Drawing new learners to the new Learn.WordPress.org

Now that the new Learn WordPress is out in the world, we want to have a steady flow of new learners discovering the site and taking advantage of the valuable resources it offers. 

This post is intended to gather ideas on which recurring activities the team should prioritize first, with the goal of bringing more learners to the site. Please provide your feedback by September 10, 2024 Sept. 24, 2024.

Potential types of activities include:

  • Marketing initiatives
  • Increasing the Training Team’s presence at WordCamps
  • Providing learners and contributors with resources to easily promote Learn WordPress in their networks

Here are some initial ideas to get the ball rolling. Please add your thoughts on which activity you think would be good to try first, and a few words on why. If you have an idea that’s not already listed here, feel free to add it in a comment.

Workshops & events

  • Conduct course cohorts regularly using Learning Pathway content.
  • Host workshop-style events at WordCamps using Learning Pathway content.
  • Host Online Workshops in different locales.
    • Work with Community/Polyglots to enroll community members to host these.
    • Use https://wpspeakers.com/ and other directories to find speakers.
  • Hold a Learn WordPress Day
    • 24 hours of Online Workshops, course cohorts, and other programming.
  • Create a system for interacting with and supporting Learn WordPress learners. For example, create a forum or 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/. channel where learners can ask course-related questions.

Other outreach/promotion

  • Have an active presence at flagship WordCamps, 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. events, etc. Could include:
    • Presentations, workshops, booths, have organizers add Learn in flyers, etc.
    • Highlight the benefits of companies/organizations using Learn WordPress content in their business/activities.
  • Print up cards/small flyers with Learn WordPress URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org/blurb/QR code. Offer them to 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. organizers and hand them out at WordCamps, including flagships.
  • Paper “tents” with a QR code directing to Learn.WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ for use at flagship WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Contributor Days on the Training Team table.
  • Connect with companies and freelancers offering WordPress services and have them promote Learn WordPress as a training resource for their clients and employees.
  • Connect with community colleges and schools that could benefit from incorporating Learn WordPress into their programs. See if there’s a database that tracks which colleges or schools include WordPress in their curriculum or extension programs.
  • Engage local Meetup organizers more to help advocate for and promote Learn WordPress within their communities.
  • Use Meetup’s email system to inform or update learners or members of new courses and learning pathways.
  • Explore how we can leverage YouTube as a funnel for promoting Learn WordPress.
  • Get Learn WordPress resources added to the WordPress dashboard so that all WordPress users would see the available resources in a prominent place.
  • Reach out to WordPress thought leaders for endorsements of our Learning Pathways to enhance credibility and adoption within the broader community.

Looking forward to hearing folks’ feedback over the next couple of weeks. 

Thanks to Ben Evans, Wes Theron, and Jonathan Bossenger for their input.

#learn-wordpress, #marketing

Bite-sized content on Learn WordPress

We have recently discussed creating bite-sized content on Learn WordPress, which can easily be distributed via social media platforms and used by #marketing. This was also suggested and discussed at the 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/. 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 2022.

Here are some examples worth exploring:

Three 1-minute examples

We could start by creating three 1-minute videos to get the ball rolling and then request feedback. The following folks have shown interest in creating these examples: @eboxnet, @courane01 and @west7.

We aim to have the first three examples completed by February 1 for review.

Stories or shorts

It was also suggested by @courane01 that we could also explore implementing Stories down the line. These are short videos or a collection of images, and text, which can be created on a mobile phone.

Here are video and text-based examples:

Want to get involved?

Please comment on this thread if you are interested in creating bite-sized content or have any actionable suggestions.

#marketing #training

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

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

Community Course Creation: A Proposal

Course creation is tough. It’s long; it’s laborious; but it’s glorious when finished.

I’d love to see more courses go live on WordPress – so, how can the community get involved in the creation of a collaborative course? 

I’ve written out some proposed steps we might take to create courses from start to finish. These are by no means permanent and are simply a suggestion of a process that may work.

The Overview (Visually)

A flowchart of the community course idea. It starts with a contributor having an idea; this contributor writes a proposal and submits it to the faculty program for review. This review can take anywhere from 48 hours to 1 week. If the faculty approves the course idea, they create a course github issue and assign a faculty buddy to help the contributor with learning objectives, audience, and micro-objectives (mini-lesson s that add up to a finished course project or "chunked" units). There will be a buddy planning conversation to generate these ideas. During their conversation, they will create a course project objective, focusing on what skills learners need to complete the course project. From there, they break the course into lesson plans; the content creator writes lesson plans and can collaborate with other training team contributors to create and complete lesson plans. As lesson plans are created, the creator's buddy can answer questions. Once all lesson plans have been completed, the training team will review all lesson plans using the normal process. After that, the buddy helps the creator create a course frame in learn.wordpress.org; they reach out to the marketing team with a proposed "finished" course timeline. At the same time, the creator migrates lesson plan content to learn.wordpress.org. A final review is conducted by both the training team and the marketing team. Final changes are made, and the course is published. Finally, the marketing team promotes the content.

Details

So you have a course idea. What should (could) you do first? (We have a documented process for this here, but this proposal aims to augment it to better serve the community).

  1. Write a Topic Proposal: I propose we create an intake form (a very simple one to start) 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/ for this that asks users what course they might like to write, briefly describe it, and submit resources that already exist on Learn that would help shape this course (lesson plans, workshops, etc.)
    1. Looking for Inspiration: What makes a good topic? 
      1. Check the team’s Github for existing high-priority lesson plans that might make a better course than lesson plan.
      2. Consider new WordPress releases: are there related lesson plans waiting to be written that would make a good course?
      3. At some point, we will have a completed Needs Analysis that will help us determine the most high-impact courses; this will be good to reference when it is created.
  2. Get Approval: The training team should likely review course topic proposals and set up a meeting with the course proposer, which could be done by a process we set up within the faculty program or reviewed as a team at the weekly meeting. 
    1. Note: Courses are extremely time intensive, so I would also suggest creating a buddy/faculty member check-in program around this in order to help contributors with their ideas.
    2. Github Issue: Once this proposal has been approved, we will create a Github issue
    3. A Question: What should the timeline be for review? Is 48 hours enough (this would require faculty managing this), or a week (the greater team could help with this during the weekly meeting)?
  3. Brainstorm Canvas: This would be an outline we provide as the training team, specifically to generate ideas about the audience for the course, overarching course objectives, and the micro-course objectives (that will be used to make up the lesson plans for the course). An example of what a Brainstorm Canvas could look like can be found here (rough draft). I would also be open to walking through this with folks if they were interested ahead of time! 
    1. This brainstorm canvas can be done individually or during a Zoom call with a buddy / other interested contributors.
    2. There are no right or wrong answers on the brainstorm to start; once the brainstorm has been completed, a faculty member (likely an instructional designer, but basically anyone who is approved) should be pinged to review course objectives and work with the contributor to polish learning objectives.
    3. What is the timeline on reviewing a brainstorm? Would a week be enough time?
  4. Map It! Each micro-objective from the brainstorm will become the learning objective for a lesson plan within a course (example)
    1. The course will be made up of lesson plans. 
      • Some lesson plans may already exist about that topic and may simply need to be modified for an online audience; 
    2. Other lesson plans will need to be created; these can be written either by the course creator, or with others assisting.
  1. Create the Course Frame: Once a user creates a map of the anticipated lesson plans within a course, they can get started creating the course structure within learn.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/.
    1. Write the introduction: This introduction should help learners assess their own readiness (readiness question), explain what a learner should be able to do at the end of the course, help learners set up what they need to be successful in the course, and establish several other things that are present in most lesson plan – need to be revised for courses, potential course outline to help users experience success here?
  2. Write each Lesson Plan on Learn.WordPress.org: 
    1. These lesson plans should be included in the monthly sprint and recorded in Github.
    2. As you complete a rough draft of each of the lesson plans, make sure to keep the Github board updated and let the #training team know during the weekly meeting or as you complete it.
    3. Link each Github Lesson Plan to the course Github as they are created.
    4. One concern I have: There is a lot of “extra” (but important) information in each lesson plan that may distract students from the content they’re expecting to receive. We’ve talked about…
      1. Having a toggle button to show teachers what they need to know in order to teach content when pressed
      2. We may also consider ways to streamline the lesson plan creation process and/or the way content is displayed. 
      3. We also might want to consider if these lesson plans should be identical to the ones that exist already, or if we need a secondary format specifically geared towards online learning. For example, an existing lesson plan may say, “Put students into groups and have them discuss X topic” which wouldn’t work for an online, asynchronous format. 
  1. Rough Drafts to Finalized Versions: Completed lesson plans will go through the typical review process:
    1. It will be reviewed for content, copy edited (likely with this copy editing checklist), and for 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) (making sure every image has a detailed alt text and descriptive title, that links are descriptive, and every video has a caption, to name a few examples)
    2. If a course is in progress, it may be useful to organize “mini sprints” to get feedback and insight from faculty members on all lesson plans in a timely manner.
  2. When all lesson plans / modules are complete, a final review will be conducted.
    1. We can make a brief checklist here to help faculty members and training team contributors review content quickly, but basically this is a final set of eyes on the finished product.
    2. At this point, we can publish the course!
    3. We may want to consider working with #marketing ahead of time to announce the course and get eyes on it, but in my view, not at the expense of slowing it getting it out into the world.
  3. PUBLISHED! The course goes live, and everyone celebrates.

What do you think of these proposed steps? What should be changed, added, or removed? 

Please leave your thoughts in the comments section here, and in a few weeks’ time, we will finalize how we would like to move forward. I will create a list of action items to be put into Github for what documents, supports, ettc. need to be created.

#contributors, #courses, #getting-involved, #process

Training Team Meeting Recap – June 21 & 23

Slack Log for EMEA/Americas Meeting (Tuesday, June 21, 2022)
Slack Log for APAC Meeting (Thursday, June 23, 2022)

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

The agenda for both meetings can be found here.

1. Introductions and Welcome

Attendance EMEA/Americas Meeting:  @azhiyadev, @courane01, @webtechpooja, @samanthaxmunoz @caraya @piyopiyofox @eboxnet @Kryzpt @kartiks16 @WebCommsat @Kemmy99 @courtneypk @bsanevans

Attendance APAC Meeting: @webtechpooja, @Kryzpt, @eboxnet, @sabbir16, @chaion07, @AfshanaDiya, @shubhamsedani, @psykro, @courtneypk @wpscholar @mysweetcate @kp4net

Welcoming the newcomers joining the Training team in the last week (Slack usernames): 
@Sagar Nasit, @Vagelis, @kp4net, @mysweetcate

Meeting Note Takers

2. News

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/ automation updates :

Take a look at the Github beta project here, you can swap between 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. and regular projects. We use GitHub projects to track website development, content development, and team administration. We received access to Projects Beta, and we have started to move our Content Development over. We are next working on actions and automation.

What we want to have is that if someone submits a lesson plan or workshop, then the next group of people that are to review that would be pinged, with a checklist of what to look for.

Copyeditor checklist

We will be relaunching who is interested/willing to contribute to various team roles soon, including those that want to copy edit and organise within GitHub teams to use notifications there for this activity.

Team roles & Faculty Roles

Before moving to GitHub, we had these organized in TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing.. We’re working to move these to GitHub, which will later help us organize those call-ins on the contribution

Faculty Program Members

This is an unpublished page, but ready for the team to see on a public preview link. Thanks to @Destiny for the revision so far.  We’re still having some conversations about linking to the GitHub issues for the list, so stay tuned for more info.

 Update about Individual Learner Survey

 Specifically, the form is not GDPR compliant and everyone is concerned about, who owns the account where the data is stored?

@Destiny has looked into some options for surveys and in the past, we seem to have used Crowdsignal (although that is Automattic owned). The 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 is currently disabled on Learn.
#marketing has also suggested SurveyMonkey and SmartSurvey but there is no official tool used by the team. @Angela Jin is checking to see what we use for WordCamps (it may be Crowdsignal).

Needs Analysis working group

We are still working to build the thorough Needs Analysis per how organizations would anticipate this type of a survey, and the value it would be for them.

Badges:

Meeting notes and more: @Destiny @Makinde Ruth Oluwakemi  @Jonathan  @Femy @boogah

Content creation: @artdecotech @Benachi @kafleg @Carlos

Congratulations folks for training team badges. We greatly appreciate your contribution.

Naming suggestions

We are in sync with #polyglots and #marketing for naming suggestions for lesson plans, workshops, and SLS (Social learning spaces). It needs brainstorming. We are thinking to start a poll and we will soon work on it.

3. Sprint

June-July Sprint

The Training team is using Sprints to determine what we are working on and to determine our time frame for delivery.

Drafts in Progress

We currently have 24 items currently being drafted.

These lesson plans are under Review Process:

  1. Block Locking – Lesson Plan
  2. Upload a Theme to the WordPress Repository – Lesson Plan
  3. What to Include in Functions.php – Lesson Plan
  4. Gallery Block – Lesson Plan
  5. Child Theme for Block Themes – Lesson Plan
  6. WebP – Lesson Plan
  7. Styling Your Site with Global Styles – Lesson Plan
  8. User Management – Workshop
  9. Managing Media lesson plan – Lesson Plan

New videos in Portuguese are ready to review,

https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1655844289202409
https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1655921849888749

Ready to publish – Theme.json – Lesson Plan

4. Open Discussion

Feel free to claim any of the issues on our Content Development and Website Development boards.

WordCamp Kathmandu 2022

WordPress Speaker Workshop for Women Voices in India (Sept 24 & 25)

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. Workshops
    3. Courses
    4. Social Learning Spaces
    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

#training

Recap Notes for January 25, 2022

Slack Log (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 agenda for the meeting can be found here

Introductions and Welcome

In attendance: @azhiyadev @webtechpooja @webcommsat @rkohilakis @arasae @kemmy99 @courane01 @boogah @nalininonstopnewsuk @meher @tantienhime

Welcoming the newcomers joining the team (Slack usernames): @Rahul Harkhani @Pobon Paul @mitchblue

News

Meeting Notetakers

(@Makinde Ruth Oluwakemi) volunteered to take today’s meeting notes.

We are also looking for team members interested in taking notes on the following dates:

  • February 1 – @kemmy99
  • February 8 – @kemmy99
  • February 15 – Notetaker required
  • February 22 – Notetaker required

@kemmy99 requested a change to the dates she’s committed to as she will not be available on the 15th and 22nd.

WordPress 5.9

WordPress 5.9 releases today. Many thanks for those who have participated in content, testing, and more for this release.

Just want to say a big thank you to the whole training team for the great FSE trainings.

@wpfangirl

During this sprint, @webcommsat has supported @azhiyadev and @courane01 to get a list of the contributions and the details to include in the 5.9 list. There is a draft post summarizing the discussion on social posts, especially FSE, waiting to be published today. The link was posted in marketing to a preview earlier today if anyone wants to read it early. There is still an opportunity for people to continue working on the social media items for 5.9.

Information sources
@webcommsat has published the post to try and get it into this meeting, and thanks to @annezazu for reviewing the post. This post gives links at the top to where in training, marketing and for marcomms for the release, we can find the source of information. Anne has written some really excellent support documents. @webcommsat said she was really pleased to suggest we include some of them in the news post for the release too. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2022/01/25/social-media-drafting-update-for-5-9/ These documents will really help teams working on 5.9 materials.

Contributor Days

Yoast 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/. February 4

#marketing team will have a virtual table for the Yoast Contributor day. During this time, contributors will work on social media materials promoting content on LearnWP. All are welcome to attend.  We will be there to assist. As this is a hybrid event, it spans largely the EMEA timezone.

@nalininonstopnewsuk asked if it could be billed as a marketing and training joint table as it shows externally how we collaborate. This has been referred to @yvettesonneveld

WCEU 2022 Contributor Day, 2-4 June

We’ve been asked by organizers of WCEU 2022 if we will have any attendees in-person to help staff a training team contributor session. @webcommsat has sent some questions to the organizers on behalf of #marketing, this might help #training as well. These have been referred to @josearcos:

  • Do you have anymore information on what the format will be for WCEU contributor day this year for the teams please? In-person only, one dedicated day, the date?
  • What are the expectations for what help / participation you will need from the Marketing Team?
  • When do you also need to know by?
  • Will there be any pre-record items needed?

If we have team members planning to attend, now, or closer to the date, let us know if you’d like to help organize.

Training Team Goals 2022

A reminder that we’ve got some big goals for the year ahead. Please do make some time to scan through this overview. We’ll begin work on some of the March goals as soon as next week.

Feedback required

Due to the work in 5.9 content, these posts will be considered further next week. We can leave the discussion open and evolving for now.

  1. Social Learning Spaces (SLS) streaming platforms
  2. Learn WordPress version taxonomy

@Hugh Lashbrooke has drafted a new handbook page for the SLS streaming platforms. This may still be open for comments:

  • @nalininonstopnewsuk would like to suggest a reword to the introduction
  • @webcommsat questioned the following, her understanding of this means that slides should not have any footer/ mention of who has created them or presenting them? Is this different from a speaker at a Word Camp who might be presenting their own materials and therefore could be adding their social media link to slide footers?

For the sake of clarity, “logo” here includes company social media handles and even the company name written out in plain text in lieu of a logo.

APAC meeting

This Thursday we ran our first APAC friendly meeting. @webtechpooja provided an update on how it went which was positive. The recap of the meeting has been published. The next meeting will be held on January 27, 11:30 UTC.

Sprint

With the release of 5.9 scheduled for this month, all our efforts have been focused on updating Learn.

 Progress

The following lesson plans have been published:

  1. Difference between Reusable Blocks, Block Pattern, Templates, Template Parts (this will also need a workshop)
  2. How to Create and Register a Block Pattern (already has a workshop)
  3. How to Create Low-Code Block Patterns

This week’s content has been created by@webtechpooja and @courane01

This week’s content has been reviewed by @courane01 @rkohilakis @west7 @azhiyadev @arasae @jeffr0

Unrelated to the Sprint @topher1kenboe has published a workshop
Making a Plugin Inside the Dashboard.

As we work towards merging lesson plans and workshops it is important that we get workshops in parity with lesson plans. We can add those into the priorities for the February sprint, alongside the yearly goals as well.

Yes, they are now Live on Learn.

Instructions on reviewing and producing new content are listed in the  January 2022 Sprint post. If you get stuck, just drop us a message in Slack. If you would like to volunteer to do proofreading, please leave a comment on the January 2022 Sprint or in the #training Slack channel.

We’ve noted that we need to link up the Sprint and TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. further. Please ensure you are using and commenting on both for this time. As we work toward 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/ projects vs Trello, this may resolve itself.

Check-in

  1. What did you commit to last week?
  2. What did you do?
  3. Any blockers?
  4. What will you do next week?

@rkohilakis:

  • 1 and 2 – working on Template Parts lesson plans
  • 3 – other work project & updating FSE course part 1 based on on feedback received
  • 4 – Template parts lesson plans (edited) 

@kemmy99 finished working on lesson plans, waiting for the review

  • @webcommsat will pick this up for review but @azhiyadev noted that there is already a existing lesson plan that would render this one redundant. To be determined if this should be Creating a Static Page Template.

@webtechpooja:

  • 1 – Committed to work upon 2 lesson plan
  • 2 – Published a lesson plan on difference between reusable 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., block patterns, template and template parts
  • 3 – Time is the only blocker
  • 4 – Will work on Dual tone lesson plan this week

@courane01:

  • 1 – More content in lesson plans and workshops for 5.9, close the 2 posts on SLS + 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.
  • 2 – Onboard proofreaders, multiple lesson plans + workshops (with captioning), assist #marketing with release content, report various #meta bugs, log bugs discovered while writing lesson plans, assist with testing said bugs for RC4
  • 3 – Time
  • 4 – Keep working on 5.9 related content, compare Jan sprint with Trello, assist with creating the Feb sprint, get some extra sleep.

@webcommsat:

  • 1 – General support to training and helping with joint working with marketing and the release
  • 2 – Supporting training on gathering and sharing of list of contributors who have contributed to 5.9, answering queries and signposting. Follow-up session for training and marketing and notes
  • 3 – Time. More documentation needed, but we need to be mindful of the time this takes and number of contributors available in the current pandemic
  • 4 – Continue to help with 5.9 materials and other items in the sprint

 @nalininonstopnewsuk:

  • 1 – Supporting proofing of courses as they came through in the sprint.
  • 2 – Added comments to these in the last week.
  • 3 – Unsure of what is available and sometimes in circles with which section of documentation to read. 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) is an ongoing issue though this is for all of the project
  • 4 – More of the proofing and suggestions. It would help to understand when items are ready and if the published ones are complete.

February 2022 Sprint

We’ll draft this in time for next week’s meeting. We will still be spending time on 5.9 content and will cross-check this against our team goals for 2022.

Open Discussions

Join @azhiyadev @bph @jcasabona @schutzsmith and Matt Medeiros on Twitter Spaces for WPMinute on Monday January 31 at 8pm UTC. They will be discussing Learning WordPress. If you want to speak then you will need to use your phone to join in the conversation

If you do swing by #core during the release, please remember a “radio silence” as they work to ship this. After the post is live on wordpress.org/news, you are eagerly welcome to share the news. Generally, once you see it announced in #announcements you can go ahead and publicize it. On the bottom of the About Page in 5.9, a link to Learn will appear. As we come to a close – well-done everyone! This is the first time as a team we’ve worked to get content out alongside a release.

@webcommsat and @marybaum have done an amazing job on all things MarComms.  We’ll have a few more resources to help you share about the release over the next week.

And finally – any holidays or special occasions coming up you’d like to share? India celebrates Republic Day on January 26.


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.

#5-9, #learn-wordpress

Recap of the Training Team meeting, January 18, 2022

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The agenda for the meeting can be found here

Introductions and Welcome

In attendance: @arasae, @courane01, @webtechpooja, @rkohilakis, @boogah, @azhiyadev, @peteringersoll, @onealtr, @tantienhime, @kemmy99 @webcommsat @nalininonstopnewsuk

Welcoming the newcomers joining the team (Slack usernames):
@Somnath Karan @ironprogrammer @aurooba @Nabid Anzum @Lesley

News

Volunteers

We are still looking for team members interested in managing account access to Learn/Training team sites, and answering any questions for new people. This could also include helping new team members draft meeting recaps, pointing them to specific content in the handbook, and more. Providing login access during meetings is a big help.

Interested? Let us know!

Goals

Training Team Goals for 2022
This is really the big news for the year ahead. In the post, you can see that the goals are ambitious, and we appreciate any and all contributions anyone may be able to make towards them.

This week/month, the team is really focused on the WP 5.9 release and content coinciding with that.

Release

We’re taking a look forward, and what we will work on between 5.9’s release and the start of March.

  • Use 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/ Projects in LearnWP repository for managing team activity
  • Implement a Faculty program (like Community Deputies, name to be determined)
  • Brainstorm and discovery for the creation of a Needs Analysis
  • Plan promotions with the Marketing Team
  • Create Instructor/Facilitator resources portion on LearnWP

Boards

@webtechpooja, @azhiyadev, and @courane01 have started experimenting with moving our TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. board over to GitHub. There is some cleanup work required to make this usable again, as it is essentially a big pile without any tags or organization.

Work on this will continue on that after the 5.9 release work concludes.

@hlashbrooke has some next action steps regarding the commencement of the Faculty program.

We will open up a draft document around the Needs Analysis after release. @rkohilakis will be instrumental in this process.

With Marketing

We will continue the work around promoting resources on LearnWP with Marketing. This is something we do already, but we would like to continue to improve upon the flow of what is published and how to promote it. We would also like to make sure to support any relevant areas with the marketing team.

The Instructor/Facilitator resources will help with anyone wanting to use content from the site when presenting to others — or, also, in being a content creator of any form on LearnWP.

Please note that there are some other really big plans listed above, but some of those will depend heavily upon earlier steps which have not yet been completed, such as the results of a Needs Analysis.

Other decision making topics

APAC Friendly Meeting Poll Results

Update from @webtechpooja: Excited to announce, Thursday 11:30 am – 12:30 pm UTC got the most votes. This coming Thursday, we can start with our first APAC friendly timezone meeting. It will be a recap of this meeting.

Our mission in starting this APAC friendly meeting is to encourage people from across all timezones to be able to participate, and more contributors can get involved with the Training team.

Sprint

With the release of WordPress 5.9 scheduled for this month, all of our efforts have been focused on updating LearnWP.

We’ve had 2 lesson plans go live thanks to the proofreading by new contributors @aurooba and @lesleysim. @aurooba has also taken on the Popular Plugins lesson plan, and is working now on it.

@courane01 has shared (with those who do a final review to things before publishing) that we have a shared doc with the Marketing team. This document’s aim is to collect all published content types for social media promotions.

In an ongoing way, contributors can help craft the social media messaging. Those maintaining the .org accounts will use this messaging during their social rotations.

Check-in

  1. What did you commit to last week? As a reminder (Slack link)
  2. What did you do?
  3. Any blockers?
  4. What will you do next week?

@courane01

  1. More content in lesson plans and workshops for 5.9, assist creating the team goal setting summary/read-out, close the 2 posts on SLS + 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. that we’ve requested feedback, work more on GitHub project migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies..
  2. Team goal setting, onboard proofreaders, finalize 2 lesson plans and 2 workshops (with captioning)
  3. Time
  4. More content in lesson plans and workshops for 5.9, close the 2 posts on SLS + Taxonomy that we’ve requested feedback.

@azhiyadev

  1. I committed to working on the 5.9 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.
  2. Nothing
  3. I’ve been sick
  4. Catch-up

@webtechpooja

  1. I picked 2 lesson plans,Duotone and difference between Reusable Blocks, 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. Templates, template parts.
  2. Almost drafted 1 lesson plan and it will be ready to review in 1 or 2 day
  3. nope
  4. continue working with writing lesson plan and will do work on some lesson plan revision

@rkohilakis

  1. Nothing!  Had internal work related projects to catch up on 
  2. I have been revising and editing the Part 1 FSE course now that learners have been using it.
  3. A little burnt out from the course 
  4. Going to start working on Template Parts LP/Workshop

@webcommsat

  1. Mostly release focused and continuing to find ways and support for Learn WP and Marketing working together, and linking with coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
  2. As above, mainly through:
    • Working on the team goal documents with Courtney.
    • Focus is delivery for 5.9 and taking forward learnings for 6.0.
    • Promoting Learn WP and opportunities for contributors (short term and longer terms needs) in core and externally with meetups and wider. Showing joint collaboration approaches.
    • Will have more time for lesson plans and workshops reviewing/ presenting after 5.9 launches and post marcomms.
    • Yesterday’s WordPress Boulder 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. on the 5.9 release had panellists from core, marketing, training, documentation and more. This was great to see and be part of and the panel, and a real positive for the project of collaborating together across teams and with meetup organizers.
  3. Time and resources.
  4. More as in 2)

@arasae

  1. Two things — working on the Child Themes for Block themes lesson plan and brainstorming the potential Content Planning Parties.
  2. 1. Gathered research: I’m comparing the existing Child Themes lesson plan to what I’ve learned about block themes and modifying it from there. 2. Brainstormed how the Content Planning party could work and am working out dates for that.
  3. Time. I have a lot less of it right now. Also, I realized I’ve never planned something like this for the community and am floundering a bit. I’m not sure if we want to get that content out as close to the 5.9 release as possible, or if waiting a week so I have a bit more time to plan would be acceptable… maybe I should make a poll.
  4. Finish Child Themes for Block themes lesson plan.

@nalininonstopnewsuk

  1. Ongoing editing and proofreading support for training
  2. Started proofreading some course and have more to finish. Lots of time around the release.
  3. Limited time with the release. Impact of lot of people being away
  4. Waiting for new courses for proofreading.

@west7

  1. What did you commit to last week? Continuing with Part 2/3 of the FSE course + SLSes
  2. What did you do? Worked on the course + I have facilitated two SLSes on Meetup.com since the last meeting
  3. Any blockers? Waited for reviews / some technical bits
  4. What will you do next week? Start creating media for the course and transferring everything to Sensei

Reminder

If you are working on WordPress 5.9 revisions or content:

5.9 – Revisions

  1. Pick a topic, any topic from the list! Let us know in the comments or drop us a message in the #training Slack channel
  2. Get access, if you don’t have it already, to learn.wordpress.org. Ask in the #training Slack channel.
  3. Watch the ‘How we use the Revisions Extended Plugin’.
  4. Make the revisions on the site using the video as a guide. Set the date to January 25, 2022.
  5. Ask the team to review it. Drop us a message in the #training Slack channel.
  6. A member of the team will review and publish the changes.

All these instructions and the video are listed in the January 2022 Sprint post. If you get stuck, just drop us a message in Slack.

5.9 – New Content

  1. Pick a topic, any topic from the list! Let us know in the comments or drop us a message in the #training Slack channel
  2. Get access, if you don’t have it already, to learn.wordpress.org. Ask in the #training Slack channel.

If you need help creating content, we’ve got some great workshops videos ready for you to learn how to do this:

All these instructions are listed in the January 2022 Sprint post. If you get stuck, just drop us a message in Slack.

If you would like to volunteer to do proofreading, please leave a comment on the January 2022 Sprint or in the #training Slack channel as well.


Related to WordPress 5.9 Sprint
If you are collaborating on the social media posts in #marketing, there will be a live sprint from 14:00 UTC tomorrow (January 19, 2022) in that channel. Consider joining to help with the remaining areas.

With a week away from the release of WordPress 5.9, the document needs to be completed in the next few days.

Open Discussions

@arasae proposed the Learn WordPress Content Co-working Session. A super casual, super informal, hanging out together in two different time zones to build lesson plans together. A reference document is available.

This is for anyone who is working on something and would love to talk through their ideas. This is also for anyone who is excited about the training team, but is worried about things like writing lesson objectives. This is our chance to work together, talk through things where we get stuck, talk about WordPress, and plan out new, needed content in whatever ways work best for us.

@arasae (via Slack)

This co-working session will focus on the content we are working on for our January 2022 Sprint.

Use of video in these sessions (likely conducted over Zoom) would be optional for participants. We will also have closed-captioning enabled.

More discussion around this idea will occur during our first APAC meeting and a poll for times will be forthcoming.


@nalininonstopnewsuk asked if there is a deadline for when the content relating to WordPress 5.9 needs to be created, and published.

Great question on timeframes. This is the team’s first time through aiming to have content for 5.9 included close to release.

As such, before release is great for users, but soon after is reasonable in our first endeavor into covering the main features of 5.9 this time through.

@courane01

It was agreed that mid-February sounds like a good tentative deadline.

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. Getting Involved:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/
  2. About The Team:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/about/ 
  3. Our Team Blog:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/ 
  4. Our Content Roadmap:- https://trello.com/b/BsfzszRM/wordpress-training-team-lesson-plan-development 
  5. What We Are Currently Working On This Month:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/category/sprint/
  6. Learn WordPress Roadmap:- https://trello.com/b/rK1tztAA/learn-wordpress 
  7. Learn WordPress Issues Log:- https://github.com/WordPress/learn
  8. Our Lesson Plans:- https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson-plans/
  9. Our YouTube Channel:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnxqNA0WORZXWurEP6cNV6w 
  10. Learn Website:- https://learn.wordpress.org/

Recap of the Training Team meeting, January 4, 2022

Agenda

Ways to get involved

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Live meeting attendees: @courane01 @azhiyadev @rkohilakis @webcommsat @elblakeo31 @nalininonstopnewsuk @ndiego @arasae @boogah
Async: @tantienhime @webtechpooja @meher

Meeting Notetakers

Volunteers needed:

  • team members interested in managing account access to Learn/Training team sites, answering any questions for new people eg helping new team members draft meeting recaps, pointing them to specific content in the handbook, and more
  • notetakers
  • to take part in the January 2022 focusing on the WordPress 5.9 release

Goal setting for the Training Team for 2022

Team Goal Setting document.

In December 2021, started part 2 of Team goal setting. To recap, in part 1, defined the Training Team’s

  • vision
  • values
  • stakeholders
  • ideas that will help us reach the vision and what will help us operate as a team

In part 2, the team: 

  • grouped the ideas into in-scope and out of scope. Out of scope was anything that was not within our remit (that is it relied on external parties to deliver), required additional development resources, or had too many dependencies that need to be in place before we could even consider working on it
  • broke this down into order of priority and grouped this into themes 
  • worked and can continue to collaborate async and update following frames on the Miro board.
    • Methods – what are the actions and steps that we need to take to get the job done? Please rank this in order of priority.
    • Obstacles – what obstacles do we face in accomplishing all this and how can we overcome them?
    • Metrics – how can we measure what we’ve done to identify if it is successful or not?
    • Link to the Miro board. This has been switched to view mode and if you would like edit access, please contact the team reps. On the board, P1 and P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. represent Priority 1 and Priority 2.

APAC friendly meeting

With @webtechpooja joining the team reps for 2022, there have been discussions on running an APAC-friendly meeting. 

Actions/ requests:

  • Share this with those that may want to contribute.
  • Please complete the Doodle poll to help us identify the best time to run this meeting. Results of the poll will be announced at the next team meeting

LearnWP calendar

https://learn.wordpress.org/social-learning/

Training has received enquiries about potentially using the Social Learning Spaces (SLS) calendar in a few new ways. This calendar is part of the Upcoming Events 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. in all WP Admin Dashboard views.

Useful reading material and how to apply to be involved with the Social Learning Spaces (formerly known as Discussion Groups for Learn WordPress):

There is no post on this, but please refer to this Learn WP GitHub issue to integrate it into the meetings calendar 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

Examples of SLS applications:

  • Proposal for a Gutenberg Developer Hour Series of events (@bph)
  • Creating a Block-based theme from scratch@daisyo and @welcher are conducting multiple sessions through a Twitch series on building from scratch a 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.

Discussion on the potential widening and use of Social Learning Spaces calendar

The below is a summary of the discussion in the meeting. Please add further suggestions and thoughts in the comments at the end of this post.

  • @arasae: I would love to see this calendar filled up with a variety of events from contributors from everywhere. It sounds like the questions that need to be answered are: “What can go on the calendar, and how do I get on that calendar?”
  • @courane01
    • we also have brand guidelines
    • this makes sense, especially the 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/ Dev Hours
    • what considerations do we have for others to also host various events both on SLS calendar AND livestream wherever else? Team is working on processes. There’s already vetting in process. To facilitate, one must apply. This will go through a group similar to Community Deputies for consideration.
    • as a team, what documentation do we want for guidelines and who will do the work of vetting all that? We are launching something similar to Community Deputies, and this likely would go there. But are we accounting for the increased workload if we really open this up to anyone wishing? 
  • @bph: As for the Developer Hours, it would all have wp.org branding only the zoom link and the promotion would run through Gutenberg Times. I was just trying to figure out if a meetup.com event would get more people interested in the events. Requested access as an organizer to the 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. space to be able to update the calendar for this.
  • @courane01: Elevating it would be important and definitely wanted to see it there.
  • @nalininonstopnewsuk:
    • In terms of thinking about branding and marketing. Does the idea of opening up the events mean they would not necessarily be Learn WP events, but could be run, hosted, marketed by others in the ecosystem?
    • There are also marketing and data aspects to that question Courtney in terms of who can host and promotion. Would the normal review process occur in the same way as someone wanting to submit a workshop?
    • Another consideration, is whether the events would be recorded, how that recording would be used, and where it would appear in the future.
    • Consideration for how questions are encouraged to be raised during the event, and how they might be shared if it the recording appears on other platforms.
  • @courane01: I don’t have a lot of guidelines yet, but am in the phase of forming questions to consider. If we cross-promote, do we mention that “you can go to my profile to get more”? Do we care if folks need to sign up on multiple platforms
  • @nalininonstopnewsuk: The data issue is one we should consider. Consider guidelines on what mailing lists people may end up signing up to in order to be able to attend a session.
  • @courane01: If folks sign up on something to get access, it can put them onto email lists for promotions.
  • @arasae: so basically, someone who applies to run an event on Learn also does events outside of Learn. We need guidelines on if they can mention their other things while they run their Learn event? @courane01: yes. @arasae: can see how that could be an issue. The multiple platforms one is tricky, for sure! I would prefer one centralized place, but I’m not sure how to make that happen or if that’s even the best way about it.
  • @azhiyadev: I think the brand guidelines would come into play for workshops, SLS and lesson plans. I think for the Developer Hours, this can come onto Learn, there is a post on it for .org and @bph has already been vetted.
  • @arasae: So, guidelines for social learning calendar options would be on:
    • self-promotion outside of Learn WP
    • which things appear on the calendar and which are outside the scope of the calender (so basically, the answer to the question ‘what makes something an SLS?’)
    • others to be determined
    • with considerations on what people are signing up for (I know I get annoyed with the # of meetup emails I get) when they attend SLSs.
  • @boogah: I’m fine doing what I do for Learn (running SLSs) being explicitly for Learn and that’s it. However, I realize that, as someone whose time is sponsored by a corporate entity, my being fine with not getting them involved on any SLSs might be a minority opinion. So long as day job can say “Our very own Jason is running this SLS in n days” on Twitter and promote the event, I think that’s all they need out of the deal
  • @courane01: My own take, the content of what I’d consider also putting in would adhere very much to WP.org ethos and be impartial, but to view livestreams, it’d be signing up to my employer’s instance of Bevy, or even joining a Zoom that has our branding on that browser page that loads. I want to handle things delicately and consider all concerns. I could also just go with Zoom and SLS as is for topics that are appropriate. @boogah: Makes perfect sense.
  • @arasae: Product placement: is it okay if your employer/twitch ID/etc. exists in the background or not. Got it. Thank you for clarifying, Courtney!
  • @courane01: email sign ups or promoting our personal accounts though is a concern not addressed in brand guidelines.
  • @nalininonstopnewsuk:
    • also if corporate zoom accounts are being used, checks on whether they are being automatically recorded
  • @webcommsat:
    • the guidelines to use need to be simple to follow to not be a barrier if the aim is to encourage others to do partnership/ joint events in this space, and also to minimize inadvertent breaches from over complex information

January 2022 sprint – focus on WordPress 5.9 Release

Update from @azhiyadev

January 2022 sprint document – please read and add updates. This is an area to note the lesson plan and courses that need to be updated as well as the courses, lesson plans or workshops that need to be created too.

With the release of 5.9 scheduled for this month, all our efforts will be focused on updating Learn. Courtney and Hauwa have gone through all the content on Learn WP, updating the 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. (WP version and included content). With the release of 5.9, WordPress will now consist of four different types of themes:

  • Block theme: a theme made for FSE using HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. templates and theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML., allowing one to manage all parts of their site with blocks.
  • Universal theme: a theme that works with both the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. and the Site Editor.
  • Hybrid theme: a classic theme that adopts a feature(s) of FSE, like theme.json or the template editor.
  • Classic theme: a theme built the way we’ve been used to with PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php. templates, functions.php, and more.

We will need to keep this in mind when creating content for Learn. We’ve broken the content down into 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. and new content needed for 5.9. Each topic identifies the lesson plan that needs to be updated and if there is also a corresponding workshop that needs to be updated.
@courane01: There is a lot of content that needs to be updated (see 5.9 Revisions Needed)

As well as new content (see New Content Needed)

Volunteers needed:

  • Action: if you are interested in helping then please make a comment on the Sprint post saying what you can help with
  • @rkohilakis & @bph volunteered during the meeting. @nalininonstopnewsuk will confirm next as also involved with the release
  • @courane01: This will be the biggest push on updating content across Training team materials/Learn that the team has conducted in cadence with a WP release yet. Amongst the things we are also assessing is how to include Training contributors that revise and create content in a similar manner to how Docs does for release props
  • @ndiego : question: to tackle, for example, How to use WordPress Block Patterns”, how do I start that process?
    • @courane01: Team reps can get contributors access to Learn WP. Then they can share a link to the posts for review. The team has a great revisions updater plugin.
    • Would you like to claim the lesson plan and workshop videos of this topic? For video, I will check with the forming vetting team regarding how to handle this for updating. This is a first time around for this.
  • @nalininonstopnewsuk with @webcommsat reviewed two of the courses on FSE on Learn WP this last week, and identified some UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it. issues for courses in general. @azhiyadev to add the update to the January sprint
  • The January sprint will focus on the release. If you need help creating content, there are some great workshop videos ready for you to learn how training does this:

@arasae summarized the process:

  1. Pick a topic. Is there anything else we should do?
  2. Get access if you don’t have it already to learn.wordpress.org
  3. Watch the video ‘how to use the revisions extended plugin
  4. Make the revisions on the website using the video as a guide.
  5. Get it reviewed (do we ask here in this chat?)
  6. Revisions made
  7. Changes published and

@courane01: comment either in team channel or on sprint post so we can keep track of who is doing what.

This summary has been appended as a comment on the January 2022 Sprint post.

Social media collaboration on WordPress 5.9

@webcommsat: We will be continuing this in the marketing slack Wed 5 and 12 January 2022, from 14:00 UTC. As usual, fellow training team members are very welcome. Another example of how the two teams are collaborating well together.

Open Floor

@nalininonstopnewsuk: for the new people to this team, there is a box at the top of the Training homepage which has some key links. For example, the sprints document. It is a good place to find the latest things. Most teams have a similar box. https://make.wordpress.org/training/

APAC-friendly meetings: @azhiyadev: The idea is to have two identical meetings, the second one might be a recap of the first. Contributors are not expected to attend both, but can if they would like to.

Props to @webcommsat for notetaking, @courane01 and @azhiyadev for leading the meeting.

#5-9, #marketing, #training-team

Recap for Training Team Meeting October 19, 2021

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The agenda for the meeting can be found here.

Introductions and Welcome

In attendance: @azhiyadev @courane01 @nikhiljoshua @onealtr @peteringersoll @tantienhime @arasae @rkohilakis @webcommsat

Welcome to the following:

News

  1. Welcome and Support Flow Wranglers – we are still looking for team members interested in managing account access to Learn/Training team sites, and answering any questions for new people. This could also include helping new team members draft meeting recaps, pointing them to specific content in the handbook, and more. Interested? Let us know!
  2. Meeting Note Takers – We haven’t had any meeting notes for a few weeks now and urgently need help with this. It is a great way to learn more about the Training Team and what we are working on. Interested? Let us know!
  3. A Dedicated Volunteer Program for the Training Team – this is similar to the deputies in #community-team but specific to Learn/Training. Comments on this have now closed. A8C will be hosting a session to document all the work that goes into Learn WordPress management. This has been scheduled for the week beginning 8th November. Exact times and dates to be communicated. Everyone is invited.
  4. Meeting Time Changes – Please let us know your preference for future meetings by completing our poll. We will close the poll at next week’s meeting and annouce the results after the meeting.
  5. Contributor Days – these are open opportunities for our team and anyone interested to participate.
    1. Contribute2WP with WP Engine – Sign up forms are on the WP Engine post, and this is awaiting review from their team. Many will be new to contributing and Learn itself. @rkohilakis is going to work on some instructional design ideas that could help out. This will hopefully develop into a workflow around working with Subject Matter Experts.
    2. Documentation for faculty program with Automattic – we will await more info on the Automattic contributor session will occur during the week of November 8.
  6. Comments needed 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/ about Workshops – this is a continuation of the video production quality.

Badges Awarded

These folks have contributed content, community outreach, and more over the past few months. Check out your .org profiles @peteringersoll @binarygary @hughlashbrooke @rkohilakis @west7 @arasae

October Sprint

Progress

  1. Learn Content- the following workshops have now been published:
    1. How to create a Post of Page with the WordPress Block Editor @west7
    2. Managing Settings: General @rkohilakis
    3. We need start a workflow to promote these. During Yoast’s 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/.@abhanonstopnewsuk @vimes1984@yvettesonneveld and others began drafting social media posts to promote each published item on Learn. We’d will continue sharing what is published and ready for promotion. This will be held in #marketing after their team meeting which starts at 14:00 UTC.
  2. Learn Maintenance
    1. Check out the list of open Learn issues on GitHub. If you are interested in helping out then please let us know.

Check-in

@courane01 is going to write a lesson plan, create a workshop vid, get her workshop subtitled, and work on the Training team course.

@rkohilakis will be breaking down the Admin Setting lesson plan into smaller video chunks as the original video was too long. She has also hosted her first discussion group. She will continue to keep updating the Setting workshops and plan for another meeting. For those interested in running a discussion group check out the following:

@azhiyadev will recap all the meetings for this month.

@arasae is still working on the course Getting Started With WordPress: Get Familiar. She has experienced a few issues uploading and linking to videos. She is considering making a few short video workshops to embed into the course as well as to engage all learning styles, specifically on Posts vs. Pages, demo content, and possibly query loops

Open Discussions

@peteringersoll asked if we have any stats on video workshops and courses viewed. This could be an indicator of how effective the promotion of new workshops is. We will be promoting content on Learn as part of the collaboration with #marketing tomorrow. @hughlashbrooke said video views are hard to obtain but page views can be obtained via Google Analytics. He is going to ask for this to be added to the dashboard.

@peteringersoll asked if our hashtags are #LearnWP and #wptraining. @webcommsat confirmed that our hashtags are #LearnWP (in this format). #marketing does monitor #WPTraining which is used for non LearnWP items but it is not one that is currently used by #marketing. There are some promotions outside of WordPress, like #LearnWordPress that can be more effective.


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