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Jagir Bahesh 10:48 am on October 9, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 03rd October 2024

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2915

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/. Log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1727913694053239
(If you don’t have a Slack account, you can set one up.)

Attendees: @kaitohm, @west7, @voboghure, @jagirbahesh, @davidmutero, @noruzzaman, @sumitsingh, @digitalchild, @devmuhib, @darshanprajapat09, @zeelthakkar, @ardianimaya(async), @psykro, @mebo(async), @cnormandigital(async), @nishitajoshi(async), @rithika3(async), @rinkuiihglobal(async), @ironnysh(async), @rfluethi(async), @chauhanraj754(async)

Newcomers: @cristimacovei21, @tawandamoyo, @samaaburahma, @flickimp, @robpie, @shakhawat579, @donnapep, @dineshjain2911, @zazap, @timiodubola

Note taker: @jagirbahesh

News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current note taker roster:

Looking for feedback

  • @cnormandigital : suggests implementing a review process for the creation of module quizzes and activities.
  • @west7: Currently, we don’t have a formal review process, but we do test quizzes and review activities internally. While this shouldn’t be a blocker, content creators can request a review if they’re uncertain about any aspect. https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/lessons/creating-lesson-module-quizzes-activities/
  • @west7: In the past, we’ve created quizzes and activities after completing the course or learning pathway. While I agree we shouldn’t introduce a new workflow 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/, it’s easier to review quizzes and activities once they’re built in Sensei. Additionally, creating them after completing a module or course helps provide a clearer overall perspective.
  • @cnormandigital: Keep in mind that evaluations will include hands-on activities using Playground and Blueprints. With these added components, I believe a review process is important, and having separate GitHub issues to track the evaluation activities would be helpful.

Looking for volunteers

  • Call for Contributors: Designer Learning Pathway
    We’re creating exciting new content and need help with scriptwriting, voice recording, video editing, content creation, and reviewing. If you’re interested in contributing, leave a comment on this GitHub issue: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2889. For more information, feel free to reach out to @west7 or ask questions here.
  • Looking for volunteer to take over testing of GatherPress for the Training Team.
    With @lada7042 departure, we need someone to take over as the liaison between the GatherPress project and the Training Team. Responsibilities include:
    • Joining the GatherPress Slack channel and staying informed on project updates.
    • Regularly reporting back to the Training Team.
    • Running test scenarios and providing feedback to the GatherPress team.

Other News

  • @lada7042 Since December of last year, she has been serving as a Training 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.. Recently, she announced that she’s stepping down from both the team and the WordPress project. Here’s her original message shared on Slack:
  • @zoonini: Duplicate functionality is temporarily hidden on Learn
  • Learn WordPress performance – First two months
    It’s been two months since the redesigned Learn WordPress site, with a focus on Learning Pathways, was launched. @zoonini gathered data showing positive results: high learner satisfaction, a course completion rate above industry standards, and the highest video retention rate Learn WordPress has ever achieved. More details can be found in the full report here.
  • Upcoming Online Workshop: Build a Portfolio Website Using a Block Theme and Patterns.

Come and Contribute

Contribution Acknowledgement

  • Props:
    • @kaitohm A big thank you to our team reps, @lada7042, @digitalchild, and @piyopiyofox, for holding down the fort during my sabbatical.
    • @west7 given props to @zoonini for publishing the Learn WordPress Performance post and her contributions to the Guide Program.
    • @west7 given props to @flickimp for completing his first voice-over recording for a lesson in the Beginner Designer learning pathway.
    • @west7 given props to @soie7 for editing scripts.
    • @digitalchild given props to @lada7042 for all her hard work in the training team, helping me as the interim rep and everything you have contributed to the team.

Contributor Updates

  • What have you been working on and how has it been going?
  • Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
  • Can other Training Team members help you in some way?

@kaitohm: Catching up on all the team updates while I was away. Excited to see the Learn relaunch was a success, with learners more engaged on the new site!

@ardianimaya: I’ll be on a 1-month break soon, but before that, I’ll finish and publish the Contributor Spotlight on @psykro by mid-next week CC @ironnysh

@psykro: I have been performing check ins with all the contributors working on 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 developer learning pathway.

@cnormandigital: I’m adding theme files to a GitHub repository for integration with a Playground Blueprint, which will connect to the new Playground 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. in Sensei lessons. Excited about the potential for advanced skill evaluation!

@rfluethi: I’ve completed my first lesson translation! Now, I’m preparing a presentation for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Karlsruhe on Learn.WordPress.com and organizing a local study group to explore the learning paths together.

@kaitohm: Shared the link to my slides from WordCamp EU this year. You can use any information from them in your presentation. With the relaunch of Learn, we now have more Learning Pathways to share!

You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.

#meeting-recap

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zeelthakkar 1:40 pm on October 1, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 26th September 2024

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2906

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/. Log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1727308883252809
(If you don’t have a Slack account, you can set one up.)

Attendees: @lada7042, @jessecowens, @west7, @Israel Barragan, @sumitsingh, @jhimross (async), @freewebmentor(async), @darshanprajapat09(async), @noruzzaman(async), @nishitajoshi(async), @rinkuiihglobal(async), @rithika3(async), @zeelthakkar(async), @devmuhib(async), @jagirbahesh(async), @digitalchild(async), @ironnysh(async), @cnormandigital(async), @rfluethi(async), @zoonini(async), @askdesign(async), @chauhanraj754(async)

Newcomers: @Robert Biswas, @Marko Mladenovic, @rahuldsarker, @Francesco Lastrucci

Note taker: @zeelthakkar

News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current note taker roster:

Looking for feedback

Are you a designer? Your feedback is valuable! We’re seeking input on a draft outline for the Designer learning pathway. The goal is to begin developing content for the Beginner level by the end of the month.

Looking for volunteers

The WordPress Training Team is looking for contributors to host Learn WordPress Online Workshops. This is an opportunity to share your expertise, connect with a global audience, and make a positive impact. Hosts can present in their preferred language and time zone while engaging with attendees and giving back to the community. It’s a great way to expand your network and help others improve their WordPress skills. Apply now to become a facilitator!

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

The next dev-squad triage session is scheduled for 07:00 UTC in the #meta-learn channel. These bi-weekly meetings focus on reviewing open PRs and addressing new bugs from the Learn WordPress GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repository.

Other News

Come and Contribute

Feedback awaiting validation

Project updates

  • Mentorship cohort

    The Q4 mentorship program is fully booked, so sessions will be delivered through Online Workshops covering various aspects of the WordPress project and team introductions. These workshops will be scheduled soon and open to the public.

    @west7 has been created the Beginner designer Learning Pathway GitHub Project: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2889

Contributor Updates

  • What have you been working on and how has it been going?
  • Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
  • Can other Faculty or Training Team members help you in some way?

@jessecowens Volunteered to lead the REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. module for the intermediate developer pathway at WCUS and is now back from the event, excited to provide updates before next week’s meeting.

@west7 Made progress on the Designer Learning Pathway outline, created a new lesson, and is currently working on scriptwriting for another lesson.

@digitalchild Conducted some reviews but has been limited due to traveling.

@zoonini Focused on the Guide program administration, handling deprecated tutorial redirects, and migrating tutorials to lessons, before starting a 3-month sabbatical on Oct. 3.

 Upcoming Online Workshops to attend

You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.

#meeting-recap

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Noruzzaman 4:00 am on September 24, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 19th September 2024

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2886

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/. Log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1726704033549259 (If you don’t have a Slack account, you can set one up.)

Attendees: @west7, @zoonini, @noruzzaman, @lada7042, @chauhanraj754, @voboghure, @zeelthakkar, @rithika3, @nishitajoshi, @darshanprajapat09, @jagirbahesh, @digitalchild, @rfluethi, @devmuhib, @cnormandigital, @amitpatelmd, @psykro, @mebo, @rinkuiihglobal, @ironnysh

Newcomers: @michelleblanchette, @cyriacathickal, @david111780, @jpdavid, @yasser1992, @itsukihayashi, @isolankiparth, @areziaal, @hugobld, @pocornell, @mkastler, @lbones, @turboaddons, @lintonhale, @david-innes, @catcreates

Note taker: Noruzzaman

News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current note taker roster:

Looking for feedback

Looking for volunteers

  • Call for Contributors: Become an Online Workshop Host
    • Are you passionate about WordPress and helping others? The Training Team is seeking contributors to host Learn WordPress Online Workshops! Share your expertise, connect with a global audience, and make an impact. Host a live workshop in your preferred language and time zone, engage with attendees, and give back to the community. Expand your network while helping others improve their WordPress skills. Apply to facilitate – we’re excited to work with you!
  • Content Creators: Designer learning pathway
    • If you would like to help create content for the upcoming Designer learning pathway, please reach out to @westnz or respond to this thread.

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

  • The next dev-squad triage session will be held Thursday, September 19, 07:00 UTC
    Location: #meta-learn
  • These bi-weekly sessions are where we triage any open PRs or new bugs opened on the Learn WordPress GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repository.

Other News

  • Tour the New Learn WordPress
    • As part of our ongoing cross-team effort to attract new users to the Learn platform, here is the recently published Tour the New Learn WordPress. The video was also published on YouTube.
  • YouTube and Learn WordPress
    • A new Learn WordPress section has been added to the WordPress YouTube channel home page below featured playlists.

Come and Contribute

This week’s contribution focus area

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • We have 4 issues that require vetting

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Contribution Acknowledgement

Project updates

Open Discussions

  • @west7 say what has been some of the highlights from Contributor Day and WCUS 2024? and @zoonini reply One of the highlights for me was having a really great brainstorming session around drawing new learners to the site. I’ll be posting a summary of that discussion in the comments on the post.
  • @lada7042 say would it be good to have an upcoming events section in our weekly meetings? and @Jonathan reply I’d like to share this production update on 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 developer learning pathway with the team https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2044#issuecomment-2363439236

You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.

#meeting-recap

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Raj Chauhan 3:32 am on September 19, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 12 September 2024

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2880
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/. Log: URL (If you don’t have a Slack account, you can set one up.)
Attendees: @digitalchild, @west7, @noruzzaman, @chauhanraj754, @voboghure(async), @nishitajoshi, @rithika3, @amitpatelmd(async), @ironnysh(async), @rinkuiihglobal(async), @cnormandigital(async), @sierratr(async), @zoonini(async), @sumitsingh(async), @zeelthakkar(async), @psykro(async), @jagirbahesh(async), @rfluethi(async)

Newcomers: @Cyrille C, @Abiodun Adeniji, @Tia Wood, @Teresia Dian, @Mustak Mohd, @Praful Patel

News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current note taker roster:

  • Sept. 12 – Raj Chauhan
  • Sept. 19 – noruzzaman
  • Sept 26 – looking for a volunteer
  • Oct 3 – looking for voluntee

Looking for feedback

  • Drawing new learners to the new Learn WordPress site – Deadline extended !
  • Please share your feedback on which idea we should start with first, to attract new learners to Learn WordPress. Deadline extended until Sept. 24. Big thanks to those who have shared their thoughts already, your input is appreciated!
  • https://make.wordpress.org/training/2024/08/28/drawing-new-learners-to-the-new-learn-wordpress-org/
  • Re-evaluating the SME role
  • While making handbook pages during the process of retiring the Faculty Program, it came up during discussions with the team reps and content creators that we probably no longer need a separate role for Subject Matter Expert (SME).
  • Perhaps we could combine the SME role with the Editor role?
  • Since we’re going to now try using the GitHub Learn team for reviews (reference), this single 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/ team could be pinged for feedback on GitHub issues, instead of the previous two separate groups.
  • Please provide feedback by Sept. 20.
  • We appreciate everyone’s feedback. It helps to strength the team and provide new contributors with clear and concise information. 

Looking for volunteers

  • Call for Contributors: Become an Online Workshop Host
  • Are you passionate about WordPress and helping others? The Training Team is seeking contributors to host Learn WordPress Online Workshops! Share your expertise, connect with a global audience, and make an impact. Host a live workshop in your preferred language and time zone, engage with attendees, and give back to the community. Expand your network while helping others improve their WordPress skills. Apply to facilitate – we’re excited to work with you!
  • We always need more people to present online workshops, its a great way to learn more by sharing!

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

  • No meeting this week

Other News

Come and Contribute

This week’s contribution focus area

This weeks focus will be on  Feedback awaiting validation
See Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on validating feedback.

We have 27 issues that require validation

and Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • We have 4 issues that require vetting

and finally Validated feedback awaiting fix

We have a number of issues across these three areas that are ready to be worked on. If you would like to contribute this is a great way to start. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out on here and we will be happy to help you get started.

Contribution Acknowledgement

  • Badges awarded: Badges are awarded at the last meeting of the month. Please fill out applications prior to the last Monday of the month so the team reps can review at their meeting. You must meet Team badge requirements 
  • Props: Do you have someone from the team you want to celebrate!!

Project updates

Learning Pathways Update

Contributor Updates

  • What have you been working on and how has it been going?
  • Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
  • Do you have any blockers?
  • Can other contributor or Training Team members help you in some way?

Open Discussions

  • If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them below.
  • Please continue to contribute your thoughts asynchronously!

You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.

#meeting-recap

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Noruzzaman 5:40 am on August 28, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 22 August 2024

Overview

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2848

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/. Log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1724284815253509 (If you don’t have a Slack account, you can set one up.)

Attendees: @digitalchild @noruzzaman @newyorkerlaura @piyopiyofox @west7 @dhaval59 @devmuhib @nishitajoshi @rithika3 @darshanprajapat09 @chauhanraj754 @voboghure @rinkuiihglobal @rfluethi @ironnysh @zeelthakkar @zoonini @sierratr @jagirbahesh @amitpatelmd @psykro @shalomt @cnormandigital @lada7042

Newcomers: @sion99 @hansmosl @hyilmaz @jackieriel @erakhil08 @bobdunn-trainer

Note Taker: @noruzzaman

News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current note taker roster:

Looking for feedback

Vote for the Learn WordPress North Star. Thank you for your feedback. The team reps narrowed it down to 3 options. Please vote 1, 2, or 3 in the thread for the one you feel best conveys Learn WordPress’ purpose. Why we are part of this team?

  1. Learn WordPress makes WordPress knowledge accessible to all by empowering individuals around the world to create, contribute, and grow within the WordPress ecosystem.
  2. To make WordPress knowledge accessible to all through Learn WordPress, empowering everyone to create, contribute, and grow within the WordPress ecosystem.
  3. Learn WordPress is the source for the most up-to-date educational content on WordPress for Users, Developers, and Designers of WordPress.

You can vote here

Now that the new Learn WordPress site has launched. There are a number of items on the post-launch list, which you can see here: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/milestone/21

  • If you encounter any bugs or want to suggest an enhancement, please use the feedback template 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/.

Looking for volunteers

Call for contributors: Intermediate Plugin Developer Learning Pathway

Jonathan Bossenger  has put out a call for volunteers to help with creating the next Developer Learning Pathway– please reply in this thread if you would like to be a part of these efforts.

Project Thread: Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1

  • We are still looking for contributors to help shape and work on this project. Please comment on the post if you’re interested.

Call for testing: Playground 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. on Learn WordPress

  • Thanks to the work of Alex Stine and Brandon Payton, we have been testing and fixing a11yAccessibility 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) issues in the Playground block on Learn WordPress. All of the outstanding issues have now been fixed, so we’d like to ask other a11y experts to help us test.
  • You can find more details on this testing issue: Test Playground Block on Learn WordPress. #2352

Dev Squad Updates

There was no dev squad last week. You can join this week. But there is this week! Come join us.
The calendar for when these meetings occur has also been updated on our Training Team site welcome box, so please be mindful that the dev squad meets biweekly (every other week) on Thursdays 07:00 UTC. You can view our scheduled meetings in this calendar.

Other news

Come and Contribute

This week’s contribution focus area

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • We have 4 issues that require vetting

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Contribution Acknowledgement

Badges awarded: End of the month

Props:

  • Props to Cynthia Norman for hosting your first Online Workshop on adding 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. to classic themes!

Project updates

Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress See the latest project update here – https://make.wordpress.org/training/2023/07/07/project-thread-learning-pathways-on-learn-wordpress/#comment-4340

Contributor Updates

Jamie Madden Working on reviewing lessons as well as scripts.

Destiny Kanno Working on Phasing myself out of the Training Guide program for now. She also added New meeting notes format, TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket for an approval button for WordPress.tv categories and Content Maintenance Project

Wes Theron Working on Creating video lessons for the Advanced user learning pathway. Collaborating on lessons with other contributors and Writing scripts.

Rico F. Lüthi Working on Familiarization with video production and how efficiently videos can be translated into other languages.

Kathryn Presner Working on Faculty Program retirement – working on process/handbook updates with the team reps, Guide program admin – matching guides with new contributors, ongoing program maintenance, Learn WP remake – moving along remaining items on the  project, and Co-hosted Cynthia Norman first Online Workshop and guided through prep/after-workshop steps

Jonathan Bossenger Working with various contributors on 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 developer learning pathway content, Guiding two new members to the training team, Hosted dev-squad triage, Planning next in person course cohort with Kathryn Presner

Open Discussions

This was mentioned above, but will repeat here in context. Open discussions and looking for feedback should have a follow up place. If you have any ideas reply in the thread above. If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this issue. You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.

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.

#learn-wordpress, #meeting-recap, #training, #training-team

zeelthakkar 1:35 pm on August 21, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 15th August 2024

This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. account, you can set one up.)

Introductions and Welcome

There were 21 attendees @lada7042, @piyopiyofox, @zeelthakkar, @gwallace87, @rebeensarbast, @voboghure, @jagirbahesh, @digitalchild, @west7, @rithika3, @devmuhib(async), @nishitajoshi(async), @dhaval59(async), @darshanprajapat09(async), @noruzzaman(async), @psykro(async), @zoonini(async), @sierratr(async), @shalomt(async), @cnormandigital(async), @ironnysh(async)

Welcome, to all the new contributors who joined the Training Team’s Slack channel in the last week:

@rebeensarbast, @Mathieu Lamiot, @Oliver Bock, @Brett McSherry, @EidolonNight

For those who are new here, the WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through educational content hosted on Learn.WordPress.org.

If you haven’t seen them yet, then I recommend checking out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program

News

Meeting Note Takers

August 15 – @zeelthakkar
August 22 – @noruzzaman
August 29 – @Marar Rithika
Sept. 5 – @nishitajoshi

Meeting recap notes are one of the best ways to get started contributing to a team, and you can find details on how to write notes on this handbook page.

Looking for feedback

Vote for the Learn WordPress North Star by submitting their choice in this survey

With the launch of the new Learn WordPress site, several post-launch tasks need attention. You can view the list here: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/milestone/21. If you find any bugs or have suggestions for improvements, please use the feedback template 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/.

With the new learning pathways published, some courses have become outdated. To streamline content, @west7 and @psykro propose deprecating several courses and directing users to the relevant pathways. This will reduce duplication and make updates easier. If you have suggestions for other courses to deprecate or believe any on the list should be kept, please share your thoughts in the thread.

Looking for volunteers

Call for contributors: Intermediate Plugin Developer Learning Pathway

@psykro is working on this and is looking for scriptwriters, video editors, and researchers to assist. If you have time to help, please reach out.

Project Thread: Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1

We’re currently reviewing all learning materials, and setting up clear guidelines will make this task easier in the future.

Call for Testing: Playground 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. on Learn WordPress

Thanks to @alexstine and @brandonpayton, a11yAccessibility 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) issues in the Playground block have been addressed. We’re now asking other a11y experts to help with testing. More details are available in the testing issue #2352.

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Attendees: @psykro, @rfluethi, @noruzzaman, @digitalchild

User reporting strange behaviour when attempting to access course content #2774

Dev squad meetings are now scheduled biweekly on Thursdays at 07:00 UTC. Check the Training Team site welcome box for the updated calendar.

Other News

Until we test TranslatePress and document a new localization process, do not publish new translated courses or lessons. Prepare translations outside of Sensei for future use. (See Installing TranslatePress Pro on Learn #2445 &
Test TranslatePress #2339)

Thanks to @Jamie Madden and feedback from others, we clarified the admin approval process for videos. @Kathryn Presner & @Laura A updated the guidelines, and @Destiny will add an Approve button for categories. Thanks to @nilovelez for the feedback.

Callout blocks are deprecated. Use Notice blocks instead. When updating lessons, transfer text from Callout to Notice blocks. @Kathryn Presner added this update to the Learn.WordPress.org handbook.

Slack groups @faculty, @faculty-admin, @faculty-content-creators, @faculty-editors, @faculty-smes, @faculty-dev-squad, and @faculty-translation-coordinators have been retired. The private Faculty Program channel will be archived on Aug. 15. We’ll assess the need for new groups or channels based on feedback.

Come and Contribute

Feedback awaiting validation

Contributor Acknowledgement

@west7 suggested giving props to:

Kudos to @iRonnysh for finishing two new scripts for the Advanced user learning pathway.
Cheers to @Emmanuel for his first draft script on advanced SEO techniques.
Shoutout to @Ervan Yuffrizal for consistently producing high-quality videos.
Thanks to @Jamie Madden for script reviews.
Appreciation to @Maya for writing and organizing Spotlight posts.
Shoutout to @Soir and @Roelof Wobben for content reviews.

Project Updates

Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

See the latest project update here: https://make.wordpress.org/training/2023/07/07/project-thread-learning-pathways-on-learn-wordpress/#comment-4336

Open Discussions

@Jonathan suggests discussing the application of a feedback framework for GitHub issues related to the Learn WordPress site. With the new theme allowing the use of modern WordPress features, it’s crucial to balance control and influence. @Jonathan proposes addressing key questions: distinguishing features from bugs, setting priorities, determining testing and feedback timelines, and conducting risk analysis before implementing new changes. He seeks to start a discussion to establish and document a clear approach in the team handbook.

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.

#learn-wordpress, #meeting-recap, #training, #training-team

Dhaval Prajapati 5:45 pm on August 13, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 8th August 2024

This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. account, you can set one up.)

Introductions and Welcome

There were 22 attendees: @digitalchild, @piyopiyofox, @westnz, @shalomt, @lada7042, @noruzzaman, @webcreativeng, @jagirbahesh, @dhaval59, @zeelthakkar, @rithika3, @nishitajoshi, @darshanprajapat9,  @rinkuiihglobal, @chauhanraj754, @rfluethi (async), @devmuhib (async), @cnormandigital (async), @ironnysh (async),  @zoonini (async),@quitevisible (async), @vanpariyar (async)

I’d also like to welcome all the new contributors who joined the Training Team’s Slack channel in the last week:  @zainabbas056  @sandy-wcmp  @shalomt  @jeherve  @davidmutero  @dapobabarinde  @nikov 

News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current note taker roster.

Looking for feedback

Looking for volunteers

  • Project Thread: Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1
    • We are still looking for contributors to help shape and work on this project. Please comment on the post if you’re interested.
    • We have collected feedback about Learn WordPress’ North Star, and the team reps will reflect on what was discussed and present some options to the team in our next meeting.

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

  • There was no dev squad last week. You can join this week!

Other News

  • We’re starting to see reviews come in with a great review in WPShout.

Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

This is an area we would like to continue focus on as the list continues to grow each week.

Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • We have 4 issues that require vetting

We’d like folks to continue our focus on Validated feedback awaiting fix this week 

Project Updates

Open Discussions

Jamie Madden @digitalchild– While I was working on last months Learn Newsletter, I found it hard to find recent videos on WordPress.tv and impossible on the YouTube Channel. We do have https://wordpress.tv/category/learn-wordpress/ and a feed here – https://wordpress.tv/category/learn-wordpress/feed/.

In order for this to work, we need to remember to add the Learn WordPress categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. when submitting videos to WordPress.tv. For Online Workshops, the category Learn WordPress Online Workshops should be added as well. Full steps to submitting a Learn WordPress video in these guides:
https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/guidelines/tutorials/publishing-a-tutorial/
https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/online-workshops/after-an-online-workshop/

 

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.

#learn-wordpress, #meeting-recap, #training, #training-team

Jagir Bahesh 10:12 am on July 31, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 25th July 2024

This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. account, you can set one up.)

Introductions and Welcome

There were 26 attendees @lada7042, @piyopiyofox, @cotorra42, @Vagelis, @noruzzaman, @voboghure, @jagirbahesh, @digitalchild, @dhaval59, @devmuhib, @west7, @zeelthakkar, @rithika3, @nishitajoshi, @darshanprajapat09, @freewebmentor, @onealtr(async), @sumitsingh(async), @rinkuiihglobal(async), @cnormandigital(async), @rfluethi(async), @zoonini(async), @courane01(async), @roelof(async), @backpocketACE(async), @ironnysh(async)

I’d also like to welcome all the new contributors who joined the Training Team’s Slack channel in the last week:

@miralg @yupeng2686 @anveshika @albatross10 @lighthouse79 @janmtm @kozzmen @amitkryadav

For those who are new here, the WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through educational content hosted on Learn.WordPress.org.

If you haven’t seen them yet, then I recommend checking out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program

News

Meeting Note Takers

  • Here is our current note taker roster.
    July 25 – @Jagir Bahesh
    August 1 – @Nazmul Hosen
    August 8 – @Dhaval Prajapati
    August 15 – @Zeel Thakkar
  • Writing meeting recap notes is an excellent way to start contributing to a team. You can find detailed instructions on how to write these notes in the link above.

Looking for feedback

What is Learn WordPress’s north star?

  • Current north star under the Learn WordPress heading
  • A ‘north star’ is similar to a mission statement about the purpose of our team.
  • Please share your thoughts. so we can create our ‘north star’.

Here are some ideas the team representatives generated during a brainstorming session.

  • Is Learn WordPress the site where folks come to learn about the most relevant and up to date content on WordPress?
  • Is it the place where we encourage and guide folks to be at the forefront of the software?
  • Fostering a collaborative learning community
  • Relevant + most up to date
  • The place to come to learn about WordPress

@west7 : Teaching and assisting learners of all skill levels to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress.

Online Workshop 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. Survey

  • @digitalchild has finalising a survey
  • Please share your feedback.
  • Also, if you are hosting an online workshop, please share the survey link after your session!

Meeting Notes Recap

  • The team representatives are considering updating the meeting notes format. Please share your suggestions.

Looking for volunteers

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Anyone interested please join to dev-squad triage Meeting.

Other News

Current Focus Areas

We’ve refreshed the current focus areas on the Make WordPress Training page to ensure it’s up-to-date and clearly displays our active projects:

  • Revised the top section to highlight only our goals.
  • Removed the Highlight section.
  • Updated the “Work in Progress” area.
  • Prioritized three projects at a time for the team.

How does it look? Please share your thoughts.

Onboarding Hour

For new contributor @piyopiyofox will host the onboarding hour for new contributors in August:

Also we will provide the zoom links will be posted in the #training Slack channel 5 minutes before the sessions.

Come and Contribute

Highlights This Week

Come and Contribute

  • What projects or tasks have you been focusing on lately, and how are they progressing?
  • Have you achieved any milestones or completed any goals since our last discussion?
  • Are there any challenges or obstacles you’re currently facing?
  • Is there any support or assistance needed from other Faculty or Training Team members?
  • @lada7042:
    • Online workshops and onboarding
    • Successfully completed a three-part workshop and am becoming more adept at creating subtitles and using Otter.
  • @jagirbahesh:
    • Translated the topics into Gujarati.
  • @west7:
    • Published a new lesson: Exploring WordPress 6.6
    • Created a new lesson about CDNs and shared for review
  • @cnormandigital:
    • Publishing the Intermediate Theme Developer learning pathway lessons.
  • @rfluethi:
    • Started translating learning paths and understanding the process.
    • Trying to better place the Learn page on the German and Swiss sites, but the menus are hard to customize.
  • @zoonini:
    • Preparing for the Learn launch: News & Make Training posts, GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ issues, teaser video (voice-over recorded), two Online Workshops, thumbnail project, learner survey feedback.
    • Administering Guide program: matching contributors with Guides.
    • Drafting a handbook page for Faculty program retirement, detailing the team’s history.
  • @courane01:
    • She is working on the contributor dashboards.
  • @digitalchild:
    • Working on pathways video reviews and assisting in script technical support.
    • Reviewed several videos and scripts.

Open Discussions

You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.

#meeting-recap

Noruzzaman 10:58 am on July 25, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 18th July 2024

This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. account, you can set one up.)

Introductions and Welcome

There were 24 attendees @piyopiyofox, @cotorra42, @west7, @voboghure, @jagirbahesh, @digitalchild, @dhaval59, @devmuhib, @onealtr(async), @rithika3, @nishitajoshi, @rinkuiihglobal, @darshanprajapat9, @sumitsingh, @zeelthakkar, @rfluethi, @psykro, @lada7042, @cnormandigital, @zoonini, @amitpatelmd, @sierratr, @quitevisible, @ironnysh

Welcome to all the new contributors who joined the Training Team’s Slack channel in the last week:

@mokosu, @imranex, @priyazes, @greeninkerry, @eizwanzulkipli, @jwilson254wp, @roelof, @hardipparmar, @sam33r42, @raissamatho, @keithnoseworthy, @piotrmonka, @enamulwp

For those who are new here, the WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through educational content hosted on Learn.WordPress.org.

If you haven’t seen them yet, then I recommend checking out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program

News

Meeting Note Takers

Meeting recap notes are one of the best ways to get started contributing to a team, and you can find details on how to write notes on this handbook page.

Looking for feedback

@digitalchild is finalizing a survey for Online Workshop attendees in our Online Workshop 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. group.

  • Please share your feedback when the survey goes out
  • Also, if you are hosting an online workshop, please share the survey link after your session!

Jamie will share the survey link here once it’s finalized.

Looking for volunteers

Brainstorm & Table Lead – WordCamp US 2024 Contributor Day – we are looking for onsite and online table lead volunteers and ideas for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US 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/.!

  • Comment on this post with your ideas for what we should work on
  • Comment on this post to be considered for the table lead role

Project Thread: Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1 — we are recruiting project members for this project to help us with research and documentation.

  • Comment on this post if you are able to help with this work, and which part you’d like to help with 

Dev Squad Updates

I see that the dev squad met last week—any updates to share? @faculty-dev-squad

Other News

Gutenberg Times mentioned Learning Pathways 

Destiny Kanno says about WordCamp Canada last week — do attendees have any highlights to share?
Kathryn Presner says It was an excellent inaugural WordCamp Canada in Ottawa, Ontario! She ran the Training team table during Contributor Day and got three people started with testing the new Learn WordPress site (more details in the props section). They all did a great job finding bugs and reporting issues 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/, and one of them also made some thumbnails!

It was delightful to chat with Cynthia Norman (content creator working on the Intermediate Theme Developer Learning Pathway course) Bud Kraus (participant in the recent course cohort on developing your first 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.). She also gave a talk on Untangling Templates and had some great audience questions!

Come and Contribute

We’d like folks to focus on Content ready for review this week 

Find other ways to contribute to this

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • We have 2 issues that require vetting

Good first issues for developers

  • See Developing Learn WordPress for instructions on contributing to the Learn WordPress code.
  • We have 0 issues requiring development 

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Contribution Acknowledgement

Kathryn Presner shares: Props to the three people who attended WordCamp Canada’s Contributor Day and tested out the new Learn WordPress site: Ryan Frizzell, Teuila Mau, and Keith Noseworthy. Among them, they submitted five GitHub issues, and Teuila also created seven thumbnails! Thank you so much for your efforts in helping to make the new site the best it can be.

Teuila Mau also shares: It was nice meeting everyone! The Figma thumbnail generator was very easy to use and thanks to Kathryn Presner for getting me started on GitHub 

Project Updates

Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Project Thread: Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1

  • We kicked off the What is Learn WordPress’s north star and content commitments. discussion the previous week and we’ll bring it up again in today’s meeting for further feedback

Contributor Updates

Wes Theron has been working on a video lesson about WordPress 6.6 and a lesson for the Advanced user learning pathway.  Things have been progressing nicely. He was wondering if there are any folks who would be keen to write scripts for the Advanced user learning pathway.  This is a great way to contribute to content creation as well.

Muhibul Haque worked on a thumbnail generator project.

Destiny Kanno has done some handbook page updates for online workshops and is working on recording an updated video for creating an online workshop. I’m also trying to gather feedback for the new content maintenance process project.

Sumit Singh is guiding new members and he can see some more Indian WP folks active in today’s meeting. Also, he is working on polyglot for my local language

Rico worked on the thumbnail. He helps newcomers go through the WordPress Learn paths and answer additional questions. He also tries to find out why WordPress Learn is hardly known in German-speaking countries. (For example, the Learn page on the German-language WordPress.org site is only linked in the footer). Try to find the person responsible who can change this.

Laura Adamonis is Working on handbook pages about writing newsletters and team updates, online workshops, guide program.

Cynthia Norman has completed the recording of all of the planned Intermediate Theme Developer Learning Pathway lessons. Lessons are in review and should be on Sensei soon.

Kathryn Presner participated in WordCamp Canada as a speaker, Training team table lead at Contributor Day, and Happiness Bar volunteer. Continued to help with the Learn WP remake, including coordination of testing, thumbnails, marketing, an Online Workshop, and launch timing. Ongoing coordination of the Guide program, and worked on the first steps to retire the Faculty Program, which involved access changes and some initial handbook tweaks.

Open Discussions

  • What are Learn WordPress’s north star and content commitments?
    • Wes Theron says he is teaching and assisting learners of all skill levels to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress. He asked Destiny Kanno could you clarify what you mean by Learn’s content commitments?
    • Destiny Kanno replied Absolutely! I mean when it comes to our content maintenance. For example, is Learn WordPress focused on the most up-to-date and relevant content?
  • Last topic for the day… – Are the meeting notes in its current form beneficial?

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.

#learn-wordpress, #meeting-recap, #training, #training-team

Kruti Upadhyay 10:22 am on July 16, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 11th July 2024

This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. account, you can set one up.)

Introductions and Welcome

There were 22 attendees @lada7042, @jagirbahesh, @piyopiyofox, @digitalchild, @dhaval59, @zeelthakkar,@noruzzaman, @nazmul111, @voboghure (async), @devmuhib (async), @sumitsingh(async), @rithika3(async), @nishitajoshi(async), @Maya(async), @zoonini, @psykro, @ironnysh(async), @west7, @iRonnysh, @rinkuiihglobal, @askdesign, @zoonini

Welcome all the new contributors who joined the Training Team’s Slack channel in the last week:

@hellosatya, @Vince, @mustakim5,  @archanasolanki, @roelof, @eizwanzulkipli, @Hardip ,@Julia @KeithN, @teuila_mau, @rjfrizz, @piotrmonka, @enamulwp, @sam33r42, @keithnoseworthy, @raissamatho, @priyazes, @imranex

For those who are new here, the WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through educational content hosted on Learn.WordPress.org.

If you haven’t seen them yet, then I recommend checking out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program

News

Meeting Note Takers

Meeting recap notes are one of the best ways to get started contributing to a team, and you can find details on how to write notes in this handbook page.

Looking for feedback

@lada7042 shared some thoughts with on
What is Learn WordPress’ North Star?
– Learn WordPress’s north star

– Is Learn WordPress the site where folks come to learn about the most relevant and up to date content on WordPress?

Is it the place where we encourage and guide folks to be at the forefront of the software?

– fostering a collaborative learning community

– Relevant + most up to date

– The place to come to learn about WordPress

@lada7042 set for The original WordPress.org Training Team site is archived
Can #dev-squad help with this?Please share your feedback

Looking for volunteers

We are looking for folks – Thumbnail Creation Project creating and uploading the new thumbnails.

Testing the new Learn WordPress

Help test the new Learn WordPress site and report any bugs you find. Full guide here:

Let’s start testing Learn.WordPress.org

Other News

Content Overriding Issue: As mentioned in the Slack channel, original content was overridden by a translated version. Thank you to everyone who communicated and resolved the issue.

Important Reminder: Please DO NOT assign translated lessons to a course. Publish them as standalone lessons.

Updates: @piyopiyofox has updated the handbook page. See the Slack post “Translating and Publishing a Lesson”

Tutorial Deprecation: To reduce content types on the Learn WP site, Tutorials are being deprecated and will be converted into Lessons (Tutorial data migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. #2393). A note has been added to all Tutorial-related handbook pages. Once the conversion is complete, these pages will be fully retired.

Join us for an opportunity to discuss and collaborate on learning pathway content. Whether you’re working on content or interested in contributing, this is the perfect time to meet, ask questions, and find projects to work on. Meetings alternate between two time zones each month

Come and Contribute

This Week’s Focus: Review 10 issues following the content review guidelines.

Feedback Awaiting Validation: 25 issues need validation. Refer to “Validating and Applying Content Feedback” for guidance.

Topics Awaiting Vetting: 4 issues need vetting. Refer to “Vetting Topic Ideas” for guidance.

Good First Issues for Developers: Currently, no issues require development. Refer to “Developing Learn WordPress” for instructions.

Validated Feedback Awaiting Fix: 20 issues need fixes. Faculty Editors should follow the “Validating and Applying Content Feedback” guide.

Contribution Acknowledgement

Badges Awarded:

  • At the end of the month

Props:

  • Special thanks to @devmuhib for uploading many thumbnails and organizing a local Contributor Hour to create more thumbnails.
  • Any other props for this week? Please add to the thread.

Contributors in the Community:

  • Check out an interview with content creator @west7 in the recent WP Briefing podcast discussing Learning Pathways and their benefits for WordPress learners.

https://wordpress.org/news/2024/07/episode-83-learning-pathways

Project updates

Learn WP Remake project update: https://make.wordpress.org/training/2023/07/07/project-thread-learning-pathways-on-learn-wordpress/#comment-4303

Open Discussions:

If you have topics for the meeting, please comment on this issue.

Contributors in the Community:

  • Check out @zoonini‘s presentation, “Untangling Templates,” from WC Canada. Look for the live stream or replay.

You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.

#meeting-recap, #training, #training-team