Recap of June 28, 2016 Meeting

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  1. Welcome
  2. Lesson Plan Updates
    1. @melindahelt is on track to have the sample pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party parent plan done by Friday as she’d planned.
  3. Copyediting Updates
    1. @skarjune has completed copyediting the User Management lesson plan and is moving on to copyediting the Content Editor Overview lesson plan.
    2. @c3zh will work on copyediting the Creating Your WordPress talk lesson plan.
  4. Testing Updates
    1. @babssaul might be interested in testing in the future.
  5. Meeting Time
    1. ATTENTION!!! We will try out a new meeting time starting next Tuesday, July 5th. The new meeting time is 19:00 UTC.
  6. Announcements
    1. make.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ blogs are in the process of moving from P2s to O2s. It should happen soon, but there is no specific ETA. Per @chanthaboune, “This won’t mean too much for us – Tags will replace Categories and we will have a way to mark posts as done or not (depending on if it’s a task).” O2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. is a different theme: https://geto2.com/.
    2. Folks will be at WCNYC and Columbus (if they have one) contributor days and will focus on the theme lessons and getting the troubleshooting workshop together.