Training Team Meeting Recap – 15th October 2024

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2951

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Attendees: @digitalchild, @pratiklondhe, @erichmond, @psykro, @kaitohm, @noruzzaman, @rfluethi, @sumitsingh, @voboghure, @west7, @noruzzaman, @cnormandigital (async) , @quitevisible (async), @quitevisible (async), @chauhanraj754 (async), @zeelthakkar (async), @devmuhib (async), @jagirbahesh (async), @darshanprajapat09 (async), @nishitajoshi (async), @rithika3 (async)

Newcomers: @worldwildweb, @rockeygamer, @theritiktiwari, @malayladu, @stephenaturner999

Note taker: @sumitsingh

News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current note taker roster:

• Oct 15 – @sumitsingh
• Oct 22 – @dapobabarinde
• Oct 22 – @sancastiza
• Nov 5 – @dapobabarinde

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.

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.

Dev Squad

• Join us this week in #meta-learn for the dev-squad, there has also been some discussions on expanding what we cover in our triage to include content as we have over 40 issues in the content area that can be worked on as well. What are peoples thoughts on this?
  • https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/78

Other News

• Announcing the next Learn WordPress Course Cohort.
  • Announcing the next Learn WordPress Course Cohort. – Our next training team cohort starts on the 4th of November. This is a great way to learn in a group and keep motivated to finish your pathway.

• Upcoming online workshops
  • Online Workshops are free interactive learning sessions hosted by volunteers of the WordPress community. Here are some workshops we have coming up this month 
    • Introduction to the WordPress Training Team
    • Creating a portfolio site with a block theme and patterns
    • Creating Your Own Contact Form Plugin – part 2

Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

• See Guidelines for reviewing content when reviewing content.
• We have 4 issues ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

• See Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on validating feedback.
• We have 22 issues that require validation

Topics awaiting vetting

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

Validated feedback awaiting fix

• Contributors, see Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on applying feedback that has been validated.
• We have 22 issues awaiting a fix

Contribution Acknowledgement

• @Jamie Madden: I would like to give props to @Laura A for her work on the SEO lesson. Also props to @Jonathan as he has agreed to host the team meeting on the 29th of October as @Kaito Hanamori (previously Ben Evans) and myself are unavailable.
•  @Jonathan: props to @Lax Mariappan for his continued work hosting online workshops, and facilitating the next cohort. Also props to @Sumit Singh for offering to co-host Lax’s workshop tomorrow, as I’m not available.
• @Lax Mariappan Props to @Jonathan for helping with the meetups and cohorts. Appreciate it .
• @Wes Theron : Props to @Emmanuel for the script writing and video editing of the SEO  Part 1 lesson, Props to @Rico for publishing his first lesson in German.Props to @noruzzaman for completing the previous Training Team Meeting Recap.
• @Joey Brinkman: Props to @Jamie Madden for helping me out and clarifying the local dev environment use-case. Thank you for your patience and kindness!

Project updates

•  The most recent update on the progress of the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party developer learning pathway https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2044#issuecomment-2411261876
  Thanks to @Agil Julio, @Cyrille C, @webcreativeng, @Elliott Richmond, @Michelle Blanchette, @Jesse Owens for their continued work on this pathway’s content.
• It helps the team follow along with the timeline for the cohort and understand where things are at.
  https://make.wordpress.org/training/2024/10/13/project-thread-the-third-learn-wordpress-course-cohort/
• We are making progress with module 1 + 2 of the Beginner Designer learning pathway, and we are busy finalizing the last three lessons in the Advanced user learning pathway that we want to add.
• Thank you @Ervan Yuffrizal, @Imran Siddiq, @Emmanuel and @Laura A and @Amit Patel for your work on this so far.

Open discussions

As a 2nd follow-up on creating a module quiz/activity review process, I’ve created this issue which contains a link to a Google doc. This document is currently a draft and I invite anyone to leave a comment there.
https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2946

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