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This meeting was held in the APAC time zone.
Introductions and Welcome
There were 11 attendees: @webtechpooja, @chaion07, @sagarladani, @jominney, @pitamdey, @psykro, @afrin29, @sumitsingh, @thisisyeasin, @prashantbhivsane, @ashiquzzaman
Welcome to the team : @buildwithpassion01, @quitevisible, @invouq and @gautammkgarg.
News
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- May 16th – @jominney
- May 23rd – need volunteer
- May 30th – need volunteer
Looking for Feedback
In a recent Faculty survey, we received feedback that Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) aren’t clear on how they can effectively contribute to the Training Team. In particular, the current “Topic Ideas” column in the Content Development project board has over 140 items, making it difficult for SMEs to identify which items fall under their areas of expertise. Additionally, the recently concluded Content Localization Foundations project also received feedback that it is difficult for Content Translators to track translation items in GitHub 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/. It has been proposed that two new Project boards be created for more clarity.
Please leave any comments on the p2 post by May 21st.
WordCamp 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. Europe Contributor 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/. is on June 8th, and we are brainstorming what exciting things we can do with our contributors. If you have any ideas, please share them on the p2 post by May 22nd.
Members of the WordPress community have been looking for a place to house all code examples used for Learn WordPress and the Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Developer Blog. You can read about this request here.
This idea has been discussed on Slack, for more context check out this thread.
Looking for Volunteers
For the following dates, we are looking for help:
- May 23: APAC Coffee Hour at 7:00 UTC
- May 30: APAC Meeting at 16:00 UTC
- May 30: EMEA/AMER Coffee Hour at 16:00 UTC
Thanks to @meaganhanes for volunteering to host today’s EMEA coffee hour and co-host next week’s May 23rd EMEA meeting.
Other News
Some Faculty handbook updates!
- The Faculty Member list has been edited to include Areas of Expertise. This is especially important for Content Creators and Editors looking for help from Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) with specific topics.
- In addition to the above, some brief tips for working with SMEs have been added to the Faculty Role Guide for both Content Creators and Editors.
Sprint
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Open Request for Review
Project updates
There are no active projects right now.
Open Discussions
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