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    Training Team Meeting Recap – 14th March 2024

    This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. account, you can set one up.)

    Introductions and Welcome

    There were 18 attendees @piyopiyofox, @west7, @lada7042, @bsanevans, @pooja9712, @digitalchild (async), @devmuhib (async), @voboghure (async), @quitevisible (async), @freewebmentor (async), @jhimross (async), @yuli-yang (async), @onealtr (async), @ironnysh (async), @cnormandigital (async), @eirichmond (async), @sierratr (async), @melbos (async)

    Welcome all the new contributors who joined the Training Team’s Slack channel in the last week:

    @ervanyuffrizal, @viktorijavin, @erichmond, @sulmanpucit, @neerajjangid5, @mughees007, @davouid, @jarvislin, @praveen1408, @peijing5950, @soniabajpai123, @ma8521999, @zoeygao, @paulluxford, @stephenbriantzion, @kurudrive, @gmtan, @alfredkang, @kuanbro

    For those who are new here, the WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through educational content hosted on Learn.WordPress.org.

    If you haven’t seen them yet, then I recommend checking out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program

    News

    Meeting Note Takers

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    Looking for feedback

    Discussion: possible collaboration to transform learning pathways to Skill Trees — Please leave your thoughts in the comments on this post by by Friday 22 March, 2024.

    Looking for volunteers

    We’re looking for volunteers to outline a new Learning Pathway for contributors to the WordPress project.

    So far, the team has curriculum outlined for User, Developer, and Designer learning pathways. We’d also like to create a pathway for Contributors. This will involve outlining a curriculum like Learning Pathway: Intermediate User #2002, identifying what resources already exist on Learn and what new resources need to be created.

    The team is currently gathering a list of requirements for Testing translation plugins for learn.wordpress.org #2231 and we invite folks to share their input directly on the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue.

    @piyopiyofox has also invited @faculty-translation-coordinators to leave their feedback about the requirements that have already been submitted.

    @west7 wanted to reach out to @faculty-admin to help out vetting a backlog of applications we have received to create a tutorial or run an Online Workshop.

    Other news

    Thinking to speak about the Training Team or Learn WordPress at a WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more.? We are happy to mentor you!

    We have seen an increase of speakers at flagship and local WordCamps talking about Learn and/or the Training Team, and we’d love to support contributors who’d like to speak about these topics at WordCamps!

    A post will be going out later this week to help us plan speaking at WordCamps for the rest of the year. The aim of this is to share resources, topics, and provide mentorship towards those hoping to speak about Learn WordPress and/or the Training Team.

    @west7 and @psykro will be hosting two more content creator office hours in March. The first session is scheduled for today at 14:00 UTC (meeting link), and the second will be scheduled during the week of the 25th of March and the second meeting will be held on 25 March 21:00 UTC: Meeting link.

    Come and Contribute

    Content ready for review

    Feedback awaiting validation

    Topics awaiting vetting

    Good first issues for developers

    • See Developing Learn WordPress for instructions on contributing to the Learn WordPress code.
      • There are currently 15 issues requiring developer assistance

    Validated feedback awaiting fix

    It looks like we haven’t seen much of an improvement from last week– perhaps we need to host a contributor hour to tackle this backlog?

    If you’d like to host a contributor hour, please let me @lada7042 or @bsanevans know. We’d be happy to support you.

    Contribution Acknowledgement

    • Props: Would anyone like to celebrate the contributions of team members? 

    I’ve got a few shoutouts of my own:

    Project updates

    Learning Pathways

    @piyopiyofox has asked to @bsanevans do you have any updates to share regarding the thumbnails or timeline to completion on the site redesign iteration?

    @bsanevans replied: The design team is in the final stages of preparing assets for public review. There is a conversation happening regarding whether consistent thumbnails are needed for all YouTube content, or just Learn things for now. Once that wraps up, we should have concrete next-steps for the team.

    Open Discussions

    • Learn WordPress Content Deprecation plan

    I’ll be writing up a post for us to have a more long form discussion here, but I wanted to get some thoughts from the team on how we should manage content deprecation with the new site relaunch.

    As a reminder, we are moving away from tutorials and lesson plans in favor of courses and lessons (all lessons contain a video component and transcript). Considerations for deprecation management include evaluating custom user roles, metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. fields, post types, documenting remaining custom elements, and ensuring publication dates are visible on content.

    We can continue this conversation asynchronously– I look forward to everyone’s input.

    • WordCamp Asia 2024 Highlights 

    Please share your highlights from WordCamp Asia with the team! Surely, many of us are just barely recovering from the event and we will probably see more activity from team members from next week. Our table leads @digitalchild and @west7 should also have a contributor day recap post out for us soon.

    You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.

    Training Team Meeting Recap – 7th March 2024

    This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. account, you can set one up.)

    Introductions and Welcome

    There were 15 attendees @bsanevans, @lada7042, @digitalchild, @huzaifaalmesbah, @devmuhib, @freewebmentor (async), @narolainfotech(async), @voboghure (async), @voboghure (async), @psykro (async), @sumitsingh (async), @zoonini (async), @amitpatelmd (async), @cnormandigital (async), @backpocketace (async)

    We’ve had some new people join the channel recently:

    @mxp, @ufuomaidiasirue, @pomypk-1, @coachbirgit, @zoonini, @nhrrob, @hirokisaito

    Welcome! Please post in the #training channel or reach out to a team member to help you with contributing. Resources to check out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program.

    News

    Meeting Note Takers

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    Looking for feedback

    Please leave your thoughts on the post by March 9th (this Saturday)

    @ironnysh and @ardianimaya have volunteered to continue writing Contributor Spotlight posts on the Training Team blog. And we’d like the team to nominate the next people to interview.

    @devmuhib has nominates @digitalchild for his excellent afford to #training and #meta-learn and @bsanevans has nominated @psykro and @west7 who have been actively creating learning pathway content recently.

    We’re also looking for nominations of active Training Team contributors to interview next. Either leave your nominations in the Slack thread here, in the spreadsheet in the document, or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.”
    @ironnysh or @ardianimaya.

    Looking for volunteers

    We’re looking for volunteers to outline a new Learning Pathway for contributors to the WordPress project.

    So far, the team has curriculum outlined for User, Developer, and Designer learning pathways. We’d also like to create a pathway for Contributors. This will involve outlining a curriculum like Learning Pathway: Intermediate User #2002, identifying what resources already exist on Learn and what new resources need to be created.

    • What requirements should the team look our for in a translation pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party for https://learn.wordpress.org/?

    Come leave your thoughts in Testing translation plugins for Learn WordPress #2231.

    We also invite @faculty-translation-coordinators to leave their feedback about the requirements that have already been submitted.

    Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

    Attendees: @psykro, @digitalchild, @freewebmentor, @devmuhib

    PRs/issues triaged:

    We’re looking for any interested team members who can help test translation plugins on the Learn.WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ local development environment. If you’re interested, please comment on the GitHub issue.

    Important The team also decided to switch to holding 2 triage sessions a month going forward, on the 2nd and 4th week of the month. We have been very successful in keeping untriaged issues and PRs to a minimum, so this change will allow more time between triage sessions.

    The team’s meeting calendar has been updated to reflect these changes.

    Other news

    WordCamp Asia 2024 Contributor Day is happening in just a few hours! 

    If you’re not attending in-person, then check out the online contributor session Training will be hosting in just a few hours! Sign Up Now!

    @west7 and @psykro will be hosting two more content creator office hours in March.

    These sessions are a great time to ask the team’s experienced content creators about the process of creating content. The first session is scheduled for March 14, 2024, at 14:00 UTC (meeting link), and the second will be scheduled during the week of the 25th of March.

    Come and Contribute

    Content ready for review

    Feedback awaiting validation

    Topics awaiting vetting

    Good first issues for developers

    • See Developing Learn WordPress for instructions on contributing to the Learn WordPress code.
    • There are currently 15 issues requiring developer assistance

    Validated feedback awaiting fix

    Contribution Acknowledgement

    • Last week, @ironnysh was awarded the Training Contributor badge. Thank you for your contributions to the team, Ronny.

    If you are interested in applying for a badge, then come checkout the team handbook page: Team Profile Badges.

    • Props: Would anyone like to celebrate the contributions of team members? 

    I’d like to thank all the Training Team members attending WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Asia this week and representing the team there. In particular, props to our Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. table leads @west7 and @digitalchild.

    Project updates

    Learning Pathways

     WordPress 6.5 release

    • Have you been contributing to content creation for the WordPress 6.5 release? Please leave your update here so we can recognize your contribution 

    Faculty updates

    We invite all Faculty to share their updates with the team at least once a month. @faculty, feel free to answer any or all of the questions below:

    • What have you been working on and how has it been going?
      @devmuhib creating content and triaging issues. @psykro working on Learning Pathways and getting ready to publish lessons. @lada7042 learning pathway recording. @cnormandigital submitted all the theme related lessons for review.
    • Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
      @lada7042 posted my first monthly team update & newsletter.
    • Do you have any blockers?
      @lada7042 had a blocker on her video editor screen setup and @zoonini help her fixing the issue in various ways.
    • Can other Faculty or Training Team members help you in some way?
      – Discussed on previous thread.

    Open Discussions

    You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.

    Discussion: possible collaboration to transform learning pathways to Skill Trees

    During the feedback/discussions around Learning Pathways, @skilldisplayflo has offered to help transform our learning pathways to a skill tree format.

    The Skill Tree format appears to be something available from the SkillDisplay platform, where they have collaborated with other open-source projects, including TypoCMS.

    I would recommend that folks interested in this discussion read the original comment linked above, and the rest of the threaded conversation, to understand the benefits.

    The idea here is that the skill tree format could allow teachers to “cherry pick the skills (aka learning path tree nodes) they really need, instantly render their own curriculum for a handout and get matching learning resources that are tailored towards her use case.”

    Converting Learning Pathways into Skill Sets would involve using the SkillDisplay tool to create the Skill Set and then hosting the Skill Set somewhere on the Learn.WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ website.

    I want to invite anyone interested in this process to read through the suggestions and share their thoughts in the comments on this post.

    If this is something we as a team would like to consider, then we might want to decide on:

    • when we want to do this
    • who will be managing the process

    Please leave your thoughts in the comments on this post by by Friday 22 March, 2024.

    Training Team Meeting Recap – 29th February 2024

    This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. account, you can set one up.)

    Introductions and Welcome

    There were 15 attendees: @piyopiyofox, @lada7042, @west7, @cnormandigital, @yuli-yang, @sierratr(async) @digitalchild(async), @huzaifaalmeabah(async), @devmuhib(async), @onealtr(async), @jhimross(async), @quitevisible(async), @eboxnet(async), @backpocketace(async), @chetan200891(async)

    We’ve had some new people join the channel recently: 

    @wpcorner, @hotaca, @minako2470, @panda2024, @h2ham, @yamasakidaisuke, @lowpingsro, @developerhabib

    Welcome! Please post in the #training channel or reach out to a team member to help you with contributing. Resources to check out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program.

    News

    Meeting Note Takers

    Looking for feedback

    Looking for volunteers

    If you know anyone please let us know. Ask your co-workers.

    Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

    Attendees: Jonathan (@psykro) and Muhibul Haque (@devmuhib )

    There were no new PRs or bugs to triage again this week, so we moved into triaging Content Feedback issues.

     We would also like to put out a call for any training team members with developer experience to help us test #2231

    Other news

    The next Content Creator Coffee Hour is this Thursday 29 Feb @ 14:00 UTC hosted by @psykro

    Come and Contribute

    Content ready for review

    See Guidelines for reviewing content when reviewing content.

    • There are currently 16 issues requiring review cc/ @faculty-editors
    • 4 issues are almost done. They need a third review.
    • Doing a review is a great first contribution.

    Feedback awaiting validation

    Topics awaiting vetting

    • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
    • There are currently 31 issues awaiting vetting cc/ @faculty-smes

    Good first issues for developers

    • See Developing Learn WordPress for instructions on contributing to the Learn WordPress code.
    • There are currently 15 issues requiring developer assistance

    Validated feedback awaiting fix

    Contribution Acknowledgement

    This is a new section we’d like to make a regular part of the meeting to acknowledge and celebrate the great work folks our doing in the team!

    props to @freewebmentor for the huge amount of work shared re: developer learning pathway this week.

    Project updates

    Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

    • Thumbnail templates are currently being created

    Open Discussions

    You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.

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    Contributor Spotlight: Oneal Rosero

    Welcome to another edition of the Training Team’s Contributor Spotlight!
    In this series, we introduce one of our many valued contributors and invite you to learn more about their journey.

    Meet Oneal!

    Today’s featured contributor is Oneal Rosero!
    Based in the Philippines, Oneal volunteers as a WordPress Training Team Faculty Admin and WordPress Community Program Support.

    He also serves as a co-facilitator of the #WPDiversity workshops and assists the DEIB working group.

    Training Team contributor Oneal Rosero dressed as a Star Wars Stormtrooper

    In what is quickly becoming a tradition, in recent months, Oneal has been busy helping organize WordCamp Asia 2024, just like he did in the 2023 edition.

    When not contributing to the community, Oneal works as a Project Manager, Agile Coach, and IT Instructor. He also manages WordPress sites for family members, non-profit groups, and charity organizations.

    May the Force be with you

    Oneal is a big Star Wars fan. Actually, that’s what led him to WordPress in 2007: he volunteered to build a website for a global fan club.

    How did you discover WordPress, and why did you start using it for your projects?
    “I used Drupal to build a website for my costuming group but found WordPress easier for non-technical users, with more community support. It was also better supported by developers in the community.”

    After migrating the first site, Oneal continued using WordPress to build websites, blogs, and community membership sites for family members, small businesses, and other charity and community organizations.

    His passion for George Lucas’ epic series still burns: Oneal spends his weekends building and wearing Star Wars-themed costumes for charity events, fundraisers, and children’s hospital visits.

    Training for the Training Team

    Oneal’s online journey has often involved training. In the 1990s, he ran an internet cafe, teaching people how to use the internet, join chatrooms, and play and run LAN games. Then, he trained co-workers on doing customer support over the phone, Skype, and IRC.

    Eventually, he joined one of the biggest logistics companies in the Philippines as an IT Learning and Development Specialist, training thousands of people each year. 

    What motivated you to go beyond using WordPress and start contributing to the open-source project? What drew you to the Training Team?
    “I discovered the global WordPress community during the pandemic. I had been using WordPress since 2007, but my work hours prevented me from getting involved in the local WordPress community. The lockdowns in 2020 left me with free time to join the Training Team meetings. Then, Courtney Robertson asked me to run one of the Team’s online meetings.”

    Oneal also helped Jill Binder organize the #WPDiversity workshops. He’s run events in the Philippines, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, India, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Switzerland, and helped Jill run workshops in South America. 

    In July 2022, Oneal was invited to join the Training Team faculty as an Administrator, where he currently helps vetting Training Team online workshop facilitator and training presenter applications. 

    He is also on the WordPress Community Program Support Team, helping vet WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. and MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. applications.

    What was your first contribution, and how did seeing your work reach so many people feel?
    “I helped run online meetings, edited meeting notes, and supported team members running online workshops. It made me feel like I’m part of the community of contributors. The WordPress community is not only made up of developers or coders—there are many avenues of contribution where anyone could make a difference.”

    Could you share any challenges or obstacles you faced when starting to contribute and how you overcame them?
    “Time zones are a big challenge. I’m based in the Philippines (APAC timezone), and many meetings I helped run were usually in the US or UK timezone. l had to be awake at 1 am to join; eventually, the Training Team shifted to a two-meeting arrangement, accommodating contributors across the globe.

    Another challenge is the cost of attending WordCamps and Meetups. “In the US and Europe, you can drive to an event. If you want to attend a WordCamp in Asia, you have to fly, which not only costs money but also means taking time off from work.”

    Nonetheless, when Oneal heard about WordCamp Asia 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand, he decided that this had to be the first WordCamp he would attend in person. “I applied as an organizer, and for almost a year, 50 of us took time out of our week for meetings and prepared a flagship WordCamp in another country.”

    Were there any specific resources that helped you along your journey as a contributor?
    “A great resource in WordPress is the vast amount of content created by the Training Team. There are workshops and videos on every aspect of WordPress, and many are translated into multiple languages for broader reach.

    But the best resource is the people in the community. There are people who will guide you and those who will bend over backward to help you, and there are those who will sit and listen to you. They are the greatest assets, and why many of us still contribute.”

    Can you share any memorable moments or achievements while contributing to WordPress?
    “One of the most satisfying times was when I was asked to contribute to an online workshop, discussing how the Training Team Faculty admin performs the vetting process for content contributors and how to ensure they comply with the GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL is a ‘copyleft’ license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html. This means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms. This is in distinction to permissive free software licenses, of which the BSD license and the MIT License are widely used examples..”

    What advice would you give someone who wants to start contributing to WordPress?
    “Jump in! Just join any team you feel you can contribute. Everyone is friendly and willing to help. There is always something to do, and there are many areas where you can make a difference. The community is dynamic and always moving, and people are welcoming and encouraging.

    WordPress is not just software, code, ones, and zeros. WordPress is people. WordPress is a community. That is what makes WordPress stronger and keeps people coming back.”

    Thank you, Oneal, for all your dedication and contributions to the Training Team and the WordPress Open SourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. Project!


    Are you interested in contributing to the Training Team?
    Check out our Getting Started guide or join the Guide Program for mentorship with an experienced contributor. We’d be happy to have you join us!

    #contributor-spotlight

    Training Team Meeting Recap – 22th February 2024

    This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. account, you can set one up.)

    Introductions and Welcome

    There were 14 attendees: @piyopiyofox, @sierratr, @west7, @lada7042, @devmuhib, @huzaifaalmesbah, @amitpatelmd, @melbos, @psykro, @margheweb, @onealtr, @cnormandigital, @quitevisible, and @bsanevans

    We’ve had some new people join the channel recently: 

    @Quentin, @Zoran Stojkovic, @Agil Julio, @francisco, @Morais Junior, and @justingreerbbi

    Welcome! Please post in the #training channel or reach out to a team member to help you with contributing. Resources to check out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program.

    News

    Meeting Note Takers

    Looking for feedback

    Discussion: Bringing accessibility-first approaches into content development — this is a new discussion started with the team, and we need member’s feedback.

    I also want to tie in a conversation @Courtney shared in #meta recently which ties into accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) work as well https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB8GMM/p1708544941159409 (note that this thread will take you out of the meeting)

    Looking for volunteers

    WordCamp Asia 2024 Contributor Day — we are currently looking for a host on site for the online portion. If you will be attending WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Asia and could assist with hosting the online portion of Contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/., please let us know!

    Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

    Dev-squad GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ triage meetings happen in #meta-learn every Thursday at 07:00 UTC — if you have developer experience or are interested in helping manage that work please tune in later today!

    Feb 14 attendees: @jonathan and @devmuhib

    There were no new PRs or bugs to triage this week, so the team moved into triaging Content Feedback issues.

    They also updated the Dev-squad triage handbook page to include details on validating Content Feedback issues for future meetings.

    Other News

    Ooop, this should have been in Looking for Feedback, my apologies! This conversation is ongoing until February 25th. Please share your thoughts on how we can measure impact on Learn WordPress.

    Come and Contribute

    If you’re ready to jump in and start contributing to the team we have a bunch of things you can work on:

    Content ready for review

     Feedback awaiting validation

     Topics awaiting vetting

     Good first issues for developers

    • See Developing Learn WordPress for instructions on contributing to the Learn WordPress code.
    • There are currently 15 issues requiring developer assistance 

    I do want to be clear that any training team member can assist with the above. You do not need to be a Faculty Member to contribute to this work.

     Validated feedback awaiting fix

     If you don’t know where to start or have questions about any of the above, feel free to ask in this thread or send a DM.

    Contribution Acknowledgement

    This is a new section we’d like to make a regular part of the meeting to acknowledge and celebrate the great work folks our doing in the team!

    props to @Jonathan for the huge amount of work shared re: developer learning pathway this week.

    Project Updates

    Faculty Updates

    • What have you been working on and how has it been going?
    • Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
    • Do you have any blockers?
    • Can other Faculty or Training Team members help you in some way?

    Open Discussions

    Want to bring up a tweet by Amber Hinds that we should add for future discussion. A lot of talk about accessibility.
    The home page of Learn WordPress has 9 insufficient color contrast errors; 2 links with ambiguous anchor text; 2 links that open in a new tab without warning. https://twitter.com/heyamberhinds/status/1760140361429622848

    Thank you for bringing this to the meeting, Laura! I want to tag in @francisco and @Nick Diego — our contacts helping us with the Learn WordPress redesign for their insight into this.

    You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.

    #meeting-recap, #training, #training-team

    Training Team Meeting Recap – 15th February 2024

    This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. account, you can set one up.)

    Introductions and Welcome

    There were 15 attendees: @lada7042@piyopiyofox@huzaifaalmesbah, @bsanevans, @quitevisible (async), @devmuhib (async), @pooja9712, @margheweb (async), @ironnysh (async), @cnormandigital (async), @amitpatelmd (async), @psykro (async), @sierratr (async), @backpocketace (async), @west7 (async).

    We’ve had some new people join the channel recently: @nithins53 , @jdrago@sibokul@ryoraspp

    Welcome! Please post in the #training channel or reach out to a team member to help you with contributing. Resources to check out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program.

    News

    Meeting Note Takers

    • February 15 – @saqib59
    • February 22 – need volunteer
    • February 29 –@narolainfotech
    • March 7 – need volunteer

    Looking for feedback

    • Discussion: Translation Plugin on Learn — we have just kicked off a discussion on what translation pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party we could use on the Learn WordPress website to facilitate the translation work contributors have been doing in the interim to the Phase 4 Multilingual release on native WordPress. If you have some recommendations, please join the conversation!
    • Brainstorm: What trends about Learn WordPress learners do we want to observe? What kinds of data would be beneficial to the team? This discussion will close on February 21st also.

    Looking for volunteers

    Looking for @faculty to help run the Guide Program? — With the new Guide Program Management handbook page in hand, we’re looking for Faculty to take on the administration of the program. Comment in the thread if you’re interested in helping

    Meeting Note Takers — we are looking for two more folks to volunteer to post notes for this month’s final two meetings.

    Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

    Due to me not getting the agenda published earlier the dev-squad updates will be added in the thread :thread:at a later date.

    Other News

    • Discussion: Training’s contribution to the 6.5 release (and beyond) — this discussion has concluded with the following action items the team will focus on this year:
      • Focus on hosting release-related Online Workshops around the time of releases.
      • Submit release-related feedback about content as new Feedback issues in GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/. When doing so, link to original issues where possible to keep a trail of changes that happen on a piece of content.
    • Update on GatherPress- @LauraA has joined the GatherPress Slack group to help facilitate testing during the pilot program when ready. No set date at this time. If you would like to follow GatherPress page.

    During February @west7 and @psykro will be testing out learning pathway content creator office hours. This is an opportunity for anyone working on learning pathway content, or anyone interested in working on learning pathway content, to meet, discuss what content they are working on, ask questions, or find content to work on for the learning pathways.

    There will be office hour sessions:
    Thursday 29 Feb @ 14:00 UTC hosted by @psykro.

    If you are currently working on any learning pathway lessons, or are interested in creating lessons for learning pathways, please feel free to join these sessions.

    Zoom meeting URLs for these office hours will be shared in the #training Slack channel closer to the time.

    Come and Contribute

    Content ready for review

    Feedback awaiting validation

    Topics awaiting vetting

    Good first issues for developers

    Validated feedback awaiting fix

    Project Updates

    Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

    Contribution Acknowledgement

    This is a new section we’d like to make a regular part of the meeting to acknowledge and celebrate the great work folks our doing in the team!

    Badges awarded: @kawsaralameven


    Faculty Updates

    The Faculty Survey Results – Q1 2024 were released and a lot of these updates are largely in response to the feedback shared. Thank you to @faculty for sharing your candid feedback on how we can improve this program.

    • @bsanevans will be hosting two onboarding workshops on February 15th and February 16th titled Starting your contributor journey with the WordPress Training Team
    • Faculty Program Online Workshop — @piyopiyofox will be hosting two Make WordPress Training Team Faculty Program Information Sessions at the end of this month on February 21st at 00:00 UTC and 08:00 UTC

    Open Discussions


    You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.

    Discussion: Bringing accessibility-first approaches into content development

    At WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US 2023, @jominney, @newcomer22 and team published the Training Team Accessibility Checklist 🎉 I’ve recently been considering how we can bring accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)-first approaches into the team’s content creation/review processes better.

    What would it take for the team to be able to say “We’ve given our best effort to ensuring all content on Learn WordPress is accessible” when we relaunch the site with Learning Pathways in July this year? I’ve dropped some thoughts below, but this is just to get the conversation going. Let’s discuss in the comments until March 9th (Friday), and then consider next steps after that.


    I noticed the WordPress project’s accessibility statement says:

    WordPress aims to make the WordPress Admin and bundled themes fully WCAGWCAG WCAG is an acronym for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are helping make sure the internet is accessible to all people no matter how they would need to access the internet (screen-reader, keyboard only, etc) https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/. 2.0 AA compliant where possible.

    • Question: Is striving for WCAG 2.0 AA compliance a reasonable standard for content on Learn WordPress, too?

    The team’s current Accessibility Checklist has some items that go beyond the scope of WCAG 2.0 AA, but is also missing some items within scope. Below is my personal take on what content creators specifically would need to be mindful of in order to create content that is fully WCAG 2.0 AA compliant.

    (Note, I’m specifically considering what can be achieved in the content creating process – mostly conducted within the WordPress Editor. There are other coding-related considerations that must be made in the theme etc., which is worth its own separate conversation.)

    • Question: Is the following list an accurate representation of what content creators would need to be mindful of to create WCAG 2.0 AA compliant content?
    1. All non-text content has a text alternative. (Guideline 1.1 – Text Alternatives)
    2. Captions and transcripts are provided for all videos. (Guideline 1.2 – Time-based Media)
    3. Audio description is provided for all prerecorded video content. Or, narration in video content describes all important visual details, including actions, scene changes, and on-screen text. (Guideline 1.2 – Time-based Media)
    4. Instructions do not rely solely on components such as shape, color, size, visual location, orientation, or sound. (Guideline 1.3 – Adaptable)
    5. Color is not used as the only visual means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element. (Guideline 1.4 – Distinguishable)
    6. Text and images of text have a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1. (Guideline 1.4 – Distinguishable)
    7. Unless essential, text should be used instead of images of text. (Guideline 1.4 – Distinguishable)
    8. No content flashes more than three times/second. (Guideline 2.3 – Seizures and Physical Reactions)
    9. The purpose of each link can be determined from the link text alone. (Guideline 2.4 – Navigable)
    10. Headings describe topic or purpose. (Guideline 2.4 – Navigable)

    Points 3 (audio descriptions for video content) is currently not included in the team’s accessibility checklist.

    • Question: In the context of video content on Learn, what would adding audio description to videos look like? Is it possible to publish videos where all necessary content is included in the narration?

    Finally, I think it would be great if we could move the accessibility checklist from being a final check made on content to something embedded in content development and review processes.

    • Question: How can we bring accessibility-first approaches into our content development and review processes?

    #accessibility

    Training Team Meeting Recap – 8th February 2024

    This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. account, you can set one up.)

    Introductions and Welcome

    There were 18 attendees: @piyopiyofox, @sierratr, @lada7042, @west7, @eboxnet, @bsanevans, @onealtr, @devmuhib, @amitpatelmd (async), @zunaid321 (async), @sumitsingh (async), @jdy68 (async), @huzaifaalmesbah (async), @cnormandigital (async), @backpocketace (async), @digitalchild (async), @askdesign (async), @quitevisible (async), @margheweb (async), @ironnysh (async).

    We’ve had some new people join the channel recently.

    @diannagunn , @shan003, @sashingo, @Paul Westerlund, @Marco

    Welcome! Please post in the #training channel or reach out to a team member to help you with contributing. Resources to check out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program.

    News

    Meeting Note Takers

    We’re looking for volunteers to take notes each week through the rest of February. Would anyone like to volunteer for the team? Please post in the #training channel.

    Looking for feedback

    Discussion: Translation Plugin on Learn – discussion is going on regarding the adoption of a translation pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party to aid contributors in their ongoing translation work until the Phase 4 Multilingual release on native WordPress.

    What data do we want to know about folks using Learn WordPress?@bsanevans put together a brainstorming post for us to discuss what data would be relevant for us to surface to better serve our Learners, team, and community.

    Looking for volunteers

    Looking for a faculty to help run the Guide Program? — With the new Guide Program Management handbook page in hand, and we’re looking for Faculty to take on the administration of the program. Comment in this thread if you’re interested in helping.

    Meeting Note Takers — we are looking for two more folks to volunteer to post notes for this month’s final two meetings.

    Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

    Feb 1 attendees: @psykro@digitalchild@devmuhib@melbos 

    Triaged one new bug:

    Feedback – Quizzes not appearing on the front end of a lesson #2196

    Reviewed other open PRs to see if they could be moved along:

    Remove the github-markdown class from lesson content #304 – There was some discussion on this item, which you can read in the comments on that issue. I’d like to invite the training team to add their input on the suggested change.

    If you’re interested in participating, come visit the #meta-learn Slack channel at 7:00 UTC. You’ll find the time shown in your local timezone on the Training Team’s meeting calendar.

    Other News

    Discussion: Training’s contribution to the 6.5 release (and beyond) — this discussion has concluded with the following action items the team will focus on this year:

    • Focus on hosting release-related Online Workshops around the time of releases.
    • Submit release-related feedback about content as new Feedback issues in GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/. When doing so, link to original issues where possible to keep a trail of changes that happen on a piece of content.

    During February @westnz and @jonathan will be testing out learning pathway content creator office hours. This is an opportunity for anyone working on learning pathway content, or anyone interested in working on learning pathway content, to meet, discuss what content they are working on, ask questions, or find content to work on for the learning pathways.

    There will be two office hour sessions:

    • Tuesday, 13 Feb @ 21:00 UTC hosted by @westnz
    • Thursday 29 Feb @ 14:00 UTC hosted by @jonathan

    If you are currently working on any learning pathway lessons, or are interested in creating lessons for learning pathways, please feel free to join these sessions.

    Zoom meeting URLs for these office hours will be shared in the #training Slack channel closer to the time.

    Come and Contribute

    Content ready for review

    Feedback awaiting validation

    Topics awaiting vetting

    Good first issues for developers

    Validated feedback awaiting fix

    Project Updates

    Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

    Contribution Acknowledgement

    This is a new section we’d like to make a regular part of the meeting to acknowledge and celebrate the great work folks our doing in the team!

    Badges awarded: @darshitrajyaguru97, @pooja9712, @narolainfotech, @margheweb

    Props

    In this section we’ve asked fellow Training Team members if they’d like to nominate someone to share props with. I understand we have the #props channel, but keeping it in house is also pretty awesome.

    I’d like to start off by giving props to @devmuhib. I’ve seen you everywhere in the team lately, unafraid to give a helping hand, respond to P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. discussions, support others, and be a friendly presence. – @piyopiyofox

    @devmuhib wants to give props to @shailu25 for reviewing multiple Gujrati translations and @zunaid321 for reviewing multiple Bengali translations.

    @psykro also sends his props to @digitalchild for successfully hosting dev squad for the first time last week, helping to draft the dev squad guidelines, and always being an enthusiastic dev-squad contributor. He also wants to acknowledge @cnormandigital and @ironnysh for their contributions to the learning pathways so far, and for the work they have committed to doing. 

    I’d like to recognize @digitalchild for consistently working on form submissions that come into the team’s email account. Thank you! – @bsanevans

    Faculty Updates

    The Faculty Survey Results – Q1 2024 were released and a lot of these updates are largely in response to the feedback shared. Thank you to @faculty for sharing your candid feedback on how we can improve this program.

    • 1:1 chats with team reps — @bsanevans@piyopiyofox and @lada7042 are open at any time for 1:1 chats with Faculty Members. Please feel free to reach out to us if you’d like some time to discuss what’s on your mind.
    • Faculty Program Online Workshop — @piyopiyofox will be hosting two Make WordPress Training Team Faculty Program Information Sessions at the end of this month on February 21st at 00:00 UTC and 08:00 UTC

    Open Discussions

    @lada7042 connected with GatherPress channel and will help coordinate the training team testing the plugin.

    @piyopiyofox had a question which could be resolved by GatherPress – do we need a shared team calendar (Like a publicly visible Google Calendar)? We have a lot of onboarding sessions coming up for the team — like the ones with @bsanevans@west7@psykro and myself, and I wonder if it would be easier for teammates to join these if they could see what’s going on all at one place?

    You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.

    #meeting-recap#training#training-team

    #meeting-recap, #training-team