Certification Operations Team - Meeting Notes - July 28, 2016

The Joomla! Certification Operations Team (COT) meets every Thursday at 1:00 PM GMT. This meeting was held on July 28th, 2016 on Glip.

In attendance: Patrick Jungbluth, Luca Marzo, Andre Dreier, Richard van Tilborg, Hector Mansilla, Arjen Schrijvers, Todd Woodward, Pablo Pantoja.

Absents: Chris Keen, Deb Cinkus, Johan Van der Velde, Sam Suresh.

Luca reported news from Steering Meeting.
Certification Team Members are involved in the Pilot Test. The test is going very well, Sam is collecting feedbacks about the Exam Experience and will apply last tweaks to the platform.
Luca presented updates to the contracts for JLP to satisfy the request from Open Source Matters, about Trademark licensing and disclaimers.
Luca presented also the new system to receive and handle applications from Joomla! Learning Partners. With this new form, the COT will reduce the time needed to process an application as JLP to just few minutes. It will be published today.
All pending/incomplete applications as Joomla! Learning Partner will be rejected next days and people will be invited to re-submit the application using the new form.
Arjen invited members to take the Pilot Test before August, 1st.
Patrick stepped down as Team Leader of Certification Operations Team and suggest Luca as new Team Leader. Team voted and confirmed.
Luca opened an internal call for the Assistant Team Leader. Patrick will serve as Interim Assistant Team Leader.
Patrick will update the Volunteers Portal to reflect the new positions.

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

Meeting ends after 70 minutes.