Destiny Kanno 9:31 pm on May 5, 2022  

Recap of Training Team meeting May 3 & 5

Slack Log for EMEA/Americas Meeting (Tuesday, May 3, 2022)
Slack Log for APAC Meeting (Thursday, May 5, 2022)

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The agenda for both meetings can be found here.

Introductions and Welcome

Attendance EMEA/Americas Meeting: @courane01, @piyopiyofox, @ndiego, @arasae, @kemmy99, @caraya, and @artdecotech

Attendance APAC Meeting: @courane01, @west7, @abax14, @psykro

Welcoming the newcomers joining the Training team in the last week (Slack usernames): @Alexander Puhl, @Gregory Hernandez, @Nirav Sherasiya, @Dhaval250, @Heather Roy, @Aissé, @kare903

Meeting Note Takers

Meeting recap notes are one of the best ways to get started contributing to a team. We still have a few open spots for May. If you would like to contribute, simply let the team know in Slack.

News

WordPress 6.0 – Release Candidate 1

WordPress 6.0 Release CandidateRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. 1 has been launched and contains the theme style variations and no major changes from here until May 24 release day. Please help us to test and improve this release.

Faculty Program Announcement

An announcement post about the Faculty Program is now live!

Sprint

May Sprint Progress

You can view more information about the May 2022 Sprint here.

Content Development

Here is a review of the work currently in progress and the work that has been published.

  1. Drafts
  2. Reviews
  3. Published

Want to help create content? Here’s our Help Needed info. Issues have been organized by priority and other labels:

  1. Ready to Create – You Can Help
  2. Topic Ideas

@caraya picked up Block Locking – Lesson Plan #739 for this sprint.

Website Development

If you’d like to contribute to the Training Team by developing, see the Website Development project board. We have organized issues by priority:

  1. High priority
  2. Good first issues

Training Team Administration

  1. 2022 Team Goal Setting
  2. Administrative tasks for the team, some of these are ongoing.

Social Learning Spaces (SLS) this Week

Open Discussions

We confirmed that some Training folks will be present at WCEU! For those attending, don’t forget to sign up for Contributor Day!

@piyopiyofox has begun outreach to new channel members

Coffee Hour will resume on 5/6.

Upcoming Meetings

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 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.

Getting Involved

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects.

  1. Learn.WordPress.org
    1. Lesson Plans
    2. Workshops
    3. Courses
    4. Social Learning Spaces
    5. Pathways to Learn WordPress
  2. Getting Involved
    1. GitHub Website Development
    2. GitHub Content Development
    3. What We Are Currently Working On This Month
  3. About The Team
  4. Our Team Blog