Agenda for November 5, 2020

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?

Getting Started – Join the team through this self-guided onboarding program.

Current Focus Areas – What we’re currently focusing on.

Goals for 2025– the goals include the team’s vision, values, and a quarterly breakdown of project milestones.

Already onboarded and ready to get involved?

See How we use GitHub to get started on one of our 6 project boards

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

See Meeting Details for more information.

Please join us Fridays at 11:00 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!

Today’s Agenda

Team Rep results
2nd weekly meeting survey
Prioritizing projects
1. Lesson plans – new and updated (including efforts for release consistency or proposed content)
2. Lesson Plan functionality – slides, nice PDF printing, display of support/developer docs, Sensei quiz integration, integration with videos?
3. 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/ exit – What is required to leave GitHub (revision control, slides)
4. Updating team procedures – Getting Started, contributions, onboarding, badges
5. Terminology on site – “teaching” and other similar words
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 environments.

Getting Involved

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects.

Here’s what you need to know to get started

What We’re Working on Now:

Small chunks
Medium chunks
- Complete lesson plans nearly done
- Write new lesson plans
High-level ongoing commitment
- Create a workflow for auditing content to stay in sync with releases
- Lesson plan revision control on Learn
- Display and provide slides for facilitators
- Ongoing audit methods

Team Links:

About The Team: https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/about/
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
Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnxqNA0WORZXWurEP6cNV6w