Recap of February 28, 2017 Meeting

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Lesson Plan Updates
@juliekuehl is working on Internationalization this week.

Copyediting
@esteschris: copyediting is done on https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/theme-school/customizer-header-and-background-images/

Testing
@chanthaboune is pulling all the theme lessons into a workshop for Hack the Hood.

@morganestes tested https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/user-lessons/choosing-and-installing-a-theme/ at the OKCWP 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. Feb. 27. There’s a typo on the quiz that mixes up the right answer numbers, but the rest of the content in the lesson plan is good. The quiz is at https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/user-lessons/choosing-and-installing-a-theme/#quiz

Community Building
@juliekuehl suggested Certification / Gamification / Testing / Whatevs
She will be submitting it at https://wceurope.polldaddy.com/s/community-summit-2017-call-for-non-active-contributors

Q&A
@melindahelt asked about the status of the TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. board. Will ask again when @bethsoderberg is present.

donkiely 5:19 am on March 5, 2017

The WooCommerce lesson plan is finally done. It could use another look by someone else, since I needed to make some fairly substantial changes. https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/user-lessons/setting-up-e-commerce-introduction-to-woocommerce-plugin/

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