a single WordPress installation. Available since WordPress version 3.0, Multisite is a continuation of WPMU or WordPress Multiuser project. WordPress MultiUser project was discontinued and its features were included into WordPress core.https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network. 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.
  • 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. 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 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/ of a base reveal.js deck and make Courtney, Beth, Julie and Courtney contributors. We can all work on it that way.