Training Team Meeting Recap – 20th June 2023

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.)

Introductions and Welcome

There were 18 attendees: @webtechpooja, @sumitsingh, @chetan200891, @krupalpanchal, @lada7042, @sierratr, @margheweb, @newcomer22, @quitevisible, @boogah, @eboxnet ,@onealtr, @nahidsharifkomol, @westnz, @courtneypk, @vanpariyar,  @piyopiyofox, @mjaragon03

We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. What is your interest in Learn/Training and what do you enjoy outside of WordPress:@Jorge Boscan, @Safa Abbas Bahar Chowdhury, @atiktonmoy, @Arshadina Umara Najib, @Jhilik, @Asad, @alexcu21, @Taraprasad Swain, @Gael DENYSIAK, @Hilary Baumann, @Mehbub Rashid, @Yash Kukreja, @Mark Sollazzo, @rich, @Ghanshyam Patel, @Maishank

News

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• June 20 – Sumit Singh
• June 27 – jominney
• July 4 – Need Volunteer
• July 11 – Nahid Sharif Komol

Looking for feedback

• New Learn WordPress website designs have been shared. You can find a more detailed view of Learn website on this post: https://make.wordpress.org/design/2023/06/19/design-share-jun-5-jun-16/
• Let’s re-evaluate how we currently host our meetings
  • EMEA/AMER meetings Currently seeing low synchronous engagement in the past few months.
  • Team members (across the globe) are joining APAC meetings async and providing their feedback.
  • Unable to find hosts or co-hosts for EMEA/AMER.
  • Pooja is a Test co-lead for the upcoming 6.3 and 6.4 releases, and the Test team meeting falls a the same time, so it would be hard for her to switch back and forth.
  • @webtechpooja – My idea is to run 1 Coffee hour for EMEA, 1 Coffee hour for APAC, and 1 Global meeting. What do others think?
  • Brainstorm & Table Lead – WordCamp US 2023 Contributor Day There are two months left before WordCamp US 2023 Contributor Day! In preparation for the day, we’d like to invite you to put your name in as a table-co lead and share your ideas of what contributors at the Training Team table can get involved with on that day.

Weekly Roundup on Monday

During meetings, we post weekly published content. So instead of posting during meetings, we can post a weekly Roundup of what happened published on Monday, so we can focus our meetings around what needs to be created, reviewed, or discussed, and in this way, our meetings can be more engaging. We have positive feedback on it.

Looking for volunteers

• Audit and Translate Learn WordPress courses – As part of the Contributor Mentorship Program, we need to review the following course on priority,
  • Open source basics
  • How Decisions Are Made in the WordPress Project
  • Community Meeting Etiquette
  • Writing in the WordPress Voice
  • Basic Principles of Conflict Resolution
• Come join the Training Team as a Translation Coordinator (Faculty role)
  Recently joined faculty members as a Translation Coordinator
  • Gujarati Translation Coordinator – Chetan Prajapati
  • Indonesian Translation Coordinator – Nadia Maya Ardiani
  • Italian Translation Coordinator –Margherita Pelonara
  • French Translation Coordinator – Jenny Dupuy
• Creating guiding documents / advising on accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) – Looking for a volunteer, who can work on a handbook page that has an accessibility checklist that can be used by content creators, editors, and meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. note-takers.
• Implementing Learning Pathways #1577 – Please indicate interest in the 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/ issue
• WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program: Pilot Program Proposal: Each team has been asked to devote at least one team member. Would any Faculty like to volunteer?
• Team Meeting Hosts and Coffee Hour Hosts
• High priority content to translate – We have created this based on past interest and pick. We will update the content list when the Learning Paths have been finalized.

Other news

• Learners can now submit feedback when completing a course
  • @westnz created a short survey for Learners to take after finishing a course.
• The WordCamp Europe Contributor Day 2023 Recap is out – The fastest recap ever. You can find how the team accomplished that day and got the valuable feedback
• Analysis and Results of the Individual Learner Survey – The analysis of each learner has finally been published. Looking for the comments on the post. It will be a big factor the team will consider as we prioritize our activities.
• Information Sources for 6.3 is now published to help us prepare for the upcoming release. @Courtney has created this post to help the team evaluate what needs to be updated or what content needs to be created for this release
• @Ben Evans created a handbook page to outline more information about Synchronous/Asynchronous Contributor Hour.
• The Training Team is officially part of the 6.4 release – @Courtney will be the Training lead for the release. Courtney, please let us know how we can support your efforts for this release.

Content published in the last week

• Tutorials
  • How to use headings for accessibility and SEO
  • Advanced Multisite Management
  • Using the block editor: Tips and shortcuts for efficiency

Open requests for review

Below is some content that is ready for review, if any content reviewers are around, please help us in reviewing and move it to publish state.

• Tutorials
  • Embedding media and third-party content on your website
  • Tutorial – Using caching to improve website performance #1579
  • Tutorial – Designing with Row and Stack Blocks #1419
  • Tutorial – 7 Tips for improving website security #1551
  • Tutorial – WordPress Playground  #1583
• Lesson Plans
  • Block Locking – Lesson Plan #739
• Courses
  • Course – An introduction to the WordPress REST API #1453
• Translated Content
  • Gujarati translation for Lesson Plan “Locking Blocks in the Full Site Editor” #1130
  • Spanish translation for Lesson Plan “Managing Comments” #1133
  • Khmer translation for Tutorial “Getting to know the WordPress Dashboard” #1535
  • Indonesian translation for Lesson Plan “Intro to the Site Editor and Templates ” #1488
  • Indonesian translation for Tutorial “Choosing and Installing a Theme” #1508

Project updates

No project is active right now.

Other ways to Contribute

Ready to start contributing? Here are a couple of ways to get involved today!

•  Co-host an upcoming Online Workshop – Learn more about Co-hosting an Online Workshop in our handbook page.
•  Help resolve a Content Error – We have information on how to Validating and Triaging Content Error Reports.
• Join the Training Team Welcome Committee! – Help us welcome new members to the Training Team and foster our growing community.

Open Discussions

@sierratr reported, some online workshop issues are still open on Github, even after event has been completed. We need to close them.

Pooja shared below links:

• Proposal: Criteria for Removing “Beta Support” from Each PHP 8+ Version – Proposal that aims to establish criteria for when and how PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. version support graduates from “betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process.” to “compatible”.
• What’s new in Gutenberg 16.0? (14 June)

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