WordCamp US 2018 Contributor Day

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Meetings (Calendar)

Weekly Global team meeting: Tuesdays 07:00 UTC

Triage 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: Biweekly on Thursdays 07:00 UTC

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The Training team made a lot of progress at 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/. this weekend. We on-boarded several new members, completed several 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. Cards, and collaborated with the Design and Marketing teams to develop the plan for our front-end lesson plan site.

A photo of WordCamp US 2018 Contributor day. Image Credit to @harryjackson1221 — 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 2018 Contributor Day. Image Credit @harryjackson1221

Call for Your Comments

One of the largest-scope discussions involved the development of our 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/ front-end site. Currently, our dedicated URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org 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.

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/ Restructuring

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.

Contributors

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

Help Wanted

We’re still looking for folks who have the time and expertise for a few vital roles in the Training Team:

Taking notes from team meetings.
HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites.- and CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site.-proficient writers who can develop new Slide Decks for lesson plans.
Instructional designers or educators familiar with BloomBloom's Taxonomy Bloom's Taxonomy is a way of writing lesson plan objectives using specific words so that the objectives can be measured. See https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/guidelines/blooms-taxonomy/ for more details.’s TaxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies..
Wrangling the team’s style guide.

Priority Projects Moving into 2019

Finish the copy and design of the learn.wordpress.org (or teach!) and deliver it to the 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. Team.
Clean up the Training Team Handbook with the vision of creating a one-stop-shop for new contributors.
Identify priority lesson plans to highlight on learn.wordpress.org when it goes live.

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Julie Kuehl 6:51 pm on December 12, 2018

Regarding the URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org discussion, I think there may actually be three options we should consider: learn, teach, and training.

Learn: it exists and something needs to be done with it, it’s been on the team’s radar for years
Teach: suggested by the Marketing Team as it is an action verb and better describes what our audience will be doing with our materials
Training: it matches the team name

Preferences anyone?
(Also, I should add that I’m not quite sure how much ability we have to change this.)
- Courtney Engle Robertson 2:56 pm on December 22, 2018
  
  I do like Teach as a better descriptive of that site. Long range, do we as the training team plan to stick with creating materials for teachers/presenters? If so, run with it.
Chetan Prajapati 7:24 pm on December 12, 2018

+1 for Training.
Stephen Edgar 2:38 am on December 13, 2018

Glad you had a constructive day 🙂
Mike Mueller 6:15 pm on December 13, 2018

Looking to have some free time coming up after the first of the year and rejoin the effort full force.

In the meantime – I’ll give a +1 for Teach.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/ as I see it in a similar way. The person coming to us looking for a resource is going to best identify with that, “yeah, I want help in Teaching WordPress…” kind of thing.

Hope you all have really great holidays!
🙂
MM
Courtney Engle Robertson 2:51 pm on December 22, 2018

Hey Julie – I have instructional design experience. I wrote curriculum for teaching WordPress in schools and actually instructed it. I also have years of experience writing other business and technology curriculum for secondary education. I’m very familiar with BloomBloom's Taxonomy Bloom's Taxonomy is a way of writing lesson plan objectives using specific words so that the objectives can be measured. See https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/guidelines/blooms-taxonomy/ for more details.’s TaxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. and have a degree in teaching.