Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3030

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Attendees: @dapobabarinde @kaitohm @dilip2615 @noruzzaman @jagirbahesh @zeelthakkar @devmuhib @hardikgohil @psykro @digitalchild @ironnysh (async) @rfluethi (async) @sumitsingh (async) @chauhanraj754 (async) @rinkuiihglobal (async) @dparthj (async0 @west7 (async) @rithika3 (async) @nishitajoshi (async) @mebo (async) @pooja-n (async) @quitevisible (async)

Newcomers: @im3dabasia1 @rayhanuddin2020 @theumair07 @mrredflannel @ykbeili @rdhawladar @nithiyam @zeetechfairy @musabin @hardikgohil

Note taker: @dapobabarinde

News

Meeting Note Takers

• Nov 26 – @dapobabarinde
• Dec 3 – @dparthj
• Dec 10 – @quitevisible
• Dec 17 – @rithika3

Looking for feedback

We don’t have any new items looking for feedback this week

Looking for volunteers

• Write a guest post on Do the Woo promoting Learn WordPress. @bobdunn-trainer invited the team to publish a guest post on Do the Woo to promote the new Learn WordPress website.  I think it might be great to have a couple of people work on this together. Who would like to volunteer?

Triage Squad Updates

No Triage squad Update this week

Other News

• @sumitsingh and @kaitohm submitted issues to TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. (coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.) and 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/ (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/) for the Training Team Last week, @sumitsingh and I took the ideas from Brainstorm: Introducing Learning Pathways to users during onboarding and turned them into Trac/GitHub issues for developers to consider. Come follow these tickets as we aim to raise awareness of Learn WordPress in every WordPress install around the world 
  • https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/62510
  • https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/62512
  • https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/67219

Come and Contribute

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  • We have 22 issues that require validation
• Topics awaiting vetting
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  • We have 2 issues that require vetting
• Validated feedback awaiting fix
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  • We have 27 issues awaiting a fix

Contribution Acknowledgement

This week, the Training Contributor badge was awarded to @22halomedia. Thank you for reviewing content for the team.

@psykro – I would like to give props to @agiljulio, @coquardcyr, @michelleblanchette and @erichmond for their continued commitment to working on the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party developer learning pathway.

I would also like to give props to @lakshmananphp for doing such a great job facilitating the current course cohort.

@kaitohm – I want to give props to @digitalchild for noticing Project Thread: Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1 has been stagnant for a while, and offering to continue that.

@lakshmananphp – Props to @psykro for the new lessons and co-hosting the cohort.

@west7 – Props to @quitevisible and @digitalchild for reviewing content.

Props to @kel-dc and @ervanyuffrizal for their fantastic work creating and publishing the Troubleshooting lesson!”

@devmuhib – I want to give props to @jagirbahesh and @zeelthakkar for helping me writing beginner contributor learning pathway.

Project updates

We have a few projects underway at the moment. I invite the leader of each project to share an update below.

• Learning Pathway: Intermediate Plugin Developer #2044 – @psykro
  • Project update thread: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2044#issuecomment-2497682191 There was a small issue with some of the links to videos to be reviewed (they were not public). That’s been fixed, so we’re still looking for reviewers.
• Learning Pathway: Beginner Designer #2889 – @westnz
  • @kaitohm – Is the team still on track to publish this my the end of December?
  • @westnz – Yes, we are still on track to publish by the end of December.
• Project thread: The third Learn WordPress Course Cohort – @lakshmananphp and @psykro
  • @psykro – Last week we reached the halfway point of the cohort. We’re still seeing around a 50% in person attendance, which is aligned with our previous experiences. Everyone who is joining seems engaged and enjoying the weekly calls. We ran a short poll last week to gauge if everyone is enjoying the call format, and everyone responded affirmatively.
• Project Thread: Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1 – @digitalchild
  • @kaitohm – Just noting, since @piyopiyofox and @zoonini are away, Jamie has offered to take on this project instead. We’re hoping to come up with a clearly documented process in the team around how we handle outdated content.
  • @digitalchild – This project was originally slated for completion end of this month. I will start working on it this week and get an update next week of the current status.
• Brainstorm: Introducing Learning Pathways to users during onboarding – @kaitohm
  • This project is now complete! The team is invited to monitor the Trac/GitHub tickets mentioned in this previous Slack thread to support developers and see these ideas added to core.

Upcoming Online Workshops

• Developer Hours: Improve your workflows with WordPress development tools
• Learn WordPress Study Hour
• Learn WordPress Study Hour

We don’t have a lot of workshops scheduled for December, yet. Is anyone interested in facilitating any sessions?

Open discussions

@psykro – I’d like to share some (very recent) news

It looks like we’ve been given the go-ahead to have PolyLang installed on Learn.WordPress.org for translated content: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2284#issuecomment-2499828845

This conversation literally just happened today. I’ll be creating the PR to have the code merged this week. I’d therefore suggest that we start trailing this sometime next week, to iron out the process of translation

once I create the PR to have the plugin code merged, I’ll share it here so folks can follow along.

It will be great if we can enter 2025 with a defined process for creating and reviewing translated content.

@kaitohm –  I keep looking at all the ideas the team came up with in Drawing new learners to the new Learn.WordPress.org. There are so many great ideas there!

There’s one idea: Connect with community colleges and schools that could benefit from incorporating Learn WordPress into their programs.

I’m curious, does anyone in the team already have connections with any schools in their local communities?

@psykro – I have two young boys currently at school, so theoretically I have a connection to at least 1 school in my community. However, what I don’t have are the tools for how to connect with these schools, and what is required from each of them, their school board, the educational bodies, to figure out how to find out about implementing Learn WordPress into their programs.

And schools are different in different parts of the world. So while I have an option, I have no idea how to get started.

@psykro – So I recently met with a friend who’s the program mananger for an online coding school: https://codeyourfuture.io/. I feel like these are the types of places we need to be reaching, folks who are doing online learning, for high schoolers, folks who want a career change, army veterans etc.

@22halomedia – I’m an officer at a Metropolitan Community College programming club and will bring up in our next meeting the possibility of doing the learn.wordpress.org curriculum as part of our club activities.

@quitevisible – We homeschool our 2 youngest girls (13/14). This year, I created a WP site using an LMS to run my lessons. I teach 2 of the classes (Chemistry/Language Arts), but also added a beginner WP class to run alongside the Language Arts/Writing class.

Each of my girls have their own self-hosted WP website where they are learning to design and post their work. I embed the Learn WP videos in my lessons. They’ve mentioned that the videos really help – @westnz  seems to be their fave so far. So the material is also introducing WP to the next generation.

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