Certification Operation Team - Meeting Notes - 24 March, 2016
By Luca Marzo on 2016-03-24 14:00 in Certification Operations Team
The Joomla! Certification Operation Team (COT) meets every Thursday at 1:00 PM GMT. This meeting was held on March 24th, 2016 on Glip.
Team members
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.
Discussion Outline
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Patrick and Luca reported news from the Steering Meeting.
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Certification Program will start officially in mid-april because of the trademark issue of the badges and delay with Contract approval.
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The whole Certification Team will perform the Pilot Test of the Certification Platform.
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Team will start screening process of JUGs and JoomlaDays applications.
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Luca will contact JRD Team to talk about a dedicated category for approved JLPs.
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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.
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Only approved trusted community members can supervise exam sessions at JUGs, JoomlaDays.
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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.
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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
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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.