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Today’s Meeting
- Trac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket for Learn site The Training Team publishes its completed lesson plans at https://learn.wordpress.org/ which is often referred to as the "Learn" site.
Design team requests
Lesson plan template changes
Trello board review/update
- New descriptions for lists
- Removed a custom field Custom Field, also referred to as post meta, is a feature in WordPress. It allows users to add additional information when writing a post, eg contributors’ names, auth. WordPress stores this information as metadata. Users can display this meta data by using template tags in their WordPress themes. (Time)
- Added some labels (Needs description, Needs objectives)
GitHub review/update
- Simplified slide files
- Repo Template Pull Request
WordCamp 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. EU Contributor 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/. preparations
- Brainstorming session on Gutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ lesson plans
- Help folks understand and get set up in Trello 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. and GitHub 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/
- Assign owners and begin writing the Gutenberg lesson plans, if time allows
Team projects updates (by owners)
Team update – open roles
- Scribe role
- Support Flow role
- Several other open roles (see list on Trello board)
Workshop project (see the bottom of https://wptrainingteam.github.io/
- This workshop, along with the Gutenberg lesson plans, would be great to have as some of the first things available for the Learn site.
Open announcements / discussion
Welcome to @Govind Kuman @drpepper2soda @njwrigley @abhijitrakas and @grimlord1 who joined the #training Slack channel this week!
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