Recap for Training Team meeting March 23, 2021

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The agenda for the meeting can be found here

Attendance: @azhiyadev @webtechpooja @courane01 @paaljoachim @onealtr @ashiquzzaman

Introduction and Welcome:

We have few new members joining this week – @zinanga @Alyssa @Madhu Murthy @David Sahlström @berlowitz

March Sprint :

We still have the following lesson plans ready to be drafted:

If anyone is interested, please let us know and we can assign you to a card.

@courane01 said: It’s the final week of this cohort, and we’re nearing the end of building a theme in class. She is working on the lesson plan and will be available next Tuesday for review and tentatively ready to take live within a week from that point.

All those who volunteered to write plans have access as needed and the lesson plan template started in the draft on Learn.

Making a layout for /lesson-plans
@courane01 and @azhiyadev still need to meet to go through this.

Invites for stakeholders
Again, we haven’t done anything here.

Open Discussions:

@azhiyadev said: This will be a cross-team collaboration in the organization of our goals. We already have a Learn Working Group that covers Learn WordPress functionality.

For Content Planning, we need one that includes Release Squad, Marketing and Docs.

@courane01 said: #marketing has been rather busy and taking a little time away with Covid concerns. She will touch base again soon with them around this and also the SEO pass for lesson plans in general.

@azhiyadev said: There is a Spanish translation for Diversity Workshops, you can follow the Slack thread

Learn Working Group met last week, the recap is now available.

Highlight from the Learn working group meeting:

Tuesday Training: Live session about Learn WordPress
Learn WordPress Handbook
Learn WordPress functionality roadmap

Read the recap to find out how you can contribute to those items

Daylight savings and future meetings

Background: https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2021/02/09/2021-daylight-savings-time-planning/

The next meetings are:

Training:

Office Hour Friday, 26 March 2021, 10:00 AM UTC
Training team Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 4:00 PM UTC

Learn Working group:

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