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Attendance: @azhiyadev, @webtechpooja, @evarlese, @courane01, @webcommsat, @nalininonstopnewsuk, @chetan200891, @sippis, @oglekler, @chaion07, @meher, @onealtr
Meeting led by @courane01
Upcoming team meetings
Tuesday 8 December 2020 at 17:00 UTC
Fridays 11 December 2020 at 11:00 UTC
Introduction and Welcome
Congrats and Thanks
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What we are working on now
We are currently working on these last steps before launching Learn.WordPress.org
- @rastaban joined Training on Tuesday and cleaned up one of those complex code lesson plans “The Loop“
- @rastaban and @webtechpooja both encountered the plugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party that presents code in lesson plans have a bug with closing PHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. snippets in particular. A bug report has been filed and hopefully can be resolved soon.
There has been a lot of progress on the other high priority items:
- @evarlese and @camikaos both led sprint work sessions on Tuesday. Based upon all the work done there, we’ve crossed off almost everything from our high priority list. Big thanks to @nao, @angelasjin, @azhiyadevdev and @webcommsat who attended the sessions.
- Also as part of the sprint work session, the Diversity lesson plan reached a published version and has been revised since @jillbinder original contribution to Training with lesson plans. Thanks to @jillbinder, @angelasjin, @nao, @azhiyadev, @courane01, @dani418, @webcommsat and @nalininonstopnewsuk who contributed to this.
- @nalini and @angelasjin are working on some more items and will update later on today.
- @courane01 found that the Template Hierarchy lesson plan links out to an external source for a graphic. The Developer version of the #docs article also does as well, we will work with it for now but long term the Traning team would like to review how docs handle external links
We have a release date of December 15, 2020, for Learn. This was a group decision with #marketing and #community-team to give WP5.6 and Learn some space in the communication and press. Thank you to #marketing for the thoughtfulness and work put into the release comms for Learn.
- The launch for Learn will also include a social media pack. If you have any networks that you think would be useful in promoting Learn WordPress for launch and during the 3-month campaign, please let #marketing know.
- #marketing would also welcome your input into a collaboration they shared in marketing this week. You can find it at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PUJDhb7YDfRUj3CX_6IJSd2ANKQfkbmEl3KP5mY9q_c/edit
- #marketing is collating a list of external promotional opportunities and scheduling these for both maximum promotion and to help ensure the material that is being shared is consistent and up-to-date. It allows them to keep up the momentum and include calls to action and calls for volunteers as needed. If you think you can help with this then please get please tag abahanonstopnewsuk in the #marketing slack channel
- #marketing will share how you can be involved with the Learn WordPress launch closer to December 15, 2020.
- #marketing also has internal fun plans to celebrate the Learn WordPress launch. If you would love to get involved, let them know. @webcommsat promises cake (virtual of course :-)).
One of our last steps on launch is coordinating wth #meta for some visual organization.
- @coreymckrill has been working with the Training team to help with the flow and functionality of the site.
- @dufresnesteven provided the work done roughing in Jan/Feb this winter. The team at the time envisioned an MVP "A minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers, and to provide feedback for future product development." - WikiPedia including much of what is shown on the visual organization. Note, this is a 14-page file. If @chetan200891 or @jessecowens can point to any comments that happened around reaching this point, it’d be appreciated.
- Before launch, we’d like at least a small portion of that organization to be present. Giving new visitors a bit of visual organization and flow through the site will help. @evarlese and @courane01 have been providing input into this. If anyone wants to contribute to the conversation, then @courane01 will be available in the Training slack from 17:00 UTC today. You can comment asynchronously.
In terms of what is left before launch, that the team can do, it would be nice to have the following lesson plans created:
- Joining the Making WP Slack
- The following content might be useful https://github.com/WordPress/contributor-day-handbook/blob/master/*Start%20Here%20-%20General%20Guides/How%20to%20join%20the%20WordPress.org%20Slack%20instance.md
- Joining Get Involved teams
- This will need to link to the Contributor Handbook on WordPress/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/ as well as the links to the onboarding videos from Make WP slack.
There is a reusable block Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. in Learn lesson plans with our template. We ask that you do not hit publish, as we do have a revision process before taking lessons live.
Standup/Check-In
@courane01 committed to and completed cross-team efforts, monitoring what’s left to be done, onboarding new contributors as well as helping to onboard @onealtr to facilitate the Tuesday meetings in the near future.
@evarlese helped with the sprints and subsequently worked on updating/finishing content in lesson plans.
Would others like to assist with those lesson plans OR visual organization? Feedback on initial flow and help sorting the material is greatly appreciated. We can loosely organize that here in the channel or @courane01 can organize a blog post with approximate timeframes. We’d love to see the team share in the stand-ups in an ongoing manner. After launch, we will revisit internal documentation/procedures, our forms and more.
Open announcements/discussion
Please comment on the proposal to move the Learn Working Group to Training to better organize and unify the work of Learn.
As part of the progression, @evarlese has published the collective thoughts of those noted in the footer on Learn WordPress: Blue sky thinking. This is a brainstorm type document on where Learn can go, with a 3-year vision roughly presented. Please leave your feedback.
If you have any additional ideas/suggestion or would like to voice support of these thoughts, concerns or other, please do.
Action items
@courane01 will continue to work on the release prep work, especially getting a minimum version of visual organization. Also, follow up with @sippis and @jessecowenson downloadable slide options.
@evarlese will focus on helping with visual organization and anything else that may come up before launch.
@azhiyadev will assist with feedback on initial visual flow and help sort the material.
