Recap of Contributor Working Group on Mar. 3, 2021

In attendance: @amethystanswers, @annezazu, @paaljoachim, @matthewfarlymn, @daisyo, @chaion07, @vimes1984

Meeting start: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1614801696123700

Agenda: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2021/03/03/contributor-working-group-agenda-march-3-2021/

Group Checkins

@daisyo has time set aside to connect with team members and past organizers

@paaljoachim is working on some Learn lessons for setting up a local WP dev environment and testing and has a new make post for Testing a Gutenberg PR

@amethystanswers is working on a 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/. lesson for Learn

@annezazu is putting together a one pager for Codeable that could be repurposed on how to get involved in WordPress from a developer standpoint. This could also be a good group to gain insight from in terms of onboarding experienced developers who are new to the community.

Action Items

@amethystanswers will create a running list of meeting recaps for easy access. List will be kept in Google Drive, with a link in TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing..

Next Meeting

Wednesday, March 17 2021 19:00 UTC

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