February 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: 16–28 February, 2023

Updates

Here are some recent happenings and open feedback requests.

• @onealtr and @piyopiyofox are working on Tutorial Presenter and Online Workshop Facilitator applications
• @amitpatelmd and @courtneypk are working on Welcome Wrangling
• @amitpatelmd, @bsanevans, @digitalchild, @nomadskateboarding, and @askdesign launched the new Training Team onboarding program. Please provide any feedback you have about the program at the Onboarding Feedback Form.
• @west7, @nomadskateboarding, @webcommsat, @courane01, @amitpatelmd, and @salonicpatel are working on the Learning Needs Analysis project
• @psykro formed the new Training Faculty Developer Squad
• Content Localization Foundations
  • February 14th update from @piyopiyofox
  • We’re always looking for more contributors who can help with our Content Localization translation goals.
• Many Training Team members are attending WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Asia this week and participating in Contributor Day.
• The Learn WordPress March Newsletter draft is in progress.

Open Feedback Requests

• Training Team 2023 Goals Setting – async feedback requested
• Faculty Check-in Q1 2023 – All faculty members, please complete this survey by February 28.

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?
  • Anything you’d like extra eyes on?
  • What things will you be focusing on in the coming month?
  • How best can you help or be tapped in this coming month?
• We are seeking faculty volunteers to help host Training Team meetings and coffee hours. Please comment if you can help host any of the upcoming meetings.
  • APAC: Tuesdays 07:00 UTC
  • Americas/EMEA: Tuesdays 17:00 UTC
  • Additional Americas/EMEA coffee hour: Fridays 14:00 UTC
• Faculty Meetings
  • We are seeking faculty volunteers to host the next Faculty meeting. Please comment if you can help host in March 2023. Since it is an asynchronous meeting that takes place on the team blog, you would just be responsible for publishing a post just like this one.
  • Are you finding this asynchronous meeting format on the team blog useful? Do you have any suggestions for improving the faculty meeting process?

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

Editor assistance required

• There are 7 items Ready for Review:
  • CSS Flexbox – Lesson Plan #713
  • WordPress Action Hooks – Lesson Plan #806
  • Spanish translation for Lesson Plan “Managing Comments” #1133
  • Designing with the columns block – Tutorial #1192
  • Creating a custom template – Tutorial #1266
  • Tutorial – Interacting with the WP REST API #1267
  • Tutorial – Displaying testimonials on your website #1298
  • Tutorial – WP REST API – Custom Fields, Authentication #1316

Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)

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

SME 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, @caraya

Content Creator assistance required

• There are three 6.2-related items Ready to Create requiring assignment:
  • Managing Widgets – Lesson Plan #478
  • Using Gobal Settings & Styles – Lesson Plan #611
  • Tutorial – Migrating from Classic theme to Block theme #1309
• There are four 6.1-related items Ready to Create requiring assignment:
  • Intro to the Site Editor and Template Editor – Tutorial #456
  • Theme.json – Lesson Plan#652 @caraya is working on this but has asked for help generating assessment questions.
  • Intro to Site Editor and Templates – Lesson Plan #699 – requires updates
  • Advanced Layouts with the Block Editor – Lesson Plan#1002 – requires updates

Administrator

Faculty Members: @onealtr @meaganhanes

Admin assistance required

• We need Administrative help on reviewing Learn Content Feedback.
• We need vetting help with volunteer applications in Help Scout.

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