1. Content flow and process (see Aimee’s post on this for quick reference)

• Talked about item 1 and 4 in the post first
• Item 1:
  • David’s share—copyediting a lesson used to be what group meant by “content flow.” Content flow is slightly bigger now to include the idea generating and pitching of lessons, then testing lessons and getting/using that feedback
• Item 4:
  • Beth: general consensus on what the process should be or is, but implementation is where we’re getting stuck. Different people come and go, and they interpret the process differently. This creates inconsistency and confusion around what is most recent and up to date and the final choice
  • Scott and Melissa: Yes. We need to just state what is, and include that as a handbook page to clarify how to implement/improve documentation
  • Julie: we need to lock down a process to be THE process. We suffer from the open source collective action inertia. The process can serve as a president/decision maker
• Item 3:
  • Have tried all the ways to manage/own steps
  • From what I am hearing, this is closely intertwined with volunteer management and expectations in open source community
  • Content management and documentation closely linked
• Clues to track down existing information to help with getting this endeavor to have a definitive process underway:
  • Trello board won’t work, but may have most up to date information/data
    • Consider Github—then:
      • wordpress.org = handbook only
      • wordpress.org = lessons
      • Github = in between
    • Copywriting plugins to manage who is managing steps is a nixed idea
    • Constrained by Make site (its reorganization disoriented many). Anything else we use must be free and open source
  • Five buckets make the top level flow
    • Vetting ideas
    • Create lesson plans + edit
    • Test
    • Combine into workshops (curricula)
    • Maintenance
    • Onboarding/Welcome wagon/who writes a lesson plan and how?

2. Inventory of what we have

• A bit of clarifying Q&A around observations so far
  • Theme lessons are not necessarily how to develop themes that meet WP standards, they are meant to teach people how to use themes
  • WP handbook versus our team—don’t match, but we’re teaching to a simplified bar
  • To include or not include plugin lessons—there is a moratorium on them so maybe put them to the side for now
• Observation on lack of clarity around learner levels and lack of connection to pre-requisite knowledge assets
• Style guide says to write a script (dialogue) for the lesson plan instead of the information to cover — conversation around script v. no script
  • Verdict: we are not about scripted lessons—if you do not know what you’re doing (yet), don’t teach it!
• Conrad suggests another section in the lesson plan template on prerequisites for the teacher as well as the learner

3. Team goals

• Not covered today

4. Next steps

• Conrad will continue with preliminary inventory. Should be done by Monday next week (14). Next stage is an estimated further 3 weeks
• Aimee will continue to move forward with content flow work. Will also need to take time because of client deadlines and speaking at WordCamp for Publishers next week
• Other next steps rest of group can be working on:
  • How lesson plans are structured, reformulated
  • What are our goals around a usable lesson plan? (Based on experiences and insights from testing)