Benjamin Evans 4:28 am on January 22, 2024
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Discussion: Training’s contribution to the 6.5 release (and beyond)

The WordPress 6.5 release squad has been announced. This next release is scheduled for March 26 and now’s a great time for the Training Team to discuss how we’d like to be involved.

Below is my proposal to kick off the discussion. Let’s discuss this in the comments below until February 5th. Team reps will then summarize the discussion by the team meeting that week.

Prioritize Learning Pathways content

The Learning Pathways project is a priority for the Training Team this year, with a scheduled launch for July 2024. Considering the limited number of content creators we have on the team right now, we do not have enough resources to meet that deadline and create a lot of release-related content at the same time.

Proposal around priorities

  • Continue to prioritize developing Learning Pathways content.
  • Identify no more than 3-5 pieces of high-impact content related to the release and clearly list these in the team.
  • Find opportunities to onboard additional content creators who can assist with this content development work.

Modifying 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/ triaging processes

Historically, Training’s focus during releases has included identifying content needing updates as a result of the release. This has been done by reopening GitHub issues and, if the original assignee is unresponsive, re-assigning issues to new assignees.

As the team has started to track and analyze GitHub data (see Training Team 2023 Year In Review), we’re finding this process of reopening issues and changing assignees skews important metrics that represent team health – such as the “time to close” on an issue. To ensure the team can track and report accurate metrics, I propose the following changes.

Proposal around changes to GitHub triage processes

Once again, let’s discuss this in the comments below until February 5th.

#procedures

Courtney P.K. 6:00 am on January 16, 2024
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Contributor Spotlight: Nadia Maya Ardiani

Welcome to another edition of the Training Team’s Contributor Spotlight! In this series, the Training Team introduces you to one of our many valued contributors, and you can learn more about their contribution journey.

Profile photo of Maya.

Introducing Maya!

Today’s featured contributor is Nadia Maya Ardiani from Indonesia! Maya is a Content Translator for the Indonesian locale, an Indonesian Translation Coordinator, a Faculty team member, and is also currently trying out being a Content Creator!

All about Maya

Maya’s educational background is in English literature, and she began her career as a journalist. Starting from radio, Maya explored many mediums, including magazines and websites. She specialized in music, culture, and regional news, as well as feature writings on people and places. Maya’s fascination for media and communication brought her to various related avenues: media relations specialist, publicist, and public diplomacy officer for a foreign government representative. 

However, everything changed when the pandemic hit — Maya had to find another arena that was more flexible in regards to place and time, and that was when she became a content writer in the tech industry. This was the time when Maya learned in-depth about WordPress because she had to write about it. It was quite a pivot, but a step that she is grateful she took.

Maya is currently a content specialist with Hostinger, and interviews people — from Hostinger’s clients to WordPress community members — and writes articles about their expertise and inspiring stories. She also works on social media to boost the performance of their website content.

Outside of WordPress, Maya loves going to live music. She also loves spending time with her friends, reading, experimenting with recipes, watching movies, and exploring the internet for her daily dose of memes.

Maya’s WordPress Journey

Maya has always been drawn to the Internet and its culture, as well as the people who create and use it. She first discovered WordPress during her school years and was struck by its sophistication, even though it didn’t visually captivate her at the time.

Years later, Maya’s job as a tech content writer required her to have a deep understanding of WordPress. She was surprised to find that WordPress had grown significantly, offering exciting customizations and becoming easier to understand. She started exploring WordPress more, attending her first 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. and 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/.. It was during these experiences that Maya fell in love with the WordPress community, where everyone learns and supports each other.

Group photo at WordCamp Asia.
Maya interviewing a WordPress community member.

Maya’s commitment to the WordPress community solidified when she volunteered as an interviewer at WordCamp Asia 2023. Being a part of something that makes the internet more accessible to everyone motivated her even further.

“It’s just so lovely to be involved in something that makes the internet more accessible for everyone.”

First Contributions

Maya’s journey as a contributor to WordPress began with her first contribution to the Polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/.. While she doesn’t recall the specifics, she remembers working on some strings related to the current release towards the end of 2022. 

With the Training team, Maya made her initial contribution by creating a lesson plan and translating a tutorial. To her surprise and delight, she received news that the tutorial she translated was the first-ever Indonesian translation within the Training team—something she found truly awesome!

Overcoming Challenges

When Maya first began contributing to WordPress, she faced a common challenge—the feeling of knowing very little and wondering if she truly belonged on the Training team. There were moments when she questioned if she deserved to be a part of a team dedicated to helping others learn about the platform. However, Maya discovered a supportive and helpful community within the Training team.

“Everyone is a work in progress, and we’re never alone in the process, so as long as we’re willing to learn, we can learn together with everyone.”

Memorable WordPress Moments

Group photo at WordCamp Asia, under string of lights in the evening.
Maya sitting between two WordPress community members, smiling and displaying various cute hand gestures.
Maya and 3 fellow WordPress community members.

Being welcomed into such a diverse community, even in places where Maya may not see many people who looked like her, has been a great source of joy. One significant moment was when she interviewed Michelle Frechette, who told Maya that it’s important to show up and start doing something even when you feel like you’re one of the minorities, because you might open the door for others who relate to your experience. This conversation inspired Maya and served as a reminder that her participation could create opportunities for others like her. Seeing fellow POC hijabi women participating at WordCamp US 2023 reaffirmed the idea that there is a place for her at the table. This heartwarming encounter boosted her confidence and conviction more than any inclusivity campaign had.

Maya also had incredible experiences at her first local WordCamp and her flagship WordCamp. The local event allowed her to dive into the intricacies of the project, while the flagship event provided her with a whole new scale of WordPress contributor experiences. These experiences fostered a sense of camaraderie with her fellow contributors, and Maya will always cherish those moments.

What advice would you give to someone who wants to get started with contributing to WordPress?

“You don’t have to be an expert to begin contributing. Start with what you have and improve at your own pace can always be a good idea. In the WordPress community, everyone has each other’s back, so don’t be afraid to ask, even though it might feel like a stupid question (it’s totally fine, everyone’s a newbie at some point in life).”

Thank you, Maya, for all your dedication and contributions to the Training Team and to the WordPress Open SourceOpen 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

Laura Adamonis 12:37 am on January 16, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – January 11, 2024

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, @webtechpooja, @gwallace87, @sierratr, @piyopiyofox, @lada7042, @sancastiza, @courtneypk, @eboxnet, @digitalchild  (async), @amitpatelmd (async), @jhimross (async), @robinpal (async), @vanpariyar (async), @hellosatya (async), @onealtr (async), @devmuhib(async), @quitevisible(async), @psykro (async), @sumitsingh (async), @sakibsnaz (async)

We’ve had some new people join the channel recently. @kawsaralameven, @karson9, @corinaburri, @arkenon, @dev0ghost, @wpdata, @up1512001, @shadabali,  @bridgetwes, @ohthatspaul, @akojif, @lefadev22, @josiahw93, @flexseth, @mgoncarova — 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.

Looking for feedback

Each year, the Training Team takes some time at the beginning of the year to brainstorm goals for the year. We’ll be hosting two sessions next week, so feel free to join either… or both :star2: Sessions will be recorded for folks to watch later and anyone can add feedback in the session threads in Slack

  • Help the team brainstorm contribution ideas for the team to work on at 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.

WordCamp Asia is almost here, and Training will be hosting a contributor table at the event. Thank you to our table leads @west7 and @digitalchild for volunteering

The Training Team continues to update and clarify the requirements of applying for a team badge. Jonathan has started a conversation for us to clarify the requirements for code contributions. Please leave your feedback on the post by January 26th 

Looking for volunteers

Each week, the team hosts a dev-squad triage session, where they triage website development 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/ issues. In that process, the squad mark issues they think would be great for first-time contributors to start on. 

One of the content types Training publishes on Learn WordPress is – Online Workshops. As we start the new year, we’d like to invite anyone in the team to apply to host or co-host a workshop this year.

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Off for the holidays- check for the next meeting

If you’re interested in participating, come visit the #meta-learn Slack channel at 7:00 UTC. You’ll find the time shown in your local timezone on the Training Team’s meeting calendar.

Other News

Next week’s team meeting will be conducted over a video call and will focus on brainstorming 2024 goals. The call link will be published in the Training channel 5 minutes before the meeting starts. If you’d like to attend with audio only, or just join in on the Slack threads, that would be great, too

Open requests for review

Currently, we have 15 pieces of content in the review stage. That’s exciting! You can find the list of content here:

Project Updates

 Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress is one of the biggest priorities of the Training Team right now. Here’s an update on how that project is going.

  • We have some first-draft redesign edits and thumbnails up for review, and will connect with Design re: the next steps next week:

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 the #training Slack channel at any time.

#contributor-days, #dev-squad-triage-session, #developers, #learn-wordpress, #meeting-recap

Hari Shanker R 3:30 pm on January 12, 2024
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Jonathan Bossenger 2:40 pm on January 9, 2024  

Request for feedback: Training Contributor badge requirements for code contributions

It has been brought to my attention by the Training Team Reps that the requirements for achieving a Training Contributor Badge for code contributions to the Learn WordPress codebase are rather vague:

You should significantly contribute to the Learn website by adding or modifying features. This would include writing a feature enhancement or fixing a bug.

I would like to suggest that we update those guidelines so that it is clearer what the requirements are to achieve the badge specifically for code contributions.

I propose we update the guidelines as follows:

You have created or reviewed at least 3 pull requests, either bug fixes or enhancements, to be merged into the Learn WordPress codebase. These pull requests need to have also been reviewed and approved by at least one member of the Training Team Faculty or the WordPress 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. team.

  • By replacing significantly contribute with at least 3 pull requests, we make the goal clearer and easier to understand.
  • By including the requirement of a second review from either a member of the Training Faculty or the WordPress Meta team (which we work closely with to deployDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. Learn WordPress changes and updates), we can ensure that pull requests are reviewed correctly.

Updating code contribution documentation to align with these changes.

It has also been brought to my attention that we have two Handbook page that relate to contributing code to Learn WordPress:

I suggest that we merge the Code contributions page into the Developing Learn WordPress page (possibly replacing the Contributing code section, adding a section on the suggested code review process, and a note on achieving the Training Contributor Badge.

Call for feedback.

What do you think of the suggested updates? Please leave your thoughts on this post by Friday, 26 January 2023.

Abha Thakor 10:24 pm on December 28, 2023
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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 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

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.
Benjamin Evans 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ Data

Last year and this year we did a huge overhaul of our Learn GitHub Repository in order to reduce complexities, streamline processes and improve productivity. Through this public Cauldron visualization, we are happy to share the very real impact this work has had on better surfacing contributions and helping us see our work to completion.

The graph above shows that the time it takes to close issues has decreased throughout the last year. This is most likely due to the numerous updates that have been implemented in GitHub, and the revamp of documentation guiding contributors through the different team processes. This is a huge win for the Training Team 👏

The five spikes above show the 5 “mega triage sessions” that were conducted last year, often closing out many issues that had been imported from 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!

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