Proposal to expand the mission of the Training team

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When the Training team got started in 2013, it was invited to help WordPress education grow at scale, by creating and distributing world-class lesson plans that anyone could use to teach WordPress and WordPress-related skills.

Since that beginning, lots of great work has been done. The result is an impressive repository of lesson plans and the site learn.wordpress.org itself. Those lesson plans provide an empowering framework for educating others in live settings — and even help new contributors develop their voice and expertise through workshops, MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. events, and other opportunities for speaking. The team has a lot to be proud of, and a bright future ahead.

When the team started, the mission was defined this way:

The WordPress training team creates downloadable lesson plans and related materials for instructors to use in live environments.

Learn WordPress has grown considerably since launch, and is well-positioned to accelerate the growth of WordPress by helping people learn to use, extend, and contribute to our open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. CMS. In that same time, the Training team has also grown and adapted.

To expand and improve the instructional content for all users of WordPress, learn.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ needs contributors with experience in (or passion for) instructional design, discussion group facilitation, learning assessment, and many other aspects of learning or training.

I propose expanding the mission of the Training Team to include more of that work, focused on the effort to make learn.wordpress.org a high quality, up-to-date WordPress learning platform — much of which the team has already been doing.

The new mission statement could be something like:

The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments, via learn.wordpress.org.

Feedback?

I’d love to know your thoughts or concerns about this proposed expansion in scope; please share in the comments below!

Deep thanks to @courane01, @evarlese, and @hlashbrooke for their feedback on, and edits to, this proposal.

Courtney Engle Robertson 7:23 pm on May 10, 2021

As Learn has evolved from its inception many years ago into a new phase of WordPress, we are excited that the mission of the Training team also is evolving. By participating in the full scope of the Learn project, the Training team is able to help unify efforts across the platform and use each content delivery method to build upon each other.

This will also help the team be better equipped to respond to incoming questions that exceed the current team mission statement.

We are excited the Learn has launched and excited about the ongoing opportunity to facilitate others learning about WordPress in various methods.
Hauwa Abashiya 8:06 pm on May 10, 2021

Thank you @andreamiddleton. I support your proposal. Expanding the mission of the Training team will help us meet the current and future needs of the community and the people we serve. I am excited about making Learn a high quality and trusted platform that anyone can access and use to help others or help themselves learn WordPress.
Josepha 10:21 pm on May 18, 2021

This expanded mission makes all the sense in the world to me. Thanks for bringing this forward!

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