Training Team Meeting Recap for March 21st

This meeting followed this meeting agenda post. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. account, you can set one up.)

(We have alternated our weekly team meetings according to the timezone. This week we are having the Team Meeting in the APAC timezone, and a Coffee Hour was held in the Americas/EMEA timezone at Tuesday 13:00 UTC.)

Introductions and Welcome

There are 17 attendees, either live or async: @courtneypk, @courane01, @nomadskateboarding, @lada7042, @eboxnet, @onealtr, @karthickmurugan, @piyushmultidots, @west7, @amitpatelmd, @afrin29, @faguni22, @mehrazmorshed, @bsanevans, @kafleg, @webtechpooja, and @sagarladani.

Welcome to the team (Slack usernames): @Steve, @Emmanuel Ogundare, @Rami, and @Arti Rana.

News

Meeting Note Takers

Meeting recap notes are one of the best ways to get started contributing to a team, and you can find details on how to write notes on this handbook page.

• March 28 – @sagarladani
• April 4 – @faguni22
• April 11 – @afrin29
• April 18 – @idrissathiam01
• April 25 – Need Volunteer

Faculty Members Update

Faculty members recently completed an annual check-in survey. @courtneypk will be sharing results in the next couple weeks.

Meeting times for EMEA/Americas is changing from this week

Please see the Make WordPress Meeting Calendar for up-to-date information about meeting times.

• EMEA/Americas meetings and coffee hours on Tuesdays will now be held at 16:00 UTC.
• Friday EMEA/Americas coffee hours will now be held at 13:00 UTC.

Dev-squad Update

• This week’s session will be held on Tuesday at 22:00 UTC for 30 minutes
• @psykro posted a report of last week’s triage session

Learning Pathways

• @courane01 is looking for feedback on a broader proposal. Please leave feedback on the Google Doc linked in this Slack thread.

Team Badges

The process of requesting a team badge has been updated. Please see Team Profile Badges for details. (We are no longer using 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/ to request badges.)

 @psykro was awarded the Training Team Badge this week for 12 months of consistent contribution to the team!

Handbook Updates

We have a new handbook page published: Translating Video Subtitles.

We also have a new page drafted: Preparing for a Flagship 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. 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/.

• Please leave feedback on the draft by March 31st. You can find the draft linked in this Slack message.

News from other WordPress Teams

• Launching the Contributor Working Group: Call for Volunteers (Community team)
• Call for volunteers to help with 6.2 end user documentation (Documentation team)

Creating Content for the WordPress 6.2 Release

WordPress 6.2 is set to be released on March 28th. The Training Team is working on publishing/updating content in time for this release. Please reference the resources below as we prepare content for this release.

• WordPress 6.2 Release Candidate 2
• Your WordPress 6.2 Preview
• For revisions, use this custom plugin in LearnWP
• Use this link to create a site while revising/creating content, testing features, etc.

You can find all content related to the 6.2 release listed in this GitHub project board. We are still looking for volunteers with the following content specifically.

• Looking for Content Creators (vetted topics with no assignee) CC: @faculty-content-creators
  • Managing Widgets – Lesson Plan
  • Tutorial – Migrating from Classic theme to Block theme

• Looking for Subject-Matter Experts (topics not yet vetted) @faculty-smes
  • Kerning vs Leading vs Tracking and how to use these in Site Editor – Lesson Pla
  • Kerning vs Leading vs Tracking and how to use these in Site Editor – Tutorial

Content Published This Week

Here is a list of content that was published on Learn this week.

• Tutorials
  • Displaying testimonials on your website
  • What kind of WordPress theme do I have: classic, block, or something else?
  • WP REST API – custom fields, authentication, and testing
• Lesson Plans
  • Cosa fare quando non ti ricordi la password (Italian)
  • Pagine vs. articoli (Italian)

Open Requests for Review

The following content is open for review. If you have a few minutes, please follow Guidelines for reviewing content to review these pieces of content before they’re published 

• Tutorials
  • Intro to the Site Editor and Template Editor – Tutorial
  • Using Block Patterns – Tutorial
  • Tutorial – WP REST API modifying responses
  • Tutorial – WP REST API – custom routes and endpoints
  • Tutorial – Plugin Security: Common Vulnerabilities
  • Tutorial – Add media and Openverse images to your content directly from the Inserter
• Lesson Plans
  • CSS Flexbox – Lesson Plan
• Courses
  • Course – Converting a Shortcode to a Block

And if you speak any of these languages, you can review the translation in these pieces of content, too!

• Spanish
  • Spanish translation for Lesson Plan “Managing Comments”
  • Tamil translation for Lesson Plan “Choosing And Installing Plugins”
  • Tamil translation for Lesson Plan “Pages vs. Posts”
  • Tamil translation for Hanbook Page “Tutorials”
  • Tamil translation for Lesson Plan “Intro to the Site Editor and Templates”
• Khmer
  • Khmer translation for Lesson Plan “Dashboard Overview”

Project Updates

Content Localization Foundation (lead: @bsanevans)

• Ben has been checking in with project members to see how progress is for each locale
• The project completion date will be extended by a month until April 30, in order to achieve the goal: “Translate 10 priority learning content 5 languages”
• We now have a handbook page about translating subtitles! This will help with translating Tutorial videos.

Individual Learning Survey for the Needs Analysis (lead: @west7)

An analysis report of the data has now been pushed back to April 6th. See this recent update for more information.

Other Projects

• Request for Testing: Slides Plugin – @courane01 @meaganhanes
• Skill Management platform – @courane01
• Exploring WordPress Certifications – @courane01
• Training Team Site GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ blocks – @amitpatelmd

Open Discussions

@amitpatelmd asked about updates on the “look and feel of the revamped Learn website”. @courane01 is tracking progress and will update when able.

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