Title: Contributor Day – WCSF 2014
Author: Courtney O'Callaghan
Published: October 26, 2014
Last modified: October 29, 2014

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#  Contributor Day – WCSF 2014

Bet (Fresno 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/](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.)

 * NPOs
 * 101 training

Tracy: Manageing content mod
 Tracy: break list to Theme Team and User Team

 * A lot of content mgmt

[courtneydawn@gmail.com](https://make.wordpress.org/training/contributor-day-wcsf-2014/courtneydawn@gmail.com?output_format=md)

[liljimmi@gmail.com](https://make.wordpress.org/training/contributor-day-wcsf-2014/liljimmi@gmail.com?output_format=md)

Josepha (KC meetup)

 * tester

Debra (client trainer)

 * maybe a tester

Greg Falkin

 * teaches small biz
 * written some curric

Courtney: Anything you love?
 Greg: User facing (post-launch use) Greg: Initially
wanted to work on documentation Courtney: Kit about the ways orgs can use WP

Beth: wrote style sheet

 * Want people to feel empowered to do their jobs.
 * is a developer

Alex

 * biz training
 * team mgmt

Bet: user mgmt
 Tracy: user v coder

Brigit (WP Trainer)

 * WP trainer
 * did Hierarchy template
 * how to get the research needed
 * find this on [mike.org](http://mike.org/)
 * how to connect to other teachers and best practices

Court:[ teacher resource page](https://make.wordpress.org/training/teacher-resources/)

Alex and Elise (client training)

 * He wrote the curric
 * she presents the curric
 * focused on users
 * Alex trains advanced developers
 * CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the
   design or look and feel of a site. as a tool for theme development

Don’t always need PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor)
is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially
suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. [https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php](https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php)
to modify themes
 Intro for Devs New to WP

 * Module about multilingual sites

Court: possible to have that be sequential

Bill (inspired by Tracy)

 * taught at IBM business centers
 * dev since 94

Tracy: what’s oyur love?
 Bill: 101, basic user skills

Stacy Duval (FE and Support contrib)

 * Was a teacher before dev
 * writes her own tutorials

Tracy: Theming, code or 101?
 Stacy: How to make a menu/BE customization

Kori (San Antonio, WCSA organizer)

 * training for 3 yrs
 * runs a bootcamp
 * Fasttrack (8 and 16 wks)
 * Conveying standards is going to be tough.

Tracy: Know that this is only live teaching setup.
 Court: You are supplement in
any way you need.

 * Is it possible to differentiate between tutorials and curriculum.

Wayne McWilliams (Kori’s dev)
 Tracy: finish up [conditional statements](https://make.wordpress.org/training/modules-in-progress/conditional-tags-module/)

Julie Keele (was  a trainer)

_________________
 Tracy: Let’s split the 101 kids and the Theme kids Tracy: 101
should come up with [a list of things](https://make.wordpress.org/training/proposed-101-modules/)
to make mods for

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