Training Team 2023 Year-End Review

The end of the year is nearly upon us, which means it’s a good time to review our 2023 goals once more and check in on how we are doing.

Outlined below are the goals we have completed, what is currently in progress, what’s on hold / being re-evaluated, and the details of each goal’s current state.

To date, we have completed 11 goals, while 5 are still in progress and 2 are on hold / being re-evaluated.

You can review our 2023 goals in this Training Team Goals for 2023 post, our our first half year review in the Training Team 2023 Half Year Review post.

March to June 2023 – 6 Completed, and 3 In Progress

✅ Create a Learn newsletter for learners

• This is launched and happening monthly! See the Learn WordPress July 2023 Newsletter here.

✅ Create a 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/. checklist/template

• See our new Preparing for a Flagship WordCamp Contributor Day handbook page.

✅ A fully documented process set up for folks working on content localization

• See our Content Localization handbook page.

✅ Plan a course for beginner WordPress users

• The Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert Learning pathways for Users, Developers, and Designers have been outlined in this document.

🚧 Plan promotions with the Marketing Team

• What have we done to progress this goal?
  • We have an open 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 for this collaboration – Help Training Team develop a strategic marketing plan for promoting Learn WordPress learning pathways #249

✅ Individual Learner survey (tied to Needs analysis)

• See Analysis and results of the Individual Learner Survey

🚧 Establish monthly recurring onboarding Online Workshops in different timezones for training team roles

• To date, we have not been able to consistently offer monthly onboarding sessions for our 5 contributor roles.
• What’s next?
  • We plan to revisit the onboarding information, especially the content creator side to validate it’s clear and up to date
• This will carry over to 2024

✅ Create a dev road map for the Learn siteLearn site The Training Team publishes its completed lesson plans at https://learn.wordpress.org/ which is often referred to as the "Learn" site.

• Information architecture planning for the Learn Website is complete Looking for Feedback: Learn Website Information Architecture

🚧 Get involved with the redesign work happening on Learn

• This will carry over to 2024
• What have we done to progress this goal?
  • This is starting with the Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress project in the Design section

July to September 2023 – 4 Completed, 1 In Progress, and 1 On Hold

✅ Release roadmap of new content (that isn’t tied to WP releases/features).

• The Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert Learning pathways for Users, Developers, and Designers have been outlined in this document.

✅ Assess the content that has the largest impact.

• This was tied to the Analysis and results of the Individual Learner Survey, and the assessment can be reviewed within this post.

🚫 Test out a course creation cohort method that will work as a group to create one course together.

• Team reps agreed that we should re-evaluate this goal as getting consistent content creators on board should be higher priority

✅ Work more closely with 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).

• Content creation accessibility checklist was created in this Training Team Accessibility Checklist handbook page
• We worked more closely with Accessibility with the addition of WordPress Playground to the Learn WordPress site (see Slack thread)
• We see this evolving into a new, specific, accessibility goal (Ex. make sure new content on Learn is accessible)

🚧 Figure out a method to manage localized content translation.

• What have we done to progress this goal?
  • Reached out to MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. re: staging site which is not possible at the moment. Looking into a sandbox site
  • Docs team is also working on localization and we can meet with them to discuss their plan
• We’d like to revisit this conversation with the team and loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. in Documentation as well since they are also working on localization

✅ Nurturing the Locale Ambassadors program (making sure people who show up have people they can connect with).

• Translation Coordinator (Faculty role) was created

October to December 2023 – 1 Completed, 1 In Progress, and 1 On Hold

🚧 Audit Handbook

• We will be asking for Training Team volunteers to help us take this goal over the finish line in our November 21st meeting.

✅ Plan a structured way to showcase Learn WordPress content.

• The Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress project plan finished information architecture work

🚫 Curriculum Advisory Board (working title) planning and outreach.

• Team reps feel this can be shelved for now as increasing contributor output is higher priority.

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We will review our goals in the November 21st team meeting and publish a 2023 goal results post at the end of the year.

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