Here are some notes from the training team hangout from 21. April 2016
Attendants: Philip Bauer, Fulvio Casali, Chrissy Wainwright, Carlos de la Guardia, Alec Mitchell, T. Kim Nguyen, Franco Pellegrini, Guido Stevens, Fred van Dijk
All trainings given at the conf have to be document on http://training.plone.org. Only this way the effort going into preparing the trainings has a long-lasting benefit.
We need a good landing page with audience and benefits (what will you learn) for each training
Trainings need to move to seperate folders (mastering plone needs to move out of the root-folder)
We need a short primer on how to write trainings (Fred will ask Sven and Paul). Thast should also be on the website.
Better search would be good (i.e. search for code-snippets)
All trainings without file-system development (4x Hacking Plone, Customizing search, Custom Workflows, Making a Plone Blog) should use the same setup:
The idea is to have special versions of the deploy-to-heroku-buttons for the trainings that install the addons needed for each (or all) training(s)
Alec Mitchell will talk to Eric Bréhault about the Heroku-Button and the set of add-ons we need for that
The file-system development training could use the same setup as the mastering plone-training (http://training.plone.org/5/plone_training_config/instructions.html)
The title is very generic, and would also apply to documentation. It would be good if this would clearly communicate that it's about training. My suggestion "Plone training - course manuals for all available Plone trainings".
The four sections target four distinct audiences:
content management - How to work with content and manage site settings in Plone
theming - How to style your Plone site
software customization - How to develop customized solutions with Plone
deployment - How to get your Plone site up and running
I would suggest to group "distribute" under software development, and also my upcoming ZCA training will fall under that heading, so it is broader than "mastering Plone".
Finally, given that this is the landing page for people looking for Plone trainings, the primary call to action IMO should be a schedule + signup for getting a training, rather than the meta action of improving the training docs. E.g. "Sign up for a training. -- Plone training events are a great way to expand your skills. Plus it's a great way to meet the community and have fun. -- [ select a training event ]".
I just put some example content there, for creating some kind of visual how it could look like, I thought some dummy text would give a better idea, it was never my idea to use any the dummy text on the real site.
You can see it on the logo too, I just dropped it there, it is not looking nice at all .
The other thing is, that I used jekyll for building a quick site, maybe it would be better to do it in Plone ? If so, someone has to step up and do it.
Same goes for the theme I only adjusted some css to make it more look like Plone 5, maybe some people would prefer to make it more plone.org [upcomimg one ]look like ?
@gyst Great suggestion to structuring for audiences. The [select a training event] is what bothers me most. It unrealisitic that we'll have a trainings scheduled at any given time. I guess signing up for a scheduled training is less of a hurdle than "request a training in your area". But if the list of trainings is empty that would look discouraging.
So, we could:
make up trainings (quaterly) and make a training happen as soon as people sign up
create a form to make requesting a training very easy
or?
Also: Online-trainings and videos should be part of the site (once we have them).
Maybe a blanket statement that trainings are offered at least yearly on PloneConf, and in between based on expressed interest, with a [get in touch] action to be clued in on upcoming trainings that may be in the process of planning, without actually being published yet. Which is where we currently are.
Offering paid mentorship packages on top of free online training materials might be a way to increase reach without needing much in the way of meatspace logistics. Even if you have a training video and the full syllabus there's a need for dialogue, and a dedicated personal mentor may be less scary than getting ignored (or flamed) on a public community forum.
Maybe we should allow to sign up for training topics instead of concrete training events. This way we can collect the people who are interested in trainings for a specific topic and region. And people who can give trainings can bring them together for a training.
I am thinking to replace the Planet feed with the rss feed of plone.org/news, does this would make sense or do you think we do not want this 'feed' section and including feeds at all ?
Next one, currently the 'theme' is based on barceloneta is that still fine with everyone, or should we switch to a more plone,org look like ? Maybe include the new header, like we have now on community ?
