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Muhibul Haque 7:23 am on November 5, 2023
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 31th October 2023

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

For those newly joining us, 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.

We have a few ways for you to get involved: https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/.

Introductions and Welcome

There were 11 attendees: @nayanchamp7, @benjirahmed, @webtechpooja, @huzaifaalmesbah, @devmuhib, @vanpariyar, @Lada7042(async), @sierratr(async), @onealtr(async), @west7(async), @quitevisible(async)

We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. Let’s get introduced to 7 new people here: @shoto100, @thepauly, @masperber, @larassattidn, @hellosatya, @benushersmith, @vimalroy08

If you’re not sure how to get started with us yet, I recommend checking out our onboarding link above or our newly introduced Guide Program.

The Guide Program will connect newcomers such as yourselves with seasoned contributors who provide guidance, answer questions, and help you navigate the contribution process with confidence.

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

Looking for volunteers

With just a few more weeks until WordPress 6.4 is released, we have a few tasks we need your help with:

  • Looking for a Contributor Hour host to help assign and answer questions about these issues – @courane01, @courtneypk
  • Please note that the most helpful way to validate these issues is to note what specifically needs to change in the current content

If you are interested in helping creating/updating 6.4 related issues, please reach out to us.

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

There was no dev-squad triage last week.

Other News

Nomination for 2024 Training Team Reps

Anyone can nominate 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.! Self-nominations are welcome, too. To nominate someone or yourself, please comment on this post. If you would like to nominate someone in private, please reach out to @webtechpooja, @bsanevans, @piyopiyofox

Team rep – Destiny AFK Oct 30 week, If any question you have, please feel free to reach out to Pooja or Benjamin.

Open requests for review

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

Tutorials

Translated Content

If you know any language that is mentioned above, please help us in publishing those content.

Project Updates

No project update this week.

Open Discussions

That is all we had on our agenda today. Looks like there are not many things to discuss today. Thanks for joining.

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

#meeting-recap, #training

Nazrul Islam Nayan 6:46 am on October 30, 2023
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 24th October 2023

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

https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/1949

For those newly joining us, 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.

We have a few ways for you to get involved: https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/.

Introductions and Welcome

There were 13 attendees: @devmuhib, @webtechpooja, @huzaifaalmesbah, @ethicaladitya, @lada7042, @sumitsingh, @nayanchamp7, @yuli-yang (async), @bsanevans (async), @benjirahmed (async), @gwallace87, (async) @sierratr (async)

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

@Dylan Howell, @Ed Duncan, @t-p, @Sakib, @Hend Chen, @huei

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

News

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

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

Looking for feedback: Updates to GitHub issue templates and labels

We need feedback on what labels and templates in GitHub bring the most value and are still relevant to our needs.

  • Help Audit content for Learning Pathways

We need volunteers to help us identify the content we can utilize or enhance and incorporate it into our lessons.

Looking for volunteers

  • We have priority issues that need updating open in GitHub that are labeled 6.4

With just a few more weeks until WordPress 6.4 is released, we have a few tasks we need your help with:

  • :mag: Looking for a Contributor Hour host to help assign and answer questions about these issues cc/ @Courtney P.K @Courtney

If you are interested in helping creating/updating 6.4 related issues, please reach out to us.

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

There was no dev-squad triage this week.

Other News

Anyone can nominate 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.! Self-nominations are welcome, too. To nominate someone or yourself, please comment on this post. If you would like to nominate someone in private, please reach out to @Pooja Derashri, @Ben Evans or @Destiny

We also clarified with the Training Team Faculty members that with this 2 year guideline, Benjamin Evans and Destiny Kanno will automatically stay on as Team Reps for 2024.

Since they will be staying on to complete their second year and they are onboard the newest Training Team Representative, only one Team Rep spot will be open for 2024.

Team rep AFK Update

  • Ben + Destiny are away from Oct 21 – Oct 28 on a business trip
  • Destiny AFK Oct 30 week
  • Pooja is away from Oct 28 – Oct 29 to attend 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. Mumbai

During this time please leave any message/query in this channel and so the other faculty members can help you around. Thanks

  • Hacktoberfest is happening!

Come read this new post detailing how to get involved in this program with your contributions to the Training Team

Open requests for review

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

Tutorials

Translated Content

Project Updates

Learning Pathways

The first three Learning Pathway outlines have been published, and the content the team already has that can be used for these pathways have been audited :raised_hands::skin-tone-3: Keep an eye out in future team meetings for what steps will happen next.

:eyes: In case you missed latest update on this project

Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Open Discussion

That is all we had on our agenda today. Looks like there are not many things to discuss today. Thanks for joining.

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

Huzaifa Al Mesbah 9:33 am on October 23, 2023
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 17th October 2023

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

For those who are new here, 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.

We have a few ways for you to get involved through our onboarding handbook page: https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/

Introductions and Welcome

There were 20 attendees: @nayanchamp7, @bsanevans, @huzaifaalmesbah, @sumitsingh, @kafleg, @pekkakortelainen, @devmuhib, @webtechpooja, @psykro, @sancastiza, @amitpatelmd (async), @mebo (async), @onealtr (async), @quitevisible (async), @sierratr (async), @west7 (async), @courtneypk (async), @benjirahmed (async), @yuli-yang (async), @lada7042 (async)

We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. Let’s get introduced to 10 new people here: @miromiet, @t-p, @sakibsnaz, @hend7706, @gas1123, @dylanmhowell, @eduncanblg, @amanocs, @ahmedamir, @azharderaiya

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

We need feedback on what labels and templates 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/ bring the most value and are still relevant to our needs.

Looking for volunteers

  • We have priority issues that need updating open in GitHub that are labeled 6.4
  • With just a few more weeks until WordPress 6.4 is released, we have a few tasks we need your help with:
    • Looking for a Contributor Hour host to help assign and answer questions about these issues.
    • Please note that the most helpful way to validate these issues is to note what specifically needs to change in the current content.
    • Some discussion on Thread

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Thanks for facilitating these each week, @psykro. Here’s an update from last week’s session.

A quiet triage session this week, with 4 PRs and 1 new bug triaged.

PRs

Bugs

Other News

Badges Rewarded  – Congrats Rashi Gupta! Thank you for your contributions to the team, Rashi 

  • Updates have been made to the following handbook pages

Thank you to those who contributed to updating these handbook pages:

That first page above about the team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. role and the nomination process is super handy, as the team will soon be selecting new team reps for 2024. There will be a nomination period and a voting period, after which next year’s team reps will be announced in the first week of December.

This year’s team reps will be publishing a blog post with details about this soon on https://make.wordpress.org/training/. If you aren’t following that team blog yet, then I highly recommend you do so you don’t miss out on what the team is up to. You’ll find a subscribe box in the right 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. of the blog.

The Faculty program is an important part that helps the Training Team achieve its goals. We’re looking for input from both Faculty and non-Faculty team members to help define what an Engaged Faculty member would look like.

Let’s move on.

Thank you to both guides and participants of this first cohort! 

  • Hacktoberfest is happening!

Come read this new post detailing how to get involved in this program with your contributions to the Training Team.

  • Team Rep absences

The three Training Team Reps will all be traveling around the end of October and may be slow to respond to pings. Feel free to pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” any of the team’s Faculty Members if you need immediate assistance while we’re away.

  • @piyopiyofox away Oct 21 – Nov 5 (business trip)
  • @bsanevans away Oct 21 – Nov 1 (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. Tokyo, business trip)
  • @webtechpooja away Oct 28 – Oct 29 (WordCamp Mumbai)

Open requests for review

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

Tutorials

Project Updates

The first three Learning Pathway outlines have been published, and the content the team already has that can be used for these pathways has been audited. Keep an eye out in future team meetings for what steps will happen next.

In case you’ve missed it, this is what this project is aiming to achieve by July 2024:

  • Develop a website redesign for Learn WordPress that delivers a clear, user-friendly pathway for learners of different levels, roles, and use cases.
  • Enhance the discoverability and searchability of relevant Learn WordPress content through the integration of new search filters and content organization strategies.
  • Establish a skill-level classification framework for Learn WordPress content that enables clear content filtering and search results based on learner needs.

Open Discussions

In this open discussion thread, @bsanevans initiates a brainstorming session to find ways to engage the 2,400+ members in a Slack channel more actively. Several suggestions are put forward:

@digitalchild proposes randomly tagging members to get their attention.
@psykro suggests the idea of “vetting sprints,” similar to dev squad triage sessions, to clear backlogs by inviting active members to participate.
@quitevisible emphasizes the effectiveness of specific requests, like polls, surveys, and task assignments. Public recognition for those who complete tasks is also encouraged.
@courtneypk supports the concept of working sprints for specific tasks and mentions that Contributor Hours could be beneficial.
@digitalchild adds to the idea of working sprints and suggests translation sessions once a month to work on translations.
@amitpatelmd recommends conducting surveys to provide an anonymous platform for members to express themselves and measure engagement. He suggests quarterly surveys.
@bsanevans appreciates the ideas and encourages further contributions to the discussion.

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

Sumit Singh 7:08 am on October 13, 2023
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 10th October 2023

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

Introductions and Welcome

There were 21 attendees:  @piyopiyofox,  @sumitsingh,  @webtechpooja,  @chetan200891,  @nahidsharifkomol,  @devmuhib,  @iqbalpb,  @jdy68,  @psykro,  @sancastiza,  @nayanchamp7,  @karthickmurugan,  @huzaifaalmesbah(async),  @lada7042(async),  @sierratr(async),  @west7(async),  @courtneypk(async),  @benjirahmed(async),  @quitevisible(async),  @mebo(async),  @vanpariyar(async)

We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. Let’s get introduced to 7 new people here: @Stuti Goyal @Vincent Martinat @Lisa Sabin-Wilson @zstepek @Nabin @Parag Wadhwani @Rashi Gupta  

News

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.

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

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

This week, the dev-squad triaged 2 new PRs and one new bug:

There was some discussion around #1880, which the dev squad would like to bring to the team.

Other News

Please see the Nomination for Training Team Reps 2023 post for details on how we handled nominating new team reps last year. We are hoping to make this process more clear for future reps and potential leaders.

  • Badges Rewarded  – Congrats @Muhibul Haque! Thank you for your contributions to the team.

Open requests for review

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

Tutorials

Translated Content

If you are able to pick any of these reviews up, please comment on the issue directly.

Project Updates

Open Discussions

The discussion topic at hand revolves around GitHub issue #1880, which involves adding IDs to headings for anchor links on the website. The dev squad is seeking clarity on whether to use sentence case or all lowercase for internal anchor link fragments. The 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. spec doesn’t specify a requirement, but lowercase is the common practice.

The dilemma is whether to formalize and document this practice across the site. @Jonathan suggests switching to all lowercase, but this would require a thorough review and update of existing lesson plans. The group is open to discussion on this matter.

@Destiny raises whether this issue will still be relevant if the content is consolidated according to the new information architecture for Learn. @Jonathan mentions that it depends on whether the “Tip” section in the Lesson Plan synced pattern is carried over to the new content types. Removing the tip section entirely is a possible solution.

The group agrees that the new architecture may change the current situation, so they consider merging the PR and addressing individual lesson plans on a case-by-case basis.

Asynchronous participants are encouraged to share their thoughts on the GitHub issue. @Jonathan notes that it’s essential to consider the impact of the new architecture.

The conversation ends with @Destiny mentioning a request for members of the dev-squad to review and test a PR for the Sensei Pro upgrade created by @Jonathan, asking for help from contributors with developer experience.

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

Benjir Ahmed 4:14 am on October 12, 2023
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 26th September 2023

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

For those newly joining us, 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.

We have a few ways for you to get involved: https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/

Introductions and Welcome

There were 20 attendees: @webtechpooja, @huzaifaalmesbah, @weblink, @piyopiyofox, @ravikhadka, @jominney, @karthickmurugan, @sumitsingh, @digitalchild, @bsanevans, @shaggykat27, @onealtr, @yuli-yang, @devmuhib, @amitpatelm, @lada7042, @vanpariyar(async), @courtneypk(async), @sancastiza(async)

We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. Let’s get introduced to 7 new people here:

@Shamali Sulakhe @IdeaSmith @Ramesh Bharathi @Asif Jamil

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

News

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

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.

September 26 – @benjirahmed

October 3   – @sancastiza

October 10 – @sumitsingh

October 17 – @huzaifaalmesbah

Thank you for taking notes this week @benjirahmed

Looking for feedback

Proposal: Updating the Contributor Ladder to a five-path model
Last year, the Training Team identified a need to clarify the contributor roles in the team. This post first outlines what improvements have been made over the last 12 months. It then proposes updating the team’s Contributor Ladder handbook page from a linear ladder to a five-path ladder, matching the team’s onboarding and faculty program structures.

Data we should collect to Highlight the team’s impact on WP community

@Ben Evans is working in collecting more data around the Training Team’s work. What data should we collect to highlight the Training Team’s impact on the WordPress Community and on Learn?

The team started a conversation last to last week about how we could indicate folks have completed a course cohort. Please leave your ideas in this Slack thread from last week’s meeting.

The team also started discussing: “When can an interested contributor take over developing a piece of content which had originally been assigned to another contributor, but no progress has been made for some time?”

Looking for volunteers

We’re looking for volunteers to author the October edition of the Learn WordPress newsletter. (See the Learn WordPress Newsletter – September 2023 to see how its structured). If you want to volunteer, please show your interest in this thread 

Abha is looking for volunteers to help:

  • Prepare a presentation beforehand
  • Contribute to the presentation and Q&A on the day
  • Edit the recording afterwards and updating documentation

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 Slack account, you can set one up.)

For those newly joining us, 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.

We have a few ways for you to get involved: https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/

The Training Team is looking for more Online Workshop Facilitators and Co-Hosts!

Almost exactly a year ago, Ben published this post: Become an Online Workshop Facilitator or Tutorial Presenter Today! And the call for help is still relevant today. If you haven’t read that post before, please take a look

Also, Ben ran an Online Workshop 2 weeks ago about how anyone can apply to become a facilitator or co-host. Come checkout the recording here: https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/online-workshops

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Triaged one new open PR and two new open bugs

Thanks @Jonathan for providing update and conducting triage session. If anyone want to join these efforts, Dev-Squad triage happen every week on Thursday at 7:00 UTC

Other News

Contributor Badges Awarded: @Harsh Gajipara, @akshaya

WordPress 6.4 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. 1 releasing today at 4:00 PM UTC at #core channel

Come check out Let’s share our notes from the Community Summit And if you attended the summit, feel free to add your notes there, too 

Checkout Hallway Hangout: What’s new for developers in WordPress 6.4

Open requests for review

We are looking for folks to help review these pieces of content. See our Guidelines for reviewing content to review the following content.

Tutorials

Lesson Plans

Translated Content

We’re also looking for translation reviewers who speak German, Gujrati, Chinese or Bengali.

Project Updates

@jominney said :
This post was published today with the work done so far. We are looking for feedback on the potential filters we plan to use and on the overall suggested revision to the site structure. Please comment on the 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/. post with any feedback.”
– https://make.wordpress.org/training/2023/09/26/looking-for-feedback-learn-website-information-architecture/

@piyopiyofox said :

We also have the following tentative timeline updates re: learning pathways outline work

  • Incorporate feedback – 27 September
  • Publish learning pathways – 3 October
  • Content audit + what do we have in place – 17 October
  • Estimations: how long will it take to create these pathways? – 20 October

Next steps for GitHub updates
Thanks to @Yuli for her work wrangling the labels out of 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 us! We have compiled this spreadsheet and we are seeking the assistance of anyone who is familiar with the repository with providing feedback on their usage (if any) of the labels. We will be publishing a post with the planned 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. to the templates soon, also!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XGJKG26N1T59dPM-G_oT6eI67mlgaaGV4YQm_XbGDqg/edit#gid=0


Open Discussions

@piyopiyofox asked Amit Patel to share about putting on an SEO Online Workshop

@amitpatelmd said : Happy to share that I will be working on a workshop for introducing tasks for SEO expert SME, would love to have feedback from you all.

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

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

Nazrul Islam Nayan 4:02 am on September 19, 2023
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 12th September 2023

The agenda we will be working on can be found on our GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ project board: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/1849

For those newly joining us, 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.

We have a few ways for you to get involved: https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/.

Introductions and Welcome

There were 32 attendees: @Destiny, @Jamie Madden, @Nazrul Islam Nayan, @Ronak Vanpariya (vanpariyar), @Sumit Singh, @Muhibul Haque, @Jhimross, @Benjir Ahmed, @Wai Hong, @Piyush Asthana, @abhanonstopnewsuk, @yogesh, @nahidsharifkomol, @Josep Morán, @oneal, @Ben Evans, @Vishitshah, @Jo Minney, @huzaifaalmesbah,@Yuli, @Jonathan, @Amit Patel, @Karthick, @Sancastiza, @Vagelis(async), @sierratr(async), @Asad(async), @Melita Poropat(async), @Courtney P.K(async), @westnz(async), @Laura A(async)

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

@Chris, @Mike Straw, @Lisa Maria, @Wai Hong, @Bikram Bohara, @Rahul Pranami, @Srishty Lamichhane, @Sakar Upadhyaya Khatiwada, @baliramchaudhary, @Bikram Twayana, @Thulo K Bhomjan, @Javier Casares, @Sudeep Shrestha, @Fabian Rohlik(async), @Chirag Radadiya, @Karan S

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

News

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

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

Looking for feedback: Learning pathway outlines

  • Jo Minney said: @abhanonstopnewsuk icymi the most recent comment from Destiny here is probably most relevant (this was following the meeting earlier today with Sensei, MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress., Design, and Learn to discuss the proposed information architecture https://make.wordpress.org/training/2023/07/07/project-thread-learning-pathways-on-learn-wordpress/
  • This is outlining content we need to create and organize for Designers, Developers, and End-users who want to work through a Beginner -> Expert Learning Pathway.
  • The Training Team Accessibility Checklist has been published.
  • Abhanonstopnewsuk said: Can we add to avoid link text descriptors like ‘here’ please as these do not have any meaning and can be confusing for screen readers. This is @Jo Minney and for all the effort on this guide.

Looking for volunteers

  • We’re looking for volunteers to author the October edition of the Learn WordPress newsletter. (See the Learn WordPress Newsletter – September 2023 to see how its structured)
  • @abhanonstopnewsuk is looking for two volunteers to work alongside her to present an interactive presentation about Learn WordPress for Portsmouth WordPress 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. (UK) on 27 September 2023 (revised date) at 7pm BST (6pm UTC). Does anyone have the bandwidth to assist?

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

At the end of the session, all bugs awaiting triage were triaged, a first since the dev-squad inception! :tada::clap::skin-tone-4:

Other News

We hope that this publicity helps bring in more clarifying feedback for this work.

Open requests for review

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

Tutorials

Lesson Plans

Translated Content

Project Updates

  • Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress
    A meeting was held today to discuss final plans for the Learn website’s new information architecture (see notes here). The plan will be shared with the wider Training Team for feedback and review in a week.
  • Next steps for GitHub updates
    • Recent update published on the project post.
    • The team will be publishing a proposal for reducing the number of GitHub issue templates by September 22nd.
    • @Jo Minney  is currently exporting the list of GitHub labels for the team to then sort through and document together.

Faculty Updates

Jamie Madden wrote:

  • What have you been working on and how has it been going?
    Working on triage team and reviewing tutorials when I can.
  • Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
    We cleared the triage queue last week.
  • Do you have any blockers?
    None
  • Can other Faculty or Training Team members help you in some way?
    not atm 

abhanonstopnewsuk wrote:


Waiting for an orientation date. In the meantime, continued collaborating on normal cycle of items , looking at cross collaboration with the release docs and dev blog.

Made suggestions for follow up to the individual learning survey analysis.

Been going through learning pathways

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Contributed async at WCUS 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/..

Looking forward to the orientation when people have some time :grinning:.

Cleared a couple of issues, mainly editorial or broken links as I have time.

Blockers:  time constraints – if you can make the days 28 hrs for a few days, that would probably help.

No help needed, just very busy the rest of this month

sierratr wrote:

Cleared a couple of issues, mainly editorial or broken links as I have time.

Blockers:  time constraints – if you can make the days 28 hrs for a few days, that would probably help.

No help needed, just very busy the rest of this month

Open Discussion

We have had a few open discussion requests come in today, so let’s focus on those for the rest of the meeting,

  • @Jonathan asks regarding course cohorts, how do we indicate that folks have completed the cohort?
    Jonathan wrote: Badges is one idea, the only downside I can think of is that we’d have to create a separate badge for each cohort. One other way I was thinking we could manage this was to add a new “Learn” item under the Activities at the bottom of a users profile
    Laura A wrote: @Jonathan great idea to add completed cohort area. It seems like the simplest way to implement.
  • When can an interested contributor take over developing a piece of content which had originally been assigned to another contributor, but no progress has been made for some time?

Ben pointed to the content localization handbook currently mentions:

  • If a GitHub issue has been stale for 2 weeks, pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” the person assigned to see how they’re going
  • If no response is received after a further 2 weeks, then the issue should be triaged and either closed, reassigned, or opened for others to take on

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

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

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

This meeting was start at 07:00 UTC.

Introductions and Welcome

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

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

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News

Looking for feedback

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

Looking for volunteers

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

Please pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” a team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. if you’re interested in getting involved. You can see the most recent edition of this newsletter here: Learn WordPress Newsletter – September 2023 (published last week!)

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

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

Other News

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

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

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

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

Open requests for review

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

Project Updates

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

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

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

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

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

@Pooja Derashri @Jo Minney and Ben will be meeting tomorrow to brainstorm what updates would make the team’s GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repository more user-friendly to all team contributors! Look forward to announcements about what changes we propose coming soon :technologist::skin-tone-3:

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

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

:arrow_right:Training Team joining Hacktoberfest – @Jonathan

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

Open Discussions

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

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

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

Nahid Sharif Komol 5:33 am on August 22, 2023
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 15th August 2023

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

Introductions and Welcome

There were 21 attendees: @thisisyeasin, @huzaifaalmesbah, @kafleg, @vanpariyar, @piyopiyofox, @jominney, @psykro, @bsanevans, @amitpatelmd, @rahulharkhani, @sancastiza, @lada7042, @onealtr (async), @sierratr (async), @quitevisible (async), @arasae (async), @webtechpooja (async), @fahimmurshed (async), @eboxnet (async), @west7 (async), @courtneypk (async)

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

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

News

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

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

Looking for feedback

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

Looking for volunteers

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

PRs triaged

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

Issues triaged

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

Other dev-squad updates

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

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

Other News

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

Open requests for review

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

Tutorials

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

Lesson Plans

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

Translated Content

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

Project Updates

Open Discussions

Discussion for WordCamp Us:

Things that are exciting for the WordCamp US:

Discussion for any favorite memory at WordCamps:

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

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

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

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

#meeting-recap, #training

Nazrul Islam Nayan 5:34 am on August 14, 2023
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 8th August 2023

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

Introductions and Welcome

There were 30 attendees: @sumitsingh, @iamasadpolash, @jhimross, @eboxnet, @chaion07, @nayanchamp7, @vishitshah, @amitpatelmd, @webtechpooja, @shiponkarmakar, @piyopiyofox, @pitamdey, @digitalchild, @iammehedi1, @vanpariyar, @psykro, @jominney, @onealtr, @karthickmurugan, @lada7042 (async), @quitevisible (async), @webcommsat (async), @sierratr (async), @arasae (async), @itsjustdj (async), @courtneypk (async), @west7 (async), @nahidsharifkomol (async), @courane01 (async), @bsanevans (async)

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

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

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

News

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Meeting Note Takers

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Looking for feedback

Let’s elevate Team Values again

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

Looking for volunteers

Other News

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

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

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

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

  • WCUS Contributor Day: Tutorials Workshop (In-Person & Remote) – @Sarah (She/Her) will be hosting live Tutorial Workshops, if you are attending in-person. DO join the Training team table at WCUS. Thanks Sarah for hosting.
  • Concerns over the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Context: As the world’s most popular open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. content management system, WordPress acknowledges the European Union’s initiative to bolster the cybersecurity of digital hardware and software products with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The Act’s effort to counter the increasing threat of cyberattacks and promote informed usage of digital products with increased security updates and transparency is commendable.

Badges awarded in July

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

Open requests for review

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

Tutorials

Lesson Plans

Translated Content

Project Updates

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

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

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

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

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

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

Open Discussion

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

Other ways to Contribute:

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

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

Sancastiza 11:27 am on August 3, 2023
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 1st August 2023

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

Introductions and Welcome

There were 22 attendees: @webtechpooja, @fahimmurshed, @jdy68, @sumitsingh, @psykro, @piyopiyofox,@utsav72640,@margheweb,@nayanchamp7, @prashantbhivsane, @nahidsharifkomol, @karthickmurugan, @digitalchild, @onealtr (async), @amitpatelmd, @lada7042 (async), @vanpariyar(async), @arasae(async), @courtneypk(async), @west7(async), @sierratr (async), @quitevisible(async)

We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. Let’s get introduced to 10 new people here:

@majabenke, @varunsingh, @joedolson, @laxmariappan,@sarikankkonen, @neha-sharma, @nareshparmar, @saiful-islam,  @Christopher Tsao,
@Pamela Cullen 

News

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Looking for feedback

It looks like we don’t have any feedback asks this week. If there is a Training Team project or task you are working on that requires feedback (outside of content creation). Please leave it in the comments.

Looking for volunteers

Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress 

We are looking for volunteers. Please read the post and comment there if you would like to get involved.

Call for Volunteers to help with 6.3 Learn WordPress updates

The post lists some ways you can help to make sure Learn.WordPress.org is ready for the 6.3 WordPress release. Feel free to reach out in Slack if you have questions.

Contributor Hour

A few weeks ago, the team representatives proposed that we should attempt a new event called “Contributor Hours” to prepare for the upcoming WordPress release. Thank you, @lada7042 @arasae, @courtneypk, for volunteering to help with this.

Brainstorm & Table Lead – WordCamp US 2023 Contributor Day

We are looking for a volunteer to monitor Slack and help with questions during 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/.. You can message @bsanevans directly to get involved.

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

There was no Dev-Squad meeting last week.

Other News

Preparations 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 Day are underway. @piyopiyofox and @Lada0704 are finalizing details with volunteers by August 4th. A post describing the team’s agenda will be published shortly after.

Monthly team updates have been published

Every month, the Training Team releases an update on the entire WordPress project, detailing the team’s accomplishments from the previous month. Additionally, they publish a Learn WordPress newsletter, which informs subscribers about the new content released during that month. You can access the latest editions through the following links:

Badges awarded in July

Last month, @sierratr and @eatpaintchic were awarded the Training Contributor badge. Thank you both for your consistent contributions to the team.

If you are keen on obtaining a Training badge, kindly refer to our handbook page:  Team Profile Badges. When applying, remember to provide links to resources (e.g., 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) that demonstrate your contributions to the team.

Open requests for review

Each content published on Learn.WordPress.org receives reviews before it is published. We welcome anyone to review content. See our Guidelines for reviewing content to review the following content:

Tutorials

Lesson Plans

Translated Content

We’re also looking for Translation Reviewers to review these pieces of translated content:

Project Updates

Proposal: New Contributor Guide Program – headed by @courtneypk

@courtneypk: The handbook for the Guidebook was published (which will include an interest form for new contributors), and I have been identifying Faculty members to be our Guides for the initial program.

Analysis and results of the Individual Learner Survey

Creating digestible insight posts from the Analysis and results of the Individual Learner Survey – @courane01, @jominney, and @quitevisible are working on it.

Open Discussion

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

The Training Team has three main channels for discussions:

  1. Team blog: https://make.wordpress.org/training/

The team’s public-facing platform for discussions. All decisions should be discussed and announced through blog posts to allow for broader participation. These posts are also indexed by search engines, creating a public record of the Training Team’s work throughout its history. If you haven’t already, I highly recommend subscribing to the blog. You can find the subscribe field in the right 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..

2. Slack: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q

This is where real-time communication and collaboration with other contributors in the team happen. You can seek help from Faculty members and experienced teammates while working on team tasks. However, important decisions should not be made in Slack. If an item requires discussion or decision-making, it should be published as a blog post so that the wider community can be involved in the process.

3. GitHub: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn

This platform is used to track individual tasks, such as content creation, content translation, and website management. GitHub issues are organized into six project boards. You can access these boards at the following link: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/projects?query=is%3Aopen. For more details on how the Training Team uses GitHub, you can refer to our handbook section: “How we use GitHub.

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.

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