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 18 attendees @dapobabarinde, @devmuhib(async), @sumitsingh (async),@digitalchild(async), @sancastiza, @cnormandigital(async) ,@west7 (async), @psykro, @kaitohm (async), @chauhanraj754(async), @rahuldsarker, @noruzzaman, @lakshmananphp, @freewebmentor, @zeelthakkar(async), @quitevisible(async), @amitpatelmd (async), @voboghure(async).
Welcome, all the new contributors who joined the Training Team’s Slack channel in the last week: @devnuru, @upenwp12, @aiman2023, @mosescursor, @tuanit, @luisbrito.
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
Meeting recap notes are one of the best ways to get started contributing to a team, and you can find details on how to write notes in this handbook page.
Thanks for taking this week’s notes @sancastiza 🙌
Looking for feedback
- We have a few items looking for feedback this week.
- Handbook page regarding creating quizzes/activities.
@cnormandigital has drafted a handbook page about creating quizzes/activities for content on Learn WordPress and is looking for feedback. Thank you for drafting this page, Cynthia 
- Please leave feedback directly 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: Feedback – Creating Lesson Module Quizzes/Activities section of handbook #2946
- Looking for thoughts about how to add Facilitator Notes to Learn.
Designers and developers are discussing how best to implement Facilitator Notes to Learn WordPress. The team will be concluding discussions and moving to implementation soon.
Join the discussion directly in this GitHub issue: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/pull/2927
This post takes some of the ideas the team brainstormed in Drawing new learners to the new Learn.WordPress.org and is proposing concrete steps to getting them implemented.
Come leave your thoughts by November 8th.
- Retiring the Subject Matter Expert (SME) role in favor of the GitHub Editors group
The Training Team has tried using the SME role for two tasks: vetting content topics and assisting content creators. We’ve not seen SMEs vet content topics in a while. And we believe assisting content creators can be done in an editor capacity.
To simplify team roles and remove friction, team reps recommend removing the SME role and relying on the GitHub Editors group instead.
Looking for volunteers
Triage Squad Updates
- There was no triage squad last week. Join us this coming Thursday at 07:00 UTC in #meta-learn where we will triage any new PRs, dev issues and content awaiting validation issues.
Other News
- There doesn’t appear to be any other news this week.
Come and Contribute
Find the rest of the ways you can contribute in this:
Content ready for review
Topics awaiting vetting
- See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
- We have 2 issue that requires vetting.
Feedback awaiting validation
Validated feedback awaiting fix
Contribution Acknowledgement
@meaganhanes was awarded the Training Team Contributor badge this week. Congratulations. 🎉
The team is recognizing and appreciating each other’s contributions. @psykro and @lakshmananphp are praised for co-hosting an online workshop. @west7 acknowledges the efforts of @kaitohm, @cnormandigital, @amitpatelmd, and @digitalchild in reviewing content.
Project updates
@west7 reported that 5 of the 24 lessons (20.8%) have been finished.
The cohort sign up closed last week. Also during last week, the cohort documentation was updated.
This week @lakshmananphp and @psykro will start gathering all the sign ups, adding them to the #training-cohorts Slack group, and preparing for week 1.There were 42 sign ups, of which 39 had valid profiles and Slack accounts. We will be inviting all 39 participants, making this the largest cohort we’ve run so far.
Upcoming Online Workshops
The last two are a new online workshop format.
@kaitohm is hosting open study sessions. These are opportunities to work independently on your Learning Pathways, but in a group setting. It’s a great way to stay motivated and learn from others.
Faculty Updates
- What have you been working on and how has it been going?
- Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
@kaitohm said that nominations for 2025 Training Team reps had closed. He added that he and Jamie had reached out to all nominees to confirm their acceptance. He also mentioned that a poll would be ready by the following week’s meeting.
@west7 reported that they had run an online workshop and created a new lesson for the Beginner Designer Learning Pathway.
@psykro stated that he had been reviewing contributor scripts for the Plugin 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, working on his own scripts, and checking in with contributors who had been inactive.
- Do you have any blockers?
- Can other Faculty or Training Team members help you in some way?
@kaitohm said that he would love for people to read through and comment on the brainstorm document about introducing Learning Pathways to users during onboarding. He added that this was an opportunity for the team to add Learn references to every WordPress installation and that he would love to hear people’s thoughts on these ideas.
Open Discussions
There were no further discussions in last week’s meeting.
If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this issue.
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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