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Introductions and Welcome
There were 21 attendees @piyopiyofox, @lada7042, @westnz, @noruzzaman, @voboghure, @rithika3(async), @devmuhib(async), @nishitajoshi(async), @rinkuiihglobal(async), @darshanprajapat09(async), @chauhanraj754(async), @rfluethi(async), @bobdunn-trainer(async), @cnormandigital(async), @zeelthakkar(async), @jagirbahesh(async), @zoonini(async), @Dhaval59(async), @sumitsingh(async), @mebo(async), @Vince(async), @ironnysh(async)
Welcome, to all the new contributors who joined the Training Team’s Slack channel in the last week:
@kwame96, @mariandmweb, @productizedsolutions, @servicesit
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
August 29 – @rithika3
Sept. 5- @nishitajoshi
Sept. 12- @chauhanraj754
Sept. 19- @noruzzaman
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Looking for feedback
- Voting for the Learn WordPress North Star ended this week. Results were posted August 30. The team has chosen:
Learn WordPress makes WordPress knowledge accessible to all by empowering individuals around the world to create, contribute, and grow within the WordPress ecosystem.
- Proposal: New Meeting Notes Structure #2850 — Please review the new structure example and give us feedback on it in this 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/ issue by September 5th: You can see a preview of the new notes here: https://make.wordpress.org/training/?p=112139&preview=1&_ppp=36e16d2836
- Drawing new learners to the new Learn.WordPress.org – Feedback wanted by Sept. 10
Now that the new Learn WordPress is out in the world, we want to have a steady flow of new learners discovering the site and taking advantage of the valuable resources it offers. This post is intended to gather ideas on which recurring activities the team should prioritize first, with the goal of bringing more learners to the site. Please have a look and provide your feedback by September 10, 2024: https://make.wordpress.org/training/2024/08/28/drawing-new-learners-to-the-new-learn-wordpress-org/
Looking for volunteers
- Would you like to learn how to run the weekly meeting and be host September 19?
- Call for testing: Playground block Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. on Learn WordPress
- Thanks to the work of @alexstine and @brandonpayton, we have been testing and fixing a11y 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) issues in the Playground block on Learn WordPress. All of the outstanding issues have now been fixed, so we’d like to ask other a11y experts to help us test.
- You can find more details on this testing issue: Test Playground Block on Learn WordPress. #2352
Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session
Other News
Come and Contribute
Feedback awaiting validation
Contribution Acknowledgement
Badges awarded:
- Congratulations to Muhibil @devmuhib on receiving the training team badge.
Project Updates
Learning Pathways update: https://make.wordpress.org/training/2023/07/07/project-thread-learning-pathways-on-learn-wordpress/#comment-4344
Open Discussions
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