Production Dept. Meeting MINUTES
- September  20, 2022

Participants: Benjamin Trenkle (Department Coordinator), Olivier Buisard (Release Manager 4.3), Roland Dalmulder (Release Lead 4.2), Christiane Maier-Stadtherr (Team Leader), Viviana Menzel (Assistant Team Leader), Llewellyn van der Merwe (Assistant Department Coordinator), Shivam Rajput (Team Leader), Philip Walton (Marketing Liaison), Robert Deutz (Team Leader), Tobias Zulauf (Release Lead 3.10)
Absent: David Jardin (Team Leader), Jacob Waisner (Team Leader), Niels Braczek (Team Leader), Shirielle “SD” Williams (Release Manager 4.3), Hannes Papenberg (Team Leader), Harald Leithner (Release Lead 5.0), Mike Brandner (Team Leader), Sigrid Gramlinger (Team Leader), Franciska Perisa (Release Lead 4.2)

Production Department Coordinator (Benjamin Trenkle)

• Team goals deadline end of

Attendees:  Luca Marzo, Phil Walton, Anja de Crom, Hans van der Meer, Luca Marzo
Apologies: Sandra Decoux

What did we talk about

• October issue:We have discussed the upcoming issue; it looks nice. There's a good number of articles in the planning from team members, regular authors and authors who wrote in the past or occasionally.

As always the meeting was slightly chaotic but overall really good :)

The meeting has been adjourned after 60 minutes.

Attendees: Crystal, Chrisitane, Viviana, Benjamin, Achilleas, Carlos

• The team actualized the tasks for the next quarter
• Crystal will work on improvements for the alt text and table captions
• The GSoC project on the accessibility plugin is over, PRs merges and tests will be done in the next few weeks. Viviana had a meeting with Olivier and Shirielle, who want to include the improvements on the plugin in Joomla 4.3
• We would like to have a webinar about using screen readers. Could be a part for the manual / a11y documentation
• We would also like to make accessibility in Joomla more public, reach out conferences / magazines outside of the Joomla bubble (Carlos has submitted a session to a WordPress conference)
• We discussed the possibility to add some automatic testing tool for checking accessibility on PRs, but sadly AXE linter doesn’t support PHP
• Crystal talked about the new UX team (Joomla

Attendees:   Phil Walton, Todd Woodward, AK Sheku, SD Williams  

Attendees:  Phil Walton, Anja de Crom, Hans van der Meer, Luca Marzo

Apologies: Sandra Decoux

What did we talk about

• September issue
  We have discussed the upcoming issue; it looks good. We have contributions from team members and regular authors. There’s a good variety and it looks like everyone is going to get their articles in before the deadline. I am very proud of the team!

The meeting has been adjourned after 45 minutes.