Notes on December 20, 2018 Meeting

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1. Welcome and Meeting Outline
   1. @juliekuehl Welcomed everyone to the meeting and reviewed how the #Training team operates for the new comers and also touched on the outcome of 2018 and the projects accomplished. Julie also outlined the purpose of the meeting and asked about the goals for 2019.
   2. Link to the 2019 Goals post
   3. Suggestion for more videos on our YouTube channel from @fahim.
   4. @courtneyengle suggests:
      • TagTag Tag is one of the pre-defined taxonomies in WordPress. Users can add tags to their WordPress posts along with categories. However, while a category may cover a broad range of topics, tags are smaller in scope and focused to specific topics. Think of them as keywords used for topics discussed in a particular post. & categorize lesson plans by versions, themes, etc. in 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/ (digging back to the old Content Audit idea)
      • Purpose statement about videos on Youtube (target audience is those contributing to and accessing materials from the training team, not the end user to be trained)
      • Write guidelines for plugins created by an agency
      • On-boarding buddies
2. @juliekuehl mentioned that the lesson plans follow BloomBloom's Taxonomy Bloom's Taxonomy is a way of writing lesson plan objectives using specific words so that the objectives can be measured. See https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/guidelines/blooms-taxonomy/ for more details.’s TaxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. (more info) and that there are needs for translating videos from WordPress.tv into lesson outlines.
3. How to Contribute
   1. Look up projects on Trello.
   2. Review style guides available on our getting started page
   3. GitHub issues are listed out in Waffle.io 
4. Comments about GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg//5.0 and WCUS
   1. Suggestion on lesson for using 5.0 / differences between old editor and new editor.
   2. Newcomers to WordPress would not need lesson on legacy WordPress.
   3. @fahim links to Health Check Plugin
   4. @courtneyengle How to create a post lesson plan idea – reuse Comparing Classic Editor and Gutenberg for the tasks in creating a lesson plan. Create same plan using both modes.
5. Meeting Wrap Up and Next Meeting
   1. Next meeting on 3 Jan 2019 and resuming the usual weekly schedule after that.