Sumit Singh 8:13 am on September 11, 2023
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 5th September 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.)

This meeting was start at 07:00 UTC.

Introductions and Welcome

There were 24 attendees:  @bsanevans,  @sumitsingh,  @webtechpooja,  @dhanendran,  @kafleg,  @margheweb,  @afrin29,  @pekkakortelainen,  @psykro,  @piyopiyofox,  @jhimross,  @jominney,  @digitalchild,  @shaggykat27,  @onealtr,  @thisisyeasin,  @iamasadpolash,  @benjirahmed,  @weblink,  @lada7042,  @eboxnet,  @sierratr,  @west7, @amitpatelmd

We’ve had several new people join the channel recently… Welcome :partying_face: !!. What is your interest in Learn/Training and what do you enjoy outside of WordPress:@miguelaxcar @jeffikus  @jffng  @binsaifullah  @tonmoy2u  @mattheweseitz

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News

Looking for feedback

We’re looking for feedback about the learning pathways, by September 12th. Please follow the directions in the post to help the team launch some great learning pathways on Learn.WordPress.org :raised_hands::skin-tone-3:

Looking for volunteers

  • We’re looking for volunteers to co-author the October edition of the Learn WordPress newsletter 

Please pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” 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. if you’re interested in getting involved. You can see the most recent edition of this newsletter here: Learn WordPress Newsletter – September 2023 (published last week!)

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Thank you to everyone who joined last week’s dev-squad triage session :hero: Here is what the team achieved last week:

Other News

Team reps started a post where people who attended the recent Community Summit can share their learnings and observations from other team members to see :wordpress:. You can also find the official notes from each session at https://make.wordpress.org/summit/

In particular, we had a table of contributors who focused on creating Tutorials. Thank you to @Erik Palmquist @davekellam, @Gudrun, @Maya, and @margheweb who attended this session!

Aurooba has joined the Faculty Program as a Content Creator and Subject Matter Expert!

If you would like to receive the Training Contributor badge, too, then come check out our handbook page Team Profile Badges to see how you can get it :book:

Open requests for review

The following pieces of content are completed and just waiting for some reviews before they are published. Any contributor is welcome to review content! The team’s Guidelines for reviewing content will walk you through the process :blue_book:

Project Updates

:arrow_right: Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress – @westnz

This project is currently looking for feedback. Please review the learning pathways outlines and submit your feedback by September 12th.

:arrow_right: Introducing the Training Team Guide Program! – @Courtney P.K.

We have introduced 11 new contributors to our roster of 5 Guides! They are expected to complete the program within the month of September. We’re excited to kick off this initial cohort of new contributors and look forward to their first contributions to the team :sparkles:

:arrow_right:Next steps for GitHub updates – @Ben Evans

@Pooja Derashri @Jo Minney and Ben will be meeting tomorrow to brainstorm what updates would make the team’s 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/ repository more user-friendly to all team contributors! Look forward to announcements about what changes we propose coming soon :technologist::skin-tone-3:

:arrow_right: Information architecture on Learn.WordPress.org – @Jo Minney

As we launch learning pathways on Learn.WordPress.org, there is a need to revisit the information architecture of the site. Jo has volunteered to lead the efforts around figuring out what has to happen next. :desktop_computer:

:arrow_right:Training Team joining Hacktoberfest – @Jonathan

In recent years, @Courtney has led the team around contributing to Hacktoberfest :thank-you: This year, @Jonathan has started the discussion and is welcoming anyone interested to join the conversation in this GitHub issue.

Open Discussions

If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this issue.

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

Courtney Robertson 6:25 pm on August 24, 2023  

Information Sources for WordPress 6.4

Table of Contents

With every release comes a need to revise and create content on LearnWP. You can help. Here’s a list of what is ready for us to prepare for the release.

WordPress 6.4 LearnWP

When assessing what content will need to be updated and revised for LearnWP, these are sources of information.

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Announcements:

News

Twenty Twenty Four Theme

Source of Truth

Coming during BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. Release cycle.

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/ Labels

Core DevNotes

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 ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/

Changelogs (on Core)

TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/.:

Topics to be determined

These topics should be addressed, but need additional consideration where to create that content.

Editor Team:

Docs team:

Design team:

Training / LearnWP Project

RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. Extended

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. Here’s how we do that:

Nahid Sharif Komol 5:33 am on August 22, 2023
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 15th August 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 21 attendees: @thisisyeasin, @huzaifaalmesbah, @kafleg, @vanpariyar, @piyopiyofox, @jominney, @psykro, @bsanevans, @amitpatelmd, @rahulharkhani, @sancastiza, @lada7042, @onealtr (async), @sierratr (async), @quitevisible (async), @arasae (async), @webtechpooja (async), @fahimmurshed (async), @eboxnet (async), @west7 (async), @courtneypk (async)

💪We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. What is your interest in learning or training, and what do you enjoy outside of WordPress?

Let’s get introduced to 12 new people here: @simpleliving, @javiguembe, @valani9099, @dhimanbarua, @whytelabel, @rahulharkhani, @rezwanshiblu1952, @czarrj, @echindik, @patodarkishor777, @sswebdeval, @backpocketace

News

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

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  1. August 15 – @nahidsharifkomol
  2. August 22 – No meeting
  3. August 29 – @fahimmurshed
  4. September 5 – @sumitsingh
  5. September 12 – @nayanchamp7
  6. September 19 – @sancastiza

Looking for feedback

  • This week, the training team will be evaluating another Team Value, Sustainable growth. As individual contributors and as a team, they are hoping for constant improvement! However, they aim to accomplish this by maintaining sustainable, innovative, and adaptable practices that uphold the team’s energy as well as the consistency and quality of content. Here’s what you’ll get to know about the team value.
  • The team had several feedback requests for the Learn website redesign; everyone is requested to review and respond in this linked Slack there

Looking for volunteers

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

PRs triaged

  • Fixed Content Overlap On SidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. Issue in View All Lesson Page in Firefox #1765

Issues triaged

  • Bug report: Content Overlap on Sidebar in View All Lesson Plans Page #1718 (above PR fixes this issue)
  • Feature request – add a video download link to tutorial #1533
  • Bug report: Filtering Lesson Plans by Topic shows other content types #1569
  • Bug report: Update sidebar item name for consistency #1571

Other dev-squad updates

  • The session ended with six untried issues!
  • Calling all training team members who like to write code to look into any of the above-mentioned issues if they are interested in ways to contribute.
  • If anyone is interested in learning how to contribute with code, @psykro is running a series of online workshops on the process of developing the Learn WordPress platform. Part 1 is happening on Wednesday, the 16th – Link here

The dev-squad meets every Thursday at 07:00 UTC in #meta-learn. See last week’s meeting from here. If you are a WordPress developer interested in helping the Training Team through these efforts, you can contact – @psykro

Other News

  • Contributor Hour – The team’s first contributor hour will be on Aug 16 at 07:00 UTC, and @piyopiyofox and @webtechpooja will be the host! You can sign up for this event in Meetup here
    • As a reminder, the team committed to running Contributor Hours ahead of WordPress releases, but for this first one, they will focus on helping Contributors pick up tasks around the 6.3 release. Please join us if you’d like to see how you can help!
    • You will get the most out of a Contributor Hour if you have first completed the Training Team’s Onboarding Program. This will walk you through creating a WordPress.org account, a Slack account, and a GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ account, which will all be needed to participate.
  • It’s official!!! WordCamp US 2023 Contributor Day is next week on August 24th! :smile:
  • :mega: Finally, due to 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. US, there will be no global meeting next week!  — The team looks forward to engaging with you all in person and online around the event

Open requests for review

Check out the Guidelines for reviewing content to review the following content.

Tutorials

  • Tutorial – Embedding media and third-party content on your website #1616

Lesson Plans

  • WordPress Action HooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same. – Lesson Plan #806

Translated Content

  • Indonesian translation for Lesson Plan “Intro to the Site Editor and Templates ” #1488
  • Indonesian translation for Tutorial “Choosing and Installing a Theme” #1508
  • Khmer translation for Tutorial “Getting to Know the WordPress Dashboard” #1535
  • Gujarati translation for Tutorial “How to start using WordPress Playground” #1722

Project Updates

Open Discussions

Discussion for WordCamp Us:

Things that are exciting for the WordCamp US:

Discussion for any favorite memory at WordCamps:

  1. @psykro said – “My first WordCamp EU contributor day in Serbia, where I got to meet many fellow contributors across the project for the first time and make new friends, many of whom I now work with today”
  2. @piyopiyofox shared that “For me, I think it was this year’s WC Asia Contributor Day– we had so many new and improved processes that we explored, and it was exciting to see it in action– like the onboarding session”
  3. @bsanevans shared that “I’ve only been to one previous WordCamp – this year’s WordCamp Asia. Everything was new to me, but I had a blast! I spoke at that WordCamp, and the positive response I got from people afterward was encouraging”
  4. @jominney shared that “I’m super excited to meet other contributors in person. There is only one other that I know of in my state, and he’s full-time with Automattic working on 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 ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/. It will also be my first contributor day and my first flagship WC!”

@piyopiyofox asked to share what kind of emails would be most helpful to receive after visiting Learn WordPress

  • @psykro shared that – “I can personally see the benefit of some of these reminder emails, but I agree with the person who created the ticket that it should be under the users’ control. I feel like this is an area where the goals for an internal or paid LMS platform and Learn WordPress differ slightly. So I think it will be useful for us to discuss how we can reenable these emails, but so that they are useful to learners, as well as controllable by learners”
  • @bsanevans shared – “I think a welcome message is nice when folks sign up for a course. A notice of completion at the end of a course would also be beneficial. Other than that, an easy way to sign up (and opt out later) for the Learn newsletter would be great. They would then send out monthly emails to the learner, reminding them of the platform and its content. I don’t think we’d need the Sensei pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party’s default reminder emails then”

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

Nazrul Islam Nayan 5:34 am on August 14, 2023
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 8th August 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 30 attendees: @sumitsingh, @iamasadpolash, @jhimross, @eboxnet, @chaion07, @nayanchamp7, @vishitshah, @amitpatelmd, @webtechpooja, @shiponkarmakar, @piyopiyofox, @pitamdey, @digitalchild, @iammehedi1, @vanpariyar, @psykro, @jominney, @onealtr, @karthickmurugan, @lada7042 (async), @quitevisible (async), @webcommsat (async), @sierratr (async), @arasae (async), @itsjustdj (async), @courtneypk (async), @west7 (async), @nahidsharifkomol (async), @courane01 (async), @bsanevans (async)

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

@D.J, @kensuke, @Harsh Gajipara, @Bello Habeeb,@leomofthings, @Artem Kondranin, @shivashankerbhatta, @Zunaid Amin

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

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Looking for feedback

Let’s elevate Team Values again

  • At the July 18 Weekly Global Meeting, we discussed DEIB(Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging) Team value (This slack link will take you away from this meeting flow.)
  • Collaborative: We foster trust and cooperation through mentorship and respect. This is a supportive place that encourages reliability and motivation.

Looking for volunteers

Other News

:tada:  WordPress 6.3 will be released on August 8 (today) at 19:00 UTC and there will be release party in #core channel.

Table Lead: Destiny Kanno (@Destiny), Laura Adamonis (@Laura A)

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

Slack Monitor: TBD (If you are interested, please let us know.)

  • WCUS Contributor Day: Tutorials Workshop (In-Person & Remote) – @Sarah (She/Her) will be hosting live Tutorial Workshops, if you are attending in-person. DO join the Training team table at WCUS. Thanks Sarah for hosting.
  • Concerns over the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Context: As the world’s most popular 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. content management system, WordPress acknowledges the European Union’s initiative to bolster the cybersecurity of digital hardware and software products with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The Act’s effort to counter the increasing threat of cyberattacks and promote informed usage of digital products with increased security updates and transparency is commendable.

Badges awarded in July

Last month, @Amit Patel, @westnz, @sarah were awarded the Training Contributor badge. Thank you for your consistent contributions to the team.

Open requests for review

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

Tutorials

Lesson Plans

Translated Content

Project Updates

Introducing the Training Team Guide Program! – headed by @Courtney P.K.

Creating digestible insight posts from the Analysis and results of the Individual Learner Survey.

@quitevisible: I will be drafting a post this week. Planning to have it ready for submission to faculty by end of this week. I’ll be reaching out to @Courtney and @Jo Minney beforehand to make sure I’m not overlapping with sections they may be covering.

Announcing the first Learn WordPress Course Cohort. -headed by @Jonathan

Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress – A GitHub project has been created to help assign, organize and project manage the ongoing work. headed by @Destiny

@destiny: I’m looking now. I think we have recommendations for how to record written somewhere. Folks can follow this Creating your Tutorial handbook page.

Open Discussion

@Pooja Derashri shared some useful things about the Training team and its communication channel.

Other ways to Contribute:

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-notifications, #training-team

FahimMurshed 7:36 am on July 26, 2023
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 25th July 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 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: We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. Let’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?

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July 25 – @FahimMurshed
August 1 – @Sancastiza
August 8 – @nayanchamp7
August 15 – @nahidsharifkomol

Looking for feedback

It looks like we don’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 week’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 ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area..

Other News

  • Announcement: Updates to team meeting times — 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 ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ Triage 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 our Guidelines for reviewing content to review the following content.

Margherita Pelonara shared these:

Project Updates

It looks like we don’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 – 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 the #training 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 upcoming WordPress 6.3 release, expected on August 8th, 2023.

You can find a list of all the tasks in the 6.3 board in the Training Team’s repo on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/.

The tasks have been sorted into high priority tasks. The team hopes to complete the high priority tasks 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 the tasks.
  • Add a comment on the GitHub issue 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. Here’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 ‘blocks’ 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 can use this app provided by InstaWP 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

Nahid Sharif Komol 5:01 am on July 17, 2023
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 11th July 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 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)

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

News

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Looking for feedback

  • The Training Team used to announce published content in weekly meetings. The team recently moved this and tested a weekly roundup message. They were so seeking feedback for this new change.
  • The meaning team now has the #training-notifications 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 ‘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/ processes. @bsanevans will be working on the next batch of changes from July 31st, and he’s looking for other volunteers who would like to work on this with me.
    • Please you’re requested to read the post and leave a comment there if you’d like to get involved – Read now
  • @iamasadpolash showed his interest in being a volunteer by raising an issue on GitHub and asking if it’s considered to be a contribution or not.
  • The team asked for help to make sure the insights in the analysis and results of the individual learner Survey don’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 doesn’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 week’s dev-squad triage session

Other News

  • Announcement: Updates to team meeting times – 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 for @faculty-smes 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. That’s significant progress!! Let’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 he’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. He’s planning on doing topic vetting once he can figure it out 
    • @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 – Come join the WordPress Training Team!
  • Team reps have published our monthly updates for June –

Open requests for review

See our Guidelines for reviewing content 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, @quitevisible 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 the #training Slack channel at any time.

#meeting-recap, #training

Benjamin Evans 2:00 am on July 8, 2023
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Announcement: Updates to team meeting times

The Training Team has been discussing switching from meeting times that alternate each week to having just one set of consistent meeting times that don’t change. Thank you to everyone who provided input.

Overview

Starting July 10th (Mon), the Training team will be conducting four meetings each week at these times:

  • Global Team Meeting: Tuesdays at 07:00 UTC
  • 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 ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ Triage Session: Thursdays at 07:00 UTC
  • EMEA/Americas Coffee Hour: Fridays at 13:00 UTC

The official meeting calendar, the team handbook, the Welcome message on the team blog, and the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. waidgets, have all been update to reference these new times.

For reference, here is a list of when the next meetings will be held, shown in your local time:

  • Global Team Meeting: Tuesday, 07:00.
  • APAC Coffee Hour: still to be decided
    • Fill out this form with times you’d be able to attend. Form submission will close on July 21st, and the APAC Coffee Hours will resume from the week of July 24th.
  • Dev-squad GitHub Triage Session: Thursday, 07:00
  • EMEA/Americas Coffee Hour: Friday, 13:00.

Details

Here is more information about how each of these meetings are conducted:

  • Global Team Meeting – 1 hour
    • Text-based meeting in the #training channel in Slack where we cover news, project updates, and other discussion topics.
    • The agenda will be created in GitHub and shared in the #training Slack channel by Monday each week.
    • Anyone can contribute to discussions asynchronously, and meeting notes will be published by the end of each week.
  • Coffee Hours – 1 hour
    • Video-based social chats. You can also attend with audio only, or via text in the 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/. thread that will be created at the time of the meeting.
    • There is no formal agenda. These are designed for team members to connect with each other, and are also great opportunities to ask questions about contributing to the team.
    • The Zoom link will be shared in the #training Slack channel at the time of the meeting each week.
  • Dev-squad GitHub Triage Session – 30 minutes
    • Text-based meeting in the #meta-learn channel in Slack where we triage pull requests and issues regarding Learn WordPress website development.
    • The triage session’s focus is to help move GitHub issues forward. We will not be reviewing/verifying code, but instead reaching out to the issue submitters, helping them move their requests forward.

#announcements

Benjamin Evans 9:12 am on July 4, 2023
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Expertise needed: Learn how to vet content topic ideas for the Training Team

Summary: The Training Team is looking for community members to join the team as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)! SMEs lend their expertise by vetting content topic ideas and becoming sounding boards for the Content Creators that develop content. We’ll be hosting Online Workshops to demonstrate these tasks and answer any questions.

Online Workshop: How to vet content topic ideas for the WordPress Training Team

Both workshops will cover the same content.

Learn.WordPress.org (Learn WordPress) is the WordPress project’s official learning platform. Contributors from all around the world create new content for Learn WordPress regularly.

Before a piece of content is created, the topic of that content is vetted for accuracy and relevance. Learning objectives are set, and related resources are collected. These tasks are completed by the team’s Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). SMEs may also be contacted by Content Creators as the content is being developed, assisting by providing additional information to create accurate and informative content.

If you are interested in sharing your expertise and contributing to the Training Team as an SME, then great! Come join one of the Online Workshops mentioned at the top of this posts, where we’ll walk you through the tasks of an SME and answer any questions you may have.

To get the most out of these Online Workshops, make sure you have:

#announcements

jominney 12:37 am on July 3, 2023
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Training Team Meeting Recap for June 27th, 2023

This meeting followed this meeting agenda post. 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.)

This meeting was held in the APAC time zone.

Introductions and Welcome

There were 17 attendees: @bsanevans, @sumitsingh, @fahimmurshed, @thisisyeasin, @digitalchild, @piyushmultidots, @rajkothariv, @webtechpooja, @krupalpanchal, @piyopiyofox, @sagarladani, @afrin29, @onealtr, @margheweb, @jominney, @eboxnet, @chaion07

Welcome to the team : @nayanchamp7, @lmcliment, @adrita, @thebengalboy, @hiddenpearls, @rajkothariv, @mayukojpn, @chiragrathod103, @sancastiza, @wylly

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

Brainstorm & Table Lead – 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. 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/.

The deadline for this post has come. But if you have any comments, feel free to still do so! Team reps will be looking through submitted comments during 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. meeting on Thursday 29th June.

Read the post about the WCUS Contributor Day and/or leave a comment here

Switching Training Team meetings to: 1 Coffee hour for EMEA, 1 Coffee hour for APAC, 1 Global meeting each week

The team started reevaluating how weekly meetings are hosted. Currently, we alternate meetings and coffee hours between timezones each week. The new proposal is to have the same schedule of meetings every week.

This week is the last week to submit feedback – the best way to do so is via Slack. You can read the existing discussion threads here:

Slack discussion about potential global meeting

Proposal: New Contributor Guide Program

This is a new program idea for the Training Team. @courtneypk is looking for feedback by July 5th. Please leave your comments directly on the post.

Read the post about the New Contributor Guide Program and/or leave a comment here

Proposal: Let’s actively promote the Learn WordPress platform in Learn WordPress content

This is a new proposal to actively promote Learn WordPress inside Learn WordPress content. Some content creators are already doing this – which is great! This proposal is to add a new section to the team handbook, and make this something the team actively works towards. You can find more details on the post.

Read the post about promoting Learn WordPress and/or leave a comment here

Project Proposal: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

There is now a Google Document drafting what the team’s Learning Pathways project will look like. Please leave your feedback in the document as comments by July 4th. @piyopiyofox
will then combine everyone’s feedback and publish this on the team blog.

Learning Pathways is the next big project for the Training Team to improve Learn WordPress, so we’re eager to hear your thoughts!

View or comment on the Google Doc here

Looking for Volunteers

Creating guiding documents advising on accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)

The team is looking for volunteers who can work on a new handbook page for the team regarding accessibility. We’d like to create a checklist that can be used by content creators, editors, and meeting note-takers.

@newcomer22 started drafting ideas towards an accessibility checklist for junior WordPress developers. @jominney and @alexstine offered to assist with creating/reviewing this checklist before it is published.

If you are interested in contributing to the development of this document, please comment on the slack thread here:

Slack thread seeking volunteers for drafting an accessibility checklist

Join the dev-squad’s triage session

Every Thursday from 07:00 UTC, the Faculty Dev Squad meet in #meta-learn to triage 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 related to learn.wordpress.org website development. Anyone is free to join the team to triage GitHub issues together. We look forward to seeing you there!

Learn Dev Squad Triage Update

Starting this week, we’re going to try and give a brief report on what the dev-squad accomplished in the previous week’s triage session. Let us know in the comments what you think of these updates!

The following PRs are looking for a reviewer. If you’re familiar with website development, we’d love for you to review these PRs and leave your comments in the GitHub issue, before they’re merged into the site code.

The following PRs are waiting on an update from the author. If you are tagged, we’d love for you to update the PRs you’ve submitted so the team can review them again for you.

Other News

User Auditing on Team blog and Learn WordPress site

Team reps will be auditing users on the team blog and Learn WordPress site every 6 months.
Access will remain for those who have shown activity within the last 6 months.

Contributor Badges for Training team

Are you eligible for a Contributor badge?

In the Training Team, contributor badges are awarded to contributors who have made a few contributions, and have applied for the badge. Please see the handbook page to learn how to request one – we’d like to give out badges to as many people as we can!

High Priority Content to Translate

We’ve published a new handbook page listing some high priority content to translate. Content listed here will be updated regularly as our needs change.

Handbook page with high priority content to translate

Faculty members ready to create content are welcome to get started straight away

Faculty members ready to create content on Learn are welcome to get started right away as vetted members of the team. In the Training Team, we vet content topics before they’re created. This is one way we ensure content is relevant, high priority, and meets the needs of the larger community.
Moving forward, faculty members ready to create content on Learn are welcome to skip the vetting process and create content right away.

Training Team badges awarded this month

This month, the Training Team badge was awarded to:

for their contributions to the team. Thank you, both!

You can read more about training team badges here

Open Request for Review

The following Courses are a priority this week, in preparation for the pilot launch of the Contributor Mentorship Program. These are courses that have already been published for a while. We’re looking to review them and make sure their content is still accurate and relevant.

Please follow this guide when reviewing content: Guidelines for reviewing content

Thank you to @quitevisible who has already volunteered to begin with reviewing ‘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. Basics’. If you are able to assist with reviewing one of the courses listed above, please comment on the thread in Slack and (if possible) open a corresponding GitHub issue for the course you are reviewing. This is a great first contribution for anyone who is looking for ways to get started with the training team, and if you need help with creating a GitHub issue you can simply request assistance in the Slack thread.

Slack thread related to reviewing contributor courses

Project updates

Contributor Guide Program

As mentioned above, @courtneypk is seeking feedback on the proposal for the new Contributor Guide Program initiative. Please leave comments on the proposal by July 5th, 2023.

Read the post about the New Contributor Guide Program and/or leave a comment here

Open Discussions

  • @sumitsingh requested help from the Learn team reps on how to obtain a 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. Organiser contributor badge. As these are awarded by the Community Team, those seeking this badge are advised to contact the #community-team.

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