Amit Patel 2:22 am on December 21, 2022
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December 2022 Faculty Meeting

Faculty Members have opted into an asynchronous meeting every 15th of the month (or the closest business day). We will hold our meeting over a two-week period, and the meeting host (typically the poster) or another assigned individual will post discussion outcomes at the end of the feedback period.

Please find outlined below Updates for review, Topics for Discussion, and items that require assistance in the Working Together section. The meeting host will add a comment for each topic for discussion.

Discussion period: December 20, 2022 to January 9th, 2023

Updates

Here are some recent happenings and open feedback requests.

Topics for Discussion

Please comment on this post with answers to the Faculty Member check-in items and your input on our topics for discussion.

  • Check-in: Please feel free to answer some or all of the below self check-in items
    • How are you doing?
    • What’s your bandwidth like?
    • How best can you help or be tapped in this coming month?
    • Anything you’d like extra eyes on?
  • How can we increase/enable Faculty Member activity?

Have any other topics for discussion? Please your walk-on topic in the comment titled Walk-on Topics for discussion.

Working Together

Outlined below are the tasks per role that require assistance. All tasks are logged in the Training Team’s LearnWP Content Development board.

All

The following Faculty Members work to progress the needs of all roles: @courane01, @azhiyadev, @webtechpooja, @hlashbrooke, @piyopiyofox, @courtneypk, @bsanevans

Editors

Faculty Members: @fikekomala @aion11 @mrfoxtalbot, @digitalchild, @afshanadiya

Assistance required

Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)

Faculty Members: @wpscholar, @annezazu, @pbrocks, @richtabor, @chetan200891 , @HardeepAsrani, @chrismkindred, @amitpatelmd, @psykro, @digitalchild, @afshanadiya

Assistance required

Content Creator

Faculty Members: @amitpatelmd, @psykro, @arasae, @west7, @ndiego, @trynet, @chrisbadgett, @colorful-tones, @eboxnet, @robinwpdeveloper

Assistance required

Administrator

Faculty Members: @onealtr @meaganhanes

Assistance required

#faculty-meeting

Hauwa Abashiya 7:00 am on December 19, 2022
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Meeting Agenda for December 20, 2022

Please join us for our Team Meeting Tuesday at 07:00 UTC (APAC friendly) OR Tuesday 17:00 UTC (AMER/EMEA friendly) OR Coffee Hour Friday at 14:00 UTC in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meetings!

This Week’s Agenda

This week’s meeting will be held in the EMEA/AMER timezone.

  1. Intro/Welcome
  2. News
    1. Meeting Note Takers
      • December 20 – @pitamdey
      • December 27 – No Meeting
      • January 3 – To be confirmed
    2. The WordPress 2022 Survey
    3. State of the World 2022
    4. Training Team Values Setting
    5. Faculty Program Update
    6. Training Team Reps – Results of the Vote
    7. December 23, and 30, no coffee hour on (EMEA/AMER timezone)
    8. Bite-Sized Content on Learn
      • Bite-sized content from Learn WordPress was requested by a Contributor during 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, and distributing it via TikTok as an example. @west7 would like to do some research on this and start creating 1-minute videos. Looking for volunteers to help put three examples together for feedback. The team would also look to collaborate with #marketing.
  3. Projects
    1. Content Localization Foundation
    2. Training Team Onboarding Paths
  4. Open Discussions

Upcoming Meetings

You are welcome to join the team at any time! If you are new to the Training Team, please introduce yourself in the #training channel before the meeting (or anytime!) and feel free to join us in the meeting and participate as you are able.

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.

Getting Involved

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects.

#learn-wordpress, #training-team

Amit Patel 4:36 am on December 17, 2022  

Training Team Meeting Recap for December 13, 2022

Slack Log for EMEA/AMER Meeting (Tuesday 07:00 UTC)

 Slack Log for APAC Office Hour (Tuesday 17:00 UTC)

(Requires 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/ login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account.)

The meeting agenda.

Introductions and Welcome

Attendees Team meeting (APAC): @webtechpooja @askaryabbas @fike @amitpatelmd @piyushmultidots @piyopiyofox @onlykawshar @sagarladani @robinwpdeveloper @pitamdey @psykro @vanpariyar @jdy68 @onealtr @eboxnet @courane01 @lada7042 @azhiyadev @courtneypk @bsanevans

Attendees Office hour (EMEA/AMER): @courane01 @chetan200891 @courtneypk

Welcome to the team (Slack usernames): @Andres Bernal, @jdy68, @Saiful Islam, @Slazenger Jackson, @Ibrahim Sharif, @sharon, @Bryan, @Leela Parameswara Reddy

Meeting Note Takers

Meeting recap notes is one of the best ways to get started contributing to a team. Please refer to this guide to get started.

  • December 20 – @pitamdey
  • December 27 – No Meeting (as most of our regular attendees and faculty members will be on holiday so its better to skip the meeting.)

News

Individual Learn Survey 

Please take this survey, if you haven’t taken it.  and please promote it on social media as well, and ask others to take it. It would be huge help of Training the team

The 2022 WordPress Survey

If you haven’t taken it yet. Please do and take this year’s survey. Be sure to complete the annual WordPress Survey. There is an additional short set of questions for contributors as well.

State of the Word 2022 

Faculty Program Update

Vote for Training Team Rep 2023

We’re excited to see many folks nominated for training team reps. We’ve set up a survey to open voting. You can vote for up to 3 team reps for 2023.

Update on Coffee hours

  • December 23 and 30, no coffee hour on (EMEA/AMER timezone)

Learn WordPress Site Updates – December 2022

@Hugh Lashbrooke shared several key updates for LearnWP.

  1. Lesson plan landing page
  2. Persistent banner linking to the individual learner survey
  3. Tutorial video length displayed on archive
  4. Course learner data is displayed on the frontend
  5. Consistent headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes./intro sections for each content type
  6. Anchor links to course categories
  7. Greater clarity in idea submission section
  8. Homepage content sections include brief intro text
  9. Consistent locale metadata across all content types
  10. Consistent ‘Topic’ taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. across all content types

These updates are of 2022 and many more to come for 2023. As we have so many amazing contributors onboarded now. 

Projects

Content Localization Foundations

  • We are looking for French and Spanish translators– please join our efforts!
  • Translation work has already begun and our work is being tracked in this spreadsheet.

  • Being a Locale Ambassador
  • Advertising Learn Content to your local community
  • Engaging the Marketing Team for publication of new locale content on Twitter
  • Engaging your local community regarding joining Learn WordPress
  • Recruiting Locale Ambassadors

Training Team Onboarding Paths

  • The project team is looking for feedback on some structural changes we propose to the team handbook. Please leave your feedback in this Slack thread. (Note: This slack thread link will take you to prior discussion and away from this meeting flow.)

6.1 Sprint

We are still continuing with WP 6.1 release-related GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ issues, as we haven’t achieved them yet.

Would anyone like to claim or adopt something to work on over the next week?

Requested for review

Published Content

This lesson plan 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. pattern in Hindi is merged in learn WordPress – https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/1163 

Content Update

 Online Workshop this Week

Open Discussions

Can we indicate in the meeting agenda which region timing the meeting will take place in? – Slack thread here.

Upcoming Meetings

You are welcome to join the team at any time! If you are new to the Training Team, please introduce yourself in the #training channel before the meeting (or anytime!), and feel free to join us in the meeting and participate as you can.

Training Team Mission

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

Getting Involved

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects.

  1. Learn.WordPress.org
    1. Lesson Plans
    2. Tutorials
    3. Courses
    4. Online Workshops
    5. Pathways to Learn WordPress
  2. Getting Involved
    1. GitHub Website Development
    2. GitHub Content Development
    3. What We Are Currently Working On This Month
  3. About The Team
  4. Our Team Blog
Courtney Robertson 11:34 am on December 12, 2022  

Meeting Agenda for December 13, 2022

Please join us for our Team Meeting Tuesdays at 07:00 UTC (APAC friendly) OR Tuesdays at 16:00 UTC (AMER/EMEA friendly) OR Coffee Hour Friday at 13:00 UTC in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meetings!

This Week’s Agenda

  1. Intro/Welcome
  2. News
    1. Meeting Note Takers
    2. The 2022 WordPress Survey
    3. Learn WordPress Site Updates – December 2022
    4. State of the Word 2022
    5. Faculty Program Update
    6. Vote for Training Team Rep 2023
    7. December 23, and 30, no coffee hour on (EMEA/AMER timezone)
    8. Projects
    1. Open Discussions
      • Can we indicate in the meeting agenda which region timing the meeting will take place in?

    Upcoming Meetings

    You are welcome to join the team at any time! If you are new to the Training Team, please introduce yourself in the #training channel before the meeting (or anytime!) and feel free to join us in the meeting and participate as you are able.

    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.

    Getting Involved

    Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects.

    1. Learn.WordPress.org
      1. Lesson Plans
      2. Tutorials
      3. Courses
      4. Online Workshops
      5. Pathways to Learn WordPress
    2. Getting Involved
      1. GitHub Website Development
      2. GitHub Content Development
      3. What We Are Currently Working On This Month
    3. About The Team
    4. Our Team Blog
    Destiny Kanno 9:06 am on December 9, 2022  

    Training Team Meeting Recap for December 6, 2022

    Slack Log for EMEA/AMER Meeting (Tuesday 07:00 UTC)

     Slack Log for APAC Office Hour (Tuesday 17:00 UTC)

    (Requires 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/ login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account.)

    The meeting agenda.

    Introductions and Welcome

    Attendees Office hour (APAC): @bsanevans @sagarladani @pitamdey @webtechpooja @robinwpdeveloper @psykro @vanpariyar @amitpatelmd @piyushmultidots @Gtarafdarr @askaryabbas Ritesh tailor @piyopiyofox @onealtr @lada7042 @courtneypk Viral Mehta

    Attendees Team meeting (EMEA/AMER): @caraya @azhiyadev @courane01 @piermario @glycymeris @lada7042 @robinwpdeveloper @onealtr Lorna Timbah @courtneypk @webtechpooja @eboxnet @hderashri @bsanevans

    Welcome to the team (Slack usernames): @Seyi Ayinde @Linkon Miyan @tomfinley @Mark L Wood-Patrick @Arafat Jamil

    News

    Meeting Note Takers

    Meeting recap notes is one of the best ways to get started contributing to a team. Please refer to this guide to get started.

    • December 6 – @Destiny
    • December 13 – @amitpatelmd
    • December 20 – @pitamdey
    • December 27 – No Meeting (as most of our regular attendees and faculty members will be on holiday so its better to skip the meeting.)

    Individual Learn Survey 

    If you haven’t taken it yet. Please fill it out, share and promote it on social media, and ask others to take it.

    The 2022 WordPress Survey

    Be sure to complete the annual WordPress Survey. There is an additional short set of questions for contributors as well.

    Learn WordPress Site Updates – December 2022

    @Hugh Lashbrooke shared several key updates for LearnWP.

    1. Lesson plan landing page
    2. Persistent banner linking to the individual learner survey
    3. Tutorial video length displayed on archive
    4. Course learner data is displayed on the frontend
    5. Consistent headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes./intro sections for each content type
    6. Anchor links to course categories
    7. Greater clarity in idea submission section
    8. Homepage content sections include brief intro text
    9. Consistent locale metadata across all content types
    10. Consistent ‘Topic’ taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. across all content types

    Faculty Program Update

    The November meeting has come to a close and you can see the recap from the November meeting here. The next Faculty Program meeting will be posted on December 15th and the discussion will be held for 3 weeks due to the holidays.

    Vote for Training Team Rep 2023

    We’re excited to see many folks nominated for training team reps. We’ve set up a survey to open voting. You can vote for up to 3 team reps for 2023.

    Training Team Badges

    You can now request a Training Team Badge through this GitHub issue, and you’ll find more information on how to earn a badge on the Team Profile Badges handbook page.

    November Month Retrospective

    Find the recap of the November Retrospective published here.

    Team Goal Setting

    The team is working to identify several team goal setting dates for next year, and are aiming for these sessions to take place in January. See the 2022 goals for reference here.

    End of year schedule

    1. December 23, and 30, no coffee hour on (EMEA/AMER timezone)
    2. Eastern APAC Coffee Hour Fridays at 04:00 UTC from Dec 2nd.
    3. No Meeting on December 27, 2022

    Content Update

    Published

    Ready for Review

    Comment on the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue or let the team know in Slack if you are able to perform these reviews.

    Projects

    Content Localization Foundations

    • We have started translating content, and are still looking for volunteers especially for French and German.
    • Please see the latest update here.

    Training Team Onboarding Paths

    • Please reach out to @bsanevans if you’re interested in making new onboarding handbook pages for the Training Team

    Update on Coffee hours

    • December 23 and 30, no coffee hour on (EMEA/AMER timezone)

    Open Discussions

    Are Online Workshop co-hosting opportunities and Content Error Issues a good first issue for Contributors to work on?

    • The team agreed that tackling Content Error issues are good first issues for new Contributors
    • Co-hosting an online workshop is also a good opportunity, but it would be great to do an information session for folks interested first.

    Upcoming Meetings

    You are welcome to join the team at any time! If you are new to the Training Team, please introduce yourself in the #training channel before the meeting (or anytime!), and feel free to join us in the meeting and participate as you can.

    Training Team Mission

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

    Getting Involved

    Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects.

    1. Learn.WordPress.org
      1. Lesson Plans
      2. Tutorials
      3. Courses
      4. Online Workshops
      5. Pathways to Learn WordPress
    2. Getting Involved
      1. GitHub Website Development
      2. GitHub Content Development
      3. What We Are Currently Working On This Month
    3. About The Team
    4. Our Team Blog
    Julia Golomb 3:41 pm on December 8, 2022
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    Pooja Derashri 3:38 am on December 6, 2022
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    Vote for Training Team Rep 2023

    On Friday, December 9, we noticed 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. poll was not receiving new vote submissions. We have reset the poll (erasing previous results) and the timeline for voting. If you previously submitted, please resubmit only once.

    The WordPress Training Team Rep nomination was closed on December 2, 2022. We got some great names nominated to be the next Training Team reps to replace the outgoing team reps @courane01, @azhiyadev, and @webtechpooja.

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

    Nominees

    A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, makes sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. The following Training team members are nominated for 2023.

    AMIT PATEL –  (India – Southern APAC)

    Profile: https://profiles.wordpress.org/amitpatelmd/

    BENJAMIN EVANS – (Japan – Eastern APAC)

    Profile: https://profiles.wordpress.org/bsanevans/

    CARLOS – (US West Coast)

    Profile: https://profiles.wordpress.org/caraya/

    COURTNEY. P.K –  (O’ahu Central Pacific)

    Profile: https://profiles.wordpress.org/courtneypk/

    COURTNEY ROBERTSON – (PA – North America)

    Profile: https://profiles.wordpress.org/courane01/

    DESTINY KANNO – (Japan – Eastern APAC)

    Profile: https://profiles.wordpress.org/piyopiyofox/

    POOJA DERASHRI –  (India – Southern APAC)

    Profile: https://profiles.wordpress.org/webtechpooja/

    Voting

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

    Click here to Vote

    The voting is open until 19th December 2022.

    Results

    Once voting is concluded, we will announce the result on December 20, 2022, in our weekly Team Meeting.

    #team-reps

    #nominations, #team-reps

    Hugh Lashbrooke 9:58 pm on December 5, 2022  

    Learn WordPress Site Updates – December 2022

    There have been a number of updates to the Learn WordPress site over the last month or two, so I thought it worth highlighting them here to raise their visibility.

    Lesson plan landing page

    Lesson plans have a new landing page that makes it easier to find content by topic, audience, level, duration, and lesson format. This looks fantastic and really helps with content discovery:

    The new landing page example, displaying the title, "Lesson Plans" with a button, "Browse all Lesson Plans". There is also a search box to search lesson plans. Below that, a subheading reads "Topic" follow by "Browse Lesson Plans by their high-level topic. Next, there are icons for topics, including the following topics: General, extending WordPress, Plugin Development, Site Management, Speaking at Events, Theme Development, Using Plugins, and Using Themes.

    Persistent banner linking to the individual learner survey

    The individual learner survey has been live for a while and in order to get more eyes on it, a banner has been added to the site headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. that links directly to the survey:

    Tutorial video length displayed on archive

    The length of each tutorial video is now displayed beneath the video title in the tutorials archive:

    Course learner data is displayed on the frontend

    Average learner data for courses is displayed on the single course page – more metrics can be added to this as time goes on, but the basics are there for now:

    Consistent header/intro sections for each content type

    All of the content types – tutorials, online workshops, courses, and lesson plans – now each have an intro section with consistent formatting all across the site:

    Anchor links to course categories

    As you will notice in the courses page header above, there are now anchor links directly to each of the course categories on the page, making navigation easier and improving discoverability:

    Greater clarity in idea submission section

    The ‘submit an idea’ call-to-action section on the homepage has been updated with improved clarity and more accurate wording:

    Homepage content sections include brief intro text

    Each homepage section now includes a brief intro about the content type that indicates what it is all about – this helps with providing an immediate understanding of content to new users:

    Consistent locale metadata across all content types

    All content types now have the same metadata field for setting the locale – right now, this doesn’t have an immediate impact on the frontend (other than the existing manual language filtering being updated to use this new field), but the next step is to implement automatic content filtering based on the site locale switcher. Locale filtering will also be added to the online workshops calendar.

    Consistent ‘Topic’ taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. across all content types

    The ‘Topic’ taxonomy that tutorials use has been added to all content types, and similar taxonomies have been removed to accommodate this (with data being migrated accordingly). This doesn’t have an immediate frontend impact, but it will allow us to implement global topic filtering and matching across all content types.

    Get involved

    The Learn WordPress site is always in iteration, so if you would like to get involved, head over to the GitHub project board to see the open issues. The repo readme has instructions on how to work with the site in a local environment.

    Courtney Robertson 5:58 pm on December 5, 2022  

    Meeting Agenda for December 6, 2022

    Please join us for our Team Meeting Tuesdays at 07:00 UTC (APAC friendly) OR Tuesdays at 17:00 UTC (AMER/EMEA friendly) OR Coffee Hour Friday at 13:00 UTC and Eastern APAC Coffee Hour Friday at 04:00 UTC in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meetings!

    This Week’s Agenda

    1. Intro/Welcome
    2. News
      1. Meeting Note Takers
      2. The 2022 WordPress Survey
      3. Learn WordPress Site Updates – December 2022
      4. Faculty Program Update
      5. Project Thread: Content Localization Foundations
        • An update with next steps will be shared in the project thread tomorrow
      6. Vote for Training Team Rep 2023
      7. Training Team Badges
      8. November Month Retrospective
      9. Team Goal Setting
      10. December 23, and 30, no coffee hour on(EMEA/AMER timezone)
      11. Eastern APAC Coffee Hour Fridays at 04:00 UTC from Dec 2nd.
      12. No Meeting on December 27, 2022
    3. Published Content
    4. Request for review
      • Tutorial – Develop Your First Low-Code 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. Theme Module#3
      • Tutorial – Comments block 
      • Lesson Plan- Template tour lesson plan
    5. Request for comments
      1. Please reach out to @bsanevans if you’re interested in making new onboarding handbook pages for the Training Team.
      2. Do we want to update our GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ views to match the kanban board columns? (See Slack conversation)
    6. Open Discussions

    Upcoming Meetings

    You are welcome to join the team at any time! If you are new to the Training Team, please introduce yourself in the #training channel before the meeting (or anytime!) and feel free to join us in the meeting and participate as you are able.

    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.

    Getting Involved

    Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects.

    1. Learn.WordPress.org
      1. Lesson Plans
      2. Tutorials
      3. Courses
      4. Online Workshops
      5. Pathways to Learn WordPress
    2. Getting Involved
      1. GitHub Website Development
      2. GitHub Content Development
      3. What We Are Currently Working On This Month
    3. About The Team
    4. Our Team Blog
    Pitam Dey 1:27 pm on December 5, 2022  

    Training Team Meeting Recap for November 29, 2022

    Slack Log for APAC Meeting (Tuesday 07:00 UTC)

     Slack Log for AMER/EMEA Office Hour (Tuesday 17:00 UTC)

    (Requires 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/ login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account.)

    The meeting agenda.

    Introductions and Welcome

    Attendees Office hour (EMEA/AMER):@lada7042, @webtechpooja, @couraen01

    Attendees Team meeting (APAC): @ashiquzzaman, @thisisyeasin, @piyushmultidots, @sinarhadiwijaya, @Tahmid ul Karim, @pitamdey, @sagarladani, @onealtr, @robinwpdeveloper, @amitpatelmd, @askaryabbas, @bsanevans, @hderashri, @lada7042, @couraen01, @fikekomala,  @eboxnet, @webtechpooja

    Welcome to the team (Slack usernames): Ritesh, @Arnau Serra, @Tanvir 

    News

    Meeting Note Takers

    Meeting recap notes is one of the best ways to get started contributing to a team. Please refer to this guide to get started.

    • December 6 – @Destiny
    • December 13 – @amitpatelmd
    • December 20 – @pitamdey
    • December 27 – No Meeting (as most of our regular attendees and faculty members will be on holiday so its better to skip the meeting.)

    Faculty Members Update

    November 2022 Faculty Meeting month’s async faculty meeting post is open for comments until tomorrow. If you haven’t shared your thoughts, please do so by the end of the month.

    Individual Learn Survey 

    If you haven’t taken it yet. Please fill it out, share and promote it on social media, and ask others to take it.

    Project Thread: Content Localization Foundations

    Team Rep Nominations

    If you want to nominate someone or yourself, please do so. This will open until December 2, 2022. We will review the nominations at our team meeting on December 6, 2022, and organize a poll to select the Team Reps.
    The poll will be open until December 16, 2022. and will announce our new team Reps on December 20, 2022, during a team meeting

     Training Team Badges

    Badges awarded to @Robin and @Ben Evans and @Harshit Derashree

    DevHub getting a new look

    Update With the feedback received last week, and the design team worked on a second iteration in Figma. Please do so if you haven’t given us your feedback in this file.

     Team Goal Setting

    It’s time to consider what the training team hopes to accomplish in 2023. Last year we met over three different sessions to plan out this year. Training Team Goals for 2022 reflect that plan.

    However, we didn’t achieve all of those goals. Should we continue them for next year?

    Courtney met with Angela, who has offered to hold a team vision-setting meeting, and from that, we can launch into the following year’s goals. Courtney will work with Angela to plan that first part of the meeting, along with a survey for the best times we can meet via Zoom to do this.

    Update on Coffee hour –

    • December 23 and 30, no coffee hour on (EMEA/AMER timezone)
    • Eastern APAC Coffee Hour Fridays at 04:00 UTC from Dec 2nd.

    Choosing accessible/contrasting dark theme colors for online workshops and tutorial videos –

    two sets of “alternate” or “dark” colors have been finalized

    @Jonathan is working on it and asking Where we need to add this in the handbook? (Note: This slack thread will remove you from this meeting flow. So please keep that in mind before checking it.)

    GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ Pages Update 

    Here is the update on the GitHub project.

    • New pages added
    • Using GitHub
    • Submission and Vetting
    • Reviewing Tutorial Submissions
    • How to Submit a Lesson Plan Idea

    Published Content 

    • Tutorial – Develop Your First Low-Code 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. Theme Module#3
    • Modules 1 and 2 are published here. You’ll notice modules #3, 4, and 5 are in draft form.

    Request for comments

    1. Please contact @bsanevans if you’re interested in making new onboarding handbook pages for the Training Team.
    2. Can we update our GitHub views to match the Kanban board columns? (See Slack conversation)

    Month Retrospective

    So a bit of information for you before we kick off. We continued working on the 6.1 sprint last month. Here are some vital stats.
    Content Development
    Next Up – You Can Help. We still have the following number of lesson plans and workshops that have not been assigned to anyone.

    1. Lesson Plans -3

    Drafts in progress (the following number have been claimed by contributors but are still in draft)

    1. Lesson Plans –
    2. Tutorial -4
    3. Courses: 0

    Review in Progress (these could potentially be published this month, subject to review)

    1. Lesson Plans: 1
    2. Tutorial – 2

     Published (these have been published)

    1. Tutorial: 5
    2. Lesson Plan: 4

    Open Discussions

    @webtechpooja said that :

    Are Online Workshop co-hosting opportunities and Content Error Issues a good first issue for Contributors to work on?
     That thread started on EMEA meeting too. I am opening again if anyone would like to share anything on this.

    @amitpatelmd commented on this :

    Yes definitely one of the following to Start with

    • Co-hosting.
    • Content error issues.
    • Translation help.

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