Certification Operation Team - Meeting Notes - 19 November, 2015
By Luca Marzo on 2015-11-19 14:27 in Certification Operations Team
The Joomla! Certification Operation Team (COT) meets every Thursday at 1:00 PM GMT. This meeting was held on November 19th, 2015 on Glip.
Team members
Presents: Patrick Jungbluth, Sam Suresh, Luca Marzo, Pablo Pantoja, Hector Mansilla, Andre Dreier
Absents: Pamir Masharul Tasbeeh, Arjen Schrijvers, Chris Keen, Deb Cinkus
Discussion Outline
This is the fifth team report we publish on the volunteers portal.
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Patrick shared with the team the budget values for the Certification Program coming from the Certification Steering Meeting.
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Andre and Luca shared with the team a Workflow Brainstorming document in which they wrote some good practices and note about the application screening.
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Regional / National Coordinators applicants are not allowed to be employed of JLPs to avoid Conflict of Interests.
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C.O.T. will open a “Call for Volunteers” to recruit Regional Coordinators, an important role for the Certification Program.
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During this first phase of the program, COT will involve JUGs and Translation Teams to verify information about local JLPs applicants.
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Team suggested a name change for the “Certification Extension Team” to be rebranded as “Certification Platform Team”.
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The Team would suggest Sam Suresh as leader for the “Certification Platform Team”.
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The Team will write the Contract for JLPs and will submit to the OSM Legal Team for review.
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The Team will write the Agreement for Volunteers (RCs, JoomlaDays and JUGs organizers).
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The Team reviewed the workflow document in order to define a strong application screening process.
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The team will contact OSM to clarify some key problems about selling/billing certification exams and taxation rules.
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Sam shared with the team some important updates about the Certification Platform.
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Patrick updated the Exam pricelist according to the Big Mac Index.
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The price of the certification exams will be published on the Certification Program Website and Social Channels as soon as possible.
Meeting ends after 85 minutes.