Courtney P.K. 2:42 am on August 3, 2023
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Introducing the Training Team Guide Program!

I am happy to announce the launch of the Training Teamโ€™s New Contributor Guide Program! As WordPress and the Training Team are always evolving, it is important to foster a collaborative environment for new contributors to learn and grow alongside seasoned contributors. With this in mind, a program was proposed that matches newcomers to the Training Team with experienced teammates, ensuring their WordPress contribution journey is both fruitful and fulfilling.

Program overview

The Guide Program ensures that new contributors have the resources to make meaningful contributions. It covers essential aspects of contributing to the Training Team, with topics ranging from understanding the teamโ€™s coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. values and principles, to picking up tasks, submitting contributions, and engaging in discussions with the community. This all takes place over a series of at least 3 check-ins, and ongoing asynchronous communication between the Guide and Contributor. You can read more details about the program in the new Guide Program handbook page!

How to participate in the Guide Program

New Contributors

Every new contributor brings a unique set of skills and perspectives to the team. The goal of the Guide Program is to harness this diversity and empower folks to make meaningful contributions and shape the future of WordPress learning.

If you are a new contributor to the Training Team and are interested in being paired with a Guide, please fill out the interest form below:

New Contributor Interest Form

To be considered for the initial cohort, please complete this form by August 31, 2023.

Experienced Contributors

Guides play a pivotal role in this program, bringing their expertise and experience to guide and support New Contributors. They serve as pillars of knowledge by offering insights into the inner workings of the WordPress project, sharing best practices, and facilitating connections with relevant teams and resources. By fostering a mentor-mentee relationship, a collaborative environment where the exchange of ideas and knowledge is at the center. You can review the handbook page for guides for more details.

If you an experienced Training Team contributor* and are interested in becoming a Guide for new contributors, please complete this application form:

*Experienced Training Team contributors have earned a Training Contributor Badge and have been contributing to the team for at least 6 months.

Guide Application Form

To be considered for the initial cohort, please complete this form by August 31, 2023.

Timeline for program launch

August 2Interest forms and applications open
Aug 3โ€“31Submissions reviewed weekly
Aug 31Applications close for first cohorts
By September 1Guides are assigned to New Contributors
Week of Sept 4First cohorts/check-ins begin
Week of Sept 25First cohorts/check-ins conclude, post-program surveys sent out
October 13Publish recap and next steps

Share your thoughts

Have any questions, suggestions, and/or feedback about the Training Team Guide Program? Please feel free to post a comment below, or share your thoughts in the #training channel in Slack at any time.

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Jonathan Bossenger 9:34 am on August 2, 2023  

Announcing the first Learn WordPress Course Cohort.

Earlier this year, the WordPress Training Team drafted a work-in-progress guide on running a course cohort. A course cohort is defined as a group of people who go through a learning journey at the same time. Course cohorts can be run asynchronously, but include planned synchronous sessions for group-related activities. Course cohorts usually follow aspects of social learning, where the group can interact with each other, and learn from each other.ย 

Today, weโ€™re pleased to announce the first Learn WordPress course cohort!

What?

The topic of this cohort will be Developing your first WordPress BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience., and will be facilitated by @psykro. This course will be perfect for first-time WordPress block developers, who have never built a block before.

The structure of the course will be as follows:

  • Week 1: Introduction, preparing your environment for block development.
  • Week 2: Using create-block to scaffold your first block, Internationalisation.ย 
  • Week 3: Block styling, block supports, block controls
  • Week 4: Block attributes, block componentsย 
  • Week 5: Interacting with WordPress data
  • Week 6: Dynamic blocks

When?ย 

The course cohort will start the week of the 4th of September, 2023, and end the week of the 9th of October, 2023.

This will be a 6-week cohort and will include asynchronous as well as synchronous (real-time) sessions for cohort participants.ย 

An hour-long synchronous session will take place every Wednesday at 8:00 UTC for the duration of the course cohort. It would be preferable to only apply if you are available at this time, every Wednesday from the 4th of September, 2023, to the 9th of October, 2023

How?

The course content will combine text, video, and some collaborative/whiteboard-type exercises. All content will be hosted on Learn WordPress and will be accessible by invite only. 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/ group DM will be set up in the Make WordPress Slack for course attendees to be able to communicate with each other. To access the content, all applicants will need a valid 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/ profile, and a Make WordPress Slack account.ย 

Who?

This first cohort will be limited to 14 attendees. To sign up for this course, please complete the signup using this link to the signup form.

Please make sure to include your WordPress.org profile URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a websiteโ€™s URL www.wordpress.org, and your Make WordPress Slack username. The signup form will remain open until the 20th of August 2023.

To ensure that all applications stand an equal chance to participate in the cohort, we will select the 14 participants randomly from the list of valid applications. To ensure that your application is valid, you must have a WordPress.org profile and Make Slack account, and be available every Wednesday at 8:00 UTC for the duration of the course.ย 

The selection process will be handled by the course facilitator, @psykro, and overseen by 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. @bsanevans.ย 

We do understand if any unforeseen circumstances that occur during the course duration require you to miss one or two of the synchronous sessions. Still, it would be preferable if you could attend them all.ย ย 

Any valid applications that are not selected for the first cohort, will be kept on a waiting list, and a future course cohort on the same topic will be hosted for those who were not selected for the first run.ย 

We look forward to launching this new method of WordPress community learning! If you are interested in taking part, please make sure to sign up before the 20th of August 2023.

Pooja Derashri 5:12 am on August 1, 2023
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FahimMurshed 7:36 am on July 26, 2023
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Training Team Meeting Recap โ€“ 25th July 2023

This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you donโ€™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 31 attendees: @piyopiyofox @webtechpooja, @kafleg @fahimmurshed, @chaion07, @piyushmultidots, @dhanendran, @iamasadpolash, @chetan200891, @subashpoudel, @margheweb, @thisisyeasin, @nayanchamp7, @shiponkarmakar, @markmemayank, @emmaht, @sacerro, @onealtr, @amitpatelmd, @utsav72640, @jominney, @karthickmurugan, @sumitsingh, @sierratr (async), @courane01, @lada7042 (async), @eboxnet, @courtneypk (async), @westnz (async), @quitevisible (async), @nahidsharifkomol

:wave::skin-tone-4: Weโ€™ve had several new people join the channel recently. Letโ€™s get introduced to 15 new people here:

@anatolikkk, @huzaifaalmesbah, @cnormandigital, @akrocks @drebbitsweb, @tsuifei, @sheilabravo, @sacerro, @jhimross, @bycecaelia, @ostapbrehin, @flossyfaysal, @tamara1720, @alex911kz, and @hanneslsm

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.ย Hereโ€™s the guideย 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.

July 25 โ€“ @FahimMurshed
August 1 โ€“ @Sancastiza
August 8 โ€“ @nayanchamp7
August 15 โ€“ @nahidsharifkomol

Looking for feedback

It looks like we donโ€™t have any feedback asks this week. If there is a Training Team project or task you are working on that requires feedback (outside of content creation). Please leave in the comments.

Looking for volunteers

Updates from last weekโ€™s dev-squad triage session

There was no Dev-Squad meeting last week because Jonathan was out for Work 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 โ€˜WordPressโ€™ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area..

Other News

  • Announcement: Updates to team meeting timesย โ€” you may have already noticed, but we have moved to a weekly global meeting. Other meetings are scheduled as follows:
    • APAC Coffee Hour: To be decided
    • 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 โ€˜pull requestโ€™ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ Triage Session: Thursdays at 07:00 UTC
    • EMEA/Americas Coffee Hour: Fridays at 13:00 UTC

We have a survey going for the APAC coffee hour. Here it is! https://xoyondo.com/dp/XyTmYGCZ0puLHWC.

Open requests for review

See ourย Guidelines for reviewing contentย to review the following content.

Margherita Pelonara shared these:

Project Updates

It looks like we donโ€™t have any project updates this week. If there is a Training Team project you have yet to share, please feel free to leave a comment in this post.

Open Discussions

@fahimmurshed shared, The Designer Conference (Artisanal Convergence โ€“ A Designers Gathering) will be held in Barishal, Bangladesh, on 28th July 2023. This is an in-person get-together. There will be close to 1500 attendees that day, including designers and developers.

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 theย #trainingย Slack channel at any time.

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

Courtney Robertson 7:14 pm on July 25, 2023
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Call for Volunteers to help with 6.3 Learn WordPress updates

The Training team needs your help to update and revise content on Learn.WordPress.org for the upcomingย WordPress 6.3 release, expected on August 8th, 2023.

You can find a list of all the tasks in theย 6.3 boardย in the Training Teamโ€™s repo onย 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 โ€˜pull requestโ€™ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/.

The tasks have been sorted intoย high priority tasks. The team hopes to complete theย high priority tasksย by the 6.3 scheduled release date.

How you can help

If you are new to contributing to WordPress, you can review our handbook to help you get started.

Content types

  • Based on what you are interested in, review theย tasks.
  • Add aย comment on the GitHub issueย you would like to work on, and someone on the Training team will assign it to you.

Revising existing articles

Once a task is assigned to you, the following video shows how to help update the existing articles. We revise content ahead of release while preserving the current content until release. Think of it as a Pull Request that ships on release day. Hereโ€™s how we do that:

Sources on information

It may help to review any dev-notes, CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. posts, and GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses โ€˜blocksโ€™ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ release notes. You can find all the information sources for this release on this post:

Information Sources for 6.3

Resources

If you need a test site with WordPress 6.3 pre-installed, you canย use this app providedย by InstaWPย to spin up a new temporary website set. It is ready to go and preloaded with Theme Test data and other pre-configuration data. This new site will be available to use for four hours. After that, if you need another test site to contribute to training, you can revisit the link and create a new temporary site.

#6-3

Laura Adamonis 6:29 pm on July 25, 2023
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WordCamp US 2023 Contributor Day

Thank you for joining the Training Team for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what theyโ€™ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US 2023 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ on Thursday, August 24th! Weโ€™ve prepared activities for both new and experienced contributors to join in on the day. See the schedule for WCUS Contributor Day day here.

We plan on hosting online events during Contributor Day, too, so that people who couldnโ€™t attend WordCamp US can still participate remotely! Please follow this post to receive updates. Make sure to bring your laptops and power cords.

Table Lead: Destiny Kanno (@piyopiyofoxย ), Laura Adamonis (@lada7042)

SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ Monitor: TBA

Zoom Coordinator: Courtney P.K. (@courtneypk), Amit Patel ( @amitpatelmd)

Training Team Mission

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

Iโ€™m new to the Training Team!

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

Getting Started โ€“ The Training Team Onboarding Program

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

Review published content and submit feedback.

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

Courses
Tutorials
Lesson Plans

Submit new content topic ideas

Have a look through the Learn WordPress website. Are there any topics you feel would be great to add to the website? Come add your topic ideas to 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 โ€˜pull requestโ€™ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ repository from the button below:

New GitHub Issue: Topic Idea

I have experience working with the Training Team!

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

  • Brainstorm how to engage more Content Creators to join the Training Team.
  • Ask a Content Translator to share their hurdles in translating content.
  • Live session on how to create a tutorial โ€“ Sarah Snow (@arasae) will conduct a live session to guide potential contributors on How to create a Tutorial?
  • Help with the Learning Pathways project by reviewing learning path rough drafts
  • Content Creation
  • Content Translation
  • Subject Matter Expert
  • Content Reviews
  • Triage developer issues

Content Creation

Are you interested in creating content? If so, then creating content related to the recent releases is our priority today.

Start by searching for a piece of content youโ€™d like to work on in the Recent Release project board. Once found, comment on the GitHub issue so that we can assign it to you.

Content Translation

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

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

Content Reviews

Are you interested in editing content? If so, then reviewing content waiting to be published is our priority today.

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

Subject Matter Expert

A subject-matter expert is someone who has extensive knowledge in a particular field or area and can provide advice, guidance, and direction in that subject. If you would like to help in vetting topics, Then this new GitHub Project board related to LearnWP Topic Vetting will help you.

Triage Developer Issues

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

Start by reviewing issues โ€œIn Review.โ€ Any help you can provide regarding issues โ€œIn Progressโ€ would be great, too. But in general, any attention you can give to any issue would be much appreciated.

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

Before you leaveโ€ฆ

Weโ€™d love to hear what you achieved on the day. Before you leave the table, please submit the Contributor Day Attendee Feedback Form Thank you!

#contributor-days, #training-team

Jenni McKinnon 1:37 am on July 24, 2023
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Birgit Olzem 2:59 pm on July 17, 2023
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Nahid Komol 5:01 am on July 17, 2023
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Training Team Meeting Recap โ€“ 11th July 2023

This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you donโ€™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 20 attendees: @bsanevans, @digitalchild, @webtechpooja, @iamasadpolash, @piyopiyofox, @thisisyeasin, @dhanendran, @chaion07, @piyushmultidots, @sumitsingh, @piyushmultidots, @karthickmurugan, @psykro, @onealtr (async), @amitpatelmd (async), @lada7042 (async), @quitevisible (async), @courane01 (async), @courtneypk (async), @west7 (async)

๐Ÿ’ชWeโ€™ve had several new people join the channel recently. What is your interest in learning/Training, and what do you enjoy outside of WordPress? Letโ€™s get introduced with 7 new people here: @mettadiana, @markmemayank, @psrpinto, @sarathgp, @rizvipersonal, @shuvo586, @iqbal1hossain

News

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

Meeting note takers:

Meeting Note Takers

Looking for feedback

  • The Training Team used to announce published content in weekly meetings. The team recently moved this and testedย a weekly roundup message. They were so seeking feedback for this new change.
  • The meaning team now has theย #training-notificationsย channel, announcing when new content has been published. Would that channel be enough?

Looking for volunteers

One of the best ways to contribute to the training team is by volunteering.

  • The team has been updating its 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 โ€˜pull requestโ€™ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ processes. @bsanevans will be working on the next batch of changes from July 31st, and heโ€™s looking for other volunteers who would like to work on this with me.
    • Please youโ€™re requested to read the post and leave a comment there if youโ€™d like to get involved โ€“ Read now
  • @iamasadpolash showed his interest in being a volunteer by raising an issue on GitHub and asking if itโ€™s considered to be a contribution or not.
  • The team asked for help to make sure the insights inย the analysis and results of the individual learner Surveyย donโ€™t get lost.
    • This survey brought to light many important data about the audience learning about WordPress. As there was a lot of information in it, and the team doesnโ€™t want to let that get lost!
    • @bsanevans asked to volunteer to share the content of that analysis post in smaller posts, maybe once every two weeks or so. Team reps are open to other ideas, too!

Updates from last weekโ€™s dev-squad triage session

Other News

  • Announcement: Updates to team meeting times โ€“ This is an important post, and the team asks all team members to read through the details there. In particular, they have created a form to decide when to host the new APAC Coffee Hour
  • Expertise needed: Learn how to vet content topic ideas for the Training Team: The process to vet content topic ideas was recently updated. @bsanevans will be hosting some online workshops later this week to walk through the new process. Take a look at the post for details.
    • Anyone is free to attend! (This would be great forย @faculty-smesย too!)
  • :tada:Training Team 2023 Half-Year Review:tada::
  • This post looks at everything the team has achieved this year so far, and what projects we have lined up next. So far, the team completed 5 out of 9 projects we wanted to complete by June, and also 2 projects we wanted to complete by September. Thatโ€™s significant progress!! Letโ€™s celebrate this achievement!
  • Everyone was requested to highlight their contribution to the training team in 2023 so far!
    • What contributions did you make to Learning WordPress?
    • Or what was an exciting memory from being part of the Training Team this year?
    • @bsanevans shared that heโ€™s really excited that the team got a process for content localization set up. They also have Translation Coordinators onboarded to the Faculty Team
    • @digitalchild continues to review tutorials and provide assistance when he can. Heโ€™s planning on doing topic vetting once he can figure it outย 
    • @sumitsingh continues joining and helping WP folks to contribute to the community and try to attend the team meeting
    • @piyopiyofox Memory was nominated as a Team RepTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. for the year
    • @webtechpooja is enjoying her second year as a Team rep
    • @psykro exciting memory was able to represent the team
  • @webtechpooja is hosting an Online Workshop next week โ€“ย Come join the WordPress Training Team!
  • Team reps have published our monthly updates for June โ€“

Open requests for review

See ourย Guidelines for reviewing contentย to review the following content.

  • Tutorials

Also, the team is looking for volunteers to review the following courses in preparation for the new WordPress Mentorship program starting this week.

So far,ย @quitevisibleย has reviewed the first two courses. Would anyone like to review any of the remaining three?

Project Updates

Open Discussions

You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in theย #trainingย Slack channel at any time.

#meeting-recap, #training

Hari Shanker R 4:08 am on July 12, 2023
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X-post: Announcing the Inaugural Cohort of the WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program!

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