Meeting Agenda for November 29, 2022

Please join us for our Team Meeting Tuesdays at 07:00 UTC (APAC friendly) OR Tuesdays at 17:00 UTC (AMER/EMEA friendly) OR Coffee Hour Friday at 13:00 UTC and Eastern APAC Coffee Hour Friday at 04:00 UTC in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meetings!

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This Week’s Agenda

1. Intro/Welcome
2. News
   1. Meeting Note Takers
      • November 29 – @pitamdey 
      • December 6 – @piyopiyofox
      • December 13 – @amitpatelmd
      • December 20 – @pitamdey
      • December 27 – No Meeting
   2. Faculty Members Update
      • November 2022 Faculty Meeting
   3. Project Thread: Content Localization Foundations
      • Volunteers still needed
      • Looking for folks to provide feedback on the content for translation
   4. Team Rep Nominations
   5. Training Team Badges
   6. DevHub getting a new look
   7. Team Goal Setting
   8. December 23, and 30, no coffee hour on(EMEA/AMER timezone)
   9. Eastern APAC Coffee Hour Fridays at 04:00 UTC from Dec 2nd.
   10. No Meeting on December 27, 2022
   11. Choosing accessible/contrasting dark theme colors for online workshops and tutorial videos – two sets of “alternate” or “dark” colors have been finalized
       • Where we need to add this in the handbook?
   12. 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/ Pages Update
       • New pages
         • How we Use GitHub
         • Vetting Topic Ideas
       • Updated Pages
         • Faculty Member Getting Started Guide
       • Deprecated Pages
         • Using GitHub
         • Submission and Vetting
         • Reviewing Tutorial Submissions
         • How to Submit a Lesson Plan Idea
3. Published Content
   • Tutorial – Streamline your Block Theme development with Create Block Theme
4. Request for review
   • Tutorial – Develop Your First Low-Code BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Theme Module#3
     • Modules 1 and 2 are published here. You’ll notice modules #3, 4, and 5 are in draft form.
     • Module 3 (Five lessons, one self-check) is ready for feedback! Find the specific links and where to provide feedback here: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/631#issuecomment-1324369395
   • Tutorial – Comments block 
   • Lesson Plan- Template tour lesson plan
5. Request for comments
   1. Please reach out to @bsanevans if you’re interested in making new onboarding handbook pages for the Training Team.
   2. Do we want to update our GitHub views to match the kanban board columns? (See Slack conversation)
6. Month Retrospective
   • What went well?
   • What could we improve?
   • What will we do differently?
7. Open Discussions
   • Are Online Workshop co-hosting opportunities and Content Error Issues a good first issue for Contributors to work on?

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Upcoming Meetings

• Tuesday 07:00 UTC APAC Team meeting, weekly
• Tuesday 17:00 UTC AMER/EMEA Team meeting, weekly
• Friday 13:00 UTC Coffee hour, weekly
• Friday 04:00 UTC Eastern APAC Coffee hour, weekly
• Faculty Meetings are held monthly on the 15th or the closest business day through a Training Team post

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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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.

• Here’s what you need to know to get started

Team Links

1. Learn.WordPress.org
   1. Lesson Plans
   2. Tutorials
   3. Courses
   4. Online Workshops
   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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