Training Team Meeting Recap – 10th October 2024

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2939

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Attendees: @kaitohm, @dapobabarinde, @noruzzaman, @digitalchild, @pratiklondhe, @devmuhib, @sumitsingh, @nishitajoshi, @chauhanraj754, @darshanprajapat09, @jagirbahesh, @zeelthakkar, @rfluethi, @sancastiza, @cnormandigital, @mebo, @psykro, @voboghure, @rithika3, @west7

Newcomers: @smartrobbie@jackson23m@jaz_on@katsunorikuroda@mayursinhvadher@vaksin@pratiklondhe@blackqueeriroh@paulmckibben@sanzv622@22halomedia@fayyazfayzi@yingjuuu@dapobabarinde

Note taker: @noruzzaman

News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current note taker roster:

Looking for feedback

  • Nomination for 2025 Training Team Reps
    • It’s that time of year again! We’re looking for nominations for 2025 Training Team Reps. This year, I complete my 2 year term and will be stepping down. We’ll be selecting two new reps to join @Jamie Madden .
    • Please nominate next year’s team reps on the post by October 25th.
  • Adding a content review process for quizzes and assessments
    • Last week, @Cynthia Norman started a discussion around adding a review process to quizzes and assessments. Cynthia has offered to start drafting a handbook page that details what that process might look like.
    • Come add your thoughts to last week’s Slack discussion

Looking for volunteers

  • Call for contributors: Designer Learning Pathway
  • We’ve got some brand new content in the works! Come help out with scriptwriting, voice recording, video editing, content creation, and reviewing.
    • If you’d like to help out, please leave a comment in this 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: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2889
    • If you’d like to know more before signing up, please reach out to @westnz, or ask your questions here
  • Looking for volunteer to take over testing of GatherPress for the Training Team.
  • With @Laura A departure from the team, we need someone to take over liaising between the GatherPress project and the Training Team. Role includes:
    • Joining GatherPress Slack channel and staying updated on the project’s progress.
    • Report back to the training team on a regular bases.
    • Run testing scenarios and provide feedback to the GatherPress project team.

Other News

Come and Contribute

Feedback awaiting validation

See Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on validating feedback.
We have 21 issues that require validation (this is +1 from last week)

Content ready for review

Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • We have 4 issues that require vetting

Good first issues for developers

  • See Developing Learn WordPress for instructions on contributing to the Learn WordPress code.
  • We have 0 issues requiring development

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Contribution Acknowledgement

  • Badges awarded: We had 4 people who received a Training Contributor Badge this week! Please give it up for @Ervan Yuffrizal @Agil Julio @Michelle Blanchette and @Vince
  • Contributor badges are awarded to folks who have shown consistent contribution, and are shown on their WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ profile page. (For example, you can see the badges I’ve received under the section “Contribution History” here: https://profiles.wordpress.org/kaitohm/)

Project updates

  • @kaitohm connected with @Jamie Madden for the first time as team reps this week. We discussed the nomination process for choosing next year’s reps, and also discussed new meeting times (mentioned earlier in this meeting).
  • Over the coming week, @kaitohm plan on catching up on where Tutorial/Lesson Plan migrations are up to on the new site and hopefully moving that process forward.
  • @sumitsingh is working 1:1 training with new WP folks and reviewing recap posts . Also always available here for quick help for everyone
  • @digitalchild is working on the Team updates post, I became a full on rep !
  • @jagirbahesh have published the Last week meeting notes on WordPress.org
  • @cnormandigital have the pleasure of working with @Christopher Sam within the Training Guide Program. We have completed our 2nd meeting and he is well on his way to becoming one of our newest contributors. I look forward to our continued work together.
  • @freewebmentor am working as 1 to 1 training mentor with new WP members.
  • @west7 was on holiday last week, but will be jumping into content creation again this week.

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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