Training Team Meeting Agenda 12 July 2018

Welcome

The WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through learn.wordpress.org.

Are you new to the team?

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Current Focus Areas – What we’re currently focusing on

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Meetings (Calendar)

You can join these meetings from the #training Slack channel:

Weekly meeting: Thursdays 00:00 UTC

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: Thursdays 07:00 UTC

See Meeting Details for more information.

Please join us at 19:30 UTC in the #training 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/. channel for our weekly meeting! Chetan Prajapati will be leading the meeting today.

Today’s Agenda

Updates on lesson plans in progress

Introduction to GutenbergGutenberg 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/ – Page Carbajal
General History of WordPress – Jesse Owens
Local InstallLocal Install A local install of WordPress is a way to create a staging environment by installing a LAMP or LEMP stack on your local computer. – Ibrahim Rumani
What is Contact Form 7 – Regina Foo
Introduction to the Theme Review Process – Chetan Satsiya
RSS Feeds – Taylor Lasseigne
Categories vs. Tags – Julie Kuehl
Forking plans and submitting pull requests – Zach Skaggs
Train the Trainers on the Speaker Lessons – Jill Binder

Copyediting in Progress

Content Editor Overview – Afzal Multani

Lesson plans needing drafting / copyediting / testing

Style guide

Open announcements / discussion

You are welcome to join the team at any time! If you are new to the Training Team, please introduce yourself in the #training channel before the meeting (or anytime!) and feel free to join us in the meeting and participate as you are able.

Training Team Mission

The WordPress training team creates downloadable lesson plans and related materials for instructors to use in live workshop environments.

Getting Involved

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Here’s what you need to know to get started

Team Links:

About The Team (https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/about/) a little out of date at the moment
Our Team Blog (https://make.wordpress.org/training/)
Our Roadmap (https://trello.com/b/BsfzszRM/wordpress-training-team-lesson-plan-development)
Our Lesson Plans (https://github.com/wptrainingteam)

Welcome

Meetings (Calendar)

Today’s Agenda

Training Team Mission

Getting Involved

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