Dev-squad GitHubGitHubGitHub 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: Thursdays 07:00 UTC
Welcome to another edition of the Training Team’s Contributor Spotlight! In this series, the Training Team introduces you to one of our many valued contributors, and you can learn more about their contribution journey.
Introducing Maya!
Today’s featured contributor is Nadia Maya Ardiani from Indonesia! Maya is a Content Translator for the Indonesian locale, an Indonesian Translation Coordinator, a Faculty team member, and is also currently trying out being a Content Creator!
All about Maya
Maya’s educational background is in English literature, and she began her career as a journalist. Starting from radio, Maya explored many mediums, including magazines and websites. She specialized in music, culture, and regional news, as well as feature writings on people and places. Maya’s fascination for media and communication brought her to various related avenues: media relations specialist, publicist, and public diplomacy officer for a foreign government representative.
However, everything changed when the pandemic hit — Maya had to find another arena that was more flexible in regards to place and time, and that was when she became a content writer in the tech industry. This was the time when Maya learned in-depth about WordPress because she had to write about it. It was quite a pivot, but a step that she is grateful she took.
Maya is currently a content specialist with Hostinger, and interviews people — from Hostinger’s clients to WordPress community members — and writes articles about their expertise and inspiring stories. She also works on social media to boost the performance of their website content.
Outside of WordPress, Maya loves going to live music. She also loves spending time with her friends, reading, experimenting with recipes, watching movies, and exploring the internet for her daily dose of memes.
Maya’s WordPress Journey
Maya has always been drawn to the Internet and its culture, as well as the people who create and use it. She first discovered WordPress during her school years and was struck by its sophistication, even though it didn’t visually captivate her at the time.
Years later, Maya’s job as a tech content writer required her to have a deep understanding of WordPress. She was surprised to find that WordPress had grown significantly, offering exciting customizations and becoming easier to understand. She started exploring WordPress more, attending her first WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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. and contributor dayContributor DayContributor 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/.. It was during these experiences that Maya fell in love with the WordPress community, where everyone learns and supports each other.
Maya’s commitment to the WordPress community solidified when she volunteered as an interviewer at WordCamp Asia 2023. Being a part of something that makes the internet more accessible to everyone motivated her even further.
“It’s just so lovely to be involved in something that makes the internet more accessible for everyone.”
First Contributions
Maya’s journey as a contributor to WordPress began with her first contribution to the Polyglots teamPolyglots TeamPolyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/.. While she doesn’t recall the specifics, she remembers working on some strings related to the current release towards the end of 2022.
With the Training team, Maya made her initial contribution by creating a lesson plan and translating a tutorial. To her surprise and delight, she received news that the tutorial she translated was the first-ever Indonesian translation within the Training team—something she found truly awesome!
Overcoming Challenges
When Maya first began contributing to WordPress, she faced a common challenge—the feeling of knowing very little and wondering if she truly belonged on the Training team. There were moments when she questioned if she deserved to be a part of a team dedicated to helping others learn about the platform. However, Maya discovered a supportive and helpful community within the Training team.
“Everyone is a work in progress, and we’re never alone in the process, so as long as we’re willing to learn, we can learn together with everyone.”
Memorable WordPress Moments
Being welcomed into such a diverse community, even in places where Maya may not see many people who looked like her, has been a great source of joy. One significant moment was when she interviewed Michelle Frechette, who told Maya that it’s important to show up and start doing something even when you feel like you’re one of the minorities, because you might open the door for others who relate to your experience. This conversation inspired Maya and served as a reminder that her participation could create opportunities for others like her. Seeing fellow POC hijabi women participating at WordCamp US 2023 reaffirmed the idea that there is a place for her at the table. This heartwarming encounter boosted her confidence and conviction more than any inclusivity campaign had.
Maya also had incredible experiences at her first local WordCamp and her flagship WordCamp. The local event allowed her to dive into the intricacies of the project, while the flagship event provided her with a whole new scale of WordPress contributor experiences. These experiences fostered a sense of camaraderie with her fellow contributors, and Maya will always cherish those moments.
What advice would you give to someone who wants to get started with contributing to WordPress?
“You don’t have to be an expert to begin contributing. Start with what you have and improve at your own pace can always be a good idea. In the WordPress community, everyone has each other’s back, so don’t be afraid to ask, even though it might feel like a stupid question (it’s totally fine, everyone’s a newbie at some point in life).”
Thank you, Maya, for all your dedication and contributions to the Training Team and to the WordPress Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. Project!
If you are interested in getting started with contributing to the Training Team, please check out our Getting Started guide and/or join the Guide Program to be mentored by an experienced contributor. We’d be happy to have you join us!
It has been brought to my attention by the Training Team Reps that the requirements for achieving a Training Contributor Badge for code contributions to the Learn WordPress codebase are rather vague:
You should significantly contribute to the Learn website by adding or modifying features. This would include writing a feature enhancement or fixing a bug.
I would like to suggest that we update those guidelines so that it is clearer what the requirements are to achieve the badge specifically for code contributions.
I propose we update the guidelines as follows:
You have created or reviewed at least 3 pull requests, either bug fixes or enhancements, to be merged into the Learn WordPress codebase. These pull requests need to have also been reviewed and approved by at least one member of the Training Team Faculty or the WordPress MetaMetaMeta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. team.
By replacing significantly contribute with at least 3 pull requests, we make the goal clearer and easier to understand.
By including the requirement of a second review from either a member of the Training Faculty or the WordPress Meta team (which we work closely with to deployDeployLaunching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. Learn WordPress changes and updates), we can ensure that pull requests are reviewed correctly.
Updating code contribution documentation to align with these changes.
It has also been brought to my attention that we have two Handbook page that relate to contributing code to Learn WordPress:
I suggest that we merge the Code contributions page into the Developing Learn WordPress page (possibly replacing the Contributing code section, adding a section on the suggested code review process, and a note on achieving the Training Contributor Badge.
Call for feedback.
What do you think of the suggested updates? Please leave your thoughts on this post by Friday, 26 January 2023.
The WordCamp Asia Contributor Day will be taking place on the 7th of March, 2024! In preparation for the day, we’d like you to share ideas of what contributors at the Training Team table can get involved with that day.
You can read our Preparing for a Flagship WordCamp Contributor Day handbook page to learn more about how the Training Team prepares for Flagship WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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 Days.
Table Leads
Training Team faculty members @digitalchild (Jamie Madden) and @west7 (Wes Theron) will be table co-leads for WordCamp Asia 2024. Thank you to everyone who volunteered during the previous Training Team Meeting.
In general, Table leads represent the Training Team through the preparation, execution, and wrap-up of the event. You can read more about Table Lead responsibilities in this handbook page.
Brainstorm
Below are some ideas to kick-start discussions. Feel free to comment on this post with your ideas, too!
This brainstorming is open until January 30th (Monday).
Team reps and table leads will consider all ideas and publish a post with a final plan by February 6th.
Experienced Contributors
Review Ready for Review content
Write a script for a learning pathway lesson or other lessons under Ready to Create
Hello fellow Training Team Members! I want to start this post with a round of applause! This year we have accomplished so many things together that it brings me so much joy to be looking back on it all! In this post we’ll explore how we did on our goals and the impact of our various pieces of work.
2023 Goal Results
In January we came together to develop our Team Values, which in turn helped inform our goal setting sessions in March. Our Training Team Goals for 2023 included 18 goals out of which we completed 12, have 4 in progress, and opted to put 2 on hold. You can view the most recent details about these goals in our Training Team 2023 Year-End Review post.
🚧 In progress
Plan promotions with the Marketing Team
Establish monthly recurring onboarding Online Workshops in different timezones for training team roles
Get involved with the redesign work happening on Learn
Figure out a method to manage localized content translation.
🚫 On Hold / Being Re-evaluated
Test out a course creation cohort method that will work as a group to create one course together
Curriculum Advisory Board (working title) planning and outreach
What’s next?
Just as we did last year during our Training Team 2023 Goals Setting, we will hold two synchronous goal setting sessions in January to set our goals together as a team.
Training Team Health
Outside of our goals, the Training Team so much work around growing and sustaining our team through programs, projects, and people outreach.
Programs
This year saw the creation of three new programs for the Training Team. Our programs helped to break down barriers to contributing, and created a shared learning space for WordPress enthusiastic.
This year we saw the Faculty Program increase by 14 people, with us ending the year with 39 Faculty Members. The breakdown of new member roles is outlined below:
Content Creator: 3
Editor: 1
Administrator: 3
Translation Coordinator: 4
Multiple roles: 3
Course Cohort
See our Recap on The first Learn WordPress course cohort which we ran from 4 September 2023 to the 13th of October 2023. 14 participants were chosen from 64 applicants, and 6 participants completed the content by the 13th of October.
At the beginning of September, we matched 9 new contributors with one of 5 Guides, and by the end of the program mentees were guided to successfully making a total of 14 contributions to the Training Team.
Projects
Our team showed adaptability and growth this year when after adopting new terminology like DRI in October 2022, we saw a boost in the creation and completion of projects with defined ownership, goals, and timelines to completion.
We completed two projects this year, and have one due to be complete by mid-2024.
In 2023 we awarded a total of 49 badges to Training Team Contributors.
Training Contributor: 38 (Total: 186)
Training Team: 13 (Total: 21)
WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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 Days
This year we saw a large boost of Training Team table contributors at both flagship and local WordCamp Events.
Flagships
This year we onboarded a total of 82 contributors to the Training Team at three flagship WordCamps!
Learn WordPress GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/ Data
Last year and this year we did a huge overhaul of our Learn GitHub Repository in order to reduce complexities, streamline processes and improve productivity. Through this public Cauldron visualization, we are happy to share the very real impact this work has had on better surfacing contributions and helping us see our work to completion.
The graph above shows that the time it takes to close issues has decreased throughout the last year. This is most likely due to the numerous updates that have been implemented in GitHub, and the revamp of documentation guiding contributors through the different team processes. This is a huge win for the Training Team 👏
The five spikes above show the 5 “mega triage sessions” that were conducted last year, often closing out many issues that had been imported from TrelloTrelloProject management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. days and had become stale.
Other interesting stats:
As of December 1st, the WordPress/Learn repo still has 490 open issues. These have been open for an average of 359.66 days, and a median of 286.06 days.
Between Jan – Nov 2023, 197 people created issues on the Learn repo. Of these, 189 created an issue for the first time.
Issues are most opened on Wednesdays, and most closed on Fridays.
We now have 16 languages represented in our published content
Content
Below is a tally of all the content we published and Online Workshops we hosted in 2023.
Tutorials: 78
Lesson Plans: 31
Courses: 7
Online Workshops: 274
Average attendance: 23
Max attendance: 161
Once again, thank you to all of our current and new contributors for all that you have done with us this year. We look forward to our continued collaboration in the new year!
Did we miss something you’d like highlighted? Please comment on this post– we don’t want to miss a thing! 🙂
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.
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 GitHubGitHubGitHub 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
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
We are happy to welcome @Laura A as a new team repTeam RepA 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 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)
I’ll be hosting two Online Workshops this week to introduce the changes to the team and answer any questions folks may have. Anyone is welcome to sign up for the sessions below:
@Courtney P.K. and others have been updating handbook pages to clarify different team processes. Check out these pages below (And if you have any feedback, you can submit them on GitHub )
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
@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.
Welcome to a new series, called the Contributor Spotlight! In this series, the Training Team introduces you to one of our many valued contributors, and you can learn more about their contribution journey.
Introducing Laura!
Our first featured contributor is Laura Adamonis! Laura is a Content Creator with the Training Team, a volunteer working with the Faculty program, and our newest Team Rep for 2024! She is also part of the start-up DEIB team and has contributed to the Photo and CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. teams.
Laura’s Background
Before finding WordPress, Laura’s background took several different turns. She has a degree in set & lighting design, worked in a department store, and a visual merchandiser setting up displays and Christmas. “I thought about being an interior designer or architect because when I was little I always loved rearranging my room,” she adds.
Laura started her journey as an educator when she became a Montessori teacher for 6-9 year olds and taught for several years. She did several years of volunteer work from coaching, to library helper, to mentoring. She then went back to teaching at the local science center and became the robotics coordinator in charge of LEGO classes, engineering, robotics, and coding for kids.
Outside of WordPress, Laura loves spending time with her family, scrapbooking, baking, gardening, and exploring new places.
Laura’s WordPress Journey
“I like using WordPress for the ease and that 40% if not more of the world’s websites use it.”
When Laura discovered WordPress, her job at the time required her to work weekends and she was at a point where she wanted to have the flexibility to pick up and do things, so she quit her job. She was just taking time to do some projects around the house when she was scrolling through social media and found a woman-owned website coding course that focused on WordPress.
Discovering Contribution
Laura’s motivation to go beyond using WordPress was a two-fold decision:
“I had impostor syndrome and felt I didn’t know enough to call myself a designer. I was taking all the workshops and watching tutorials to learn more to build my confidence. The second part is as an educator I want to help others learn and understand. We all learn in different ways and I have a good sense of the different learning styles to help others. That is what drew me to the training team.”
Laura’s first contribution was as a co-host for an Online Workshop:
“After co-hosting I felt amazing. The fact that I was co-hosting for someone on the other side of the world and that people from all over were attending.”
Overcoming Challenges
“Last year when I decided to contribute I also decided to not contribute. Finding information about how to do things was impossible for me to find or I would find it then spend hours trying to find it again. I overcame this by setting a goal and started bugging people, asking questions. I wrote out the steps I needed to do, I created folders in my browser so I could find pages more easily. The Training team has done a great job in the past year to update the handbook and document the steps to take in order to do different things. You might even see my name or face within those documents. I love that I am able to contribute as I navigate through the different processes.
The Training team has been focused more on improving the handbook and creating tutorials and workshops to show the steps on how to contribute. This has been very beneficial.”
Memorable WordPress Moments
Publishing my first tutorial has been very exciting.
Going to my first WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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..
Most of all, being a part of a special community where we learn together and help each other..
What advice would you give to someone who wants to get started with contributing to WordPress?
DO ask questions. There is this awesome community called WordPress just waiting to answer your question.
Be alright with not getting it right. A great way to learn is from our mistakes. Own them. Let them make you confident.
Thank you Laura, for all your dedication and contributions to the Training Team and to the WordPress Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. Project!
If you are interested in getting started with contributing to the Training Team, please check out our Getting Started guide and/or join the Guide Program to be mentored by an experienced contributor. We’d be happy to have you join us!
The Training Team nominated and voted on a number of motivated and dedicated contributors to the team. The new Team Representative nomination, voting, and vetting period is a special time where folks in the community affirm work ethic and confidence, and the outcome of these votes ensure fresh leadership and new perspectives guide the team.
It’s been amazing to watch the growth the team has experienced last year, and the rise in leadership in various individuals. This year, the Training Team keeps 2023 Team Representatives Benjamin Evans and Destiny Kanno, and adds one new Team Representative; Laura Adamonis.
This is a post to share more about your newly nominated Team Reps!
Laura Adamonis lives in Greensboro, North Carolina with her husband and has two kids. Laura got started in WordPress in 2022 after looking for a career change that would provide a flexible and remote work environment. She started her agency, Add A Little Digital Services, in 2022. Laura started contributing to the training team in 2022 by co-hosting. She continued to co-host and then became a content creator in 2023.
Laura has a background in design and education that she brings to the training team. She is a previous Montessori teacher and was the robotics coordinator for the Greensboro Science Center where she taught robotics, engineering and coding.
Laura is a co-organizer for the Triad WordPress MeetupMeetupAll 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. and is a contributor to the DEIB, photo, and coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. teams.
Benjamin Evans is from Fukuoka, Japan, where he lives happily with his wife and puppy. Ben started making sites with WordPress in 2014. After teaching technical subjects to both undergraduate and postgraduate students for 5 years, Ben made a move to join Automattic in 2019. Since joining, Ben helped create a Japanese support team, created employee education curriculum, and worked on new employee training before becoming a Community Education Manager in 2022.
Ben has been a Co-organizer of a local Meetup group, has spoken at WordCamps, been a Training Team table lead for Contributor Days, and is a frequent Online Workshop facilitator on Learn WordPress.
In his non-working time, Ben likes to travel, play the flute, take long drives, and read books.
Destiny Kanno is from California, USA, and currently lives in Tokyo Japan with her husband and Formosan Mountain Dog. Destiny is currently Head of Community Education at Automattic, but she got started with WordPress in 2016 while working for the Japanese digital agency ASA Digital before joining Automattic as a Happiness Engineer in 2017. Her professional journey has allowed her to experience the various faces of WordPress inclusive of its end users and developers, enterprise customers, and open sourceOpen SourceOpen Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. community.
Destiny became more involved with the WordPress community in November 2021, and began dedicating more of her time to the Training Team specifically in early 2022. Outside of the Training Team, Destiny is also a BlackPress Co-Organizer, a Japanese WordPress community member, and the Sponsors Team lead for WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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.
In her free time Destiny enjoys traveling, making music, watching films, and dancing.
Nomination Results
Over the course of three weeks the Training Team voted for their three nominees. Below are the results of the vote.
While the voting helps inform the vetting and final decision process, it is not the only way the current representatives evaluate the candidates. As noted in our Team Rep handbook page, the 2023 reps evaluated the three candidates using the following criteria as a guide:
After the voting period is over, the current team reps will review the candidates in descending order from the highest votes and evaluate their eligibility based on the following criteria:
Whether or not they have been a Training Team Representative within the last 2 years.
Diversity of the team repTeam RepA 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. group as evaluated through the Team Values.
Based on the above, we jointly decided that Laura Adamonis best fits the above criteria.
Within the past year Laura has moved from the Performing step in our contributor Ladder to the Leading step, and continues to contribute to the team as a Content Creator Faculty Member who creates video tutorials and hosts Online Workshops for the wider WordPress Community. With her outstanding commitment, the 2023 Team Representatives are excited to invite her to the team and look forward to working alongside her in this capacity.
Once again, we give huge thanks to our offboarding 2023 Team Representative @webtechpooja for her amazing dedication to the team and thoughtful collaboration with her fellow co-representatives.
The new Training Team Representatives are delighted to be serving the community in this capacity this year and look forward to what we will all accomplish together.
You can reach out to the Reps in the #training channel in the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
I am delighted to announce that the feedback on the proposal to host Learn videos on YouTube has been overwhelmingly positive: Proposal: Hosting Learn videos on YouTube.
Contributors express excitement about the benefits:
Improved analytics
Potential for a broader audience reach
Opportunity to showcase outstanding work in Learn videos
Emphasis on utilizing YouTube’s accessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (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) features is particularly appreciated:
Translations of subtitles
Hopes for accelerated expansion into non-English communities
The benefit of having more flexibility and control is well-received.
The general agreement is that this transition has the potential to:
Boost traffic
Improve the overall user experience.
In the future, YouTube video URLs will be embedded in content instead of WordPress.tv URLs and the necessary updates will be made to the Handbook. We are currently revising our content guidelines to match our vision for learning pathways and align with the proposed Learn website information architecture.
For assistance, content creators can reach out to @psykro or @west7 if needed.
As we work towards launching the Learning Pathways in 2024 we will need to create a new set of content creation guidelines that enable the Learning Pathways to scale, with a clear process for developing, reviewing, and updating content.
I would therefore like to propose that we create a new Handbook section which will include the following pages:
Lessons
Lesson Creation Process
Lesson tasks
Creating a lesson
Lesson Review
Publish your lesson
Adding the Lesson to Learn.WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/
Creating Lesson Module Quizzes/Activities
I have created a draft Google doc containing these initial pages, as well as content that has been drawn primarily from our existing documentation on Tutorials, but with some added sections drawn from other handbook pages.
I would like to call on all members of the Training Team to review this new set of handbook pages and share their feedback on the different sections.
You are welcome to share your thoughts in the comment section on this post or use the Google Doc comments feature.
I will leave this post and the doc open for feedback and comments until Tuesday 19 December 2023, after which I will add the new pages to the Training Team handbook.
Earlier this year we launched a new initiative called dev-squad. The initial goal of dev-squad was to hold weekly, 30-minute triage sessions to help move PRs and newly opened bugs forward. These triage sessions can focus on either PRs or bugs and do not have to cover both in a single session.
The initial sessions were planned to be held on Tuesdays at 06:00 UTC and Tuesdays at 22:00 UTC, to allow members across different timezones to run triage sessions. After testing these times for about 6 weeks, the meeting time was moved to Thursdays at 07:00 UTC.
Since then, we have managed to run several successful triage sessions, clearing the PR list and triaging any new bugs. However, there are currently some problems.
We don’t have any official documentation so that anyone could potentially run these sessions.
The weekly sessions are currently hosted by one person, and this is not sustainable.
Currently, membership is limited to Training Faculty Admin members only, which limits the number of participants.
We do not actively encourage new members to take part in or run sessions.
Therefore, I would like to propose that we set the following short-term goals for dev-squad, to grow its membership, and make it more sustainable and successful.
Timeline: by Friday 29 December 2023
Goals:
Document dev-squad triage sessions
General format
Process of triaging pull requests
Process of triaging new bugs
Adding triage updates to weekly training team meetings
Invite other training team contributors to participate in triage sessions
Open dev-squad membership to all training team members
Add interested participants to GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/ with the relevant permissions to label issues
Work towards having more than one triage session host
Set up a rotation of session hosts
Plan the host rotation for the first 4 sessions of 2024
Are you interested in joining dev-squad, to help keep the new PR and bug issue list clear? Comment on this post and let us know how you would like to help or join the next dev-squad triage session in the #meta-learn channel on Thursday at 07:00 UTC.
Laura will co-represent the Training Team to the larger WordPress project, alongside 
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