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Agenda

Content

• (Jeremie) Learning CSS: Progress and Q&A
  • Status: https://trello.com/c/NAuDmn9u

Planning

• Trello board review
  • https://trello.com/b/LDggrYSV

Other topics

• (Jeremie) Metrics for October
  • October 2015
• (dvincent) Twitter review and storytelling
• (klez) leaving leading roles

Meeting minutes

• (19:00) Jeremie: This is the sixty-first weekly meeting about the Learning Area :)
• (19:00) Jeremie: Thanks to andrew who ran the meeting last week :)
• (19:00) Jeremie: Agenda is there: https://wiki.mozilla.org/MDN/Projects/Content/Learning_Area/Weekly_meetings/2015-11-02
• (19:00) Jeremie: Feel free to add anything you want to discuss.
• (19:00) Jeremie: And as usual: who's attending? :D
• (19:01) klez: o/
• (19:01) klez: this gonna be even shorter than planned :/
• (19:02) dvincent: me!
• (19:02) Jeremie: klez: I guess, we'll see
• (19:02) Jeremie: dvincent: Hi :)
• (19:03) dvincent: howdy!
• (19:03) Jeremie: Very well, let's get started :)
• (19:03) Jeremie: It doesn't seems there are action item from last week

Learning CSS

• (19:04) Jeremie: So not very much to say about it as I was completely off last week
• (19:04) Jeremie: The plan is still to have all articles done by the end of the month
• (19:04) Jeremie: And I'm prety confident about it
• (19:05) Heather: hello o/
• (19:05) klez: hi heather :)
• (19:05) Jeremie: hi Heather :)
• (19:05) Heather: sorry i missed last weeks meeting was not feeling well
• (19:05) Jeremie: Heather: Me too (but for other reason)

Trello board review

• (19:06) Jeremie: https://trello.com/b/LDggrYSV
• (19:07) Heather: I've been working on reviewing the CSS articles
• (19:07) Jeremie: The board is currently very calm. If you have progresss on your card, do not hesitate to update the cards
• (19:07) Jeremie: Heather: Yes, thank you very much :)
• (19:07) Heather: yw :)
• (19:07) Jeremie: And Sphinx is translating them into French along the way, that's great :)
• (19:08) Heather: yay Sphinx
• (19:08) Jeremie: klez: Any progress with Python?
• (19:09) klez: nope, and why will be clear later in the meeting :/
• (19:09) Jeremie: Okay :)

Metrics for October

• (19:10) Jeremie: https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/6/6a/Learning_Area_October_2015.pdf
• (19:10) Jeremie: We are still growing again and again :)
• (19:10) Heather: yay
• (19:11) Jeremie: Even if little slower than in September (but that's okay)
• (19:11) Heather: still up so, that's good
• (19:11) Jeremie: Heather: Exactly :)
• (19:11) Jeremie: At that point, LA and Glossary are 1.7% of the total amount of page view on MDN
• (19:12) sheppy: That’s so awesome.
• (19:12) Heather: :)
• (19:12) Jeremie: I doubt we will reach 2% by the end of the year, but that would be a very nice Xmas present to all your hard work :)
• (19:12) dvincent: right on!
• (19:13) Jeremie: There are some interresting fact like "Vendor prefix" had become the most viewed term on the GLossary (let's say good bye to JSON)
• (19:14) Jeremie: And JavaScript is still our most wanted topic :)
• (19:15) Jeremie: Any question or suggestion about those metrics?
• (19:15) Heather: nope
• (19:15) sheppy: Jeremie: That’s interesting about prefixes. Interesting indeed.

Twitter review and storytelling

• (19:16) Jeremie: dvincent: I guess you are totally overwhelmed by ViewSource?
• (19:16) dvincent: It looks like people have been responding to the cheat sheet tweets a bit.
• (19:16) dvincent: lol, kind of. :)j
• (19:16) Heather: cool
• (19:17) Jeremie: Oh, really, I haven't check the cheatsheet, that's great :)
• (19:17) Jeremie: Wow, yeah, indeed, it has grown, coooool :)
• (19:17) Heather: I actually just looked up a CSS question today and first thing that came up was an MDN page :)
• (19:17) dvincent: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Learn/HTML/Cheatsheet
• (19:18) Jeremie: Heather: \o/
• (19:18) dvincent: :D
• (19:19) dvincent: anything else y'all would like me to focus on in the coming week?
• (19:20) Jeremie: Nothing come to my mind and in any case ViewSource is more important this week anyway
• (19:20) dvincent: it's coming together

Klez leaving leading roles

• (19:21) klez: ok
• (19:21) Heather: huh?
• (19:21) klez: basically, life happened
• (19:21) Heather: :(
• (19:21) klez: as you've noticed I've not been very active in the last couple months
• (19:21) klez: so I guess I'm stepping down as a topic driver for the glossary
• (19:22) klez: also I'm not able to follow the python tutorial
• (19:22) Jeremie: klez: I would take that opportunity to say thank you for the amazing work you've done :)
• (19:22) klez: this may well be a temporary situation until i set some things right
• (19:22) Heather: yes definately
• (19:22) Heather: ty klez
• (19:22) Jeremie: The glossary would have not reach that leavel of quality without you, you can be proud
• (19:23) klez: Jeremie, thank *you all* for the opportunity :)
• (19:23) Heather: yes it's awesome
• (19:23) klez: I guess I'll still follow developments from a distance
• (19:23) klez: so don't delete my accounts around :P
• (19:23) klez: I may be back soon
• (19:24) klez: also, I may still do some low-level stuff (cleanup, tagging etc)
• (19:24) Jeremie: klez: I hope so. When you'll find time here and there you'll always be welcome to help ;)
• (19:24) Heather: def
• (19:25) Jeremie: MDN is like behing family, you can leave and came back, you are always welcome :)
• (19:25) Heather: for sure Jeremie!
• (19:25) klez: in any case I'm available via twitter and email, and I'll keep my subscription to the MLs
• (19:25) Heather: you are my people :P
• (19:25) Heather: I'll bug you on twitter klez
• (19:25) klez: so don't hesitate to contact me for anything :)
• (19:25) klez: that's the spirit Heather :P
• (19:26) Jeremie: :)
• (19:26) klez: ok, this topic is over :)
• (19:27) Heather: :P
• (19:28) Jeremie: Okay, any last question or topic before we end that (short) meeting?
• (19:28) Heather: nope

Action items

• (Jeremie) Add a monument to Klez somewhere (and, unfortunately, remove it's name from some places where he was designated as Glossary lead)