Category Archives: Event Recap

Courtney O'Callaghan 6:33 am on October 28, 2014
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Google Hangout for October 27, 2014 Meeting

Hi folks! @liljimmi and I were unplugged all day at the Community summit which is why we weren’t online. We created an event for our Google Hangout tomorrow

WCSF Team Training hangout – Google+
A Google hangout during our regularly scheduled IRC chat time so folks who can’t be in SF can join us.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c4kc3b9l6426rinesevi2edt3bc?authkey=COPLs7uKzdPdsgE

It will be at 18:00 UTC, our regularly scheduled meeting chat time. We will have our meeting and folks who can’t be here with us in SF can join in on Google Hangout.

Actual agenda will be posted before meeting, it will be similar to agenda we planned at last meeting for two days of 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..

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Tracy Levesque 3:03 pm on September 23, 2014
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WCSF 2014 Team Meetup Agenda Ideas During our…

WCSF 2014 Team 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. Agenda Ideas

During our Sept 16 IRC chat we threw out some ideas of what we should do during our IRL team meetup at WCSF2014.

In addition to Brunch and playing Cards Against Humanity, below is what we came up with. Feel free to add more in comments.

  • Recruit more folks for Team Training
  • Finalize a process for approving a module
  • Finish up unfinished modules
  • Clean up the list of modules we want done and create a priority list
  • Define module groups for all-day or weekend trainings
  • Determine a land for “betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process.” modules that need live testing and Finished modules for use and Meetups need to know they are available and solidify our connections with the Meetup team
  • Talk about revision process

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Courtney O'Callaghan 5:26 pm on August 1, 2014  

WC NYC

Hey Everyone!! Tracy and I are at the development day at 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. NYC. We have 9 people working on training modules. WOO HOO!!

We are around all weekend, so if you are in town, come find us.

Tracy Levesque 2:43 am on June 10, 2014  

WordCamp Philly Dev Day Report @courtneydawn and I…

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. Philly Dev Day Report

@courtneydawn and I were both at WCPhilly and decided to use dev day to recruit folks to help with the Theme School project. It was a great day and a lot got accomplished.

@liamdempsey made new and improved graphics for the child themeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/. module. He also made new file/folder screenshots with the Mac OS as per @jenmylo‘s request.

Reed Gustow and @tecdoc made an outline for a new Templates module.

@chrisurban worked on a new Conditional Tags module

@ruthkalinka Copy edited some of the Child Theme module and will finish up soon. She and @courtneydawn also went through the rest of the misc pages and updated them.

We added pages for the Intro to CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. module that @jerrysarcastic is going to work on and a Template Hierarchy module that I am going to work on.

I started adding the text for the new modules, I will have that done this week.

We let everyone know when the IRC chat was and helped them get on IRC so they can join the weekly meetings. We hope to repeat this at WordCamp NYC dev day.

Tracy Levesque 2:24 pm on June 3, 2014
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Second Run of the Child Theme Training Module…

Second Run of the Child ThemeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/. Training Module

Last night I did a test run of the Child Theme Training Module https://make.wordpress.org/training/modules-in-progress/child-theme-module/ at the Philly ‘burbs WordPress Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/philly-burbs-wordpress-meetup/events/184589022/).

It was a small group – around 10 folks with varying skill sets. I told them about the training project and let them know they were helping test it and that I wanted their feedback at the end.

I did make a slide deck for the training http://slides.thetracyl.com/burbs/. It contained the main points and notes I could refer to (hit the S key to see the notes while viewing the slides).

I went through each section and did a live demo of building a child theme at the same time. We skipped the group exercises for lack of time and because it was not a classroom situation, but I did just ask folks to talk through how they would do the exercises. As a group they did well on the quiz.

Overall, I think it went great, the feedback was very positive. I asked people what they thought and they said they understood the material.

I asked them how it could be better. @liamdempsey thought the graphics illustrating how the Child Theme affects the Parent could be better. I asked him to please send me any mock ups or suggestions. Another person said it would be helpful to know information about the setup on the demo computer – Browser, OS, text editor, etc. – at the outset of the class.

Most of the folks at the 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. are coming to WCPhilly. I let them know we were planning on working on more modules at Dev day.

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