Tag Archives: procedures

Policies and procedures for how the Training team operates are scattered through old blog posts and throughout the website. These tags will identify content that should be in the team handbook.

Courtney Robertson 7:22 pm on June 16, 2015
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Recap of June 16, 2015

Slack Log

#procedures, #roles, #slides

Courtney Robertson 7:05 pm on June 9, 2015
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Recap of June 8

Slack Log

#procedures

Courtney O'Callaghan 4:56 pm on June 2, 2015
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Agenda for June 2, 2015

Slack Log

#procedures, #roles

Courtney O'Callaghan 7:05 pm on May 19, 2015
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Recap of May 19, 2015

Slack Log

Overview of last week

Lesson Plan (LP) review

Evolving team priorities and needs

  • Roles we have or need (current person)
  • Priorities of the team in order
    • Fully test all of the finished LPs
      • slides
      • standardizing length/ease of use
      • make edits across all LPs as testing results come in
      • tightening feedback loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop.
    • Make new LPs

Planned actions + timeline

  • Next Meeting
    • Slides (review history + progress next meeting)
    • Page discussing teaching challenges (Yay/Nay? next meeting)
    • Come up with ideas to make testing possible (discuss next week)
  • Immediate 
    • Volunteer for role(s) (via blog all week)
      • Add time it took to the testing questionnaire (not a role, but need volunteer)
    • DM Tracy/Courtney about Lead (via SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. all week)
    • Decide on time to discuss Nigeria and WC
      • Probably Monday 1700UTC (alternate suggestions in Slack please)
      • Talk to outreach about this on Thursday (need volunteer)

#procedures, #roles

Courtney O'Callaghan 3:09 pm on May 12, 2015
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Recap of May 5, 2015

Slack Log
We dedicated the meeting to team priorities/issues review.

Prioritized Issue Register:

  1. unexpected personal issues (includes work)
  2. time change
  3. NUX meeting overlap
  4. evolving team priorities/needs
  5. team role burn-out

Actionable Solutions:

  1. unexpected personal issues (includes work)
    1. more people
    2. clear communication
  2. time change
    1. time is good, just send more reminders
    2. reassess at Northern Autumn (Fall time change)
  3. NUX meeting overlap
    1. may be issue when it restarts, review later
  4. evolving team priorities/needs + team role burn-out
    1. set aside NEXT meeting to review roles, needs, etc

#procedures

Tracy Levesque 7:53 pm on March 3, 2015
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Recap of March 3, 2015 Meeting

Slack log (Requires SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account)

Status of Lesson Plans in Progress

  • How to find help with WordPress (@abuango)
    Abubakar received some feedback from @bethsoderberg and the rest of the group.

Other Items

  • Style Guide (@bethsoderberg)
    Beth added Skitch and Monster WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. to the style guide. She is planning on writing a little Skitch tutorial once I add the new screenshots to @suzettefranck‘s lesson plan. The group discussed adding the XML sample content for themes to the style guide.
  • Profile Badges
    @samuelsidler got us up-to-date on the Training profile badge situation. Meta folks are trying to figure out why the training badge isn’t showing up. There is a ticket for it: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/918We also talked about automating badges. @liljimmi proposed: editing a lesson plan or having a user role of Editor and above earns a badge. People agreed that any edit should earn a badge, but not just having an author user role.

    @juliekuehl mentioned wanting to keep a manual option for folks who test plans.

  • 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. Lancaster was great! 5 folks from Team Training gave a presentation on non-code ways to contribute to WordPress.

#procedures

Tracy Levesque 9:06 pm on February 17, 2015
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Recap of February 17, 2015 Meeting

Slack log (Requires SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account)

Status of Lesson Plans in Progress

Other Items

  • Style Guide
    We decided to add Skitch for screen shot annotations and the Monster Widget plugin for widget placeholders to the Style Guide.We would like feedback from folks on a preferred XML file for sample content https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test or http://wptest.io/

#procedures

Tracy Levesque 9:35 pm on February 10, 2015
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Recap of February 10, 2015 Meeting

Slack log (Requires SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account)

Today we had a full house – glad so many people could attend!

News Lesson Plans!

Status of Lesson Plans in Progress

  • Choosing and Installing Plugins (@suzettefranck)
    Suzette had a style question re: callouts and arrows. There should be examples of callouts. @bethsoderberg said you she would think about that and come back next week with a solution, because the style guide was unclear about what specific callouts should look like.
  • Managing Media (@mikemueller)
    Mike: “I would love someone to look over the managing media and let me know what I am missing” @courtneydawn and @suzettefranck volunteered to look it over.

Other Items

  • Abandoned Plans
    We came up with a policy for contacting MIA lesson plan authors before a plan is considered abandoned and up for grabs. After 3 unanswered contacts and 3 meetings have been missed it will go back into the pool.
  • Spreadsheet
    Our Google Spreadsheet is woefully out of date. We want to open it up for more folks to edit. We decided to open it up to folks who are lesson plan authors and have regularly attended at least 3 meetings.
  • Supportflow
    We are up and running with Supportflow! Thank you, @iandunn
  • NUX
    Team Training is strongly encouraged to join the New User Experience Working Group. More info: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/02/05/4-2-community-initiative-nux-working-group/
  • 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. Lancaster – Feb 28 (@courtneyengle, @courtneydawn, @liljimmi, @bethsoderberg and @juliekuehl)
    Sildes are due 2/18. We can regroup here for that throughout the week. Just tag each other.

#procedures

Tracy Levesque 7:40 pm on January 6, 2015
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Recap of January 6, 2015 Meeting

Slack log (Requires SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account)

Status of Lesson Plans in Progress

  • Choosing and Installing Plugins (@suzettefranck)
    Suzette is done a first draft and got feedback from the group – it looks great! She is going to work on it more and have it ready for copyediting next week.

New lesson plans!

Other Items

  • Slides (@bethsoderberg)
    Beth and Jan are working on Slides
  • Supportflow (@liljimmi)
    @iandunn says he’s waiting on @nacin to create our account. We gave him a gentle reminder.
  • 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. Lancaster – Feb 28
    A bunch of us from Team Training will be there and are putting in a speaker submission to present on non-code ways to contribute to WordPress.

#procedures, #slides

Tracy Levesque 7:17 pm on December 16, 2014
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Recap of December 16, 2014 Meeting

Slack log (Requires SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account)

Status of Lesson Plans in Progress

  • Managing Media (@mikemueller)
    Mike shrank the video down to 4mb and was able to upload a mp3. He is all set to finish the lesson plan.

Other Items

  • Content Audit pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party (@juliekuehl)
    Julie did a blog entry on requesting the Content Audit Plugin https://make.wordpress.org/training/2014/11/08/request-for-the-content-audit-plugin/ She will also ask about it on the meta channel.
  • Profile icons (@suzettefranck)
    Suzette gave us an update. The automatic icon system is broken, so icons have to be entered in manually. They are working on fixing it.
  • Supportflow (@liljimmi)
    Tracy chatted with @iandunn at the Community meeting and he is going to help get us up and running with Supportflow.

#content-audit, #procedures