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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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 WordPressA 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

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

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

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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Training Team Meeting Recap – 25th July 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 31 attendees: @piyopiyofox @webtechpooja, @kafleg @fahimmurshed, @chaion07, @piyushmultidots, @dhanendran, @iamasadpolash, @chetan200891, @subashpoudel, @margheweb, @thisisyeasin, @nayanchamp7, @shiponkarmakar, @markmemayank, @emmaht, @sacerro, @onealtr, @amitpatelmd, @utsav72640, @jominney, @karthickmurugan, @sumitsingh, @sierratr (async), @courane01, @lada7042 (async), @eboxnet, @courtneypk (async), @westnz (async), @quitevisible (async), @nahidsharifkomol

:wave::skin-tone-4: We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. Let’s get introduced to 15 new people here:

@anatolikkk, @huzaifaalmesbah, @cnormandigital, @akrocks @drebbitsweb, @tsuifei, @sheilabravo, @sacerro, @jhimross, @bycecaelia, @ostapbrehin, @flossyfaysal, @tamara1720, @alex911kz, and @hanneslsm

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.

July 25 – @FahimMurshed
August 1 – @Sancastiza
August 8 – @nayanchamp7
August 15 – @nahidsharifkomol

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 in the comments.

Looking for volunteers

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

There was no Dev-Squad meeting last week because Jonathan was out for Work 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..

Other News

  • Announcement: Updates to team meeting times — you may have already noticed, but we have moved to a weekly global meeting. Other meetings are scheduled as follows:
    • APAC Coffee Hour: To be decided
    • Dev-squad 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/ Triage Session: Thursdays at 07:00 UTC
    • EMEA/Americas Coffee Hour: Fridays at 13:00 UTC

We have a survey going for the APAC coffee hour. Here it is! https://xoyondo.com/dp/XyTmYGCZ0puLHWC.

Open requests for review

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

Margherita Pelonara shared these:

Project Updates

It looks like we don’t have any project updates this week. If there is a Training Team project you have yet to share, please feel free to leave a comment in this post.

Open Discussions

@fahimmurshed shared, The Designer Conference (Artisanal Convergence – A Designers Gathering) will be held in Barishal, Bangladesh, on 28th July 2023. This is an in-person get-together. There will be close to 1500 attendees that day, including designers and developers.

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 Meeting Recap – 11th July 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 20 attendees: @bsanevans, @digitalchild, @webtechpooja, @iamasadpolash, @piyopiyofox, @thisisyeasin, @dhanendran, @chaion07, @piyushmultidots, @sumitsingh, @piyushmultidots, @karthickmurugan, @psykro, @onealtr (async), @amitpatelmd (async), @lada7042 (async), @quitevisible (async), @courane01 (async), @courtneypk (async), @west7 (async)

💪We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. What is your interest in learning/Training, and what do you enjoy outside of WordPress? Let’s get introduced with 7 new people here: @mettadiana, @markmemayank, @psrpinto, @sarathgp, @rizvipersonal, @shuvo586, @iqbal1hossain

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 Note Takers

Looking for feedback

  • The Training Team used to announce published content in weekly meetings. The team recently moved this and tested a weekly roundup message. They were so seeking feedback for this new change.
  • The meaning team now has the #training-notifications channel, announcing when new content has been published. Would that channel be enough?

Looking for volunteers

One of the best ways to contribute to the training team is by volunteering.

  • The team has been updating its 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/ processes. @bsanevans will be working on the next batch of changes from July 31st, and he’s looking for other volunteers who would like to work on this with me.
    • Please you’re requested to read the post and leave a comment there if you’d like to get involved – Read now
  • @iamasadpolash showed his interest in being a volunteer by raising an issue on GitHub and asking if it’s considered to be a contribution or not.
  • The team asked for help to make sure the insights in the analysis and results of the individual learner Survey don’t get lost.
    • This survey brought to light many important data about the audience learning about WordPress. As there was a lot of information in it, and the team doesn’t want to let that get lost!
    • @bsanevans asked to volunteer to share the content of that analysis post in smaller posts, maybe once every two weeks or so. Team reps are open to other ideas, too!

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Other News

  • Announcement: Updates to team meeting times – This is an important post, and the team asks all team members to read through the details there. In particular, they have created a form to decide when to host the new APAC Coffee Hour
  • Expertise needed: Learn how to vet content topic ideas for the Training Team: The process to vet content topic ideas was recently updated. @bsanevans will be hosting some online workshops later this week to walk through the new process. Take a look at the post for details.
    • Anyone is free to attend! (This would be great for @faculty-smes too!)
  • :tada:Training Team 2023 Half-Year Review:tada::
  • This post looks at everything the team has achieved this year so far, and what projects we have lined up next. So far, the team completed 5 out of 9 projects we wanted to complete by June, and also 2 projects we wanted to complete by September. That’s significant progress!! Let’s celebrate this achievement!
  • Everyone was requested to highlight their contribution to the training team in 2023 so far!
    • What contributions did you make to Learning WordPress?
    • Or what was an exciting memory from being part of the Training Team this year?
    • @bsanevans shared that he’s really excited that the team got a process for content localization set up. They also have Translation Coordinators onboarded to the Faculty Team
    • @digitalchild continues to review tutorials and provide assistance when he can. He’s planning on doing topic vetting once he can figure it out 
    • @sumitsingh continues joining and helping WP folks to contribute to the community and try to attend the team meeting
    • @piyopiyofox Memory was nominated as 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. for the year
    • @webtechpooja is enjoying her second year as a Team rep
    • @psykro exciting memory was able to represent the team
  • @webtechpooja is hosting an Online Workshop next week – Come join the WordPress Training Team!
  • Team reps have published our monthly updates for June

Open requests for review

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

  • Tutorials

Also, the team is looking for volunteers to review the following courses in preparation for the new WordPress Mentorship program starting this week.

So far, @quitevisible has reviewed the first two courses. Would anyone like to review any of the remaining three?

Project Updates

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, #training

Training Team Meeting Recap – 4th July 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 held in the AMER/EMEA time zone.

Introductions and Welcome

There were 16 attendees: @lada7042@sumitsingh, @webtechpooja, @chaion07, @mjaragon03, @courane01, @eboxnet, @robinwpdeveloper, @faguni22, @onealtr, @west7, @piyopiyofox, @ardianimaya, @psykro, @nahidsharifkomol, @jominney

:wave::skin-tone-3: We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. What is your interest in Learn/Training and what do you enjoy outside of WordPress: @jengodin,  @ninianepress,  @mharoonw12,  @smaris,  @anthony1015,  @acchan,  @Noruzzaman

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.

Looking for feedback

 Looking for volunteers

  • Creating guiding documents / advising on accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) – Looking for a volunteer, who can work on a handbook page that has an accessibility checklist that can be used by content creators, editors, and 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. note-takers.
  • Join the dev-squad triage sessions held every Thursday at 07:00 UTC in the #meta-learn channel.

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Win! All current open PRs have been triaged.

Other News

Open requests for review

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

Project Updates

Open Discussions

  • How can we make Training Team meetings more engaging and less about reporting?
    – What topics/conversations would you like to share in each weekly meeting?
    • Two cents from @jominney
      • Some things other teams have done that I’ve seen helpful:
      • ‘check in’ section where team members can share what they are working on or have recently completed.
      • ‘ask for help/I’m stuck on…’ section where team members can ask any not-so-silly questions they have.
      • Something I personally would love to see because there isn’t great communication between a lot of teams
      • Does anyone have any relevant news they’d like to share from other teams that would be helpful for the training team?
      • For example, Milana from the docs team recently did a bunch of work on automation 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/ that @Ben Evans is now looking into as a way to improve our processes too. There is also a lot of work happening with the contributor mentor program that will be relevant to our team.

If you have topics you’d liked 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

Training Team Meeting Recap for June 27th, 2023

This meeting followed this meeting agenda post. 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 held in the APAC time zone.

Introductions and Welcome

There were 17 attendees: @bsanevans, @sumitsingh, @fahimmurshed, @thisisyeasin, @digitalchild, @piyushmultidots, @rajkothariv, @webtechpooja, @krupalpanchal, @piyopiyofox, @sagarladani, @afrin29, @onealtr, @margheweb, @jominney, @eboxnet, @chaion07

Welcome to the team : @nayanchamp7, @lmcliment, @adrita, @thebengalboy, @hiddenpearls, @rajkothariv, @mayukojpn, @chiragrathod103, @sancastiza, @wylly

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

Brainstorm & Table Lead – 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 2023 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/.

The deadline for this post has come. But if you have any comments, feel free to still do so! Team reps will be looking through submitted comments during 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. meeting on Thursday 29th June.

Read the post about the WCUS Contributor Day and/or leave a comment here

Switching Training Team meetings to: 1 Coffee hour for EMEA, 1 Coffee hour for APAC, 1 Global meeting each week

The team started reevaluating how weekly meetings are hosted. Currently, we alternate meetings and coffee hours between timezones each week. The new proposal is to have the same schedule of meetings every week.

This week is the last week to submit feedback – the best way to do so is via Slack. You can read the existing discussion threads here:

Slack discussion about potential global meeting

Proposal: New Contributor Guide Program

This is a new program idea for the Training Team. @courtneypk is looking for feedback by July 5th. Please leave your comments directly on the post.

Read the post about the New Contributor Guide Program and/or leave a comment here

Proposal: Let’s actively promote the Learn WordPress platform in Learn WordPress content

This is a new proposal to actively promote Learn WordPress inside Learn WordPress content. Some content creators are already doing this – which is great! This proposal is to add a new section to the team handbook, and make this something the team actively works towards. You can find more details on the post.

Read the post about promoting Learn WordPress and/or leave a comment here

Project Proposal: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

There is now a Google Document drafting what the team’s Learning Pathways project will look like. Please leave your feedback in the document as comments by July 4th. @piyopiyofox
will then combine everyone’s feedback and publish this on the team blog.

Learning Pathways is the next big project for the Training Team to improve Learn WordPress, so we’re eager to hear your thoughts!

View or comment on the Google Doc here

Looking for Volunteers

Creating guiding documents advising on accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)

The team is looking for volunteers who can work on a new handbook page for the team regarding accessibility. We’d like to create a checklist that can be used by content creators, editors, and meeting note-takers.

@newcomer22 started drafting ideas towards an accessibility checklist for junior WordPress developers. @jominney and @alexstine offered to assist with creating/reviewing this checklist before it is published.

If you are interested in contributing to the development of this document, please comment on the slack thread here:

Slack thread seeking volunteers for drafting an accessibility checklist

Join the dev-squad’s triage session

Every Thursday from 07:00 UTC, the Faculty Dev Squad meet in #meta-learn to triage 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 related to learn.wordpress.org website development. Anyone is free to join the team to triage GitHub issues together. We look forward to seeing you there!

Learn Dev Squad Triage Update

Starting this week, we’re going to try and give a brief report on what the dev-squad accomplished in the previous week’s triage session. Let us know in the comments what you think of these updates!

The following PRs are looking for a reviewer. If you’re familiar with website development, we’d love for you to review these PRs and leave your comments in the GitHub issue, before they’re merged into the site code.

The following PRs are waiting on an update from the author. If you are tagged, we’d love for you to update the PRs you’ve submitted so the team can review them again for you.

Other News

User Auditing on Team blog and Learn WordPress site

Team reps will be auditing users on the team blog and Learn WordPress site every 6 months.
Access will remain for those who have shown activity within the last 6 months.

Contributor Badges for Training team

Are you eligible for a Contributor badge?

In the Training Team, contributor badges are awarded to contributors who have made a few contributions, and have applied for the badge. Please see the handbook page to learn how to request one – we’d like to give out badges to as many people as we can!

High Priority Content to Translate

We’ve published a new handbook page listing some high priority content to translate. Content listed here will be updated regularly as our needs change.

Handbook page with high priority content to translate

Faculty members ready to create content are welcome to get started straight away

Faculty members ready to create content on Learn are welcome to get started right away as vetted members of the team. In the Training Team, we vet content topics before they’re created. This is one way we ensure content is relevant, high priority, and meets the needs of the larger community.
Moving forward, faculty members ready to create content on Learn are welcome to skip the vetting process and create content right away.

Training Team badges awarded this month

This month, the Training Team badge was awarded to:

for their contributions to the team. Thank you, both!

You can read more about training team badges here

Open Request for Review

The following Courses are a priority this week, in preparation for the pilot launch of the Contributor Mentorship Program. These are courses that have already been published for a while. We’re looking to review them and make sure their content is still accurate and relevant.

Please follow this guide when reviewing content: Guidelines for reviewing content

Thank you to @quitevisible who has already volunteered to begin with reviewing ‘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. Basics’. If you are able to assist with reviewing one of the courses listed above, please comment on the thread in Slack and (if possible) open a corresponding GitHub issue for the course you are reviewing. This is a great first contribution for anyone who is looking for ways to get started with the training team, and if you need help with creating a GitHub issue you can simply request assistance in the Slack thread.

Slack thread related to reviewing contributor courses

Project updates

Contributor Guide Program

As mentioned above, @courtneypk is seeking feedback on the proposal for the new Contributor Guide Program initiative. Please leave comments on the proposal by July 5th, 2023.

Read the post about the New Contributor Guide Program and/or leave a comment here

Open Discussions

  • @sumitsingh requested help from the Learn team reps on how to obtain a 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. Organiser contributor badge. As these are awarded by the Community Team, those seeking this badge are advised to contact the #community-team.

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 Meeting Recap – 20th June 2023

This meeting followed this meeting agenda post. 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 18 attendees: @webtechpooja, @sumitsingh, @chetan200891, @krupalpanchal, @lada7042, @sierratr, @margheweb, @newcomer22, @quitevisible, @boogah, @eboxnet ,@onealtr, @nahidsharifkomol, @westnz, @courtneypk, @vanpariyar@piyopiyofox, @mjaragon03

We’ve had several new people join the channel recently. What is your interest in Learn/Training and what do you enjoy outside of WordPress:@Jorge Boscan, @Safa Abbas Bahar Chowdhury, @atiktonmoy, @Arshadina Umara Najib, @Jhilik, @Asad, @alexcu21, @Taraprasad Swain, @Gael DENYSIAK, @Hilary Baumann, @Mehbub Rashid, @Yash Kukreja, @Mark Sollazzo, @rich, @Ghanshyam Patel, @Maishank

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.

Looking for feedback

  • New Learn WordPress website designs have been shared. You can find a more detailed view of Learn website on this post: https://make.wordpress.org/design/2023/06/19/design-share-jun-5-jun-16/
  • Let’s re-evaluate how we currently host our meetings
    • EMEA/AMER meetings Currently seeing low synchronous engagement in the past few months.
    • Team members (across the globe) are joining APAC meetings async and providing their feedback.
    • Unable to find hosts or co-hosts for EMEA/AMER.
    • Pooja is a Test co-lead for the upcoming 6.3 and 6.4 releases, and the Test team meeting falls a the same time, so it would be hard for her to switch back and forth.
    • @webtechpooja – My idea is to run 1 Coffee hour for EMEA, 1 Coffee hour for APAC, and 1 Global meeting. What do others think?
    • Brainstorm & Table Lead – WordCamp US 2023 Contributor Day There are two months left before WordCamp US 2023 Contributor Day! In preparation for the day, we’d like to invite you to put your name in as a table-co lead and share your ideas of what contributors at the Training Team table can get involved with on that day.

Weekly Roundup on Monday

During meetings, we post weekly published content. So instead of posting during meetings, we can post a weekly Roundup of what happened published on Monday, so we can focus our meetings around what needs to be created, reviewed, or discussed, and in this way, our meetings can be more engaging. We have positive feedback on it.

Looking for volunteers

  • Audit and Translate Learn WordPress courses – As part of the Contributor Mentorship Program, we need to review the following course on priority,
  • Come join the Training Team as a Translation Coordinator (Faculty role)
    Recently joined faculty members as a Translation Coordinator
  • Creating guiding documents / advising on accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) – Looking for a volunteer, who can work on a handbook page that has an accessibility checklist that can be used by content creators, editors, and 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. note-takers.
  • Implementing Learning Pathways #1577 – Please indicate interest in the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue
  • WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program: Pilot Program Proposal: Each team has been asked to devote at least one team member. Would any Faculty like to volunteer?
  • Team Meeting Hosts and Coffee Hour Hosts
  • High priority content to translate – We have created this based on past interest and pick. We will update the content list when the Learning Paths have been finalized.

Other news

Content published in the last week

Open requests for review

Below is some content that is ready for review, if any content reviewers are around, please help us in reviewing and move it to publish state.

Project updates

No project is active right now.

Other ways to Contribute

Ready to start contributing? Here are a couple of ways to get involved today!

Open Discussions

@sierratr reported, some online workshop issues are still open on Github, even after event has been completed. We need to close them.

Pooja shared below links:

  • Proposal: Criteria for Removing “Beta Support” from Each PHP 8+ Version – Proposal that aims to establish criteria for when and how PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. version support graduates from “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.” to “compatible”.
  • What’s new in Gutenberg 16.0? (14 June)

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-team

Training Team Meeting Recap – 13th June 2023

This meeting followed this meeting agenda post. 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 held in the APAC time zone, led by @piyopiyofox

Introductions and Welcome

There were 23 attendees: @piyopiyofox, @piyushmultidots, @Webtechpooja, @chetan200891, @ronakganatra, @sumitsingh, @thisisyeasin, @chaion07, @margheweb, @jominney, @faguni22, @quitevisible, @onealtr, @sagarladani, @hderashri, @prashantbhivsane, @vishalbhisara, @karthickmurugan, @lada7042, @ardianimaya (async), @west7(async) , @afrin29 (async) , @bsanevans (async)

There were 18 people who just joined the team, especially from WCEU: @daniedmola @pieroaiello @mahfuzul @jdsofttech @akshayshah5189 @darshandagli @khushal033 @vishalbhisara) @james-roberts @jmorley88 @mjaragon03 @joen @archiplace2015 @ninomiho @emmawager @cliffpaulick @pamprn @anydog

News

Writing meeting recap notes is a great place to start contributing to a team, and this handbook has all the information you need to get started.

Meeting note takers:

Looking for feedback

Recap and Next Steps: Training Team Onboarding

Some people provided feedback on the training team’s onboarding. The team is looking for more feedback, and the request is open to all.

You can submit your feedback by 18th June, as @bsanevans is looking for feedback.

There are some specific questions that you can rely upon:

  • Do you have any other observations or feedback about the Onboarding Programme? 
  • What are your thoughts about the proposed Guide program? 
  • Any other ideas that would improve the onboarding experience for new contributors to the Training Team?

@jpantani talked in the thread and asked which features should be highlighted in the upcoming 6.3 release. You can join and share your ideas in the thread. 
@joen shared a design update of the Learn WordPress landing page. And the team members are to share their feedback on the design.

Looking for Volunteers

One of the best ways to contribute to the training team is by volunteering. You can join this fascinating contribution in these ways:

  • Come join the Training Team as a Translation Coordinator (Faculty role): Being a translator contributor, you can directly contribute to the training team and boost the team effort to make the ‘Learn WordPress’ project more exciting and globally accessible.
  • Implementing Learning Pathways #1577
    • @courane01 has started the development to make Learn WordPress more structured with learning pathways for the learners.
    • Please indicate interest in the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue if you’d like to join the project.
  • WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program: Pilot Programme Proposal
    • Each team has been asked to dedicate at least one team member. It’s still open for any faculty members to volunteer.
  • For the upcoming 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, the team reps are preparing a brainstorming and table-lead volunteer post. You can keep an eye over it – Flagship WordCamp Contributor Day handbook page
  • Team Meeting Hosts and Coffee Hour Hosts
    • Training Team coffee hour or meeting is a great way to help keep the team running
  • Looking for a co-host for the Coffee Hour:
  • Looking for the Meeting Hosts
    • June 20 – need volunteer (EMEA/AMER) 
    • June 27 – need volunteer (APAC) 
    • July 4 – need volunteer (EMEA/AMER) 
    • July 11 – need volunteer (APAC)

Other News

Content Published in the Last Week

Open request for review

Open discussion

Other ways to contribute: Ready to start contributing? Here are a couple of ways to get involved today!

Join the Training Team Welcome Committee!: Help us welcome new members to the Training Team and foster our growing community.


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 Meeting Recap – 6 June, 2023

This meeting followed this meeting agenda post. 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 held in the EMEA/AMER time zone, led by @webtechpooja

Introductions and Welcome

There were 18 attendees: @webtechpooja @lada7042 @meher @margheweb @chetan200891 @newcomer22 @611shabnam @jominney @sumitsingh @ardianimaya (async) @courtneypk (async) @west7 (async) @onealtr (async) @quitevisible (async) @vanpariyar (async) @arasae @bsanevans (async) @saif2002

There were 14 people who just joined the team!: @mrinal013 @hasibtanvir @sandipjbhatt @wpcustomizer @goldbomber @leonnugraha @611shabnam @firoz2456 @poojabhimani @mayuripatel @beryldlg @studionashvegas @laurentmagnin @newcomer22

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.

Looking for feedback

Recap and Next Steps: Training Team Onboarding

25 people have completed the Training Team’s new onboarding program. More than half have continued on with regular contributions to the team. The link above considers how the program can be improved further.

Looking for Volunteers

Other News

  • WordCamp Europe 2023 Contributor Day
  • GitHub updates for Subject Matter Experts and Content Translators
    • The two new GitHub project boards discussed in this proposal have been created. A new project board titled LearnWP Topic Vetting has been created specifically for vetting content topic ideas. Also, a new GitHub project board titled LearnWP Content – Localization has been created. This new project board tracks localization issues separately from general content creation issues.
  • Analysis and results of the Individual Learner Survey has finally been published. Please leave your comments on the post. This data and discussions will be a big factor the team will consider as we prioritize our activities from here on.
  • 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. @piyopiyofox is back from sabbatical leave. Welcome Back, Destiny! 
  • WordPress 6.4 Development Cycle: As planning for 2023’s third major releaseMajor Release A set of releases or versions having the same major version number may be collectively referred to as “X.Y” -- for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, and all other versions in the 5.2. (five dot two dot) branch of that software. Major Releases often are the introduction of new major features and functionality. unfolds, meet 6.4’s release team and support release cohorts, as well as the planned schedule. The best part of this release is our Training is also a part of this release, and @courane01 is a Release leadRelease Lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release.!

Content Published in the Last Week

Open Requests for Review

Project Update

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, #training-team

Training Team Meeting Recap – 30 May, 2023

This meeting followed this meeting agenda post. 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

Attendees Team meeting (APAC): @sagarladani @bsanevans @webtechpooja @sumitsingh @askaryabbas @prashantbhivsane @ardianimaya @thisisyeasin @freewebmentor @chetan200891 @nahidsharifkomol @ashiquzzaman @quitevisible @hderashri @amitpatelmd @psykro @jominney @afrin29 @chaion07 @karthickmurugan @piyushmultidots @smrtrnx @margheweb (async) @lada7042 (async) @eboxnet (async) @onealtr (async) @west7 (async) @courtneypk (async)

Attendees Coffee hour (EMEA/AMER): @webtechpooja @courane01 @jominney @yoga1103 @alexstine

Welcome to the team (WordPress usernames): @nekojonez @satyajittalukder @novandri511 @adil33 @garrettn @ashrafulsarkar

Meeting Note Takers

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

News

Looking for feedback

  • Ben asked for feedback after a month of switching the meeting agenda from the team blog to 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/.
    @lada7042, @ardianimaya, @webtechpooja, @courane01, @psykro gave positive feedback.
  • Analysis of the Individual Learner Survey results has finally been published.
     @abhanonstopnewsuk and @west7 were appreciated for their contribution to compiling the data.

Looking for Volunteers

  • The team is looking for volunteers for multiple roles –
    • Implementing learning pathways
    • WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program: Pilot Program Proposal
    • Team meeting hosts and coffee hour hosts
  • Based on the Proposal: Creating GitHub project boards for SMEs and Translators, @bsanevans have been updating the team’s GitHub project boards.
  • WordPress 6.3 planning roundup – WordPress 6.3 is scheduled for release on 8 Aug, 2023.
  • 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. Europe 2023 schedule – WordCamp Europe is happening next week! Attendees will be meeting in Athens, Greece, for three days.
  • WordCamp EU contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. ideas – The Training Team will be running a Contributor Day table at WordCamp EU. @webtechpooja will be publishing a post shortly with the details.
  • Contributors all around the world celebrated WordPress’s 20th birthday last week!

Content Published this Week

Content Available for Review

Project Update

  • Proposal: Creating GitHub project boards for SMEs and Translators led by @bsanevans
    • Two new project boards have been made.
    • GitHub Workflows have been set so that new issues are automatically added to these project boards.
    • l plan on finishing moving non-vetted topics out of the Content Development board and into the Subject Matter Expert board today.
    • I plan on updating handbook pages, and publishing a post summarizing the changes, by the end of this week.
  • Analysis of the Individual Learner Survey results led by @webcommsatnonstopnewsuk and @west7
    • A big Thank You to everyone involved in publishing the results!
    • This is an important post for the team as we prioritize future activities. Please leave any comments you have on the post.

Open Discussions

Coffee Hour

@courane01 started the coffee hour and shared a Zoom meeting link to celebrate WordPress’s 20th anniversary.


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-team