Training Team Meeting Recap – September 20

Slack Log for APAC Meeting (Tuesday 07:00 UTC)

Slack Log for AMER/EMEA Meeting (Tuesday 16:00 UTC)

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The meeting agenda.

We have alternated our weekly team meetings according to the time zone. this week APAC had Team Meeting and EMEA/Americas Had an Office Hour

Introductions and Welcome

Attendees Team meeting (APAC): @piyopiyofox, @webtechpooja, @freewebmentor, @pitamdey, @askaryabbas, @piyushmultidots, @amitpatelmd, @hderashri, @psykro, @chetan200891, @onealtr, @eboxnet, @margheweb, @courtneypk

Attendees Office hour (EMEA/AMER): @azhiyadev, @arasae, @courtneypk, @meaganhanes, @psykro, @isvictorious, @annezazu,

Welcome to the team (WordPress usernames): @GoGinaMarie @adamwood @blerjangashi @iandunn @javiarce @jsholberg @sinarhadiwijaya @lanche86 @lokomofeilow @dvonrohr @xubiant @dantovbein

Meeting Note Takers

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27 September – @piyushasthana
4 October – @kharisblank
11 October – @finchps
18 October – @amitpatelmd
25 October – @Idrissa Thiam

News

Faculty Members Update
Please check the faculty members’ full list here.
Individual Learn Survey is out, please take the survey and share it with your social circle.
Learn WordPress’s new Lesson Plan landing page is live – check out here
WCUS took place this month and here you can check the update of Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/..

WP 6.1 Sprint

Release date for WP 6.1 is Nov 1, So we aim to achieve this in the timeframe and will release ready(add/update) content at the time of release.
- Information Sources for WP 6.1
- Text, screenshots, and familiarization completed by Oct 11/RC1
- Videos completed by Oct 28

Content published this Week
Introduction to block theme development (for beginners)

Content available for review
Padding Versus Margins – Tutorial

Open Discussions

@hderashri shared about an upcoming 10 days Hindu festival symbolizing the victory of good over evil.
@courtneypk shared about her b’day next week.
@digitalchild asked about a way through which a ‘to be reviewed’ list that can be created which is easier than digging around 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/.
– @webtechpooja answered by “new GitHub Project board https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/33 where tabs are grouped by tickets.

Office Hour

@azhiyadev started the office hour and asked and started assigning people to unclaimed issues in WP 6.1.

Upcoming Meetings

Training team office hour for AMER/EMEA region on Tuesdays, 20, Sept. at 4:00 PM UTC
Friday, 27, Sept. Coffee Hour at 1:00 PM UTC
Office hour for APAC on Tuesday, 27, Sept. at 7:00 AM UTC and EMEA/Americas will have the meeting.

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.

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