Agenda for the week of Jan 4 2021

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!

This Week’s Agenda

Introduction and Welcome to new people
Congrats and Thanks
What we’re working on now:
1. 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. Sevilla recap
2. Lesson plan format
3. Comments welcome on @carike‘s 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. post about Protecting Children’s Privacy.
4. Grammar review needed for Creating/joining Slack, orientation to channels and etiquette
Brainstorm session for 2021
1. Refresher: Blue Sky Thinking
2. Updates to Learn functionality and team workflows/policy
See 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.: https://trello.com/b/rK1tztAA/learn-wordpress
Standup/check-in
Open announcements/discussion
1. The Learn Working Group will hold its first meeting of the year on January 7, 2021 at 19:00 UTC (check your timezone) in the #training channel of the Making WordPress Slack. The Learn Working Group is a Community and Training cross-team working group focused on discussion groups and video workshops for Learn WordPress.

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