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Work is well under way on the handbook overhaul. Unfortunately, I will not be as fully present in today’s meeting as I had hoped due to impending weather.
My personal organization for the handbook work is found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gA807bKaaFBOBcgBm2gqQGFkEj1JDCBaBdETILmMvnk/edit?usp=sharing.
The About page will be revised after other child-pages are completed to determine what is unique to this page and what can be linked to for more thorough details.
On the Who We Are page, the team leadership area needs a description. Please review https://make.wordpress.org/updates/team-reps/ regarding team organization. What “roles” do we want to share here beyond the 2 team reps?
Action item: who can write a paragraph or so about our team organization?
For the Contribute/Get Involved area, what is our preferred top-level page named? I like that the Docs team uses “Get Involved” https://make.wordpress.org/docs/handbook/get-involved/.
Also, some of the information here likely will duplicate About > What We Do https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/about/what-we-do/. How much text should duplicate vs linking to the other page?
Action item: What do we name this page?
On the Contributor Day page, a review for what information is still applicable/current would be appreciated.
In particular, the page states “Choose a card from the “Lesson Plan Backlog” list on the Trello board”. It looks like that has been reworked in Trello. Can that be updated and linked to specifically?
Action item: one person to revise the page with any more recent details. Change term of Backlog to appropriate linked Trello column.
The Guidelines page/section is awaiting @juliekuehl to revisit & revise.
Action item: Julie will revise or offer the task for another team member to complete.
Areas not yet worked on:
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Welcome and Meeting Outline
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The WordPress Training Team Meets by Video Today!
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It’s that time of year when we need to evaluate how we did against our goals for this year and make new goals for the upcoming year.
In 2018 our goals were to:
1. Create handbook
2. Move lesson plans to GitHub
3. Restructure make.wordpress.org/training
4. Fix broken images
5. Update lesson plans for 4.8-4.9/Gutenberg
6. Make workshop recommendations
7. Accessibility workshop
In fact, 2018 was a year where the team underwent a major restructuring of its tool and processes and we accomplished goals we hadn’t imagined when the year started. So our accomplishments for the year can be summed up as:
1. Create handbook (expected by the end of the year)
2. Move lesson plans to GitHub
3. Restructure make.wordpress.org/training
4. Fix broken images (perhaps not all are fixed, but moving to GitHub addressed the problem)
5. Make workshop recommendations
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6. Onboarding improvements including a PDF and videos
7. Team management on Trello and in Waffle.io
8. Creation of the https://wptrainingteam.github.io/ page
9. Work towards the relaunch of the learn.wordpress.org site including collaboration with the #design, #marketing, and #meta teams.
Goals that we didn’t quite accomplish include:
1. Update lesson plans for Gutenberg
2. Accessibility workshop
So, for 2019 what should our new goals be? I’d propose a couple to begin with:
1. Launch learn.wordpress.org
2. Create several lesson plans to combine into an accessibility workshop (the ARIA session from WordCamp US has caught my eye…)
3. Use resources from WordPress.tv more often as a basis for lesson plans
4. Collaborate with other efforts such as the diversity speaker training and Kids Camp to get their material available from the learn.wordpress.org site
5. Increase the number of regular contributors to the team
These all seem very do-able. What else should the team be working towards? What should we have for stretch goals? All comments and ideas welcome!
We’ll also be discussing this during our meeting this week. Everyone is invited to join in the discussion!!!
The WordPress Training Team Meets Today!
Please join us at 19:30 UTC in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meeting!
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The Training team made a lot of progress at Contributor Day this weekend. We on-boarded several new members, completed several Trello Cards, and collaborated with the Design and Marketing teams to develop the plan for our front-end lesson plan site.
One of the largest-scope discussions involved the development of our WordPress.org front-end site. Currently, our dedicated URL is learn.wordpress.org, but a proposal was made to change to teach.wordpress.org.
The reasoning behind the proposal is that our content is— in fact— focused on how to teach WordPress topics, rather than learning. We’d like to open the discussion on this since it will be a rather large change. Please make a comment on this post with your feedback on the proposal so that we can discuss it in our upcoming meetings.
As we collaborated with the Meta team with the goal of translating our Lesson Plans in GitHub to the front-end, we reached the conclusion that a restructuring of our repositories will be needed.
In order for the front-end to be most easily kept up-to-date, as well as provide a mechanism for a final editorial review before content is published, a new master repository will be created with individual lesson plans as submodules within it. This will allow our current workflow to remain mostly unchanged, and the Team Leads can perform an editorial review before pulling into the master repo. @jessecowens has volunteered to spearhead this project.
We’d like to welcome all of the new contributors and recognize the experienced contributors who volunteered their Sunday to join the team! @rbailey10 @davidneeham @learnwithchloe @winternetweb @juliekuehl @jessecowens @davidbgreen @dabrattoli @sunsand187
We’re still looking for folks who have the time and expertise for a few vital roles in the Training Team:
