Rabin Kumar Pal 7:05 pm on December 22, 2023
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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Regarding the Handbook Audit, we’re looking for a full review of the handbook, noting what information is out of date, what information is missing etc.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 by 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

Wes Theron 8:51 am on December 22, 2023  

Brainstorm & Table Lead – WordCamp Asia 2024 Contributor Day

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 WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Contributor 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
  • Assist with Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress
  • Join a session discussing practical insights into lesson creation
  • Create content
  • Work on Content Localization
  • Vet Topic Ideas
  • Cross-team collaboration opportunities  

New Contributors

  • Contributors walk through the Onboarding Paths
  • Review online courses and submit feedback
  • Write a script for a learning pathway lesson or other lessons under Ready to Create 
  • Review published content and submit an error report
    • Spelling mistakes
    • Outdated content
    • Something is not clear and needs improvement
    • Screenshot/images missing.
Kaito Hanamori 7:13 am on December 22, 2023  

Training Team 2024 Goals Setting

Another year is starting, and it’s time to set our team goals again! In a similar fashion to last year, we’ll be hosting two synchronous sessions to brainstorm ideas. Anyone is welcome to join either of these sessions.

Before attending, please take some time to review the Training Team’s Team Values. These are our shared values that form the foundation of all we set out to achieve.

The Zoom link will be shared in the #training Slack channel 5 minutes before each session starts. The video recording and outcomes from each session will also be posted below for asynchronous conversation.

Timelines

Destiny Kanno 5:01 am on December 19, 2023  

Training Team 2023 Year In Review

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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.

Faculty Program

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.

We aim to host more course cohorts in 2024.

Guide Program

You can read about The Guide Program’s First Month in this post. The Guide Program was launched by the Training Team at the beginning of September 2023 and aimed to finish within 5 weeks.

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.

People

Badges Awarded

In 2023 we awarded a total of 49 badges to Training Team Contributors.

  • Training Contributor: 38 (Total: 186)
  • Training Team: 13 (Total: 21)

WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Contributor 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!

Contributor Day Recap – WordCamp Asia 2023

We had a total of 20 in person contributors and 5 online contributors, giving us a total of 25 contributors in attendance.

WordCamp Europe Contributor Day 2023 Recap

We had a total of 6 in person contributors and 7 online contributors, giving us a total of 25 contributors in attendance.

WordCamp US 2023 Contributor Day Recap

We had a total of 30 in person contributors and 14 online contributors, giving us a total of 44 contributors in attendance.

Local

We had Training Team representation and contributions made at the following local WordCamps

Stats Reporting

Learn WordPress 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 by 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 TrelloTrello Project 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! 🙂

Sumit Singh 2:25 am on December 16, 2023  

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 by 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.

Alex Kirk 4:13 pm on December 12, 2023
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Courtney P.K. 1:00 pm on December 12, 2023
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Contributor Spotlight: Laura Adamonis

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.

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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 CoreCore Core 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.

Laura started her own website design business, Add A Little Digital Services, last year.

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

Laura at WordCamp US 2023
Group photo from Contributor Day at WCUS 2023
Destiny and Laura and WCUS 2023
  • Publishing my first tutorial has been very exciting.
  • Going to my first 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..
  • Most of all, being a part of a special community where we learn together and help each other.. 

Check out Laura’s latest tutorial, “How to create a menu with the navigation block”. Laura was also co-lead of the Training Team’s table at WordCamp US 2023 Contributor Day!

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 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. 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!

#contributor-spotlight

Sakib MD Nazmush 12:25 am on December 12, 2023  

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 by 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.

tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner) 8:06 pm on December 11, 2023
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Meet your 2024 Training Team Representatives

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- @lada7042

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 MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. and is a contributor to the DEIB, photo, and coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. teams.

Benjamin Evans – @bsanevans

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 – @piyopiyofox

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 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. 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 WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Asia 2024.

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:

  • If they have a Training Team badge.
  • Their last six months of activity in the Performing section of the contributor ladder.
  • Whether or not they have been a Training Team Representative within the last 2 years.
  • Diversity of the 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. 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 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/.