Agenda for November 24, 2015 Meeting

Welcome

The WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through learn.wordpress.org.

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Current Focus Areas – What we’re currently focusing on

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Meetings (Calendar)

You can join these meetings from the #training Slack channel:

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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This week’s meeting will be all about prepping for 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. US, which is just days away at this point! YAY!

Welcome
Lesson plan updates
Testing updates
WordCamp US
1. Logistics/finding each other (in person/virtually on 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/. & Twitter)/what to bring
2. Community Summit
3. Team Working Day Agenda – We already have basic scheduling constraints. Each possible agenda item below has any backup documentation listed under it. Please add anything I’ve missed in the comments.
  - Google hangout?
  - Slides
    - General slides post
    - List of slide decks (or not) that people have used to test the plans
    - July 31 special slides meeting recap
  - Organization of website (make.wordpress.org/training)
    - Training handbook draft outline
  - Identifying priority lesson plans
  - Lesson plan testing process
  - Revisit last year’s agenda and unfinished to dos
    - Recap of 2014 prep meeting
    - 2014 agenda
  - Roadmap for the future
  - Work time
  - Team coffee?
4. 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/.
  1. Work on lesson plans that have been identified as a priority
  2. Speaker lesson plan tasks
  3. Lesson plan testing training
  4. Auditing of existing plans that are ready for testing
What do we want to/need to discuss at next week’s (short and snappy) meeting? Prepare before WCUS?
Questions

If you have any other agenda items, please add them in the comments below!

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