Recap of July 26, 2016 Meeting

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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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Lesson Plans and Copy Editing Updates:

@epetrashen has finished Intro to woocommerce, Dashboard Icons and What is Open SourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. Lesson plans.
@meaganhanes is going to copy edit Intro to woocommerce
Would @toniaslimm and @skarjune be interested in copy editing Dashboard Icons or What is Open Source?
@bethsoderberg will complete a copy editing audit in the coming week
@taupecat is working on Custom Fields (General) and notes that ACF is ready for testing (Ready for Testing page is out of date)
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. Boston 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/. had several people working on copyediting. If anyone has any progress on plans they were working on, please comment below.

Feedback Discussion:

@chanthaboune will work on a P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. post for the lesson plan feedback comments.

General Announcements:

@melindahelt attended marketing team meeting last week in regards to how to market smaller contributor teams. Low attendance at meeting but she will keep an eye on progress.

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