Thank you for joining the Training Team for 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 2023 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/.! We’ve prepared activities for both new and experienced contributors to join in on the day.
We plan on hosting some online events during Contributor Day, too, so that people who couldn’t attend WordCamp Europe can still participate remotely! Please follow this post to receive a notice once these online events are scheduled.
Table Lead: Courtney Robertson (@courane01), Jonathan Bossenger (@psykro)
Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. Monitor: Pooja Derashri (@webtechpooja)
Zoom Coordinator: Benjamin Evans (@bsanevans)
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.
I’m new to the Training Team!
Thanks for joining! Please walk through our brand-new Onboarding Program. This will give you an overview of the team, help you set up the accounts you need to contribute, and even walk you through your first contribution!
We expect the onboarding program above to take 30-60 minutes. Once you’ve completed onboarding, jump into these other activities to continue contributing!
Review published content and submit feedback.
The WordPress software continues to grow, and new features get added all the time. Reviewing published content and updating content is important in keeping the Learn WordPress website current. Follow the team guide about reviewing published content to leave feedback about any content below. (Reviewing older content would be helpful!)
Submit new content topic ideas
Have a look through the Learn WordPress website. Are there any topics you feel would be great to add to the website? Come add your topic ideas to our 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/ repository from the button below:
I have experience working with the Training Team!
Thanks for joining! Depending on your interests, there are a few ways you can get involved. For each of the tasks below, the team handbook should help you with process specifics. But if you have any questions, feel free to reach out!
- Brainstorm how to engage more Content Creators to join the Training Team.
- Ask a Content Translator to share their hurdles in translating content.
- Live session on how to create a tutorial – @psykro will conduct a live session to guide potential contributors on How to create a Tutorial?
- Content Creation
- Content Translation
- Subject Matter Expert
- Content Reviews
- Triage developer issues
Content Creation
Are you interested in creating content? If so, then creating content related to the recent releases is our priority today.
Start by searching for a piece of content you’d like to work on in the Recent Release project board. Once found, comment on the GitHub issue so that we can assign it to you.
Content Translation
Are you interested in translating content? If so, then translate the content mentioned in the LearnWP Content – Localization GitHub Project Board. We have some high-priority content that needs to be translated. There are a few courses about onboarding contribs specifically that will help in the WordPress mentorship program:
You can learn how to get started in content localization in this handbook page.
Content Reviews
Are you interested in editing content? If so, then reviewing content waiting to be published is our priority today.
Start by finding a piece of content to review in our content development board. This GitHub view has filtered all content waiting for reviews before it is published. Follow the team’s Guidelines for reviewing content and leave your reviews right there in GitHub.
Subject Matter Expert
A subject-matter expert is someone who has extensive knowledge in a particular field or area and can provide advice, guidance, and direction in that subject. If you would like to help in vetting topics, Then this new GitHub Project board related to LearnWP Topic Vetting will help you.
Triage Developer Issues
Are you a developer interested in working on issues for the Learn website? If so, then working through our Website Development project board is our priority today.
Start by reviewing issues “In Review.” Any help you can provide regarding issues “In Progress” would be great, too. But in general, any attention you can give to any issue would be much appreciated.
If there are enough interested Developers, then we can also create a developer-focused working group so that they can focus on related issues.
Before you leave…
We’d love to hear what you achieved on the day. Before you leave the table, please submit the Contributor Day Attendee Feedback Form. Thank you!
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