WordCamp Europe 2022 Contributor Day

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.

LearnWP Content Types

Our team uses 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/ for project management.

• Sign up here.
• Training team content planning here.
• We do our actual content creation on Learn.WordPress.org itself and do not use pull requests for content.

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

How you can contribute today

There are several ways that you can contribute to the team today.

Marketing team collaboration request

• Continued work on crafting social media messaging to promote new content on LearnWP

Docs team collaboration request

• Idea: visible change log at the bottom of pages that is automated
• Discuss what needs to happen before Docs starts to link at Learn materials (Lesson plans and workshops merge) to prevent many broken links.

LearnWP Needs Analysis

• Rough draft of a Needs Analysis (this will be editable during WCEU)
  • This connects to the WordPress certification goal
  • What is the goal of this Needs Analysis doc? See Needs Analysis examples
• Overhaul Submit Idea form
  • We’d like ideas for topics to go into GitHub, and the team is working on having a matching lesson plan for each workshop. Submit a topic (GitHub issue)
  • People will still apply to host workshops or Social Learning Spaces. These will go to a team Helpscout email and the Faculty team will vet the applicants.

Submit a topic to GitHub Issues – Social Learning Space

• Host a Social Learning Space about how the Training team uses GitHub
  • Training around how to submit an issue or topic idea in GitHub
  • Showing folks how to read our project board
• Discuss in person at WCEU on how to apply and host a Social Learning Space

Other ideas:

• You can also visit our current priorities.

How you can contribute after today

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

1. Join our Slack channel training. To get up and running on Slack go to make.wordpress.org/chat/.
2. Attend our next weekly meetings on our Slack channel. That is a great way to find out what we are working on and how you can jump in. See Meetings info.
3. Continue with the activities you started today.
4. Make comments on our blog.
5. Help with testing lesson plans, workshop videos and courses by using them in meetups and/or workshops.

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Team Links

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

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