Recap of November 3, 2015 Meeting

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1. Welcome
2. Recap of last meeting
3. Lesson Plan Updates
   • A few abandoned plans were taken over by 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/. attendees at 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. NYC.
4. Testing Updates
   • We had a conversation about the need to improve our testing feedback process:
     • @torlowski will do a trial run of having a feedback form for participants in the session at tomorrows WP Pittsburgh meeting
     • @bethsoderberg will write up a post on the website so folks can share their ideas.
     • We’ll continue to revisit this topic and have a full discussion in the coming weeks.
5. Lesson Plan Audit
   • We are doing our quarterly audit to determine an accurate list of plans people are currently working on. If the plan you are listed with is correct, please pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @abuango or @bethsoderberg to let them know. If you can no longer work on the plan listed, please ping and let us know. We’ll ping people in our Slack meetings for the next three weeks and the list will also be in the meeting recaps.
   • User Lessons
     • managing menus @wpnzach
     • what can you do with WordPress @meaganhanes
   • Theme Lessons
     • local installLocal Install A local install of WordPress is a way to create a staging environment by installing a LAMP or LEMP stack on your local computer. @courtneydawn
     • custom post types @olalaweb
6. WordCamp NYC Contributor Day update
   • The WCNYC contributor day was last Friday and we had awesome volunteers who worked mostly on abandoned lesson plans.
   • Feedback from @bethsoderberg: We need to have one very clearly defined set of tasks for people to work on and it is best to have a real person there to explain them. I think if we didn’t have a real human, we might not have attracted any volunteers. I also learned that our auditing of plans to make them current is something that (at least for me) I could not explain to new folks how to do very well because we don’t have a system since that is still an experiment so I think someone needs to go through with the work @mikemueller and @judylwh have done to make a process with clear instructions on how to do this new thing.
   • Our long term goal should be to recruit volunteers to be the liaison at contributor days since obviously when limited to the current team members we can’t be at all of them.
7. Team Handbook Outline
   • @courtneyengle has started drafting an outline for a new structure to the handbook.
8. WordCamp US
   • During the annual WordCamp – now WCUS, not just WCSF, there is a community summit day.  We have a few topics in terms of how the training team works that we need to talk about with the WP community at large. In order to be ready to ask those key people for help, we need to have a few things really thought out and documented. Therefore, preparation for WCUS is going to be our priority in the next few weeks.
   • Please add any items you have to the agenda in progress.
   • If you haven’t already, please comment on the slides post and also if you’ve tested plans, please share the slides you used,  or the method, or the print outs, or anything that would be a “material” .
   • We’ll also focus on refining our process to keep lesson plans updated.

#content-audit, #contributor-days, #slides, #testing, #wcus