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Regarding the Handbook Audit, we’re looking for a full review of the handbook, noting what information is out of date, what information is missing etc.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

Training Team Meeting Recap – 5th 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.)

For those newly joining us, 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.

We have a few ways for you to get involved: https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/.

Introductions and Welcome

There were 27 attendees: @piyopiyofox @jhimross, @weblink, @andenga, @gusa, @psykro, @devmuhib, @techivist, @sumitsingh, @bsanevans, @webtechpooja, @sakibsnaz, @huzaifaalmesbah, @sagarladani, @robinpal, @digitalchild, @jdy68, @benjirahmed, @webcommsat(async), @lada7042(async), @quitevisible(async), @sierratr(async), @sancastiza(async), @courtneypk(async), @west7(async), @onealtr(async)

We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. Let’s get introduced to 6 new people here: @devangvachheta137, @jyolsna, @mobarak, @nashirbabu, @mateogh and @techivist

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.

A gentle reminder is given by @Destiny that our final meeting for the year will be held on December 19th, and it is to be noted that the resumption is scheduled for January 9th.

Looking for feedback

@gusaus introduced a project with potential overlapping interests between the Sustainability Team and our Training Team by outlining some more ideas and questions in the Sustainability Team: NextGen and other Event ideas and suggestions (Slack Canvas).

  • You can help by:
    • Reviewing #21 Extend the do_action hackathon format and provide feedback on which areas we can cross-team collaborate on.

Review and share your insights and feedback on areas where cross-team collaboration is possible.

@gusaus emphasized the value of feedback and guidance from experienced teams and community members, especially considering that the #sustainability team consists mainly of new contributors. The ideas were initially submitted to #community-team, and the response has been positive. He’s now seeking input on how to incorporate training and mentoring into the proposed initiatives.

Participate in the Canvas shared by the #sustainability team to contribute your thoughts and improvements. You can even join the training/mentoring outline by clicking the direct link.

Looking for volunteers

  • Training Team 2023 Year-End Review
  • The team highlighted a couple of additional goals to be accomplished 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

@Destiny called for volunteers to contribute to team goals, such as the Handbook audit. The focus is on identifying outdated content and suggesting updates.

@techivist expressed his commitment to thoroughly reviewing the entire onboarding document, drawing on his extensive tech background.

@bsanevans reminded that discussion on capturing feedback revealed changes in the feedback process, now directed to the #training Slack channel.

@techivist inquired about the handling of feedback data for future growth and improvement opportunities.

@Destiny shared that most feedback is either addressed immediately or documented in the team’s GitHub for future action.

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Attendees: @psykro@properlypurple@sumitsingh, and @devmuhib

Dev Squad Meeting Summary

  • Discussed WIP Guidelines: The dev squad recently concluded a discussion on Work in Progress (WIP) guidelines. Detailed guidelines can be found here.
  • 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 Schedule: GitHub triage sessions are scheduled for Thursdays at 07:00 UTC.
  • Meeting Participation: To join dev squad meetings, use the #meta-learn Slack channel

Other News

Open requests for review

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

Project Updates

Open Discussions

  • As the year concluded, @Destiny asked everyone about their end-of-year plans. Team members share their plans; some of them are:

@bsanevans: Chilling with the new Zelda game.
@piyopiyofox: Enjoying a Christmas roast with family and playing a strategic game called Northgard.
@psykro: Unplugged Christmas dinner at a coastal timeshare.
@digitalchild: Traveling to Thailand and Malaysia, playing Cyberpunk 2077, Star Citizen, Fallout 4 and Civilisation.
@techivist: Focusing on gratitude, wellness, and family time.
@gusa: Spending time with Boston family and virtual collaborators.
@weblink: Vacationing in East Coast, Calp, Spain.
@quitevisible: Enjoying time outdoors with friends and family.
@lada7042: Spending time with family and friends, traveling, and baking.
@courtneypk: Traveling to Joshua Tree for a desert holiday.

That’s all for our agenda items. We had so much good discussion and engagement in between. Thank you for joining!


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 – 28 November 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 26 attendees: @bsanevans, @sumitsingh, @sakibsnaz, @sagarladani, @huzaifaalmesbah, @psykro, @digitalchild, @piyopiyofox, @devmuhib, @robinpal, @chetan200891, @jhimross, @amitpatelmd, @kafleg, @onealtr, @Weblink, @vanpariyar, @jdy68(async), @lada7042(async), @sierratr(async), @quitevisible(async), @west7(async), @courtneypk(async), @gusa(async), @Webtechpooja(async), @benjirahmed(async)

We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. Let’s get introduced to 6 new people here: @baroncini, @mc763, @robinpal, @thorsolutions, @roshankedar, @mobeen-abdullah

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

Matrix set up and testing: @bsanevans requested feedback from users. @amitpatelmd asked the reason for changing to Matrix from Slack. He got reply, it’s open sourceOpen Source Open 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. and WordPress has much control on it.

  • Proposal: Hosting Learn videos on YouTube
  • Vote for Training Team Rep 2024, this will be ended by 6th December.
  • What stats would you like to see at the end of the year?
  • Team reps are looking to collect and publish some stats about the team, and Learn WordPress, at the end of the year. This might include things like:
    1. Number of unique visitors to Learn WordPress
    2. Number of content published/translated in the year
    3. Number of active contributors in the team
  • Who represented the Training Team at Word Camps or Local Meetups this year?
    – Some user shared their experience on Word Camps.

Looking for volunteers

  • Audit Training team handbook
  • Call for Guides in Guide Program – The Guide Program is seeking experienced contributors to help guide new Training Team members in their contribution journey. If you are an experienced Training Team contributor and would like to be a Guide for new contributors, please complete the application form!

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Attendees: @psykro@properlypurple@sumitsingh@digitalchild@devmuhib@vanpariyar

There were some bugs during dev-squad triage like some spam issues opened. All of them were removed and it’s up to date now.

@psykro invited more people to join #meta-learn channel, we meet Thursdays at 07:00 UTC to triage any newly opened PRs and bugs.

Other News

Open requests for review

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

Project Updates

Open Discussions

@sumitsingh asked – How can I assign myself in issues and reviewer here? @bsanevans told – Currently admin can assign someone to the thread. Automation process is going on and then anyone can self-assign them. @sumitsingh is joining as @faculty-translation-coordinator soon.

@devmuhib wants to make a tutorial on How to publish training team meeting notes? @bsanevans told to create the tutorial and publish on 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/.

@bsanevans want to take two online workshop to introduce new features on 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/ with training team members. He got a good number of interested people for that.


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 – 21st November 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 16 attendees:  @devmuhib,  @sumitsingh,  @webtechpooja, @psykro,  @amitpatelmd,  @piyopiyofox,  @digitalchild,  @bsanevans,  @properlypurple,  @piyushmultidots,  @huzaifaalmeabah,  @jhimross(async),  @lada7042(async),  @sierratr(async),  @courtneypk(async),  @quitevisible(async),  @west7(async)

We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. Let’s get introduced to 3 new people here: @yasinsarkar @jesusnunolt @mhasanmeet

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.

  • November 21 – @Sumit Singh
  • November 28 – Need Volunteer
  • December 5 – Need Volunteer
  • December 12 – Need Volunteer

Looking for feedback

  • If you find any outdated content/screenshot, any spelling mistake, or any other thing that needs to be updated in the handbook, please create 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/ issue here by choosing – Content feedback  template or you can ask for help in this slack channel as well.
  • Proposal: Hosting Learn videos on YouTube – if you have any thoughts here, please share them in the comments on the post.
  • Matrix set up and testing esp. for 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) – Last week we were discussing setting up a matrix, if you have any thoughts please See Slack thread (Please note this Slack thread will take you away from this meeting flow.)

Looking for volunteers

  • Audit Training team handbook – we are looking for volunteers who can help us in auditing our Training team handbook. If you are interested, please start auditing and if not sure how to do this please show your interest in this thread or reach out to our faculty members and team reps for any further queries.
    • @devmuhib interested in auditing our Training team handbook
  • Call for Guides in Guide Program – The Guide Program is seeking experienced contributors to help guide new Training Team members in their contribution journey. If you are an experienced Training Team contributor and would like to be a Guide for new contributors, please complete the application form!

 Learning Pathway Content Creators

We need help creating lessons for the Designer, User, and Developer pathways. which have been defined in this document. Please comment on this thread or reach out to @westnz if you’re able to assist.

Our goal is to complete these three pathways by July 2024. cc/ @faculty-content-creators

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

The following PRs were triaged:

We also discussed options to improve the dev-squad triage sessions, which resulted in this post: What’s next for dev-squad.
We would like to invite anyone interested in joining the team and helping to improve the process to comment on that post and join the next session this Thursday at 07:00 UTC in the #meta-learn channel.

Other News

What’s next for Dev-Squad?

  • Getting the handbook pages updated is the highest priority
  • Getting 1 extra host for the meetings (would love up to 5)

 Badge awarded – Nazrul Islam Nayan@Sancastiza@Priyanshii@Hajime megane Ogushi@Shail Mehta

Team reps AFK

  • Destiny: Dec 25th — Jan 2nd 2024
  • Pooja – Nov 27 – Nov 29
  • Ben: Dec 23rd – Jan 5th 2024

Open requests for review

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

Project Updates

  • Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress — see latest updateFrom last week's update – We should have revamped Mira images soon to show how the information architecture will be changing, and we will also be engaging development and design folks for the next steps.
  •  GitHub project
    • A lot of the planning work is done, and we’re now ready to start switching things around. These are the action items that remain:
    • Implement new GitHub labels
    • Implement and document GitHub automations
    • Update Handbook pages for current structure and announce with the team in a 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/. post
    • If you have availability over the next two weeks and would like to help, please comment here and Ben will share more details.

Open Discussions

The test team is changing the weekly meeting time. If you are interested in attending the Test team meeting but the current time is stopping you, please choose a suitable time and leave it in the comment below link.
https://make.wordpress.org/test/2023/11/07/proposal-to-change-weekly-meeting-time/

State of the Word 2023 – Madrid, Spain
When: December 11, 2023, 15:00 UTC (Start of live stream)
Where: Palacio Neptuno, Madrid, Spain
Streaming: Watch the live stream on the WordPress YouTube channel.


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 2023 Year-End Review

The end of the year is nearly upon us, which means it’s a good time to review our 2023 goals once more and check in on how we are doing.

Outlined below are the goals we have completed, what is currently in progress, what’s on hold / being re-evaluated, and the details of each goal’s current state.

To date, we have completed 11 goals, while 5 are still in progress and 2 are on hold / being re-evaluated.

You can review our 2023 goals in this Training Team Goals for 2023 post, our our first half year review in the Training Team 2023 Half Year Review post.

✅ = Complete

🚧 = In Progress

🚫 = On Hold / Being Re-evaluated

March to June 2023 – 6 Completed, and 3 In Progress

✅ Create a Learn newsletter for learners

✅ Create a 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/. checklist/template

✅ A fully documented process set up for folks working on content localization

Plan a course for beginner WordPress users

🚧 Plan promotions with the Marketing Team

  • What have we done to progress this goal?

Individual Learner survey (tied to Needs analysis)

🚧 Establish monthly recurring onboarding Online Workshops in different timezones for training team roles

  • To date, we have not been able to consistently offer monthly onboarding sessions for our 5 contributor roles.
  • What’s next?
    • We plan to revisit the onboarding information, especially the content creator side to validate it’s clear and up to date
  • This will carry over to 2024

Create a dev road map for the Learn siteLearn site The Training Team publishes its completed lesson plans at https://learn.wordpress.org/ which is often referred to as the "Learn" site.

🚧 Get involved with the redesign work happening on Learn

July to September 2023 – 4 Completed, 1 In Progress, and 1 On Hold

Release roadmap of new content (that isn’t tied to WP releases/features).

Assess the content that has the largest impact.

🚫 Test out a course creation cohort method that will work as a group to create one course together.

  • Team reps agreed that we should re-evaluate this goal as getting consistent content creators on board should be higher priority

✅ Work more closely with 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).

  • Content creation accessibility checklist was created in this Training Team Accessibility Checklist handbook page
  • We worked more closely with Accessibility with the addition of WordPress Playground to the Learn WordPress site (see Slack thread)
  • We see this evolving into a new, specific, accessibility goal (Ex. make sure new content on Learn is accessible)

🚧 Figure out a method to manage localized content translation.

  • What have we done to progress this goal?
    • Reached out to MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. re: staging site which is not possible at the moment. Looking into a sandbox site
    • Docs team is also working on localization and we can meet with them to discuss their plan
  • We’d like to revisit this conversation with the team and loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. in Documentation as well since they are also working on localization

✅ Nurturing the Locale Ambassadors program (making sure people who show up have people they can connect with).

October to December 2023 – 1 Completed, 1 In Progress, and 1 On Hold

🚧 Audit Handbook

  • We will be asking for Training Team volunteers to help us take this goal over the finish line in our November 21st meeting.

✅ Plan a structured way to showcase Learn WordPress content.

🚫 Curriculum Advisory Board (working title) planning and outreach.

  • Team reps feel this can be shelved for now as increasing contributor output is higher priority.

We will review our goals in the November 21st team meeting and publish a 2023 goal results post at the end of the year.

#training-notifications

Vote for Training Team Rep 2024

The WordPress Training Team Rep nomination was closed on November 14, 2023. We got some great names nominated as the next Training Team reps. Our two team reps @piyopiyofox and @bsanevans, will be staying for next term, and we need one more 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. to join them.

Once the nomination had been closed, we contacted all nominees and accepted nominations of those who responded positively.

Nominees

A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, makes sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. Learn more about the responsibilities of a Team rep. The following Training team members are nominated for 2024:

Courtney Robertson: (PA – North America)
Profile: https://profiles.wordpress.org/courane01/
Timezone: UTC – 5

Jamie Madden: (Vietnam – Southern APAC)
Profile: https://profiles.wordpress.org/digitalchild/
Timezone: UTC + 7

Laura Adamonis: (East Coast – USA)
Profile: https://profiles.wordpress.org/lada7042/
Timezone: UTC – 5

Voting

Training team members are requested to vote to select one Training team reps by online poll in the following link:

Click here to Vote

The voting is open until December 6, 2023.

Results

Once voting is concluded, we will announce the result on December 8, 2023, in the Training team 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/. channel.

Thanks to @bsanevans and @piyopiyofox for the peer review.

#team-reps, #training-team

Training Team Meeting Recap – 7th November 2023

This meeting followed https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/1965. 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.)

For those newly joining us, 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.

We have a few ways for you to get involved: https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/.

Introductions and Welcome

There were 16 attendees:  @webtechpooja, @sumitsingh(async), @sierratr (async),@yuli-yang(async) ,@psykro, @digitalchild, @piyopiyofox, @west7(async),, @sancastiza, @huzaifaalmesbah, @vanpariyar, @lada7042(async), @properlypurple, @eboxnet, @quitevisible, @bsanevans.

We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. Let’s get introduced to 6 new people here:

@shoto100 @Ben Usher Smith @Vimal Roy @Zisis Folias @Erika Orlando @Anish

Welcome to Training. What is your interest in Learn/Training, and what do you enjoy outside of WordPress?

News

The best way to contribute to the training team is by writing meeting notes. Here’s the guide that you can take help from.

Meeting Note Takers

Meeting recap notes are one of the best ways to get started contributing to a team, and you can find details on how to write notes on this handbook page.

  • November 7th – @Sancastiza
  • November 14th – @devmuhib
  • November 21st – need volunteer
  • November 28th – need volunteer

Thank you for volunteering to take today’s notes, Sancastiza 👏.

  • We’re looking for volunteers to take notes each week through the rest of November. Would anyone like to volunteer for the team?
  • Also, once you’ve written 3 meeting recap notes, you’re eligible to apply for the Training Contributor Badge that will be displayed on your WordPress.org profile! If you haven’t received the badge yet, then this is a great way to show your contributions to the world.

Looking for feedback

Nomination is open until November 14th – one more week. We have three people nominated so far. If there’s anyone else you think would be a great fit for the team rep role next year, please add your nominations. (Self nominations are also welcome :+1::tono-de-piel-3: )

  • Creating/editing content in preparation for the WordPress 6.4 release

We’re looking for content creators to help us work through making this list of content related to the upcoming 6.4 version release of WordPress. Our handbook will direct you on how to get started – Creating a Tutorial and Lesson Plans.

Looking for volunteers

  • Would you like to co-host the weekly 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 sessions? :sonriente:

@psykro is currently doing an excellent job hosting weekly GitHub triage sessions. However, since he is the sole organizer of these 30-minute sessions at the moment, they don’t take place when @psykro is absent. We are seeking volunteers to co-host these sessions alongside @psykro Please leave a comment if you’re interested.

He also said: ¨ One thing that also needs to be done is documenting the process, so if there are any volunteers who are prepared to help with that as well¨ and thank you @properlypurple for your contribution. @psykro will connect with you this week. 

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

There was no dev-squad triage this week.

Other News

N/ A 

Open requests for review

We have just one English Tutorial open for review right now:

For Translated content, we’re looking for Indonesian, Khmer, and German translation reviewers. (Link to content needing a Translation Reviewer.)

Project Updates

The handbook has been updated to reflect the new contributor ladder discussed in the post above. Check out the updated handbook page here – Our Contributor Ladder.

Time estimations have been calculated to see how long this project will take to complete. The project is in need of content creators to build our the learning paths. Please comment in this thread if you’re interested in getting involved, and a @faculty-content-creators will help you figure out where to get started. 

Open Discussions

@webtechpooja will be AFK for next week Nov 10 to Nov 14. She is celebrating Diwali – Festival of light

Training Team Meeting Recap – 31th October 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.)

For those newly joining us, 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.

We have a few ways for you to get involved: https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/.

Introductions and Welcome

There were 11 attendees: @nayanchamp7, @benjirahmed, @webtechpooja, @huzaifaalmesbah, @devmuhib, @vanpariyar, @Lada7042(async), @sierratr(async), @onealtr(async), @west7(async), @quitevisible(async)

We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. Let’s get introduced to 7 new people here: @shoto100, @thepauly, @masperber, @larassattidn, @hellosatya, @benushersmith, @vimalroy08

If you’re not sure how to get started with us yet, I recommend checking out our onboarding link above or our newly introduced Guide Program.

The Guide Program will connect newcomers such as yourselves with seasoned contributors who provide guidance, answer questions, and help you navigate the contribution process with confidence.

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

Looking for volunteers

With just a few more weeks until WordPress 6.4 is released, we have a few tasks we need your help with:

  • Looking for a Contributor Hour host to help assign and answer questions about these issues – @courane01, @courtneypk
  • Please note that the most helpful way to validate these issues is to note what specifically needs to change in the current content

If you are interested in helping creating/updating 6.4 related issues, please reach out to us.

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

There was no dev-squad triage last week.

Other News

Nomination for 2024 Training Team Reps

Anyone can nominate a Training 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.! Self-nominations are welcome, too. To nominate someone or yourself, please comment on this post. If you would like to nominate someone in private, please reach out to @webtechpooja, @bsanevans, @piyopiyofox

Team rep – Destiny AFK Oct 30 week, If any question you have, please feel free to reach out to Pooja or Benjamin.

Open requests for review

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

Tutorials

Translated Content

If you know any language that is mentioned above, please help us in publishing those content.

Project Updates

No project update this week.

Open Discussions

That is all we had on our agenda today. Looks like there are not many things to discuss today. Thanks for joining.


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 – 24th October 2023

The agenda we will be working on can be found on our 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/ project board:

https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/1949

For those newly joining us, 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.

We have a few ways for you to get involved: https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/.

Introductions and Welcome

There were 13 attendees: @devmuhib, @webtechpooja, @huzaifaalmesbah, @ethicaladitya, @lada7042, @sumitsingh, @nayanchamp7, @yuli-yang (async), @bsanevans (async), @benjirahmed (async), @gwallace87, (async) @sierratr (async)

We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. Let’s get introduced to 8 new people here:

@Dylan Howell, @Ed Duncan, @t-p, @Sakib, @Hend Chen, @huei

Welcome to Training. What is your interest in Learn/Training, and what do you enjoy outside of WordPress?

News

The best way to contribute to the training team is by writing meeting notes. Here’s the guide that you can take help from.

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

Looking for feedback: Updates to GitHub issue templates and labels

We need feedback on what labels and templates in GitHub bring the most value and are still relevant to our needs.

  • Help Audit content for Learning Pathways

We need volunteers to help us identify the content we can utilize or enhance and incorporate it into our lessons.

Looking for volunteers

  • We have priority issues that need updating open in GitHub that are labeled 6.4

With just a few more weeks until WordPress 6.4 is released, we have a few tasks we need your help with:

  • :mag: Looking for a Contributor Hour host to help assign and answer questions about these issues cc/ @Courtney P.K @Courtney

If you are interested in helping creating/updating 6.4 related issues, please reach out to us.

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

There was no dev-squad triage this week.

Other News

Anyone can nominate a Training 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.! Self-nominations are welcome, too. To nominate someone or yourself, please comment on this post. If you would like to nominate someone in private, please reach out to @Pooja Derashri, @Ben Evans or @Destiny

We also clarified with the Training Team Faculty members that with this 2 year guideline, Benjamin Evans and Destiny Kanno will automatically stay on as Team Reps for 2024.

Since they will be staying on to complete their second year and they are onboard the newest Training Team Representative, only one Team Rep spot will be open for 2024.

Team rep AFK Update

  • Ben + Destiny are away from Oct 21 – Oct 28 on a business trip
  • Destiny AFK Oct 30 week
  • Pooja is away from Oct 28 – Oct 29 to attend 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. Mumbai

During this time please leave any message/query in this channel and so the other faculty members can help you around. Thanks

  • Hacktoberfest is happening!

Come read this new post detailing how to get involved in this program with your contributions to the Training Team

Open requests for review

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

Tutorials

Translated Content

Project Updates

Learning Pathways

The first three Learning Pathway outlines have been published, and the content the team already has that can be used for these pathways have been audited :raised_hands::skin-tone-3: Keep an eye out in future team meetings for what steps will happen next.

:eyes: In case you missed latest update on this project

Open Discussion

That is all we had on our agenda today. Looks like there are not many things to discuss today. Thanks for joining.

#meeting-recap, #training, #training-notifications, #training-team