Training Team Meeting Recap for May 23rd, 2023

This meeting followed this meeting agenda post. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack 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.)

This meeting was held in the EMEA time zone.

Introductions and Welcome

There were 10 attendees: @webtechpooja, @courane01, @hderashri, @eboxnet, @boogah, @ssebuwufumoses, @quitevisible, @meaganhanes, @meher, @lada7042

Welcome to the Team! @stespino, @arifmridhapranto, @kamplugins, @nerdypirate, @bareen12, @kuouu, @sunilstha523, @mandalkriti, @sandesh055, @livetacibulskaite, @novelgnomes

For anyone interested in joining the team, there are a few ways to get involved. A good place to start would be to check out our onboarding program.


News

Meeting Note Takers

Taking Team Meeting notes and posting a recap of the discussion is one of the easiest ways to get involved right away. Please take a look at the upcoming meetings below and consider claiming an open spot if you can.

Looking for Feedback

Feedback is requested for the following items.

Repurposing the wptrainingteam GH organisation

This is headed by @psykro

Members of the WordPress community have been looking for a place to house all code examples used for Learn WordPress and the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Developer Blog. If you have any thoughts and would like to provide some input on this, please share your thoughts on the github issue link above.

There is also a recent Slack thread on this topic that is available here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1682439607553039

Pathways to Learn WordPress

This is headed by @courane01

Courtney is working on creating Learn WordPress content pathways. Please visit the link above to learn more about this, then reach out to Courtney or Team Reps if you would like to help.

New SEO Expert Handbook Page

This is reviewed and published by @amitpatelmd and @bsanevans

Amit and Ben recently published the SEO Expert handbook page that Amit has been working on for some time. If you would like to comment or provide input, your feedback is welcome at the page link above or on this Slack thread: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1684831067303179

Looking for Volunteers

Volunteer Hosts are needed for the dates below. Visit the linked pages to learn more about these roles.

Other News

Links are in the headings for the following topics. There are many opportunities to get involved in the community. Be sure to click through and learn more about each one.

WordPress Community Team Discussion #9: The Next Generation of WordCamps

“Next Gen WordCamps” are expected to have clearer audience targeting, more specific content types, and a variety of engaging event formats. Existing WordCamps and meetups will continue, and organizers are encouraged to pitch ideas that align with the new purpose.

The community is invited to share their thoughts and envision the future of these events.

WordPress 6.3 Planning Roundup

This post summarizes the release schedule and squad composition for the next major WordPress release – 6.3.

WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program: Pilot Program Proposal

The Contributor Mentorship Program aims to provide cohort-based and 1:1 mentorship to new and aspiring contributors. The program is intended as a pathway to help new contributors find their way into WordPress contributions.

WordCamp Europe 2023 schedule

WCEU 2023 schedule is out. Check it out! This year, the European WordPress Community will come together between 8-10 June in Athens, Greece.

WordCamp EU Contributor Day ideas

Comments are now closed for this post. There have been so many nice suggestions on what can be done on 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/.. Thanks to those who provided comments. The team is gathering all feedback and working on the contributor post and will soon publish a detailed post about the planning for Contributor Day on a p2 blog post.

WordPress turns 20 this Saturday, 27 May!

Celebrate this historic milestone with others from around the WordPress world. 

WP Briefing: Episode 56: What to Know About WordPress Playground:

If you are not familiar with these insightful podcasts, this would be a great introductory episode.

WordPress Playground is a WordPress site that runs in your browser. No server or setup is needed. Learn more about experiments surrounding the ever-growing WordPress Playground during this conversation with Rich Tabor and Adam Zielinksi.


Sprint

Content published in the last week

Tutorials

Courses

 Open requests for review

The heading link above will take you to GitHub where you are able to view, comment, and contribute to posted issues.

Tutorials

Lesson Plans

Translated Content

Project Updates

There are no active projects at this time.

Other Ways to Contribute

Are you ready to start contributing? Here are some ways to get involved today!


Open Discussions

  • @webtechpooja mentioned experiencing some travel glitches related to the upcoming WCEU23. Some discussion followed starting with this Slack thread.

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.

#meeting-recap, #training-team

Training Team Meeting Recap for May 16th, 2023

This meeting followed this meeting agenda post. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack 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.)

This meeting was held in the APAC time zone.

Introductions and Welcome

There were 11 attendees: @webtechpooja, @chaion07, @sagarladani, @jominney, @pitamdey, @psykro, @afrin29, @sumitsingh, @thisisyeasin, @prashantbhivsane, @ashiquzzaman

Welcome to the team : @buildwithpassion01, @quitevisible, @invouq and @gautammkgarg.

News

Meeting Note Takers

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.

  • May 16th – @jominney
  • May 23rd – need volunteer
  • May 30th – need volunteer

Looking for Feedback

Proposal: Creating GitHub project boards for SMEs and Translators

In a recent Faculty survey, we received feedback that Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) aren’t clear on how they can effectively contribute to the Training Team. In particular, the current “Topic Ideas” column in the Content Development project board has over 140 items, making it difficult for SMEs to identify which items fall under their areas of expertise. Additionally, the recently concluded Content Localization Foundations project also received feedback that it is difficult for Content Translators to track translation items in 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/. It has been proposed that two new Project boards be created for more clarity.

Please leave any comments on the p2 post by May 21st.

WordCamp EU Contributor Day ideas

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. Europe 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/. is on June 8th, and we are brainstorming what exciting things we can do with our contributors. If you have any ideas, please share them on the p2 post by May 22nd.

Repurposing the wptrainingteam GH organisation

Members of the WordPress community have been looking for a place to house all code examples used for Learn WordPress and the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Developer Blog. You can read about this request here.

This idea has been discussed on Slack, for more context check out this thread.

Looking for Volunteers

For the following dates, we are looking for help:

  • May 23: APAC Coffee Hour at 7:00 UTC
  • May 30: APAC Meeting at 16:00 UTC
  • May 30: EMEA/AMER Coffee Hour at 16:00 UTC

Thanks to @meaganhanes for volunteering to host today’s EMEA coffee hour and co-host next week’s May 23rd EMEA meeting.

Other News

Some Faculty handbook updates!

  • The Faculty Member list has been edited to include Areas of Expertise. This is especially important for Content Creators and Editors looking for help from Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) with specific topics.
  • In addition to the above, some brief tips for working with SMEs have been added to the Faculty Role Guide for both Content Creators and Editors.

Sprint

Content published in the last week

Open Request for Review

Project updates

There are no active projects right now.

Open Discussions


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.

#meeting-recap, #training

Training Team Meeting Recap for May 9, 2023

This meeting followed this meeting agenda post. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack 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.)

(This meeting was in the Americas/EMEA timezone on Tuesday at 16:00 UTC and hosted by @webtechpooja.)

1. Introductions and Welcome

There are 14 attendees, either live or async:

@bsanevans@Chetan200891@Webtechpooja@faguni22@meaganhanes, @eboxnet, @lada7042, @boogah, @dhanendran, @prashantbhivsane, @nomadskateboarding, @askdesign, @chaion07, @onealtr.

Welcome to the team (Slack usernames): @Prashant, @Sam Suresh, @Pratiksha.

2. News

:arrow_right: Meeting Note Takers

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.

We received feedback in Github issue – 158021 asking why we don’t show publication dates on the content, such as https://learn.wordpress.org/tutorial/creating-a-front-page-for-a-block-theme/. Showing a publication date may help learners identify new/fresh content easier. We wanted to open the idea up for discussion.
What pros/cons do folks see with adding publication dates to content? 

Over the course of 5 months, 28 volunteers created 36 pieces of localized content across 10 locales. Additionally, volunteers translated some of the Training Team’s handbook pages related to content translation into 5 locales. Thanks to those who are involved with this project :tada:

:arrow_right: Proposal: Creating GitHub project boards for SMEs and Translators

Context: in a recent Faculty survey, we received feedback that SMEs aren’t clear on how they can effectively contribute to the Training Team. In particular, the current “Topic Ideas” column in the Content Development project board has over 140 items, making it difficult for SMEs to identify which items fall under their areas of expertise.
 And additionally, the recently concluded Content Localization Foundations project received feedback that it is difficult for Content Translators to track translation items in 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/ also.
So we thought to create two new Projects boards for more clarity.

Please leave your comment on the blog post by May 21st.

:arrow_right: Looking for volunteers

We are looking for volunteers who can help us by co-hosting our upcoming meetings and coffee hour. Here you can check how you can help.

@webtechpooja also noted that,

I am out on next week May 16th to May 18th, I will be travelling at the time of our next week coffee hour. Is there anyone who would like to volunteer for next week coffee hour?

In the context of it, @meaganhanes replied,

I’ll take May 16th EMEA/ AMER and May 23 if no one else volunteers

:arrow_right: Other news

  •  If you are a Faculty Member, please comment with a casual update on this monthly update Slack thread. (Note: This Slack thread will take you away from this meeting flow)
  • Recent Releases

@bsanevans merged 6.1 and 6.2 issues to create a “Recent releases” view in the content development GitHub project board: https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/33/views/10

  • Let’s remember to speak slowly and insert pauses when publishing video content. (Raised by Gudrun in this Slack message.)

:three: Content published in the last week

:four:Open requests for review

:five: Project updates

:arrow_right: Individual Learning Survey for the Needs Analysis

@abhanonstopnewsuk and @westnz, I would appreciate any update on this report. Thanks

:arrow_right: Developments and Customizations for Training and Learn Website

Any update @amitpatelmd you would like to share with the team? Thanks

:six: Open Discussions

If you have topics you’d liked discussed in the meeting, please go ahead; this is the time you can discuss anything.

@meaganhanes shares that she would love to have a review of our Certifications / Learning Plan ideas. And will add any make notes she finds in this thread, but if others know of them, they’re requested to add them!

@webtechpooja agreed with it and shares that ‘if you can write a proposal post on our p2 blog’.

:seven: Other ways to Contribute

Ready to start contributing? Here are a couple ways to get involved today!

:arrow_right:Co-host an upcoming Online Workshop

Learn more about Co-hosting an Online Workshop in our handbook page.

:arrow_right:Help resolve a Content Error

We have information on how to Validating and Triaging Content Error Reports.

:arrow_right:Join the Training Team Welcome Committee!

Help us welcome new members to the Training Team and foster our growing community.


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.

#meeting-recap, #training

Training Team Meeting Recap for April 25th 2023

This meeting followed this meeting agenda post. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack 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.)

This meeting was held in EMEA/AMER timezone.

Introductions and Welcome

There were 17 attendees: @webtechpooja, @lada7042, @sierratr, @dhanendran, @kafleg, @nomadskateboarding, @ssebuwufumoses, @sagarladani, @afrin29, @arasae, @askdesign, @psykro, @amitpatelmd, @margheweb, @Onealtr, @bsanevans, @courtneypk

Welcome to the team (Slack usernames): @misslorain@Sinuna@Bud@Vidushi Khurana (Bluehost)@Isla Wu

News

Meeting Note Takers

  • May 2nd – @psykro
  • May 9th – @faguni22
  • May 16th – need volunteer

Looking For Feedback

Learning pathways are a structured sequence of educational experiences or courses that are designed to help individuals acquire knowledge and skills in a specific field or discipline.

@carlos is working on it and wanted feedback if this is something that would work as a course or would work better as a learning path

  • Should sharing presentation slides be a requirement for Online Workshop presenters?

@courtneypk started this conversation in this Slack thread . if you have any thoughts on it. I request you to please go to this thread and share your thoughts.

Recently WordPress Developer Blog was officially launched. Many of those articles contain links to code example repositories, usually in the author’s 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/ account. Jonathan and other developer educators in the team also create code example repositories for our workshops, tutorials, and courses for Learn WordPress, also hosted on our own accounts. Josepha suggested it might be useful to repurpose the wptrainingteam organization, renaming it to something like learn-WordPress. So we’d like to find out what the training team thinks of this idea. As far as I know that GitHub organization isn’t actively used anymore, so repurposing it as the official place for example code for all Learning related content for WordPress makes sense.

Many comments have been added so far. For the moment, we’re looking for thoughts on the two questions written out in this comment.

Looking for volunteers

WordPress Community Summit 2023 – Leadership is looking especially for newer contributors to join, who can bring fresh perspective to the WordPress project. If you are even a little interested in joining, please apply to attend.

Other news

Content Published in the last week

Open Request for Review

Project updates


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.

#meeting-recap

Training Team Meeting Recap for April 11, 2023

This meeting followed this meeting agenda post. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack 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.)

(We have alternated our weekly team meetings according to the timezone. This week we are having the Team Meeting in the EMEA timezone, and a Coffee Hour was held in the APAC timezone at 7:00 UTC.)

Introductions and Welcome

There are 22 attendees, either live or async: @webtechpooja, @chetan200891, @eboxnet, @jdy68, @mujuonly, @nomadskateboarding, @caraya, @courane01, @afrin29, @boogah, @weblink, @courtneypk, @west7, @onealtr, @chaion07, @faguni22, @lada7042, @amitpatelmd, @bsanevans, @sierratr, @kartiks16, @thisisyeasin,

Welcome to the team (Slack usernames): @Rico@nareshdevineni@Kristin Aus@Nick Kadutskyi @Bradley Mubenga@SWICDEV,@Lycia Diaz

News

Meeting Note Takers

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.

Looking for feedback

Do you have any thoughts on the proposed improvements to the Faculty program? Or perhaps you have additional ideas? Please leave any thoughts you have in the comments section of the post. (NOTE: Feedback is welcome from both Faculty and non-Faculty members) 

Learning pathways are a structured sequence of educational experiences or courses that are designed to help individuals acquire knowledge and skills in a specific field or discipline. @courane01 is working on it. If you have any thoughts, Please do share your thoughts in the comments.

Jamie produces fantastic content for YouTube, and he’s looking for feedback about whether they’d be a good fit for Learn WordPress, too. Please check out the information in the following 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, and leave your thoughts as comments there: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/1439

Looking for volunteers

If you are interested in helping with this, please share your interest in this Slack thread.

  • Discussion: How can we streamline the meeting agenda/recap posts? Reps have two ideas:
    • Agenda in GitHub, recap on the blog
    • Detailed agenda on the blog, and add notable discussions in the comments section.

Please share your thoughts in this Slack thread. Which of the two options do you think is better, and why? Or, do you have other suggestions too?

  • Project Update News

Until last week, at the end of each meeting, we had a section titled “Other projects” where we would ask project leads for an update. However, some projects move slower than others, and we don’t want to burden folks with excess notifications. The last week, we excluded the on-hold projects from the meeting agenda and add them back when they are resumed. You will find a note about these paused projects on the Team’s Administration GitHub board.

Other announcements

Content Published In The Last Week

Open Requests for Review

Project Updates

Other Ways to Contribute

Ready to start contributing? Here are a couple of ways to get involved today!

Open Discussions

A question was raised for step 5 of the subtitle translation and also explained nicely by faculty members. Also Introducing the Advanced Administration handbook was introduced by @webtechpooja


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.

#learn-wordpress, #meeting-recap, #training, #training-team

Meeting Recap for April 18th, 2023

This meeting followed this meeting agenda on Github. You can see conversations from the meeting in thisSlack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack 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 are 10 attendees, either live or async: @bsanevans, @sagarladani, @digtalchild, @mujuonly, @karthickmurugan, @idrissathiam01, @piyushmultidots, @amitpatelmd, @faguni22, @psykro

Welcome to the team (with Slack usernames): @Prabin @colourpress @Valmedia2023 @Carlos Moreira @akshaya @Safi Ullah

News

Meeting Note Takers

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 on this handbook page.

Looking for Feedback

Do you have any thoughts on the proposed improvements to the Faculty program? Or perhaps you have additional ideas? Please leave any thoughts you have in the comments section of the post. (NOTE: Feedback is welcome from both Faculty and non-Faculty members)

Learning pathways are a structured sequence of educational experiences or courses that are designed to help individuals acquire knowledge and skills in a specific field or discipline. Please leave any thoughts you have in the comments section of the post.

If you are interested in creating content for Learn, then take a look at the proposal in the 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/ thread above. We’d love to hear your thoughts (CC: @faculty-content-creators on Slack)

  • Open Question: Should sharing presentation slides be a requirement for Online Workshop presenters?

A Slack thread was started to discuss whether sharing presentations slides should remain an option, or a requirement, for Online Workshop presenters. Please leave you thoughts in the Slack thread.

Looking for Volunteers

Would anyone like to update https://learn.wordpress.org/pathways-to-learn-wordpress/ ? This will involve linking new content that was published on Learn WordPress in the last year into relevant sections in that page.

If interested, please comment in this Slack message and we’ll help you with next steps.

Upcoming Event: Building Blocks: The Evolution of WordPress 2013-2023

“On May 27, 2023, WordPress celebrates a significant milestone in its journey as the project reaches its 20th anniversary. As part of the planned activities to mark this achievement, project leadership commissioned a book last year to document the years since its first commissioned work, Milestones – The Story of WordPress (2003-2013.)

The next volume, Building Blocks: The Evolution of WordPress, spans the history of WordPress from 2013-2023 and catalogs its wins, learnings, and everything in between.”

If you’d like to get involved, please provide feedback via GitHub with first-look access to the upcoming WP20 Book. 

Content Published This Week

Request For Review

Project Updates

Content Localization Foundation

  • I’ve been checking in with members of the project, getting their feedback in preparation for a wrap-up/next-steps post. Thank you to everyone who has responded so far.
  • If anyone has any feedback about the content translation process in the team, please let @bsanevans know.

Individual Learning Survey for the Needs Analysis 

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the data analysis publication date has been postponed until further notice. An update will be posted once we have more information.

Developments and Customizations for Training and Learn Website

This is a new project that was just published by @amitpatelmd. The project will work on the following points:

  • Custom GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ blockBlock 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. development
  • Adding SEO 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. fields
  • Adding language switcher menu for translated pages/posts

Forthcoming Online Workshops

Online Workshop this Week:

Open Discussions

Ways to Contribute to the 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/ Training Team

Also, check out a list of upcoming Online Workshops on our calendar with events shown in your local timezone:


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.

Training Team Meeting Recap for April 4, 2023

This meeting followed this meeting agenda post. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack 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.)

(We have alternated our weekly team meetings according to the timezone. This week we are having the Team Meeting in the APAC timezone, and a Coffee Hour was held in the Americas/EMEA timezone at Tuesday 17:00 UTC.)

1. Introductions and Welcome

There are 21 attendees, either live or async:

@bsanevans, @Chetan200891, @Webtechpooja, @HarjeetSingh, @dhanendran, @sagarladani, @pitamdey, @sumitsingh, @faguni22, @askaryabbas, @piyushmultidots, @digitalchild, @onealtr, @psykro, @vanpariyar, @afrin29, @eboxnet, @lada7042, @nomadskateboarding, @courtneypk, @west7.

Welcome to the team (Slack usernames): @kdevnel ,@Kyle@derventzie@Sardar Monsur,  @Harjeet Singh , @Corina L,  @Fishon AMOS.

2. News

➡️ Meeting Note Takers

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 on this handbook page.

➡️ Streamlining meeting agenda/recap posts

Currently, the team posts very similar content on the meeting agenda and recap posts. Team reps are considering how we can streamline this better.

Here are two ideas we’ve had:

  1. Post an agenda in 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/, and publish a recap as a blog post. (This will reduce the number of posts on the blog, too, potentially making it easier to follow the information that gets published there.).
  2. Publishing a detailed agenda on the blog, and writing notable discussions in the comments of the post.

Regarding the above two options, @webtechpooja, @sumitsingh & @courtneypk voted for option 1(idea 1).

➡️ New team update

Each month, Training Team reps publish an update to the entire WordPress project about the progress the team made in the last month. You can read the most recent update here: What’s new on Learn WordPress in March 2023.

:arrow_right: New handbook pages

Team reps and faculty members are always updating the team handbook to document team processes better. This week, these two new pages were published:

:arrow_right:Proposal: How to run a Learn WordPress course cohort

This new proposal is looking for your feedback by April 7th. Please leave your comments on the post by the end of the week.

:arrow_right: News from other WordPress teams

Last week, a new version of WordPress was released – 6.2 :partying_face:

Has everyone updated their sites to 6.2 already? What is your favorite feature from the new release?

The best part for @webtechpooja & @bsanevans was site editor BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. label removed. @sumitsingh liked the “Meet the reimagined Site Editor” under 6.2  part. @nomadskateboarding mentioned his favourite part as Style Book.

Also noting: Call for volunteers to help with 6.2 end user documentation.

:arrow_right: Announcement: Temporarily relocating on-hold projects from the meeting agenda to GitHub

Until last week, at the end of each meeting, we had a section titled “Other projects” where we would ask project leads for an update. However, some projects move slower than others, and we don’t want to burden folks with excess notifications.

From this week, we will exclude the on-hold projects from the meeting agenda and add them back when they are resumed. You will find a note about these paused projects on the Team’s Administration GitHub board.

:arrow_right: Contributor badges were awarded last week

Last week, @esratpopy and @karthickmurugan were awarded Training Contributor Badges for their contribution to hosting Online Workshops, and translating content on Learn WordPress:training:.

3. Creating content for the WordPress 6.2 release

WordPress 6.2 was released last week, and we have a few more items we’d like to get published. You can find all content labeled 6.2 on our GitHub project board. Here are some items we’re still looking for volunteers for.

:arrow_right: Looking for Content Creators (vetted topics with no assignee) CC: @faculty-content-creators

:arrow_right: Looking for Subject-Matter Experts (topics not yet vetted) CC: @faculty-smes

4. Content published in the last week

We had 4 Tutorials published in the last week. Thank you to everyone who was involved in getting these published!

5. Open requests for review

You can find all content in the review stage in our GitHub project board. Here are a list of items waiting for a review right now.

We’re also looking for translation reviewers for the following content.

6. Project updates

Here are some projects the team is currently working on. Would anyone like to provide an update?

:arrow_right: Content Localization Foundation – @bsanevans

  • Please see March 27th update for a breakdown of content translated so far.
  • We had another Tamil lesson plan published yesterday :tada:

➡️ Individual Learning Survey for the Needs Analysis – @west7

  • An analysis report of the data is scheduled to be published on April 6th – this week! See this recent update for more information.

:arrow_right: Introduction to WordPress Development syllabus – @psykro

  • A syllabus was published last week. Please comment on the post with any comments you have. We’re also looking for folks to help build the content for this syllabus :eyes:

:arrow_right:Gutenberg Rapid Website Recreation Videos – @jamesmarsland

Jamie produces fantastic content for YouTube, and he’s looking for feedback about whether they’d be a good fit for Learn WordPress, too. Please check out the information in the following GitHub issue, and leave your thoughts as comments there :smiley:
https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/1439

Here is an example of Jamie’s videos on YouTube: 

7. Open Discussions

@psykro mentioned,

I just wanted to mention that next week Tuesday is the next scheduled APAC @faculty-dev-squad triage session, and he will be AFK. If anyone else in the APAC dev squad wants to lead that session, please let him know, so that I can arrange the relevant announce permissions for the #meta-learn channel. he also noticed that from what he can see the AMER dev squad has not yet been able to hold a triage session, so he wanted to check in with them and see if there’s anything he can do to assist.

@digitalchild also shared an interest to hold next weeks session.

 8. Other ways to contribute

And as we come to the end of the hour, I wanted to mention a few easier ways folks can contribute to the Training Team.


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.

#learn-wordpress, #training, #training-team

Meeting agenda for April 11, 2023

This week’s meeting will be held in EMEA/Americas timezone on Tuesday, April 11th, 2023, at 16:00 UTC, and @webtechpooja will be hosting.

1. Intro/Welcome

Welcome to all new teammates who joined the Training Team this week!

2. News

  1. Meeting Note Takers
  2. Looking for feedback
  3. Looking for volunteers
    • Would anyone like to update https://learn.wordpress.org/pathways-to-learn-wordpress/ ? (See this Slack message for the initial call for help)
  4. Discussion: How can we streamline meeting agenda/recap posts? Reps have two ideas:
    1. Agenda in 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/, recap on the blog
    2. Detailed agenda on the blog, and add notable discussions in the comments section.
  5. Proposal: To avoid unnecessary notifications for team members, on-hold projects will be recorded in the team’s administration GitHub project board, and will be added back to meeting agendas when they are resumed.
  6. Other announcements

3. Content published in the last week

4. Open requests for review

5. Project updates

6. Open Discussions

If you have topics you’d liked discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this post.


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.

Meeting agenda for March 28, 2023

This week’s meeting will be held in EMEA/AMER timezone on Tuesday, March 28th, 2023, at 16:00 UTC. @webtechpooja and @lada7042 will be co-hosting.

1. Intro/Welcome

Welcome to all new teammates who joined the Training Team this week!

2. News

  1. Meeting Note Takers
  2. Faculty Members Update
    • Faculty members had an annual check-in survey they completed recently. Read all about the results on Faculty Survey Results – Q1 2023.
      • From the post: “Based on the responses, main takeaways are to recruit and/or train more Administrators, increase engagement on the team blog, and continue to focus on improving communication, collaboration, and processes.
  3. Please see the Make WordPress Meeting Calendar for up-to-date information about meeting times
  4. Learning pathways
  5. We’re looking for WordCamp EU Contributor Day Table Lead volunteers!
    • 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. EU 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/. will be on June 8th this year. @webtechpooja will be attending, and will be one of two Table Leads. We’re looking for one more volunteer!
    • If you’re interested in becoming a Table Lead, please reach out to a team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. (Pooja or Ben) to show your interest.
    • Please show interest by March 29th. The selection will be announced by March 31st.
  6. Proposal: How to run a Learn WordPress course cohort
    • This new proposal is looking for your feedback by April 7th.
  7. We have a new handbook page drafted: Preparing for a Flagship WordCamp Contributor Day
    • Please leave feedback on the draft by March 31st. You can find the draft linked in this Slack message.
  8. News from other WordPress teams

3. Creating content for the WordPress 6.2 release

Please reference the resources below as we prepare content on Learn for the 6.2 release.

Content for 6.2

4. Content published in the last week

5. Open requests for review

6. Project updates

7. Open discussions

If you have topics you’d liked discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this post.


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.

Training Team Meeting Recap for March 21st

This meeting followed this meeting agenda post. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack 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.)

(We have alternated our weekly team meetings according to the timezone. This week we are having the Team Meeting in the APAC timezone, and a Coffee Hour was held in the Americas/EMEA timezone at Tuesday 13:00 UTC.)

Introductions and Welcome

There are 17 attendees, either live or async: @courtneypk, @courane01, @nomadskateboarding, @lada7042, @eboxnet, @onealtr, @karthickmurugan, @piyushmultidots, @west7, @amitpatelmd, @afrin29, @faguni22, @mehrazmorshed, @bsanevans, @kafleg, @webtechpooja, and @sagarladani.

Welcome to the team (Slack usernames): @Steve, @Emmanuel Ogundare, @Rami, and @Arti Rana.

News

Meeting Note Takers

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 on this handbook page.

Faculty Members Update

Faculty members recently completed an annual check-in survey. @courtneypk will be sharing results in the next couple weeks.

Meeting times for EMEA/Americas is changing from this week

Please see the Make WordPress Meeting Calendar for up-to-date information about meeting times.

  • EMEA/Americas meetings and coffee hours on Tuesdays will now be held at 16:00 UTC.
  • Friday EMEA/Americas coffee hours will now be held at 13:00 UTC.

Dev-squad Update

Learning Pathways

Team Badges

The process of requesting a team badge has been updated. Please see Team Profile Badges for details. (We are no longer using 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/ to request badges.)

 @psykro was awarded the Training Team Badge this week for 12 months of consistent contribution to the team!

Handbook Updates

We have a new handbook page published: Translating Video Subtitles.

We also have a new page drafted: Preparing for a Flagship 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. 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/.

  • Please leave feedback on the draft by March 31st. You can find the draft linked in this Slack message.

News from other WordPress Teams

Creating Content for the WordPress 6.2 Release

WordPress 6.2 is set to be released on March 28th. The Training Team is working on publishing/updating content in time for this release. Please reference the resources below as we prepare content for this release.

You can find all content related to the 6.2 release listed in this GitHub project board. We are still looking for volunteers with the following content specifically.

Content Published This Week

Here is a list of content that was published on Learn this week.

Open Requests for Review

The following content is open for review. If you have a few minutes, please follow Guidelines for reviewing content to review these pieces of content before they’re published :man-bowing::skin-tone-3:

And if you speak any of these languages, you can review the translation in these pieces of content, too!

Project Updates

Content Localization Foundation (lead: @bsanevans)

  • Ben has been checking in with project members to see how progress is for each locale
  • The project completion date will be extended by a month until April 30, in order to achieve the goal: “Translate 10 priority learning content 5 languages”
  • We now have a handbook page about translating subtitles! This will help with translating Tutorial videos.

Individual Learning Survey for the Needs Analysis (lead: @west7)

An analysis report of the data has now been pushed back to April 6th. See this recent update for more information.

Other Projects

Open Discussions

@amitpatelmd asked about updates on the “look and feel of the revamped Learn website”. @courane01 is tracking progress and will update when able.


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.