Certification Operation Team - Meeting Notes - 24 March, 2016

The Joomla! Certification Operation Team (COT) meets every Thursday at 1:00 PM GMT. This meeting was held on March 24th, 2016 on Glip.

In attendance: Patrick Jungbluth, Luca Marzo, Todd Woodward, Pablo Pantoja, Richard Van Tilborg, Arjen Schrijvers.

Absents: Chris Keen, Hector Mansilla, Deb Cinkus, Johan Van der Velde, Andre Dreier, Sam Suresh.

Patrick and Luca reported news from the Steering Meeting.
Certification Program will start officially in mid-april because of the trademark issue of the badges and delay with Contract approval.
The whole Certification Team will perform the Pilot Test of the Certification Platform.
Team will start screening process of JUGs and JoomlaDays applications.
Luca will contact JRD Team to talk about a dedicated category for approved JLPs.
Team discussed about the use of the word “Proctor” and difference of meaning between English (GB) and English (US), as reported by Hils on Github https://github.com/joomla/joomla-websites/issues/257 . Team decided to use “Supervisor” instead of Proctor.
Only approved trusted community members can supervise exam sessions at JUGs, JoomlaDays.
Team discussed about the implementation of the “Plan a session” feature of the Certification Website. We would have a form where approved JLPs and JUGs will ask for an Exam Session. Team will publish approved sessions in a public “Calendar” on the website, where users can view all the planned sessions. Team will find an extension and will implement it together with Certification Marketing Team.
András from the Marketing Team fixed the bootstrap issue on our Support Helpdesk and Team closed this issue on GitHub: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-websites/issues/252
Marketing Team will publish the exam pricelist on the Certification Website.

All of these meeting notes are not final and cannot be used as reference.

Meeting ends after 60 minutes.