January 2023 Faculty Meeting

Faculty Members have opted into an asynchronous meeting every 15th of the month (or the closest business day). We will hold our meeting over a two-week period, and the meeting host (typically the poster) or another assigned individual will post discussion outcomes at the end of the feedback period.

Please find outlined below Updates for review, Topics for Discussion, and items that require assistance in the Working Together section. The meeting host will add a comment for each topic for discussion.

Discussion period: 15–31 January, 2023

Updates

Here are some recent happenings and open feedback requests.

• @onealtr and @courtneypk are working on Tutorial Presenter and Online Workshop Facilitator applications
• @amitpatelmd and @bsanevans are working on Welcome Wrangling
• @amitpatelmd, @bsanevans, @digitalchild & @webtechpooja are working on Training team onboarding paths.
• We’re always looking for more contributors who can help with our Content Localization translation goals.
• The Learning Needs Analysis project is seeking project members. A context post about the project was published recently, with a project thread to follow soon. Please review the project and comment if you are interested in contributing!
• Open Feedback Requests:
  • Reimagining the TT Contributor Ladder (See related project discussion here)
  • Drafted handbook pages for GitHub Process Updates (See project thread here)

Topics for Discussion

Please comment on this post with answers to the Faculty Member check-in items and your input on our topics for discussion.

• Check-in: Please feel free to answer some or all of the below self check-in items
  • How are you doing?
  • What’s your bandwidth like?
  • How best can you help or be tapped in this coming month?
  • Anything you’d like extra eyes on?
• We are seeking faculty volunteers to host Training Team meetings for the AMER/EMEA timezones. Upcoming meeting times are below. Please comment if you can help host any of these meetings.
  • January 17 @ 17:00 UTC – Meeting
  • January 24 @ 17:00 UTC – Office Hours
  • January 31 @ 17:00 UTC – Meeting

Have any other topics for discussion? Please your walk-on topic in the comment titled Walk-on Topics for discussion.

Working Together

Outlined below are the tasks per role that require assistance. All tasks are logged in the Training Team’s LearnWP Content Development board.

All

The following Faculty Members work to progress the needs of all roles: @courane01, @azhiyadev, @webtechpooja, @piyopiyofox, @courtneypk, @bsanevans

Editors

Faculty Members: @fikekomala @aion11 @mrfoxtalbot, @digitalchild, @afshanadiya

Assistance required

• There are 7 items Ready for Review:
  • Designing with the columns block – Tutorial #1192
  • Using theme.json with classic themes – Tutorial #520
  • CSS Flexbox – Lesson Plan #713
  • [Related Course: Create a Custom Block Theme #1] How Classic and Block Themes Are Developed – Lesson Plan #832
  • How to migrate your WordPress site #1187
  • How to improve your SEO rankings – Tutorial #1167
  • Spanish translation for Lesson Plan “Managing Comments” #1133

Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)

Faculty Members: @wpscholar, @annezazu, @pbrocks, @richtabor, @chetan200891, @HardeepAsrani, @chrismkindred, @amitpatelmd, @psykro, @digitalchild, @afshanadiya

Assistance required

• There are 2 Topic Ideas that require vetting:
  • Creating a Front Page in Block Themes – Lesson Plan
  • Working faster in WordPress – Lesson Plan

Content Creator

Faculty Members: @amitpatelmd, @psykro, @arasae, @west7, @ndiego, @trynet, @chrisbadgett, @colorful-tones, @eboxnet, @robinwpdeveloper

Assistance required

• There are five 6.1-related items Ready to Create requiring assignment:
  • Featured Image – Lesson Plan#765 – requires updates
  • Block Locking – Lesson Plan #739 – requires updates
  • Theme.json – Lesson Plan#652 @caraya is working on this but has asked for help generating assessment questions.
  • Advanced Layouts with the Block Editor – Lesson Plan#1002 – requires updates
  • Intro to Site Editor and Templates – Lesson Plan #699 – requires updates

Administrator

Faculty Members: @onealtr @meaganhanes

Assistance required

• We need Administrative help on logging Learn Content Errors in GitHub

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