Agenda for the week of December 7

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

Already onboarded and ready to get involved?

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

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 Tuesday 1700 UTC OR Friday 1100 UTC in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meetings!

Officially, the Learn website will be announced for full-release on December 15.

This Week’s Agenda

Introduction and Welcome
Congrats and Thanks
What we’re working on now (most of this is DONE!)
1. Creating/joining 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/., orientation to channels and etiquette
2. Joining Get Involved teams – see Contributor Day Handbook
3. Lesson plan landing page
4. Screenshots needed for the Marketing team
Tentative guideline for editing live lesson plans
1. Copy/paste live content to a draft post
2. Title the work in progress as “DRAFT: Title of original”
3. Save, but do not publish
4. Leave a message in Training
Standup/check-in
1. What did you commit to doing last week?
2. What did you do?
3. What will you do next week?
4. Any blockers?
Open announcements/discussion
1. Comment on Blue Sky Thinking
2. Comment on Moving Learn Working Group to Training

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 facilitators 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

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