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 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 26 attendees @lada7042, @piyopiyofox, @cotorra42, @Vagelis, @noruzzaman, @voboghure, @jagirbahesh, @digitalchild, @dhaval59, @devmuhib, @west7, @zeelthakkar, @rithika3, @nishitajoshi, @darshanprajapat09, @freewebmentor, @onealtr(async), @sumitsingh(async), @rinkuiihglobal(async), @cnormandigital(async), @rfluethi(async), @zoonini(async), @courane01(async), @roelof(async), @backpocketACE(async), @ironnysh(async)
I’d also like to welcome all the new contributors who joined the Training Team’s Slack channel in the last week:
@miralg @yupeng2686 @anveshika @albatross10 @lighthouse79 @janmtm @kozzmen @amitkryadav
For those who are new here, the WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through educational content hosted on Learn.WordPress.org.
If you haven’t seen them yet, then I recommend checking out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program
News
- Here is our current note taker roster.
July 25 – @Jagir Bahesh
August 1 – @Nazmul Hosen
August 8 – @Dhaval Prajapati
August 15 – @Zeel Thakkar
- Writing meeting recap notes is an excellent way to start contributing to a team. You can find detailed instructions on how to write these notes in the link above.
Looking for feedback
What is Learn WordPress’s north star?
- Current north star under the Learn WordPress heading
- A ‘north star’ is similar to a mission statement about the purpose of our team.
- Please share your thoughts. so we can create our ‘north star’.
Here are some ideas the team representatives generated during a brainstorming session.
- Is Learn WordPress the site where folks come to learn about the most relevant and up to date content on WordPress?
- Is it the place where we encourage and guide folks to be at the forefront of the software?
- Fostering a collaborative learning community
- Relevant + most up to date
- The place to come to learn about WordPress
@west7 : Teaching and assisting learners of all skill levels to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress.
Online Workshop Meetup 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. Survey
- @digitalchild has finalising a survey
- Please share your feedback.
- Also, if you are hosting an online workshop, please share the survey link after your session!
Meeting Notes Recap
- The team representatives are considering updating the meeting notes format. Please share your suggestions.
Looking for volunteers
Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session
Anyone interested please join to dev-squad triage Meeting.
Other News
Current Focus Areas
We’ve refreshed the current focus areas on the Make WordPress Training page to ensure it’s up-to-date and clearly displays our active projects:
- Revised the top section to highlight only our goals.
- Removed the Highlight section.
- Updated the “Work in Progress” area.
- Prioritized three projects at a time for the team.
How does it look? Please share your thoughts.
Onboarding Hour
For new contributor @piyopiyofox will host the onboarding hour for new contributors in August:
Also we will provide the zoom links will be posted in the #training Slack channel 5 minutes before the sessions.
Come and Contribute
Highlights This Week
- Content Ready for Review: Please refer to the Guidelines for reviewing content.
- There are 8 issues currently ready for review.
- Also @west7 has two advanced learning pathway lessons ready for review. We would appreciate your feedback to determine if they are too technical or appropriately detailed for non-developers.
- @cnormandigital will be publishing the Classic Theme lessons this week and would appreciate any feedback beforehand. Here are the links for your reference.
- Here we have shared the other areas to contribute:
Come and Contribute
- What projects or tasks have you been focusing on lately, and how are they progressing?
- Have you achieved any milestones or completed any goals since our last discussion?
- Are there any challenges or obstacles you’re currently facing?
- Is there any support or assistance needed from other Faculty or Training Team members?
- @lada7042:
- Online workshops and onboarding
- Successfully completed a three-part workshop and am becoming more adept at creating subtitles and using Otter.
- @jagirbahesh:
- Translated the topics into Gujarati.
- @west7:
- Published a new lesson: Exploring WordPress 6.6
- Created a new lesson about CDNs and shared for review
- @cnormandigital:
- Publishing the Intermediate Theme Developer learning pathway lessons.
- @rfluethi:
- Started translating learning paths and understanding the process.
- Trying to better place the Learn page on the German and Swiss sites, but the menus are hard to customize.
- @zoonini:
- Preparing for the Learn launch: News & Make Training posts, 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/ issues, teaser video (voice-over recorded), two Online Workshops, thumbnail project, learner survey feedback.
- Administering Guide program: matching contributors with Guides.
- Drafting a handbook page for Faculty program retirement, detailing the team’s history.
- @courane01:
- She is working on the contributor dashboards.
- @digitalchild:
- Working on pathways video reviews and assisting in script technical support.
- Reviewed several videos and scripts.
Open Discussions
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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