Training Team Meeting Recap – 7th March 2024

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 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 were 15 attendees @bsanevans, @lada7042, @digitalchild, @huzaifaalmesbah, @devmuhib, @freewebmentor (async), @narolainfotech(async), @voboghure (async), @voboghure (async), @psykro (async), @sumitsingh (async), @zoonini (async), @amitpatelmd (async), @cnormandigital (async), @backpocketace (async)

We’ve had some new people join the channel recently:

@mxp, @ufuomaidiasirue, @pomypk-1, @coachbirgit, @zoonini, @nhrrob, @hirokisaito

Welcome! Please post in the #training channel or reach out to a team member to help you with contributing. Resources to check out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program.

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

Please leave your thoughts on the post by March 9th (this Saturday)

@ironnysh and @ardianimaya have volunteered to continue writing Contributor Spotlight posts on the Training Team blog. And we’d like the team to nominate the next people to interview.

@devmuhib has nominates @digitalchild for his excellent afford to #training and #meta-learn and @bsanevans has nominated @psykro and @west7 who have been actively creating learning pathway content recently.

We’re also looking for nominations of active Training Team contributors to interview next. Either leave your nominations in the Slack thread here, in the spreadsheet in the document, or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.”
@ironnysh or @ardianimaya.

Looking for volunteers

We’re looking for volunteers to outline a new Learning Pathway for contributors to the WordPress project.

So far, the team has curriculum outlined for User, Developer, and Designer learning pathways. We’d also like to create a pathway for Contributors. This will involve outlining a curriculum like Learning Pathway: Intermediate User #2002, identifying what resources already exist on Learn and what new resources need to be created.

  • What requirements should the team look our for in a translation 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 for https://learn.wordpress.org/?

Come leave your thoughts in Testing translation plugins for Learn WordPress #2231.

We also invite @faculty-translation-coordinators to leave their feedback about the requirements that have already been submitted.

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Attendees: @psykro, @digitalchild, @freewebmentor, @devmuhib

PRs/issues triaged:

We’re looking for any interested team members who can help test translation plugins on the Learn.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/ local development environment. If you’re interested, please comment on the GitHub issue.

Important The team also decided to switch to holding 2 triage sessions a month going forward, on the 2nd and 4th week of the month. We have been very successful in keeping untriaged issues and PRs to a minimum, so this change will allow more time between triage sessions.

The team’s meeting calendar has been updated to reflect these changes.

Other news

WordCamp Asia 2024 Contributor Day is happening in just a few hours! 

If you’re not attending in-person, then check out the online contributor session Training will be hosting in just a few hours! Sign Up Now!

@west7 and @psykro will be hosting two more content creator office hours in March.

These sessions are a great time to ask the team’s experienced content creators about the process of creating content. The first session is scheduled for March 14, 2024, at 14:00 UTC (meeting link), and the second will be scheduled during the week of the 25th of March.

Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

Good first issues for developers

  • See Developing Learn WordPress for instructions on contributing to the Learn WordPress code.
  • There are currently 15 issues requiring developer assistance

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Contribution Acknowledgement

  • Last week, @ironnysh was awarded the Training Contributor badge. Thank you for your contributions to the team, Ronny.

If you are interested in applying for a badge, then come checkout the team handbook page: Team Profile Badges.

  • Props: Would anyone like to celebrate the contributions of team members? 

I’d like to thank all the Training Team members attending 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. Asia this week and representing the team there. In particular, props to our 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/. table leads @west7 and @digitalchild.

Project updates

Learning Pathways

 WordPress 6.5 release

  • Have you been contributing to content creation for the WordPress 6.5 release? Please leave your update here so we can recognize your contribution 

Faculty updates

We invite all Faculty to share their updates with the team at least once a month. @faculty, feel free to answer any or all of the questions below:

  • What have you been working on and how has it been going?
    @devmuhib creating content and triaging issues. @psykro working on Learning Pathways and getting ready to publish lessons. @lada7042 learning pathway recording. @cnormandigital submitted all the theme related lessons for review.
  • Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
    @lada7042 posted my first monthly team update & newsletter.
  • Do you have any blockers?
    @lada7042 had a blocker on her video editor screen setup and @zoonini help her fixing the issue in various ways.
  • Can other Faculty or Training Team members help you in some way?
    – Discussed on previous thread.

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.

Training Team Meeting Recap – 29th February 2024

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 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 were 15 attendees: @piyopiyofox, @lada7042, @west7, @cnormandigital, @yuli-yang, @sierratr(async) @digitalchild(async), @huzaifaalmeabah(async), @devmuhib(async), @onealtr(async), @jhimross(async), @quitevisible(async), @eboxnet(async), @backpocketace(async), @chetan200891(async)

We’ve had some new people join the channel recently: 

@wpcorner, @hotaca, @minako2470, @panda2024, @h2ham, @yamasakidaisuke, @lowpingsro, @developerhabib

Welcome! Please post in the #training channel or reach out to a team member to help you with contributing. Resources to check out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program.

News

Meeting Note Takers

Looking for feedback

Looking for volunteers

If you know anyone please let us know. Ask your co-workers.

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Attendees: Jonathan (@psykro) and Muhibul Haque (@devmuhib )

There were no new PRs or bugs to triage again this week, so we moved into triaging Content Feedback issues.

 We would also like to put out a call for any training team members with developer experience to help us test #2231

Other news

The next Content Creator Coffee Hour is this Thursday 29 Feb @ 14:00 UTC hosted by @psykro

Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

See Guidelines for reviewing content when reviewing content.

  • There are currently 16 issues requiring review cc/ @faculty-editors
  • 4 issues are almost done. They need a third review.
  • Doing a review is a great first contribution.

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • There are currently 31 issues awaiting vetting cc/ @faculty-smes

Good first issues for developers

  • See Developing Learn WordPress for instructions on contributing to the Learn WordPress code.
  • There are currently 15 issues requiring developer assistance

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Contribution Acknowledgement

This is a new section we’d like to make a regular part of the meeting to acknowledge and celebrate the great work folks our doing in the team!

props to @freewebmentor for the huge amount of work shared re: developer learning pathway this week.

Project updates

Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

  • Thumbnail templates are currently being created

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.

Training Team Meeting Recap – 22th February 2024

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 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 were 14 attendees: @piyopiyofox, @sierratr, @west7, @lada7042, @devmuhib, @huzaifaalmesbah, @amitpatelmd, @melbos, @psykro, @margheweb, @onealtr, @cnormandigital, @quitevisible, and @bsanevans

We’ve had some new people join the channel recently: 

@Quentin, @Zoran Stojkovic, @Agil Julio, @francisco, @Morais Junior, and @justingreerbbi

Welcome! Please post in the #training channel or reach out to a team member to help you with contributing. Resources to check out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program.

News

Meeting Note Takers

Looking for feedback

Discussion: Bringing accessibility-first approaches into content development — this is a new discussion started with the team, and we need member’s feedback.

I also want to tie in a conversation @Courtney shared in #meta recently which ties into accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) work as well https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB8GMM/p1708544941159409 (note that this thread will take you out of the meeting)

Looking for volunteers

WordCamp Asia 2024 Contributor Day — we are currently looking for a host on site for the online portion. If you will be attending 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. Asia and could assist with hosting the online portion of 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 let us know!

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Dev-squad 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/ triage meetings happen in #meta-learn every Thursday at 07:00 UTC — if you have developer experience or are interested in helping manage that work please tune in later today!

Feb 14 attendees: @jonathan and @devmuhib

There were no new PRs or bugs to triage this week, so the team moved into triaging Content Feedback issues.

They also updated the Dev-squad triage handbook page to include details on validating Content Feedback issues for future meetings.

Other News

Ooop, this should have been in Looking for Feedback, my apologies! This conversation is ongoing until February 25th. Please share your thoughts on how we can measure impact on Learn WordPress.

Come and Contribute

If you’re ready to jump in and start contributing to the team we have a bunch of things you can work on:

Content ready for review

 Feedback awaiting validation

 Topics awaiting vetting

 Good first issues for developers

  • See Developing Learn WordPress for instructions on contributing to the Learn WordPress code.
  • There are currently 15 issues requiring developer assistance 

I do want to be clear that any training team member can assist with the above. You do not need to be a Faculty Member to contribute to this work.

 Validated feedback awaiting fix

 If you don’t know where to start or have questions about any of the above, feel free to ask in this thread or send a DM.

Contribution Acknowledgement

This is a new section we’d like to make a regular part of the meeting to acknowledge and celebrate the great work folks our doing in the team!

props to @Jonathan for the huge amount of work shared re: developer learning pathway this week.

Project Updates

Faculty Updates

  • What have you been working on and how has it been going?
  • Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
  • Do you have any blockers?
  • Can other Faculty or Training Team members help you in some way?

Open Discussions

Want to bring up a tweet by Amber Hinds that we should add for future discussion. A lot of talk about accessibility.
The home page of Learn WordPress has 9 insufficient color contrast errors; 2 links with ambiguous anchor text; 2 links that open in a new tab without warning. https://twitter.com/heyamberhinds/status/1760140361429622848

Thank you for bringing this to the meeting, Laura! I want to tag in @francisco and @Nick Diego — our contacts helping us with the Learn WordPress redesign for their insight into this.

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

Training Team Meeting Recap – 15th February 2024

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 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 were 15 attendees: @lada7042@piyopiyofox@huzaifaalmesbah, @bsanevans, @quitevisible (async), @devmuhib (async), @pooja9712, @margheweb (async), @ironnysh (async), @cnormandigital (async), @amitpatelmd (async), @psykro (async), @sierratr (async), @backpocketace (async), @west7 (async).

We’ve had some new people join the channel recently: @nithins53 , @jdrago@sibokul@ryoraspp

Welcome! Please post in the #training channel or reach out to a team member to help you with contributing. Resources to check out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program.

News

Meeting Note Takers

  • February 15 – @saqib59
  • February 22 – need volunteer
  • February 29 –@narolainfotech
  • March 7 – need volunteer

Looking for feedback

  • Discussion: Translation Plugin on Learn — we have just kicked off a discussion on what translation 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 we could use on the Learn WordPress website to facilitate the translation work contributors have been doing in the interim to the Phase 4 Multilingual release on native WordPress. If you have some recommendations, please join the conversation!
  • Brainstorm: What trends about Learn WordPress learners do we want to observe? What kinds of data would be beneficial to the team? This discussion will close on February 21st also.

Looking for volunteers

Looking for @faculty to help run the Guide Program? — With the new Guide Program Management handbook page in hand, we’re looking for Faculty to take on the administration of the program. Comment in the thread if you’re interested in helping

Meeting Note Takers — we are looking for two more folks to volunteer to post notes for this month’s final two meetings.

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Due to me not getting the agenda published earlier the dev-squad updates will be added in the thread :thread:at a later date.

Other News

  • Discussion: Training’s contribution to the 6.5 release (and beyond) — this discussion has concluded with the following action items the team will focus on this year:
    • Focus on hosting release-related Online Workshops around the time of releases.
    • Submit release-related feedback about content as new Feedback issues 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/. When doing so, link to original issues where possible to keep a trail of changes that happen on a piece of content.
  • Update on GatherPress- @LauraA has joined the GatherPress Slack group to help facilitate testing during the pilot program when ready. No set date at this time. If you would like to follow GatherPress page.

During February @west7 and @psykro will be testing out learning pathway content creator office hours. This is an opportunity for anyone working on learning pathway content, or anyone interested in working on learning pathway content, to meet, discuss what content they are working on, ask questions, or find content to work on for the learning pathways.

There will be office hour sessions:
Thursday 29 Feb @ 14:00 UTC hosted by @psykro.

If you are currently working on any learning pathway lessons, or are interested in creating lessons for learning pathways, please feel free to join these sessions.

Zoom meeting URLs for these office hours will be shared in the #training Slack channel closer to the time.

Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

Good first issues for developers

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Project Updates

Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Contribution Acknowledgement

This is a new section we’d like to make a regular part of the meeting to acknowledge and celebrate the great work folks our doing in the team!

Badges awarded: @kawsaralameven


Faculty Updates

The Faculty Survey Results – Q1 2024 were released and a lot of these updates are largely in response to the feedback shared. Thank you to @faculty for sharing your candid feedback on how we can improve this program.

  • @bsanevans will be hosting two onboarding workshops on February 15th and February 16th titled Starting your contributor journey with the WordPress Training Team
  • Faculty Program Online Workshop — @piyopiyofox will be hosting two Make WordPress Training Team Faculty Program Information Sessions at the end of this month on February 21st at 00:00 UTC and 08:00 UTC

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.

Training Team Meeting Recap – 8th February 2024

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 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 were 18 attendees: @piyopiyofox, @sierratr, @lada7042, @west7, @eboxnet, @bsanevans, @onealtr, @devmuhib, @amitpatelmd (async), @zunaid321 (async), @sumitsingh (async), @jdy68 (async), @huzaifaalmesbah (async), @cnormandigital (async), @backpocketace (async), @digitalchild (async), @askdesign (async), @quitevisible (async), @margheweb (async), @ironnysh (async).

We’ve had some new people join the channel recently.

@diannagunn , @shan003, @sashingo, @Paul Westerlund, @Marco

Welcome! Please post in the #training channel or reach out to a team member to help you with contributing. Resources to check out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program.

News

Meeting Note Takers

We’re looking for volunteers to take notes each week through the rest of February. Would anyone like to volunteer for the team? Please post in the #training channel.

Looking for feedback

Discussion: Translation Plugin on Learn – discussion is going on regarding the adoption of a translation 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 to aid contributors in their ongoing translation work until the Phase 4 Multilingual release on native WordPress.

What data do we want to know about folks using Learn WordPress?@bsanevans put together a brainstorming post for us to discuss what data would be relevant for us to surface to better serve our Learners, team, and community.

Looking for volunteers

Looking for a faculty to help run the Guide Program? — With the new Guide Program Management handbook page in hand, and we’re looking for Faculty to take on the administration of the program. Comment in this thread if you’re interested in helping.

Meeting Note Takers — we are looking for two more folks to volunteer to post notes for this month’s final two meetings.

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Feb 1 attendees: @psykro@digitalchild@devmuhib@melbos 

Triaged one new bug:

Feedback – Quizzes not appearing on the front end of a lesson #2196

Reviewed other open PRs to see if they could be moved along:

Remove the github-markdown class from lesson content #304 – There was some discussion on this item, which you can read in the comments on that issue. I’d like to invite the training team to add their input on the suggested change.

If you’re interested in participating, come visit the #meta-learn Slack channel at 7:00 UTC. You’ll find the time shown in your local timezone on the Training Team’s meeting calendar.

Other News

Discussion: Training’s contribution to the 6.5 release (and beyond) — this discussion has concluded with the following action items the team will focus on this year:

  • Focus on hosting release-related Online Workshops around the time of releases.
  • Submit release-related feedback about content as new Feedback issues 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/. When doing so, link to original issues where possible to keep a trail of changes that happen on a piece of content.

During February @westnz and @jonathan will be testing out learning pathway content creator office hours. This is an opportunity for anyone working on learning pathway content, or anyone interested in working on learning pathway content, to meet, discuss what content they are working on, ask questions, or find content to work on for the learning pathways.

There will be two office hour sessions:

  • Tuesday, 13 Feb @ 21:00 UTC hosted by @westnz
  • Thursday 29 Feb @ 14:00 UTC hosted by @jonathan

If you are currently working on any learning pathway lessons, or are interested in creating lessons for learning pathways, please feel free to join these sessions.

Zoom meeting URLs for these office hours will be shared in the #training Slack channel closer to the time.

Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

Good first issues for developers

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Project Updates

Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Contribution Acknowledgement

This is a new section we’d like to make a regular part of the meeting to acknowledge and celebrate the great work folks our doing in the team!

Badges awarded: @darshitrajyaguru97, @pooja9712, @narolainfotech, @margheweb

Props

In this section we’ve asked fellow Training Team members if they’d like to nominate someone to share props with. I understand we have the #props channel, but keeping it in house is also pretty awesome.

I’d like to start off by giving props to @devmuhib. I’ve seen you everywhere in the team lately, unafraid to give a helping hand, respond to P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. discussions, support others, and be a friendly presence. – @piyopiyofox

@devmuhib wants to give props to @shailu25 for reviewing multiple Gujrati translations and @zunaid321 for reviewing multiple Bengali translations.

@psykro also sends his props to @digitalchild for successfully hosting dev squad for the first time last week, helping to draft the dev squad guidelines, and always being an enthusiastic dev-squad contributor. He also wants to acknowledge @cnormandigital and @ironnysh for their contributions to the learning pathways so far, and for the work they have committed to doing. 

I’d like to recognize @digitalchild for consistently working on form submissions that come into the team’s email account. Thank you! – @bsanevans

Faculty Updates

The Faculty Survey Results – Q1 2024 were released and a lot of these updates are largely in response to the feedback shared. Thank you to @faculty for sharing your candid feedback on how we can improve this program.

  • 1:1 chats with team reps — @bsanevans@piyopiyofox and @lada7042 are open at any time for 1:1 chats with Faculty Members. Please feel free to reach out to us if you’d like some time to discuss what’s on your mind.
  • Faculty Program Online Workshop — @piyopiyofox will be hosting two Make WordPress Training Team Faculty Program Information Sessions at the end of this month on February 21st at 00:00 UTC and 08:00 UTC

Open Discussions

@lada7042 connected with GatherPress channel and will help coordinate the training team testing the plugin.

@piyopiyofox had a question which could be resolved by GatherPress – do we need a shared team calendar (Like a publicly visible Google Calendar)? We have a lot of onboarding sessions coming up for the team — like the ones with @bsanevans@west7@psykro and myself, and I wonder if it would be easier for teammates to join these if they could see what’s going on all at one place?

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, #training-team

WordCamp Asia 2024 Contributor Day

Thank you for joining the Training Team for 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. Asia 2024 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/. on Thursday, March 7th! We’ve prepared activities for new and experienced contributors to join on the day. See the schedule for WCAsia Contributor Day day here.

We plan on hosting an online event during Contributor Day, too, so that people who couldn’t attend WordCamp Asia can still participate remotely! Please follow this post to receive updates or register on MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area..

Table Leads: Jamie Madden (@digitalchild), Wes Theron (@west7)

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/. Monitor: TBA

Zoom Coordinator: Benjamin Evans (@bsanevans)

How can I best prepare?

You can prepare for Contributor Day by ensuring you’ve created a .Org account, joined the Training Team Slack channel, and set up a 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. Instructions for preparing in advance can be found here: Welcome to the Training Team! If you are a developer, check out these Dev-squad guidelines.

Training Team Mission

The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments via learn.wordpress.org.


I’m new to the Training Team!

Thanks for joining! Please walk through our Onboarding Program. This will give you an overview of the team, help you set up the accounts you need to contribute, and even walk you through your first contribution!

We expect the onboarding program above to take 30-60 minutes. Once you’ve completed onboarding, jump into these other activities to continue contributing!

Write a script for a learning pathway lesson

Start by searching for a piece of content you’d like to work on from one of the User or Developer learning pathways. Once found, you can assign yourself as one of the contributors to the lesson and mention that you will write the script. You can add the script to the GitHub Issue once it is completed.

Review published content and submit feedback

The WordPress software continues to grow, and new features are always added. Reviewing published content and updating content is important in keeping the Learn WordPress website current. Follow the team guide about reviewing published content to leave feedback about any content below. (Reviewing older content would be helpful!)

Submit new content topic ideas

Have a look through the Learn WordPress website. Are there any topics you feel would be great to add to the website? Add your topic ideas to our GitHub repository from the link below:

New GitHub Issue: Topic Idea – Remember to use the “Content Development (general)” Issue.


I have experience working with the Training Team!

Thanks for joining! Depending on your interests, there are a few ways you can get involved. For each of the tasks below, the team handbook should help you with process specifics. But if you have any questions, feel free to reach out!

Content Creation / Scriptwriting

Are you interested in creating content? If so, creating content related to the Learning Pathway Project or the 6.5 release is our priority today.

Considering the time constraints associated with Contributor Day, it would be beneficial if you could develop a script for one of the learning pathway lessons. Alternatively, you could craft a script focused on one of the upcoming 6.5 features. If you have the capacity to complete the recording of the lesson when you return home, please let us know.

Start by searching for a piece of content you’d like to work on in the Recent Release project board or a lesson from one of the User or Developer learning pathways. Once found, you can assign yourself as one of the contributors to the lesson and mention how you will contribute. You can add the script to the GitHub Issue once it is completed.

Join an in-person discussion with @westnz to gain practical insights into lesson creation.

Here is also a helpful resource to watch: How to create a video tutorial for learn.wordpress.org

Content Translation

Are you interested in translating content? If so, then translate the content mentioned in the LearnWP Content – Localization GitHub Project Board. We have some high-priority content that needs to be translated. There are a few courses about onboarding contributors specifically that will help in the WordPress mentorship program:

You can learn how to get started in content localization in this handbook page.

Content Reviews

Reviewing content waiting to be published is also a priority for us.

Start by finding a piece of content to review in our content development board. This GitHub view has filtered all content waiting for reviews before it is published. Follow the team’s Guidelines for reviewing content and leave your reviews right there in GitHub.

Subject Matter Expert

subject-matter expert is someone who has extensive knowledge in a particular field or area and can provide advice, guidance, and direction in that subject. If you would like to help vet topics, please visit the Vetting Topic Ideas handbook page.

Triage Developer Issues

Are you a developer interested in working on issues for the Learn website? If so, then working through our Website Development project board is our priority today.

Start by reviewing issues “In Review.” Any help you can provide regarding issues “In Progress” would be great, too. But in general, any attention you can give to any issue would be much appreciated.

If there are enough interested Developers, then we can also create a developer-focused working group so that they can focus on related issues.

Cross-team collaboration opportunities  

Discuss or share ideas of how the Training Team could collaborate more with other Make WordPress Teams such as Marketing, Documentation etc.


Before you leave…

We’d love to hear what you achieved on the day. Before leaving the table, please submit the Contributor Day Attendee Feedback Form and respond to the relevant thread in Slack.

#contributor-days#training-team

Training Team Meeting Recap – 25th January 2024

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 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 were 14 attendees: @courtneypk, @cnormandigital, @bsanevans, @lada7042, @sierratr, @askdesign (async), @devmuhib (async), @webtechpooja (async), @psykro (async), @jhimross (async), @quitevisible (async), @margheweb (async), @ironnysh (async), @melbos (async)

We’ve had some new people join the channel recently.
@mohdumar1654, @zahidbenu, @cparkinson, @gajendrasingh, @priyanshii5@aanchals09,  @sunilkumarthz,  @umairashraf1986, @monusing, @rcreators, @blvtomoya, @blvtomoya, @anumit, @feedmymedia, @mzaidi604, @manukk, @keerthikavya

Welcome! Please post in the #training channel or reach out to a team member to help you with contributing. Resources to check out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program.

News

Meeting Note Takers

February 1 – @aanchals09
February 8 – need volunteer
February 15 – need volunteer
February 22- need volunteer

  • We’re looking for volunteers to take notes each week through the rest of November. Would anyone like to volunteer for the team? Please post in the #training channel

Looking for feedback

Looking for volunteers

  • Call for Hosts!! Who would like to facilitate an Online Workshop this year? 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..
  • Call for Mentors and Mentees for the project-wide Mentorship program – until February 7
  • Request for Faculty reviewers to look at and audit the HandbookGitHub link for faculty 

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Attendees: @psykro@digitalchild@devmuhib009, and @hellosatya

Next week, @digitalchild is keen to host the dev squad session, and @psykro committed to getting the draft dev squad guidelines ready for that.

If you’re interested in participating, come visit the #meta-learn Slack channel at 7:00 UTC. You’ll find the time shown in your local timezone on the Training Team’s meeting calendar.

Other News

Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

  1. Discussion in the thread about the review process. @sierratr question- After completing the third review if you are a faculty member can you move the issue to Preparing to Publish? Comments: @bsanevans– “If you are a Faculty member go right ahead” @psykro – ” I would welcome anyone who moves an item into the preparing to publish.”
  2. @sierratr question- How do we handle reviews that are submitted with the review checklist? Comments: @bsanevans – Suggested pinging the person to encourage the reviewer to use the checklist and re-submit.

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

Good first issues for developers

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Project Updates

  • Learning pathways
    We have some first draft redesign edits and thumbnails up for review, and will connect with Design   re: next steps next week:
  • 2024 goal planning sessions. Just another friendly reminder to add your comments. What are some goals for the training team?

Faculty Updates

Asked faculty to check in and answer the following questions.

  • What have you been working on and how has it been going?
  • Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
  • Do you have any blockers?
  • Can other Faculty or Training Team members help you in some way?

Open Discussions

  • @devmuhib question- Someone has translated several pieces of content, all of which seem to be directly copied and pasted from Google Translate. I have personally reviewed this content and can confirm that the translations are not good in quality and, at times, not readable. Despite multiple requests to modify the content and maintain a certain standard, the issues persist, and the content remains unreadable. What is the appropriate course of action for such translations? @bsanevans had a few suggestions
    • Raise some specific items in the translation
    • If in the same timezone, work on a translation together.

If there are any other suggestions please add to this thread. Translation Discussion

  • @jonathanbossenger brought up- our use of InstaWP to be discussed by the team.
    • @psykro and @bsanevans have added comments on the issue 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/.
  • @bsanevans brought up- Faculty members are added to the Learn Content Triage team on GitHub. This gives them access to triage issues, change statuses, and most importantly, check-off boxes automatically added by automation. (More info about this group in this handbook page.)
    • What do folks think about extending this permission to vetted content creators, too? 
      • @bsanevans gave more context in the thread.
      • We could offer this access to folks who, for example, meet all these criteria:
      • Is a vetted Tutorial presenter or Online Workshop facilitator
      • Has created 3 or more pieces of content
      • Has requested to be added to the GitHub triage group
      • So, it wouldn’t be something we give automatically, but something we could provide upon request, once there’s a track record of contribution.

@courtneypk, @gusaus, @psykro, @lada7042 supported this idea.


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.

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

Training Team Meeting Recap – January 11, 2024

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 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 were 22 attendees:  @bsanevans@webtechpooja, @gwallace87, @sierratr, @piyopiyofox, @lada7042, @sancastiza, @courtneypk, @eboxnet, @digitalchild  (async), @amitpatelmd (async), @jhimross (async), @robinpal (async), @vanpariyar (async), @hellosatya (async), @onealtr (async), @devmuhib(async), @quitevisible(async), @psykro (async), @sumitsingh (async), @sakibsnaz (async)

We’ve had some new people join the channel recently. @kawsaralameven@karson9, @corinaburri, @arkenon@dev0ghost@wpdata, @up1512001, @shadabali,  @bridgetwes, @ohthatspaul, @akojif, @lefadev22@josiahw93, @flexseth, @mgoncarova — Welcome! 

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

Each year, the Training Team takes some time at the beginning of the year to brainstorm goals for the year. We’ll be hosting two sessions next week, so feel free to join either… or both :star2: Sessions will be recorded for folks to watch later and anyone can add feedback in the session threads in Slack

  • Help the team brainstorm contribution ideas for the team to work on at 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. Asia 2024.

WordCamp Asia is almost here, and Training will be hosting a contributor table at the event. Thank you to our table leads @west7 and @digitalchild for volunteering

The Training Team continues to update and clarify the requirements of applying for a team badge. Jonathan has started a conversation for us to clarify the requirements for code contributions. Please leave your feedback on the post by January 26th 

Looking for volunteers

Each week, the team hosts a dev-squad triage session, where they triage website development 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/ issues. In that process, the squad mark issues they think would be great for first-time contributors to start on. 

One of the content types Training publishes on Learn WordPress is – Online Workshops. As we start the new year, we’d like to invite anyone in the team to apply to host or co-host a workshop this year.

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Off for the holidays- check for the next meeting

If you’re interested in participating, come visit the #meta-learn Slack channel at 7:00 UTC. You’ll find the time shown in your local timezone on the Training Team’s meeting calendar.

Other News

Next week’s team meeting will be conducted over a video call and will focus on brainstorming 2024 goals. The call link will be published in the Training channel 5 minutes before the meeting starts. If you’d like to attend with audio only, or just join in on the Slack threads, that would be great, too

Open requests for review

Currently, we have 15 pieces of content in the review stage. That’s exciting! You can find the list of content here:

Project Updates

 Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress is one of the biggest priorities of the Training Team right now. Here’s an update on how that project is going.

  • We have some first-draft redesign edits and thumbnails up for review, and will connect with Design re: the next steps next week:

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.

#contributor-days, #dev-squad-triage-session, #developers, #learn-wordpress, #meeting-recap

Training Team Meeting Recap – 19th December 2023

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 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 were 22 attendees:  @sumitsingh,  @webtechpooja, @piyopiyofox,  @digitalchild@robinpal@devmuhib @ranjanrakesh,  @sakibsnaz,  @psykro,  @bsanevans,  @ardianimaya@benjirahmed @sancastiza@onealtr, @lada7042@amitpatelmd@sierratr(async), @courtneypk(async), @quitevisible@melbos, @west7 (async),Cynthia Norman

We’ve had some new people join the channel recently. @yotako@dilip2615@rubinwpvolunteer@cksau, @dilip2615@romanthemrb, @alihassan283, @benjamin_zekavica, @lewisushindi, @iahmed-1, @monir1999, @vicobot, @ardhrubo, @toukirwpdev , @mdibrahimk48, @kkai316 — welcome! 

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.

Two weeks with no meetings

  • January 9 – Need volunteer
  • January 16 – Need volunteer
  • January 23 – @NF Tushar

Looking for volunteers

 Training Team 2023 Year-End Review
We have a couple more goals that we are hoping to bring to the finish line before end of year.

  • Plan promotions with the Marketing Team
  • Establish monthly recurring onboarding Online Workshops in different timezones for training team roles
  • Figure out a method to manage localized content translation
  • Audit Handbook — thank you to Abha and Sumit for your assistance here!

Regarding the Handbook Audit, we’re looking for a full review of the handbook, noting what information is out of date, what information is missing etc.

If you have feedback, please submit the feedback to the team using the Feedback 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 template: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/new/choose

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

The team triaged 1 pull request and 3 bugs
PRs triaged:

Issues triaged

The dev-squad triage session will happen again this Thursday from 7:00 UTC. You can check the time in your own time zone from the team’s meeting calendar: https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/#training . This will run in #meta-learn

Other News

Training Team 2023 Year-End Review

In this post we mentioned how we did on our goals and the impact of our various pieces of work. If you see anything missing in this post, please add them in the comments.

Contributor Spotlight: Laura Adamonis
Congratulation @Laura A for the contributor spotlight she is our new 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. as well 

Update on Matrix Migration: Pausing the Transition– As recently announced in the State of the WordState of the Word This is the annual report given by Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress at WordCamp US. It looks at what we’ve done, what we’re doing, and the future of WordPress. https://wordpress.tv/tag/state-of-the-word/. – Matrix is on hold now, but please continue testing. (edited) 

State of the Word 2023 Recap – On December 11, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg traveled to beautiful Madrid, Spain, to deliver his annual State of the Word keynote. It was the first time this event took place outside the United States.

Overflow Questions from State of the Word 2023 in Madrid, Spain – there were so many questions asked in the State of the Word Q&A round. and Matt spent his time answering all the questions. Although all were not answered during that time, so he created a post and answer all the asked questions there in this post.

Kudos to the other team members who worked hard behind the scenes to make this event a grand success. 

Toward a More Interconnected Web
In this episode, WordPress Executive Director, Josepha Haden Chomphosy articulates the vision for a collaborative ecosystem where knowledge sharing and contributions to open-source tools lead to a more interconnected and empowered web.

Handbook pages updated

WordCamp Nepal is on January 12- 13. I will be leading the Training Table at 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/. on January 12. If you are around and attending the contributor day. Please join us at the Training team table.

@webtechpooja , I’m hosting my last meeting as a Team Rep. I am honored to have served as a team rep for the past 2 years and I’ll be continuing my contribution to the team as a faculty member.

The December Monthly Update and January Learn Newsletters will be posted on January 8th, 2024.

Meetings adjustment for 2024

Global meetings will take place on Thursday at 00:00 UTC. The first meeting of the new year is on Jan 11. As per the availability of our new team Reps, a common time concluded.

  • Reminder about coffee hour

from the past few months we have not had any coffee hour, so I would like to ask do folks still want to do this?

Call for 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. Asia Contributor Day table leads volunteers

WordCamp Asia is on March 7–9, 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan. The first day of the event will be the contributor day. So I would like to invite folks who will be there and have a keen interest in the Training team. Please do join us there.

We are also looking for volunteers who can help the Training team as a lead if you want to be a team lead, please reply in this thread and you can also reach out to our Team Reps directly.
cc @Destiny@Laura A@Ben Evans

Badges Awarded – Contributor badges awarded to:

Congratulations to both of you! 

Open requests for review

See our Guidelines for reviewing content to review the following content.

  1. Lesson Plan
    1. Theme.json – Lesson Plan
  2. Tutorial
    1. What is the difference between the Page Editor and Site Editor
    2. How to Create a Post or Page with the WordPress Block Editor – Tutorial
    3. Lesson: Using the Media Library
  3. Courses (Sensei) – Lessons
    1. WordPress and web servers
    2. The WordPress file system
    3. The WordPress database
    4. Permalinks, rewriting urls on Apache and Nginx
    5. Admin page request
    6. Front-end page request
    7. How WordPress Works

Faculty Check-in

I’s time for a Faculty check-in! @faculty please answer any that apply:

 What have you been working on and how has it been going? 

 Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting? 

 Do you have any blockers? 

 Can other Faculty or Training Team members help you in some way? 

Let me pause there for a minute… Were there any questions so far?

alright, seems there are no questions so far, so moving ahead.

Project Updates

 Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Update and next steps on the Guidelines for creating, reviewing, and publishing lessons handbook pages.

  • Thanks to everyone who shared their feedback on the guidelines
  • Jonathan would like to publish the first version of these guidelines to the Training Team Handbook by Friday, 22 December 2023
  • There may still be some open discussions in Google Docs. Jonathan would like to suggest that we publish what we have by Friday and pick up any open discussions in 2024 to revise the handbook pages accordingly.

is there any other update you would like to mention here @Jonathan

Now we move to our final thing of agenda

Open Discussions

Let’s celebrate achievements from the year

  • Share your achievements/journey/stories/Plans or Goals for next year
  • How do you contribute to the Training Team or any other Make WordPress teams?

We would love to hear about your achievements. Please feel to share any other thing you would like to share or discuss.

 @Ben Evans – I only started contributing to the Training Team in June 2022. This year was really exciting for me as I contributed as a team rep, allowing me to work alongside so many people It was exciting to get to know so many WordPress enthusiasts, both through Slack, at Online Workshops, and even at Meetups and WordCamps. So, thanks to everyone who I was able to interact with this year’s

digitalchild – I can’t remember when I joined. After Ben that’s all I got heh

@Ben Evans – Training was able to refine onboarding, meeting formats, values, goals, contribution documentation, and direction for Learn… just so much! I look forward to what the team accomplishes next year

@webtechpooja – I made my first contribution to the Training team back in 2019, and then got more involved in the team at the time of the learn.wordpress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ website launch in 2020. After this, I never looked back and made continuous contributions here. For the past 2 years, I have served as a team rep, and for this, I am really honored. I learned many things from my fellow team members. the teamwork, collaboration, and work in different time zones async is truly amazing.


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

Training Team Meeting Recap – 12th December 2023

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 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 were 22 attendees: @bsanevans@digitalchild ,@benjirahmed, @psykro, @webtechpooja, @ethicaladitya, @vanpariyar, @sakibsnaz, @robinpal, @askaryabbas, @sumitsingh, @amitpatelmd, @quitevisible, @dhirajsuthar,  @andenga, @jdy68, @sierratr(async), @courtneypk(async), @west7(async), @lada7042(async),@devmuhib(async), @gusa(async),

We’ve had some new people join the channel recently. @iRonnysh, @Aashish @NF Tushar @Arslan — welcome! :tada:

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.

Two weeks with no meetings.

  • January 9 – need volunteer
  • January 16 – need volunteer
  • January 23 – @NF Tushar

Looking for volunteers

Training Team 2023 Year-End Review — we have a couple more goals that we are hoping to bring to the finish line before the end of the year.

  • Plan promotions with the Marketing Team
  • Establish monthly recurring onboarding Online Workshops in different timezones for training team roles
  • Figure out a method to manage localized content translation
  • Audit Handbook

Regarding the Handbook Audit, we’re looking for a full review of the handbook, noting what information is out of date, what information is missing, etc.

If you have feedback, please submit the feedback to the team using the Feedback 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 template: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/new/choose

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Thank you to our those who attended last week :raised_hands::skin-tone-3: @Jonathan @Muhibul Haque @kafleg @Ben Evans @Jamie Madden @Sumit Singh

The team triaged 1 pull request, and 5 bugs.

Here are some other notes:

The dev-squad triage session will happen again this Thursday from 7:00 UTC. You can check the time in your own time zone from the team’s meeting calendar: https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/#training

Other News

We are happy to welcome @Laura A as a new 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. in 2024 :clap::skin-tone-3: Laura will co-represent the Training Team to the larger WordPress project, alongside @Destiny and myself (@Ben Evans).

If you’re interested in what the Training Team rep does and how they’re selected, come check out this handbook page: Team Rep (Representative)

 Due to the end of year holidays, the December Monthly Update and January Learn Newsletters will be posted a week later than usual, on January 8th, 2024

Open requests for review

The team has 10 pieces of content open for review right now.

  • 1 Lesson Plan
  • 2 Tutorials
  • 7 Learning Pathways Lessons

You can find a list of these from this link:
https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/33/views/17

Anyone can review content for the Training Team. Just follow the team’s Guidelines for reviewing content 

@Jonathan – I’d like to remind folks that when reviewing the Learning Pathways Lessons, we’re still in the process of finalizing the new Content Creation Guidelines for Learning Pathways Lessons, and once that’s done, we’ll need to also update the Guidelines for reviewing content. So until we do that, please use the same process for reviewing Tutorials to review Learning Pathways Lessons.

 I encourage anyone interested in contributing to the Training Team to check out the handbook page about getting a team badge: Team Profile Badges

These can be a great goal to aim for when starting to contribute to a team

I just wanted to remind folks about the Request for feedback: Lesson Handbook pages post, which is open for feedback until 19 December. I want to try and finalize those pages before the end of the year, so we start the year with clear guidelines for creating, reviewing, and publishing Learning Pathway Lessons.

Project Updates

We didn’t have any project updates in the agenda. Is there anyone joining the meeting async who would like to provide the team with an update on anything? (Feel free to start a thread here )

Open Discussions

Jamie Madden – The Helpscout queue is down to just 2 open tickets for tutorial applicants.

To give folks a bit more context:

  • Help Scout is the email inbox service the Training Team uses to receive and respond to form submissions. Faculty Administrators have access, and they process these emails for the team.
  • We had a bit of a backlog these last few weeks… Around 40 emails at one point, I believe? @Jamie Madden has been working through them for us.

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.