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Pooja Derashri 8:18 am on April 3, 2023
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Meeting agenda for April 04, 2023

This week’s meeting will be held in the APAC timezone on Tuesday, April 04, 2023, at 07:00 UTC. @bsanevans will be hosting.

1. Intro/Welcome

Welcome to all new teammates who joined the Training Team this week!

2. News

  1. Meeting Note Takers
  2. How can we streamline meeting agenda/recap posts? Reps have two ideas:
    1. Agenda in 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/, recap on the blog
    2. Detailed agenda on the blog, and add notable discussions in the comments section.
  3. What’s new on Learn WordPress in March 2023
  4. A new handbook page Published:
  5. Proposal: How to run a Learn WordPress course cohort
    • This new proposal is looking for your feedback by April 7th.
  6. News from other WordPress teams
  7. Upcoming Workshops
  8. How about temporarily relocating the other projects section from the agenda to the Paused column of the Github Training team Administration Project board?
    • To avoid unnecessary notifications for our team members, we will exclude the on-hold projects from the current agenda and add them back when they are resumed.
  9. Contributor Badge Awarded – @karthickmurugan and @esratpopy

3. Creating content for the WordPress 6.2 release

Please reference the resources below as we prepare content on Learn for the 6.2 release.

Content for 6.2

4. Content published in the last week

5. Open requests for review

6. Project updates

7. Open discussions

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

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.

#agenda

Kaito Hanamori 12:47 am on March 20, 2023
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Meeting Agenda for March 21, 2023

This week’s meeting will be held in APAC timezone on Tuesday, March 21st, 2023, at 07:00 UTC, and @bsanevans will be hosting.

1. Intro/Welcome

Welcome to all new teammates who joined the Training Team this week!

2. News

  1. Meeting Note Takers
    • March 21 – @nomadskateboarding
    • March 28 – need volunteer
    • April 4 – need volunteer
    • April 11 – need volunteer
  2. Faculty Members Update
    • Monthly faculty meetings have been discontinued.
    • Faculty members had an annual check-in survey they completed recently. @courtneypk will be sharing results in the next week or so.
  3. Meeting times for EMEA/Americas is changing from this week
    • Please see the Make WordPress Meeting Calendar for up-to-date information about meeting times.
      • EMEA/Americas meetings and coffee hours on Tuesdays will now be held at 16:00 UTC. Friday EMEA/Americas coffee hours will continue to be held at 10:00 UTC.
      • There are no changes to APAC meeting times.
  4. Dev-squad update: Triage sessions planning
  5. Learning pathways
  6. Team badges
    • The process of requesting a team badge has been updated. Please see Team Profile Badges for details.
    • @psykro was awarded the Training Team Badge this week for 12 months of consistent contribution to the team.
  7. We’re looking for WordCamp EU Contributor Day Table Lead volunteers!
    • 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. EU 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/. will be on June 8th this year. @webtechpooja will be attending, and will be one of two Table Leads. We’re looking for one more volunteer!
    • If you’re interested in becoming a Table Lead, please reach out to 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. (Pooja or Ben) to show your interest.
    • Please show interest by March 29th. The selection will be announced by March 31st.
  8. We have a new handbook page drafted: Preparing for a WordCamp Contributor Day
    • Please leave feedback on the draft by March 31st. You can find the draft linked in this Slack message.
  9. News from other WordPress teams

3. Creating content for the WordPress 6.2 release

Please reference the resources below as we prepare content on Learn for the 6.2 release.

Content for 6.2

4. Content published in the last week

5. Open requests for review

6. Project updates

7. Open discussions

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

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.

#agenda

Pooja Derashri 9:00 am on March 13, 2023
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Meeting Agenda for March 14, 2023

This week’s meeting will be held in EMEA/AMER timezone on Tuesday, March 14th, 2023, at 17:00 UTC, and @webtechpooja will be hosting.

  1. Intro/Welcome
  2. News
    1. Meeting Note Takers
      • March 14 – @faguni22
      • March 21 – need volunteer
      • March 28 – need volunteer
    2. Faculty Members Update
    3. Daylight Savings Time ends on March 12 for AMER and March 26th for EMEA. And according to the poll, we will run the meeting at 16:00 UTC. We will change the time from the next meeting i.e. March 21.
      • Does anyone want to volunteer with me to co-host the upcoming EMEA/AMER meeting on March 28?
    4. Dev-squad update: Triage sessions planning
    5. Introduction to WordPress Development: A proposed learning path
    6. Launching the Contributor Working Group: Call for Volunteers
  3. Start working on revising and creating content for  WP 6.2 on LearnWP – WordPress 6.2 Beta 1 launched on Feb 7
  4. Projects
  5. Other Work in Progress
  6. Request for review
  7. 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.

#agenda

Kaito Hanamori 7:00 am on March 6, 2023
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Meeting Agenda for March 7th, 2023

This week’s meeting will be held in the APAC timezone on Tuesday, March 7th 2023 at 07:00 UTC with @bsanevans and @webtechpooja hosting.

  1. Intro/Welcome
  2. News
    1. Meeting Note Takers
      • March 7 – @afrin29
      • March 14 – need volunteer
      • March 21 – need volunteer
      • March 28 – need volunteer
    2. Faculty Members Update
    3. Training Team goals for 2023 have been published
    4. WordPress 6.2 Release
    5. Daylight Savings Time ends on March 12 for AMER and March 26th for EMEA — please vote on what to do.
    6. The first Learn WordPress Newsletter was published: Learn WordPress March Newsletter
    7. With the launch of the new onboarding program, the Welcome Wrangler role has evolved. Come and join the renewed Welcome Committee!
    8. How shall we refer to the site https://learn.wordpress.org? Add your thoughts to this Slack discussion.
    9. 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. Destiny will be away from March 1 – June 1 for a sabbatical.
    10. A discussion has started to include Online Workshops in the WordPress admin dashboard widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user.: Proposal: Modify the Events and News widget to show topic-based meetups worldwide
  3. Published Content
    • Tutorial
    • Lesson Plan
    • Course
  4. Start working on revising and creating content for  WP 6.2 on LearnWP – WordPress 6.2 Beta 1 launched on Feb 7
  5. Projects
  6. Other Work in Progress
  7. Request for review
  8. 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.

#agenda, #learn-wordpress, #training-team

Destiny Kanno 5:02 am on February 28, 2023
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Meeting Agenda for February 28th, 2023

This week’s meeting will be held in the EMEA/AMER timezone on Tuesday, February 28th 2023 at 17:00 UTC with @webtechpooja and Laura Adamonis hosting.

  1. Intro/Welcome
  2. News
    1. Meeting Note Takers
      • Feb 28 – @fike
      • March 7 – @afrin29 (would you like to take notes?)
      • March 14 – need volunteer
      • March 21 – need volunteer
      • March 29 – need volunteer
    2. Faculty Members Update
    3. WordCamp Asia 2023 Contributor Day
    4. Training Team’s new onboarding program is now live!
    5. New link for the LearnWP website development project in #meta-learn
    6. Training Team Goals 2023
    7. Learn Newsletter
    8. Daylight Savings Time ends on March 12 for AMER and March 26th for EMEA— let’s vote on what to do
    9. 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. Destiny will be away from March 1 – June 1 for a sabbatical.
    10. A discussion has started to include Online Workshops in the WordPress admin dashboard widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user.: Proposal: Modify the Events and News widget to show topic-based meetups worldwide
  3. Published Content
  4. Start working on revising and creating content for  WP 6.2 on LearnWP – WordPress 6.2 Beta 1 launched on Feb 7
  5. Projects
  6. Other Work in Progress
  7. Request for review
  8. Other ways to Contribute
  9. 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.

#agenda

Courtney P.K. 4:23 am on February 17, 2023
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February 2023 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: 16–28 February, 2023

Updates

Here are some recent happenings and open feedback requests.

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?
    • Anything you’d like extra eyes on?
    • What things will you be focusing on in the coming month?
    • How best can you help or be tapped in this coming month?
  • We are seeking faculty volunteers to help host Training Team meetings and coffee hours. Please comment if you can help host any of the upcoming meetings.
    • APAC: Tuesdays 07:00 UTC
    • Americas/EMEA: Tuesdays 17:00 UTC
    • Additional Americas/EMEA coffee hour: Fridays 14:00 UTC
  • Faculty Meetings
    • We are seeking faculty volunteers to host the next Faculty meeting. Please comment if you can help host in March 2023. Since it is an asynchronous meeting that takes place on the team blog, you would just be responsible for publishing a post just like this one.
    • Are you finding this asynchronous meeting format on the team blog useful? Do you have any suggestions for improving the faculty meeting process?

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, @piyopiyofox, @courtneypk, @bsanevans

Editors

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

Editor assistance required

Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)

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

SME assistance required

Content Creator

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

Content Creator assistance required

Administrator

Faculty Members: @onealtr @meaganhanes

Admin assistance required

#faculty-meeting

#agenda

Pooja Derashri 7:05 am on February 13, 2023
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Meeting Agenda for February 14, 2023

This week’s meeting will be held in the EMEA/AMER timezone on Tuesday, 14 February 2023 at 17:00 UTC with @webtechpooja  and Mark-Andrew Nordstrom hosting.

  1. Intro/Welcome
    • Welcome: Partho Hore, Yara-Nee Dennis, Yiannis Passalides, Sharon Yates, Saud Razzak, kraft, BobWP, ahmed bouazizi
  2. News
    1. Meeting Note Takers
    2. Faculty Members Update
    3. WordCamp Asia 2023 Contributor Day
    4. No Meeting next week, Feb 21, due to WCAsia
      • We will have a coffee hour at 07:00 UTC on February 22nd
    5. Apply to Attend the 2023 Community Summit
    6. Training Team’s new onboarding program is now live!
    7. Video conferencing options for Online Workshops
    8. New link for the LearnWP website development project in #meta-learn
    9. Training Team Goals 2023
    10. Feedback request
  3. Published Content
  4. Start working on revising and creating content for  WP 6.2 on LearnWP – 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. launched on Feb 7
  5. Projects
  6. Other Work in Progress
  7. Request for review
  8. Other ways to Contribute
  9. 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.

Team Links

  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

#agenda

Destiny Kanno 5:00 pm on January 16, 2023
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Meeting Agenda for January 17, 2023

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

This Week’s Agenda

This week’s meeting will be held in AMER/EMEA timezone on Tuesdays at 16:00 UTC.

  1. Intro/Welcome
  2. News
    1. Meeting Note Takers
    2. Faculty Members Update
    3. WordPress 6.2 Release
    4. Call to participate: Training Team: Discovering our Values
      • On January 23rd, the Training Team will be conducting two 2-hour exercises to discover our shared values. These exercises are open to anyone interested in participating, and will be recorded.
      • 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.” @angelasjin or @bsanevans to receive a calendar invite to the event.
    5. The Highlighted Posts section of the site will be changed to include projects and 3 priority posts.
    6. There is a new #training-notifications Slack channel for notifications about Tutorials, Lesson Plans, Online Workshops, and Courses that have been recently published.
  3. Published Content
  4. Projects
  5. Other Work in Progress
  6. Request for review
  7. Open Discussions
    • Revising our content creation checklists
    • Online Workshop Feedback form: what would we like to know from participants?
    • Monthly newsletter on Learn
      • Can we do a monthly newsletter on Learn to announce newly published content? This newsletter will be shared with Marketing.
    • 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
    • How can we make reviews easier to pick up?
      • Would a monthly on Zoom “Review Party” be helpful?
    • How should we maintain a list of Online Workshop Administrators (folks who set up an OW but not facilitate) and Co-hosts?
      • Should we create 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/ issue for this or note them in a handbook page?

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.

#agenda

Pooja Derashri 7:00 am on January 9, 2023
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Meeting Agenda for January 10, 2022

Please join us for our Team Meeting Tuesday at 07:00 UTC (APAC friendly) OR Tuesday at 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 APAC timezone.

  1. Intro/Welcome
  2. 2022 Year in review / Achievements
  3. News
    1. Meeting Note Takers
    2. Training Team Values Setting
    3. Faculty Program Update
    4. Bite-Sized Content on Learn https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1671558092688359
      • 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 distributed it via TikTok as an example. @west7 would like to research 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.
    5. Change in an icon for the 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. settings 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. that’s currently in 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/ https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/46851#issuecomment-1372406518
  4. Projects
    1. Content Localization Foundation
    2. Training Team Onboarding Paths
  5. Ready For Review
  6. Open Discussions
    • Should we move the Learn WordPress feed to a new channel?

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.

#agenda

Pooja Derashri 7:00 am on November 28, 2022
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Meeting Agenda for November 29, 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. Faculty Members Update
    3. Project Thread: Content Localization Foundations
    4. Team Rep Nominations
    5. Training Team Badges
    6. DevHub getting a new look
    7. Team Goal Setting
    8. December 23, and 30, no coffee hour on(EMEA/AMER timezone)
    9. Eastern APAC Coffee Hour Fridays at 04:00 UTC from Dec 2nd.
    10. No Meeting on December 27, 2022
    11. Choosing accessible/contrasting dark theme colors for online workshops and tutorial videos – two sets of “alternate” or “dark” colors have been finalized
    12. 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/ Pages Update
  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 GitHub views to match the kanban board columns? (See Slack conversation)
  6. Month Retrospective
    • What went well?
    • What could we improve?
    • What will we do differently?
  7. 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

#agenda, #training