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Training team is proposing integrating slides for instructors to use while presenting lessons.

Beth Soderberg 2:12 pm on August 1, 2015
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Recap of July 31 Slides Meeting

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We held a special meeting to discuss the subject of lesson plan slides.

Background

Last year at the community summit we discussed the inclusion of slides and were able to lay out some of the bigger concerns about using them. Since then we have tried a few different things along with coming up with a basic list of what we would want if we had a 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. Most recently there has been an attempt to use the photoshop comps made about a year ago and try them as google slides. This would have still been a stop-gap measure as many of the concerns brought up are really only solvable via a plugin. Concerns the team has discussed related to the slides include:

  • accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)
  • backwards compatibility
  • reuse
  • learning curve
  • lack of internet
  • design consistency between different sets of slides
  • maintainability
  • ease of updates

We’ve discussed the plugin many times over the past year including in January.

Pros and Cons of Google Slides
Pros

  1. The platform is similar to something many are familiar with as it’s much like PPT or Keynote.
  2. Allows color changes that would address accessibility issues.
  3. Allows offline mode and downloading of PDF versions.
  4. Allows for submission of template on Google Slides’ “repo”.

Cons

  1. There is no way to import the lesson plan content automatically as updates occur.
  2. May be hard to use.
  3. Seems to require fixed aspect ratio.
  4. Keeping design consistency from slide to slide, even with the master template, seems impossible to control with lots of people editing since you can just drag and drop elements on each slide.

The Reveal Option
Reveal came about as an idea after @bethsoderberg‘s initial HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites./CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. cutup earlier this year failed because of the impossibility of controlling vertical height issues. Reveal is just HTML, CSS, and JS and accounts for the slide height issues and theoretically it could also be integrated with a plugin.

Suggestions
@courtneydawn suggested a course of action moving forward that was discussed and agreed to by meeting attendees:

  1. We go back to creating a document that serves as a requirements definition doc for our pretend plugin.
    This will allow us all as a team to say what we think are necessary functionalities of our dream slide plugin
    and what would be just nice to have. We finish this by the time WCUSA comes around so we can workshop it with other teams and see if there are people out there who can help us.
  2. Rework the Google slides (if there is a volunteer) with no design components so that we can see what happens when the aesthetic functionality is not an issue. (@melindahelt volunteered to take this on with her most recent set of slides)
  3. See if someone who is going to do a test of one of our plans wants to create a set of slides of either Google or Reveal nature.

The overarching goal here is to create a series of functional test cases to look at together so that we can all discuss at WCUSA.

Moving forward @courtneydawn will lead a slides conversation every other week in the weekly team meetings that will establish the scope required for a plugin as well as enable the team to have a true sense of the universe of needs and issues with the slides so that we can make informed decisions at WCUSA.

#slides

Courtney Robertson 4:23 pm on July 21, 2015
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Recap of last meeting July 21 2015

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  • Recap of last meeting
  • Lesson plans status and questions
  • Testing status and questions
    • @melindahelt shared her lesson plan testing experience with Dashboard overview and High Level Overview
  • Slides update
  • Slides – Master view to tweak updates
  • Review initial Contributor Day process 
    • Calendar needed for manual tweaking about contributor days.
    • @courtneyengle will check on 3rd party integration with bots
    • Discussion on autotweeting the event hashtags with a general join WP on Slack https://make.wordpress.org/chat link @courtneyengle will check with Outreach
  • Questions & Misc
    • Welcome Wagon members will communicate together on who reached out to new members to avoid duplication

#contributor-days, #procedures, #slides, #testing

Beth Soderberg 5:43 pm on July 14, 2015
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Recap of July 14, 2015 Meeting

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  1. Welcome and recap of last meeting
  2. Lesson plan updates
  3. Testing updates
    • @melindahelt has testing feedback that she will submit this week.
  4. Slides
    • @bethsoderberg found some small font size and spacing issues when comparing the PSDs and Google Slides. We’ll check to see if @ariwinokur has a report on anything he’s found next week.
  5. Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. logistics
    • @courtneyengle checked with the Outreach Team and found that they do not have a specific RSS/iCal/etc feed of Contributor Days at this time. The hope was to use this with some automation that @ariwinokur was working on.  However, we’ll need to stick to manual for now.
    • @bethsoderberg will start a draft plan for next week to handle contributor days for each of the following scenarios. @melindahelt will take on whatever needs to be done on the plan next week.
      • Someone from team can attend the contributor day
      • Someone from team can monitor Slack on the contributor day
      • No one from team can attend or monitor Slack on the contributor day
  6. Future logistics discussions
    • We all agree that we’d like to discuss lesson plan continuity in the future.  As updates to WordPress are released, we’d like our content to be reviewed to ensure that it’s current. When we have this conversation we’ll want to revisit the 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 conversation we had in October 2014. @courtneyengle is going to check with the WPTV team to see how the TV video plugin is developing and how they plan to maintain and address changes in content as WP evolves.

#content-audit, #contributor-days, #slides, #testing

Courtney Robertson 7:29 pm on July 13, 2015
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Agenda for July 14, 2015

  1. Greetings
  2. Recap of last meeting
  3. Lesson plans status and questions
  4. Testing status and questions
  5. Slides update
  6. Continue Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. brainstorm
    1. No Contributor Day RSS/iCal feed yet
    2. Automation
  7. Questions

Please add any additional agenda items to the comments!

#contributor-days, #slides

Beth Soderberg 1:03 am on July 1, 2015
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Recap of June 30, 2015 Meeting

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  1. Welcome and recap of last meeting
    • @bethsoderberg will add venue information and clarification that you don’t need to test at a formal 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. to the Testing Guide.
  2. No updates on lesson plans in progress or on testing
  3. Slides
    • @courtneyengle put together a draft version of a slide template from the PSDs we have using Google Slides.
    • There are some concerns about the slides as they are now, including the following issues:
      • Eventually we will want these in both 4:3 and 16:9, depending upon the projectors available. Will it be unsustainable to maintain two versions of the slides for each lesson plan?
      • Folks who aren’t familiar with the templates may have trouble with the formatting for a correct answer and for quotes.
    • If we use Google Slides in the future, we’ll need to set up a process for folks to use the templates maintained by team training and transfer ownership of the sliders to the team after creation.
    • @bethsoderberg and @ariwinokur will check the PSDs against the Google Slide templates this week.
  4. 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. Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. brainstorm
    • We brainstormed some ideas about how the training team can interact with folks at contributor days both when a team representative can be present and when we can not.
    • In general, we had a bunch of ideas about creating lists of things people at contributor days can do to help out. These ideas included the following:
      • Translating plans
      • Making plans to test plans
      • Checking to confirm that plans are still up to date after new WP releases
      • An ongoing list of little tasks
    • We all agreed that it would be awesome if a representative could always be there, but since that’s not possible we talked about having a representative video chat with contributors and/or be available via Slack to help with questions, setting people up, etc.
    • Not every Contributor Day is attached to a WordCamp and not every WordCamp has a Contributor Day.
    • @ariwinokur will look into automating Slack notifications from a feed of upcoming events and @juliekuehl will work on an initial list of upcoming contributor days if automation isn’t possible.

#contributor-days, #slides

Courtney Robertson 10:46 pm on June 29, 2015
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Agenda for June 30, 2015

  1. Hello, welcome new people
  2. Recap of last meeting
    • Venue suggestions for testing
    • Clarification on testing groups (not Meetup.com required)
    • How is the welcome wagon doing with new people?
  3. Lesson plans status and questions
  4. Testing status and questions
  5. Slides update
  6. 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. Point of Contact duties and procedures
  7. Questions

#slides

Courtney Robertson 5:57 pm on June 23, 2015
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Recap of June 23, 2015 Meeting

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  1. Hello and recap of last meeting
  2. Lesson plans status and questions
    • Team reports work in progress
  3. Testing status and questions
    • Seeking suggestions for finding venues
      • Library
      • Chamber of Commerce
      • Cowork spaces
      • Colleges
  4. Questions on new team roles
    • Welcome Wagon DM script
    • @courtneyengle Create a script for 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. Point of Contacts
  5. Slides – @courtneyengle will migrate Training Slides PSDs to Google Slides templates and report back next week

#procedures, #roles, #slides, #testing

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 6:18 pm on May 26, 2015
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Recap of May 26th Meeting

Slack Log

  • Lesson Plan Updates
  • Reviewed List of Roles
    • @liljimmi wants to continue answering Support Flow tix and setting up new Authors
    • @bethsoderberg would like to keep handling the style guide, but start sharing copy editing duties
  • Slides
    • initial discussion and review of the designs requesting a slide plugin from the Meta team to integrate with the http://make.wordpress.org site and the Handbook
  • Volunteer for role(s) extended

#roles, #slides

Tracy Levesque 6:40 pm on January 13, 2015
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Recap of January 13, 2015 Meeting

Recap of January 13, 2015 Meeting

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Status of Lesson Plans in Progress

  • Choosing and Installing Plugins (@suzettefranck)
    Suzette needs another week to get the screen shots in.

Testing lesson plans

  • Intro to CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. (@chanthaboune)
    Josepha reported back on testing Into to CSS at a 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.: “our biggest problem was not having slides (I know this is a trouble spot for us). But we got overwhelmingly positive feedback on the content and the structure of the lesson. There were some nitpicky things people mentioned which I am still compiling and there were some presenter pain points as well.”

Other Items

  • Slides (@bethsoderberg)
    Beth will work on a HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. mockup of slides and then we will find a 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 developer to help us turn it into a plugin we can submit to the MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. team.
  • 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 submitted a speaker submission to present on non-code ways to contribute to WordPress.

#slides