Wednesday #daily-updates
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Outreachy week 4: WordPress Meetup Organizer Training
The last week I was working with a newly created WordPress Meetup Organizer handbook. The training as it is now can be found here. As you can see, the pages were moved to the testing site and small quizzes were added. You are very welcome to try it out, and if you have any feedback regarding the way it works please feel free to let me know.
Some changes we will implement later are:
- Replace the links to the handbook materials with the links to the equivalent training site materials – after it will be decided where exactly will this site be hosted,
- Possibly expand the introduction and conclusion a bit.
Another alteration of the initial plan I didn’t mention last time is that we decided to have small quizzes after each lesson as opposed to larger quizzes in the end of each module, that is composed out of several lessons. The reasoning for that is that Sensei is designed in the way that if you want the “composed” quiz, all of the questions have to be linked to the module’s last lesson – which can become a disadvantage if you decide to move one of the lessons to another module or delete one of the lessons — the questions appended to this lessons will get orphaned and end up impeding the learning experience. On the other hand, having all questions based on the lesson’s content linked to exactly this lesson enables a more flexible, chunking and reuse-oriented structure.
Next week I’ll be working on questions for the WordPress deputy handbook-based training. And I will also get to go to WordCamp Europe, which I’m so excited about! I’m really looking forward to seeing community members in person and witnessing all the WordCamp glory and bonanza in real life, not just imagining it while reading the WordCamp organization-related materials. So please expect a full report about this trip next week 🙂 Also, at WordCamp Europe the WordCamp and Meetup organizer courses will be ready for testing on contributor day.
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Tuesday #daily-updates
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Monday #daily-updates
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Cami Kaos
- rescheduled Udaipur orientation – organizer technical difficulties
- WordCamp Antwerp budget closeout chat
- reviewed and signed WordCamp Phoenix venue contracts
- reviewed and signed WordCamp Orlando hotel agreement
- reached out to WordCamps Orlando, Vancouver, and Denver for a brief check-in
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Josepha
- WordCamp Omaha budget prelim
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courtneypk
- Attended WordCamp Udaipur orientation, which had to reschedule due to technical difficulties
- SupportPress triage and follow-ups
- Observed WordCamp Antwerp budget closeout
- Office hours
- Ordered swag for WordCamp Fayetteville
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Andrea Middleton
- office hours
- meeting with In Motion Hosting about possibly coming on as a global sponsor next quarter
- meeting with WordCamp Tampa about budget issues
- payments, income, and sponsorship invoices
- check in with @epetrashen about self-training project
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Sunday #daily-updates
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Saturday #daily-updates
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Friday #daily-updates
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Cami Kaos
- WCEU ancillary events discussion
- income attribution
- deep scrub of past two weeks’ sponsorship income
- triage
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Josepha
- Luxembourg Meetup orientation
- Novi Sad Meetup orientation
- Santa Barbard Meetup orientation
- Lisbon Meetup orientation
- Payments (Ottawa, OC, and EU)
- Updated Meetup handbook documentation
- Requested additional info from Hack the Hood for timeline purposes. 😉
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courtneypk
- Meetup orientation for Lisboa
- Ordered swag for Quebec meetup group
- SupportPress triage and follow-ups
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Thursday #daily-updates
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courtneypk
- SupportPress triage and follow-ups
- Meetup orientation for Quebec
- Meetup application vetting
- Vetted WordCamp Atlanta application – ready for interview/orientation
- Vetted WordCamp Nairobi application – declined and requested they hold at least 3 consecutive meetup events over 3 months
- Office hours
- Set up meetup site for Ile-Ife, Nigeria
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Cami Kaos
- second review of WordCamp Bhopal budget – additional questions
- outgoing payments
- sponsorship income attribution
- WCNYC sponsorship questions
- WCNYC CART/ ASL contracts – reviewed and signed
- budget closeout for WordCamp Hamilton
- mentor recruitment
- updated banner for WordCamp Rhode Island
- WordCamp Kent application vetting – additional info requested
- updated WordCamp NYC organizer roles
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Josepha
- Quebec Meetup orientation
- office hours
- Scheduled Lisboa orientation
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Josepha
WordCamp Status Weekly Report (June 9th to June 15th)
Hello, Community Team! This is a report of all the WordCamp applications that we’ve seen work on this week (from June 9th to June 15th).
If you have questions (or see something that’s missing) let us know in the comments!
1) 3 new applications that need vetting
WordCamp Kent, OH
WordCamp Nairobi, Kenya
WordCamp Atlanta, GA USA2) 4 applications asked to develop their local community
WordCamp York, UK
WordCamp Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
WordCamp Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana
WordCamp Manila, Philippines3) 0 application that need an orientation/interview (deputy scheduling orientation in parenthesis)
4) 3 WordCamps moved to pre-planning (sent agreement and signed, site created, templates, etc.)
WordCamp Kathmandu
WordCamp Sofia
WordCamp San Jose
WordCamp Salt Lake City, UT, USA5) 1 WordCamp that needs a budget review (deputy scheduling orientation in parenthesis)
WordCamp Bhopal
6) 0 WordCamps (with approved budgets) awaiting contracts
7) 2 WordCamps that need a signed contract
WordCamp Birmingham, Alabama
WordCamp Fayetteville8) 0 WordCamps waiting on Central Listing information
9) 2 WordCamps published to the schedule
WordCamp Belo Horizonte
WordCamp Los Angeles10) WordCamps with debriefs
WordCamp Bilbao
WordCamp Kansas City
WordCamp Marbella -
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Outreachy week 3: Down the Questions Path
The last week we continued with WordCamp Organizer Handbook-based questions: the second half of the question pool was composed, reviewed and corrected by @andreamiddleton and moved to the testing site we’re working on for now.
This actually raised a couple of questions on the quiz settings:
- What should be the passmark percentage for the quizzes included in the course?
- Should a learner be able to see which questions she answered incorrectly?
- Should a learner be given any further specific feedback based on the option she chose?
For question #1 it was decided the passing rate for all of the quizzes would be 100% because it’s really important that deputies/WordCamp & meetup organizers have mastery over program materials. That might force the learner to read the lesson not once, but twice – but that way we will be sure the most important points were all covered and hopefully understood.
If some of the questions from the set are answered incorrectly, we will ask a learner to retake the quiz. Given that, I thought we should really make sure that it is clear for the learner in this case which of the questions are answered incorrectly (then she can read the lesson again paying attention to the details related to this question). I recently had to pass a quiz myself where only the percentage of correct answers were shown, which made it hard to understand what was correct or not. It even involved some combinatorics. 🙂 The plugin we use, Sensei, unfortunately, does not allow retaking quizzes and displaying the questions answered incorrectly at the same time, so @hlashbrooke helped to add some custom functionality here. At the moment, the answer notes is pretty rough and displays overlapping text, but that’s something that we are going to remedy once we have all the content in place.
Regarding question #3, we toyed with the idea of having specific feedback to the questions options: i.e. when a learner selects a correct option there is something like “This is correct. <A rephrasing of the correct answer>”, and if not “No, this is not correct. <Explanation why not>”. The advantage of having feedback is that learner would get to understand better why they are wrong immediately, and not feel confused. There are also disadvantages: they won’t be likely to go and reread the text to try to understand why they are wrong, which may limit the understanding. And it actually turned out that with Sensei it’s only possible at the moment to have one feedback item shown no matter what the chosen option is. That lead us to leave feedback-related plans for now.
All in all, I think it’s a really nice compromise between keeping the main idea of what was originally planned and adjusting it to the way the e-learning plugin we use actually can do things.
Next week I’ll be working with @chanthaboune based on the new content added to the Meetup organizer handbook. The flow will be similar to the way the other two were/are being handled:
- Create an outline based on the way materials will be organized
- Move the handbook content to Sensei
- Start creating questions
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