Training Team 2025 Goals Setting

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2025 is just around the corner, and it’s once again time to set our team goals for the year! In a similar fashion to previous years, we’ll be hosting two synchronous sessions to brainstorm ideas. Anyone is welcome to join either of these sessions.

Before attending, please take some time to review the Training Team’s Team Values. These are our shared values that form the foundation of all we set out to achieve.

The Zoom link for each session will be shared in the #training Slack channel 5 minutes before each session starts. The video recording and outcomes from each session will also be posted below for asynchronous conversation.

Timelines

First synchronous session: Tuesday, 7 January 2025 at 07:00 UTC (during the regular weekly team meeting time)
Second synchronous session: Thursday, 9 January 2025 at 13:00 UTC
Asynchronous discussion until 24 January 2025
Publish team goals by 31 January 2025

Pooja Kakkad 11:16 am on January 10, 2025

Here are notes from the sessions January 7 & 9. You can find the async discussion on Slack starts here

Discuss the 2025 vision

Muhibul shared Work on creating workshops to show people how to give feedback.
Work with the metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. team related to all the content they are creating that is in parallel with learning content.
More business related materials such as WooCommerce, landing pages.
Better ways for promoting Learn to the public and existing WordPress users.

Meetups
WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Workshops, beyond Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.
Social media

Onboard people into more involved roles (editors to be able to adjust more content feedback).

New training team editors to help to apply small fixes to content so that we can always be on top of that.

More discussions about how to use the content, how can we discuss changes, what works, what doesn’t work.

Developers / coffee hours

How can we do more cross collaborations within the Make teams?
Create content/templates for meetups and WordCamp’s for people to use as first time speakers, talk with WordCamp organisers about using content and having a space for first time speakers.
Discussion on translation:

Should we move fast and a lot, or slow and correct? The big problem is to keep the translation updated – Phase 3

Discussion around WordPress YouTube

WordPressTV YouTube channel
WordPress community channel

Keep

Create a Marketing Campaign for Learning Pathways with Marketing (Complete Q2)
Create and maintain shared resources that promote the Training Team and Learn
Create or update a handbook page that clarifies where people’s contributions to the team will appear/be displayed
Work with the Community team to promote Learning Pathways at Meetups
Figure out a method to manage localized content translation (Polylang, Q1 2025) in different languages based on levels

Stretch Goal

Thumbnail updates Q1, remove tutorial post type
Deprecate Lesson plans Q2 goal
Create a system for better surfacing Training Team member’s contributions
Audit Handbook (Q4 2025)

Remove

Remove gatherpres

Discuss how we can achieve our goals

Translate the basic pathways.

Not so much about translation of the audio but also the video

Translation Levels

Make sure there are English subtitles
Maybe the subtitles
Translation Triage

Coffee hours/training team chats

Possibly run something continuously after mentorship ends (training guide program)

Please continue the discussion on Slack async

Apply tentative milestones to goals
We did not have time for this topic. Please continue the discussion on Slack async

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