Training Team Meeting Recap – 26th September 2023

This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. 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.)

For those newly joining us, 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.

We have a few ways for you to get involved: https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/

Introductions and Welcome

There were 20 attendees: @webtechpooja, @huzaifaalmesbah, @weblink, @piyopiyofox, @ravikhadka, @jominney, @karthickmurugan, @sumitsingh, @digitalchild, @bsanevans, @shaggykat27, @onealtr, @yuli-yang, @devmuhib, @amitpatelm, @lada7042, @vanpariyar(async), @courtneypk(async), @sancastiza(async)

We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. Let’s get introduced to 7 new people here:

@Shamali Sulakhe @IdeaSmith @Ramesh Bharathi @Asif Jamil

Welcome to Training. What is your interest in Learn/Training, and what do you enjoy outside of WordPress?

News

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Meeting Note Takers

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September 26 – @benjirahmed

October 3   – @sancastiza

October 10 – @sumitsingh

October 17 – @huzaifaalmesbah

Thank you for taking notes this week @benjirahmed

Looking for feedback

Proposal: Updating the Contributor Ladder to a five-path model
Last year, the Training Team identified a need to clarify the contributor roles in the team. This post first outlines what improvements have been made over the last 12 months. It then proposes updating the team’s Contributor Ladder handbook page from a linear ladder to a five-path ladder, matching the team’s onboarding and faculty program structures.

Data we should collect to Highlight the team’s impact on WP community

@Ben Evans is working in collecting more data around the Training Team’s work. What data should we collect to highlight the Training Team’s impact on the WordPress Community and on Learn?

The team started a conversation last to last week about how we could indicate folks have completed a course cohort. Please leave your ideas in this Slack thread from last week’s meeting.

The team also started discussing: “When can an interested contributor take over developing a piece of content which had originally been assigned to another contributor, but no progress has been made for some time?”

Looking for volunteers

We’re looking for volunteers to author the October edition of the Learn WordPress newsletter. (See the Learn WordPress Newsletter – September 2023 to see how its structured). If you want to volunteer, please show your interest in this thread 

Abha is looking for volunteers to help:

  • Prepare a presentation beforehand
  • Contribute to the presentation and Q&A on the day
  • Edit the recording afterwards and updating documentation

This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a Slack account, you can set one up.)

For those newly joining us, 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.

We have a few ways for you to get involved: https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/

The Training Team is looking for more Online Workshop Facilitators and Co-Hosts!

Almost exactly a year ago, Ben published this post: Become an Online Workshop Facilitator or Tutorial Presenter Today! And the call for help is still relevant today. If you haven’t read that post before, please take a look

Also, Ben ran an Online Workshop 2 weeks ago about how anyone can apply to become a facilitator or co-host. Come checkout the recording here: https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/online-workshops

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Triaged one new open PR and two new open bugs

Thanks @Jonathan for providing update and conducting triage session. If anyone want to join these efforts, Dev-Squad triage happen every week on Thursday at 7:00 UTC

Other News

Contributor Badges Awarded: @Harsh Gajipara@akshaya

WordPress 6.4 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. 1 releasing today at 4:00 PM UTC at #core channel

Come check out Let’s share our notes from the Community Summit And if you attended the summit, feel free to add your notes there, too 

Checkout Hallway Hangout: What’s new for developers in WordPress 6.4

Open requests for review

We are looking for folks to help review these pieces of content. See our Guidelines for reviewing content to review the following content.

Tutorials

Lesson Plans

Translated Content

We’re also looking for translation reviewers who speak German, Gujrati, Chinese or Bengali.

Project Updates

@jominney said :
This post was published today with the work done so far. We are looking for feedback on the potential filters we plan to use and on the overall suggested revision to the site structure. Please comment on the P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. post with any feedback.”
https://make.wordpress.org/training/2023/09/26/looking-for-feedback-learn-website-information-architecture/

@piyopiyofox said :

We also have the following tentative timeline updates re: learning pathways outline work

  • Incorporate feedback – 27 September
  • Publish learning pathways – 3 October
  • Content audit + what do we have in place – 17 October
  • Estimations: how long will it take to create these pathways? – 20 October

Next steps for GitHub updates
Thanks to @Yuli for her work wrangling the labels out of 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/ for us! We have compiled this spreadsheet and we are seeking the assistance of anyone who is familiar with the repository with providing feedback on their usage (if any) of the labels. We will be publishing a post with the planned revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. to the templates soon, also!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XGJKG26N1T59dPM-G_oT6eI67mlgaaGV4YQm_XbGDqg/edit#gid=0


Open Discussions

@piyopiyofox asked Amit Patel to share about putting on an SEO Online Workshop

@amitpatelmd said : Happy to share that I will be working on a workshop for introducing tasks for SEO expert SME, would love to have feedback from you all.

You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.

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