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

Overview

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

SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. Log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1724284815253509 (If you don’t have a Slack account, you can set one up.)

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

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

Note Taker: @noruzzaman

News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current note taker roster:

Looking for feedback

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

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

You can vote here

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

  • If you encounter any bugs or want to suggest an enhancement, please use the feedback template in GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/.

Looking for volunteers

Call for contributors: Intermediate Plugin Developer Learning Pathway

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

Project Thread: Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1

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

Call for testing: Playground blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. on Learn WordPress

  • Thanks to the work of Alex Stine and Brandon Payton, we have been testing and fixing a11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) issues in the Playground block on Learn WordPress. All of the outstanding issues have now been fixed, so we’d like to ask other a11y experts to help us test.
  • You can find more details on this testing issue: Test Playground Block on Learn WordPress. #2352

Dev Squad Updates

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

Other news

Come and Contribute

This week’s contribution focus area

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

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

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Contribution Acknowledgement

Badges awarded: End of the month

Props:

  • Props to Cynthia Norman for hosting your first Online Workshop on adding theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. to classic themes!

Project updates

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

Contributor Updates

Jamie Madden Working on reviewing lessons as well as scripts.

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

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

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

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

Jonathan Bossenger Working with various contributors on the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party developer learning pathway content, Guiding two new members to the training team, Hosted dev-squad triage, Planning next in person course cohort with Kathryn Presner

Open Discussions

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

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

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

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

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

Introductions and Welcome

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

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

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

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

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

News

Meeting Note Takers

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

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

Looking for feedback

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

With the launch of the new Learn WordPress site, several post-launch tasks need attention. You can view the list here: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/milestone/21. If you find any bugs or have suggestions for improvements, please use the feedback template on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/.

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

Looking for volunteers

Call for contributors: Intermediate Plugin Developer Learning Pathway

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

Project Thread: Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1

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

Call for Testing: Playground BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. on Learn WordPress

Thanks to @alexstine and @brandonpayton, a11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) issues in the Playground block have been addressed. We’re now asking other a11y experts to help with testing. More details are available in the testing issue #2352.

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

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

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

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

Other News

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

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

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

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

Come and Contribute

Feedback awaiting validation

Contributor Acknowledgement

@west7 suggested giving props to:

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

Project Updates

Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

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

Open Discussions

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

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

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

Laura Adamonis 8:43 pm on August 20, 2024
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WordCamp US 2024 Contributor Day

Thank you for joining the Training Team 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 2024 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/.! We’ve prepared activities for both new and experienced contributors to join in on the day. See the schedule for WCUS Contributor Day here.

We are excited to announce that we will be hosting online events during Contributor Day, allowing those who couldn’t attend WordCamp US to participate remotely. You can join us for online contributions by following the MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. link below. Stay tuned for scheduled events!

Join the online events on Meetup: link TBA

Table Leads: Laura Adamonis (@lada7042), Kathryn Presner (@zoonini), Cynthia Norman (@cnormandigital)

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/. Monitor: looking for volunteer

Online Coordinator: Oderinde Oluwasegun (@webcreative), Jonathan Bossenger (@psykro)

How can I best prepare?

You can prepare for Contributor Day by ensuring you’ve got these starter tools ready:

Instructions for preparing in advance can be found here: Welcome to the Training Team! If you are a developer, check out these Dev-squad guidelines.

Please Note: For registering for Slack, be sure to log in using yourusername@chat.wordpress.org as your email address. Not your normal email address.

Training Team Mission

The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through courses, lessons and Online Workshops, via learn.wordpress.org.

I’m new to the Training Team!
I have experience working as a contributor!

I’m new to the Training Team!

Thanks for joining! Please walk through our brand-new Onboarding Program. This will give you an overview of the team, help you set up the accounts you need to contribute, and even walk you through your first contribution!

Getting Started – The Training Team Onboarding Program

We expect the onboarding program above to take 30-60 minutes. Once you’ve completed onboarding, jump into these other activities to continue contributing!

Review published content and submit feedback

WordPress software continues to grow and new features get added all the time. Reviewing published content and updating content is important in keeping the Learn WordPress website current. Follow the team guide about reviewing published content to leave feedback about any content below. (Reviewing older content would be helpful!)

Lessons

Thumbnail Creation Project

This ongoing project continues to need to create a large quantity of small graphics – called thumbnails – to serve as featured images for each course, lesson, and tutorial. This will create a visually appealing site that will entice learners to dive in and get started on their learning journey. Thumbnail Creation Project

I have experience working as a contributor!

Thanks for joining! Depending on your interests, there are a few ways you can get involved. For each of the tasks below, the team handbook should help you with process specifics. But if you have any questions, feel free to reach out!

 

Content reviews

Are you interested in editing content? If so, then reviewing content waiting to be published is our priority today.

Start by finding a piece of content to review in our content development board. This GitHub view has filtered all content waiting for reviews before it is published. Follow the team’s Guidelines for reviewing content and leave your reviews right there 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/.

Validating and applying feedback issues

Are you a developer interested in working on issues for the Learn website? If so, then working through our LearnWP Content – Feedback project board

Start by reviewing issues “Follow these steps”. Any help you can provide regarding issues “Awaiting Fix” would be great, too. But in general, any attention you can give to any issue would be much appreciated.

If there are enough interested Developers, then we can also create a developer-focused working group so that they can focus on related issues.

Data migration (more information to come)

Brainstorming session

We would like to set aside time (TBA) for a brainstorming session to come up with proposals for activities to draw new learners to Learn.WordPress.org, based on an upcoming p2 (blog) post.

Before you leave…

We’d love to hear what you achieved on the day. Before leaving the table, please submit the Contributor Day Attendee Feedback Form and respond to the relevant thread in Slack.

Contributor Day Attendee Feedback Form

Did you attend in-person, or virtually?(required)

#contributor-days, #training-team #WCUS2024

#contributor-days, #learn-wordpress, #training-team, #wceu, #wceu2024

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

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

Introductions and Welcome

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

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

News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current note taker roster.

Looking for feedback

Looking for volunteers

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

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

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

Other News

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

Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

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

Topics awaiting vetting

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

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

Project Updates

Open Discussions

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

Introductions and Welcome

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

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

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

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

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

News

Meeting Note Takers

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

Looking for feedback

@digitalchild is finalizing a survey for Online Workshop attendees in our Online Workshop MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. group.

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

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

Looking for volunteers

Brainstorm & Table Lead – WordCamp US 2024 Contributor Day – we are looking for onsite and online table lead volunteers and ideas for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.!

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

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

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

Dev Squad Updates

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

Other News

Gutenberg Times mentioned Learning Pathways 

Destiny Kanno says about WordCamp Canada last week — do attendees have any highlights to share?
Kathryn Presner says It was an excellent inaugural WordCamp Canada in Ottawa, Ontario! She ran the Training team table during Contributor Day and got three people started with testing the new Learn WordPress site (more details in the props section). They all did a great job finding bugs and reporting issues on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/, and one of them also made some thumbnails!

It was delightful to chat with Cynthia Norman (content creator working on the Intermediate Theme Developer Learning Pathway course) Bud Kraus (participant in the recent course cohort on developing your first blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.). She also gave a talk on Untangling Templates and had some great audience questions!

Come and Contribute

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

Find other ways to contribute to this

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

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

Good first issues for developers

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

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Contribution Acknowledgement

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

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

Project Updates

Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Project Thread: Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1

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

Contributor Updates

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

Muhibul Haque worked on a thumbnail generator project.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Open Discussions

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

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

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

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

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

Introductions and Welcome

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

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

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

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

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

News

Meeting Note Takers

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

Looking for feedback

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

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

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

– fostering a collaborative learning community

– Relevant + most up to date

– The place to come to learn about WordPress

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

Looking for volunteers

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

Testing the new Learn WordPress

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

Let’s start testing Learn.WordPress.org

Other News

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

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

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

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

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

Come and Contribute

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

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

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

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

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

Contribution Acknowledgement

Badges Awarded:

  • At the end of the month

Props:

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

Contributors in the Community:

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

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

Project updates

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

Open Discussions:

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

Contributors in the Community:

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

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

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

Arun Sharma 9:06 am on July 12, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 27th June 2024

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

Introductions and Welcome

There were 23 attendees @piyopiyofox, @gmrafi, @west7, @soir7, @digitalchild, @huzaifaalmeabah, @sumitsingh, @voboghure (async), @dextorlobo (async), @rithika3 (async), @freewebmentor (async), @mebo (async), @baheshjagir (async), @zeelthakkar (async), @devmuhib (async), @zoonini (async), @cnormandigital (async), @ironnysh (async), @backpocketACE (async), @lada7042 (async), @quitevisible (async), @sierratr (async), @rfluethi (async)

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

@mokona84, @cotorra42, @laurahartwigdesign, @vonconcepts, @stanfordgriffith, @nilovelez, @saeedja, @gorangagrawal, @chauhanraj754, @kel-dc, @hmbashar, @darshanprajapat09

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

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

News

Meeting Note Takers

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

Looking for feedback

Looking for volunteers

Other news

GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ clean up updates – I have gone through our Content Development board and closed issues that are not Lessons, Learning Pathways content or Online Workshops. Some issues flagged as Tutorial remain as we determine whether or not they can be made into Lessons.

Come and Contribute

We’d like folks to focus on Feedback awaiting validation this week :bulb:

Find other ways to contribute:

Topics awaiting vetting

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

Content ready for review

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Contribution Acknowledgement

Badges awarded: Training Contributor Badge awarded to @shiponkarmakar

  • Props:
  • @zoonini sends props to @lada7042 for co-hosting the Thumbnail-a-thon Online Workshop with me at the last minute!
  • She also shared props with @laurahartwigdesign, @rfluethi, @Kel Santiago-Pilarski, @nilovelez and @hellosatya for helping create thumbnails :smile:
  • @west7 for his great work on these advanced topics in website optimisation
  • @ironnysh – Helping with the advanced learning pathway outline + writing scripts
  • @digitalchild Reviewing content and providing helpful feedback
  • @lada7042 Running a three-part Online Workshop series
  • @psykro Publishing the Beginner developer learning pathway
  • @zoonini – Managing the thumbnail creation project + site redesign
  • @lada7042 for her patience and kindness and her encouragement in getting me started on this venture.

Project updates

  • Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress – see the full latest update on the thread here and some snippets below:
    • This week the dev team shipped a number of templates, a fallback featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. (used in the card grids in all archives), and filters on taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. archives. See screenshots in Slack.
    • The community’s help will be needed when the site is ready for QA.
    • Work is under way on a video walkthrough, News announcement, and Media Corps briefing – GitHub issue.
    • We’ll plan an Online Workshop to go through the new site for week after launch so it can be included in News announcement.
  • Thumbnail Creation Project
    • An Online Workshop Thumbnail-a-thon was held yesterday to get community help in generating thumbnails. Help is still needed! Watch the recording and check out the resources in the comments, and 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.” in the #training channel in Slack if you have any questions.

Contributor Updates

As noted in last week’s meeting, we are transforming the bi-weekly Faculty Updates into Contributor Updates , and invite everyone in the Training Team to share what they have been working on recently :smile: :dance:

You can engage in sharing updates:

  • What have you been working on and how has it been going?
  • Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
  • Do you have any blockers?
  • Can other Training Team members help you in some way?
  • @sumitsingh
    • I have 5 new contributors and I am starting soon guide program with all
  • @digitalchild
    • Content reviews including videos and scripts. Interim training rep duties. No blockers. We can always use more people reviewing content/tutorials for the new pathways.
  • @west7
    • Created 2 new lessons
    • Created activities and quizzes for the Intermediate user learning pathway
    • Blockers:
      • Coordinating reviews and updates across different time zones with various participants  :sweat_smile:
      • Updating content can be time consuming
  • @rfluethi
    • I am still trying to find my way around the extensive information provided by the training team. (Sorry for my slowness.)
    • Creating thumbnails
    • Talking to the local team about the need for learning path translations
    • Discussions with 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. organisers about the possibilities of forming supportive learning groups of participants in learning paths
  • @zoonini
    • Wrapping up the second course cohort and preparing recap post
    • Helping coordinate the Learn remake, including wrangling thumbnail creation and hosting thumbnail-a-thon Online Workshop, and planning community QA/testing
    • Ongoing admin for the Guide program
    • Working on Faculty program retirement plan
  • @cnormandigital
    • LP lessons for theme development
  • @lada7042
    • onboarding 2 contributors
    • team rep meeting
    • GatherPress test site
    • scheduling online workshops
  • @piyopiyofox
    • Working with a Guide Program
    • Drafting a proposal for our content migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. project
    • Preparing Learn Newsletter and Monthly Update
      I’m also preparing for some AFK next week :slightly_smiling_face:

Open Discussions

Does anyone have an open discussion topic to bring to the team?

@gusa I have a random question coming out the recent Contributor Working Group chat. In our discussion about potential mentorship projects for the next cohort, the idea of do_action for mentored contributions once again came up. This was also something we’ve on/off discussed with the training team in meetings and related issues (for example). Noticing that issue was closed (yesterday I think?), I was wondering if that means there’s been progress (or possibly because that particular issue hasn’t been active recently).

In addition to creating training materials for do_action, it seems like other potential mentorship projects along with the goal to launch “On Demand Mentorship” would benefit from resources provided by the Training Team.

Curious if there’s been recent cross team/working group discussions on any of the above.

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

zeelthakkar 6:27 am on July 10, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 4th July 2024

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

Introductions and Welcome

There were 19 attendees @Jamie Madden, @newyorkerlaura, @lada7042, @voboghure, @west7, @zeelthakkar, @noruzzaman, @jagirbahesh, @devmuhib, @sumitsingh, @zoonini, @amitpatelmd (async), @gmrafi (async), @ironnysh (async), @freewebmentor (async), @cnormandigital (async), @quitevisible (async), @piyopiyofox (async), @backpocketACE(async).

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

@Soir, @Abheesh, @omerkurd, @Billal hossain, @Chigozie Orunta, @Anfisa Breus

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

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

News

Meeting Note Takers

July 4 – @zeelthakkar
July 11 – @Kruti
July 18 – @noruzzaman
July 25 – @jagirbahesh

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

Looking for volunteers

  • We are looking for folks to review tutorials and determine if we keep, update, or deprecate them.
  • The Thumbnail Creation Project also requires volunteers to help make thumbnails for the new Learn siteLearn site The Training Team publishes its completed lesson plans at https://learn.wordpress.org/ which is often referred to as the "Learn" site..

Other News

  • Translating lesson content: It looks like if translators assign a translated lesson to the original course and module, it replaces that lesson in the course (more information here). We will need to investigate to confirm this, but until we do, it might be useful if translators of lesson content don’t assign the course or module to a translated lesson.
  • The second course cohort wrapped and the recap post is up, including feedback survey results from participants and next steps: https://make.wordpress.org/training/2024/07/02/recap-the-second-learn-wordpress-course-cohort/
  • Thumbnail Creation Project
  • The Thumbnail-a-thon online event on the 26th of June, with 18 participants working on creating thumbnails for the project.
  • A total of 21 thumbnails were created for the project

@zeelthakkar is interested in creating thumbnails. @west7 suggested reviewing @zoonini‘s online workshop recording for guidance and to reach out to @zoonini with any questions.
@jagirbahesh also interested to creating thumbnails.he will check the post.
@sumitsingh and @zoonini are available to help with creating thumbnails. 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.” me if you need assistance.
@zoonini thanked for pitching in!
@piyopiyofox advises that translated lessons should only be created as standalone unless the entire course is fully translated.

Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

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

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Contributor Acknowledgement

@Jamie Madden expressed appreciation for @west7 diligence in updating content based on recent reviews.
@Laura A thanked @Jamie Madden for hosting his first Training Team meeting!
@jagirbahesh suggested giving props to @zeelthakkar for actively working on meeting recap posts.
@zoonini suggested giving props to @laurahartwigdesign for creating 53 thumbnail graphics for lessons on the Learn WP site!

Project Updates

Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

An amazing amount of work has been going into the learning pathways project. Folks are always welcome to volunteer their time to our team projects as well 

Contributor Updates

You can engage in sharing updates in this

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

Sure, here’s a rephrased version:

@Jamie Madden has started their role as the training team interim rep. They have been reviewing several advanced tutorials and assisting @west7 with scripts and feedback on a few tutorials. Currently, they have no blockers.

@lada7042 is preparing for her upcoming online workshop after a productive WP fun day exploring new site editor features.

@west7 is currently publishing the Intermediate user learning pathway, updating existing content, and developing new lessons.

@sumitsingh is providing training new WP users, reviewing and translating Hindi content, and planning to create more thumbnails.

@zoonini wrapped up the course cohort, published a recap post, coordinated the thumbnail project, assisted with the Learn WP remake, guided program admin, published the Faculty program retirement plan, and prepared a testing/QA plan for the Learn site.

@Rico creates thumbnails, trains WP users, and organizes local learning groups to go through learning paths together.

@cnormandigital is completing the Intermediate Theme Developer learning pathway.

@devmuhib is publishing thumbnails on Learn WordPress, mentoring in the Guide Program, and assisting with translations.

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

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

Jagir Bahesh 1:30 pm on June 26, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 20th June 2024

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

Introductions and Welcome

There were 26 attendees @bsanevans, @piyopiyofox, @jagirbahesh, @lada7042, @gmrafi, @digitalchild, @huzaifaalmeabah, @freewebmentor, @sumitsingh, @zeelthakkar, @voboghure(async), @dextorlobo(async), @west7, @rfluethi(async), @amitpatelmd(async), @devmuhib(async), @psykro(async), @ironnysh(async), @cnormandigital(async), @sakibsnaz(async), @webcommsat(async), @mobarak, @zoonini, @sierratr(async), @ardianimaya(async), @backpocketACE(async)

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

@moltilearn8, @azizozbek, @aleenak19, @wpfy, @arunshenoy99, @rinkuiihglobal, @jinalparekh, @manishakhileri, @hazeldrio, @josevarghese, @grahambb, @estelaris, @redfra7, @sparklabs, @newyorkerlaura, @lcf, @manoel910, @brettface, @davidfcarr, @yuriykovalenko, @naveedalam, @nicolaemorosan2, @rahmatgumilar, @tsherk86, @soie7

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

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

News

Meeting Note Takers

  • Note takers, please remember to wait until the Tuesday following the meeting to publish the notes. This allows team members time to read and provide asynchronous comments.
  • After publishing the notes, please comment in the meeting agenda’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/ issue with the link to the notes and then close the issue.
  • Here is our current note taker roster.
    June 20 – @Jagir Bahesh
    June 27 – @Arun Sharma
    July 4 – @Zeel Thakkar
    July 11 – @Kruti

Looking for feedback

  • Training Team 2024 Half Year Review is out!
    Let’s celebrate another 6 months of goals and projects accomplished! Please read through the post and share any additional thoughts in the comments.
  • Do we need a separate LearnWP Topic Vetting board for vetting topics?
    The team’s dynamics have changed since then, so let’s reevaluate. What is the value of having a dedicated board for topic vetting? Could we add back a column at the left of the LearnWP Content- Development board for issues waiting vetting?
    • According to @bsanevans Last year, SMEs struggled to find relevant issues to vet due to all topics being in a single column, leading to a backlog of 100+ issues. The topic vetting project board, with its categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. tabs, made it easier for SMEs to locate their issues.
      Now, only 5 issues are waiting to be vetted, a significant improvement from last year. This change allows us to consider reverting to a single column in the content development project board. The backlog was primarily due to Training creating many new issues per release, but this process has paused, making the vetting board more manageable.
    • @piyopiyofox closed all Lesson Plans and Tutorials unless requested to be converted into a Lesson. The team could benefit from an editorial calendar for release-related content and a general checklist to vet other content for relevancy and priority.
    • @webcommsat consider using the Dev Blog model for idea planning and discussion, though the emoji thumb voting might not work due to more people involved in training. Using GitHub for planning could be effective. We can filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. the existing board for ideas and adapt some Dev Blog practices for training. This could also aid in cross-mapping and linking published items, which is increasingly important. I already consider training when reviewing new Dev Blog ideas and posts.

Looking for volunteers

At WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. EU’s Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/., the team began creating thumbnails for Learn content, but many more are needed. @zoonini is hosting an online workshop next week to continue this effort. Click the link above to sign up and join the Thumbnail-a-thon!

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Last week, @psykro and @digitalchild triaged the following bugs 

Other News

  • As there has been consensus around the proposal put forward two weeks ago (Slack thread) to retire the Faculty program, we’ll be moving ahead as discussed.
    • @zoonini will be leading this transition and will let the team know of next-steps soon.
    • As of today, we’ll be closing the Faculty application form.
  • New team meeting section – “Contributor Updates”.
    Although the Faculty program is ending, the “Faculty Updates” section in team meetings has been valuable. We want to continue this tradition and invite all training team members to share their current issues or projects.
    • Starting next week, the “Faculty Updates” section will be renamed “Contributor Updates” and all 2,655 Training Team members are invited to share their updates.
  • @piyopiyofox has been cleaning up the Topic Vetting Board by closing non-Lesson, non-Learning Pathways, and non-Online Workshop issues. We will next close similar issues in the Content Development Project board.
  • Suggestion to pause new Tutorial Presenter applications.
    We’re temporarily closing the Tutorial application form due to spam. We’re focusing on updating the content creator application process while keeping the Online Workshop facilitator application form open for vetted submissions. Please share any questions or thoughts in the threads above.

Contributor Acknowledgement

  • Props: @cnormandigital For won the Kim Parsell Scholarship by the WordPress Foundation.
  • Props: Special thanks to all the contributors who created thumbnail graphics for the new Learn WordPress site during and after WCEU Contributor Day. A particular shout-out to @sumitsingh and @bsanevans!
  • Props: @agiljulio for his work on creating the final video lessons for the Beginner developer learning pathway.
  • Props: @ironnysh for all her excellent reviews.
  • Props: @cnormandigital for her continued work on the theme developer pathway.
  • Props: @digitalchild for joining dev-squad live from WCEU.

Project Updates

  • Learn WordPress Remake

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.

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

zeelthakkar 11:40 am on June 18, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 13th June 2024

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

Introductions and Welcome

There were 18 attendees @lada7042, @devmuhib, @west7, @zeelthakkar, @jagirbahesh, @piyopiyofox, @pooja9712, @rcreators (async), @gmrafi (async), @voboghure (async), @digitalchild (async), @sumitsingh (async), @bsanevans (async), @freewebmentor (async), @cnormandigital (async), @zoonini (async), @ironnysh (async), @sierratr (async)

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

@mukisaorg, @ksthannan

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

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

News

Meeting Note Takers

June 13 – @zeelthakkar
June 20 – @jagirbahesh
June 27 – @Arun Sharma
July 4 – looking for volunteer

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

The Training Team has had an Administration project board 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/ for a couple of years. With the majority of project tracking now happening on the team blog, team reps are planning on cleaning out the board, leaving just the meeting agenda and handbook feedback items. Are any team members still actively using this board?

Looking for volunteers

  • @Jonathan  and @westnz started triaging the Tutorials in this spreadsheet, marking those that the team should keep, modify, or retire. There are still over 100 Tutorials that need triaging. Feel free to add your thoughts directly in the spreadsheet, or comment here if you need assistance.

Other News

Our WordCamp Europe 2024 Contributor Day post is now up for contributors to review. You can participate either in person or online, so click this link to find out how to contribute Try and get a group photo.

Join The Thumbnail Creation Project to design graphics for the new site! Participate at WCEU’s Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. or remotely. Check out the new handbook page for guidelines on creating video and event thumbnails for Learn WordPress and the Online Workshop group. Use the provided thumbnail generator for all Courses, Lessons, and Online Workshops.

Join our June Content Creation Coffee Hours! It’s a great chance for anyone working on or interested in learning pathway content to meet, discuss projects, ask questions, or find new content to work on. Meetings alternate between two time zones each month.

Check out these informal discovery and Q&A sessions about the Five for the Future program at WCEU this week for companies interested in joining. Sessions are on Saturday, June 15, at 9:00 AM and 3:15 PM, meeting at the Community Booth. The location might change based on attendance. Spread the word and refer to the newly published Five for the Future Handbook for more information. Thank you!

Come and Contribute

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Contributor Acknowledgement

Badges awarded:

Project Updates

Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress June 3rd Update: A theme switcher now lets you preview the new theme on the production siteProduction Site A production site is a live site online meant to be viewed by your visitors, as opposed to a site that is staged for development or testing., with all its data. You can try it at: https://learn.wordpress.org/?new-theme=1

Faculty Updates

  • What have you been working on and how has it been going?

    @lada7042 created a lesson on the Group blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. and worked on video editing and publishing. She encountered issues but received assistance from @westnz.

    @piyopiyofox began as a Guide in the Guide Program, onboarded @Jamie Madden as a new co-rep, and is actively involved in the content maintenance proposal while creating a half-year goals post.

    @westnz has recently created two new lessons for the Intermediate user learning pathway and is involved in the Guide program.

    @devmuhib recently co-hosted workshops on “WordPress Support Engineer Roles and Responsibilities” and “Training Team 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 Contributor Day Online” with @jagirbahesh. He is actively managing HelpScout tickets, onboarded two new content creators this week, and is currently triaging GitHub issues related to content translation.

    @zoonini is currently coordinating a thumbnail creation/replacement project, matching guides with new contributors, and overseeing the Faculty program retirement proposal. She is also involved in coordinating marketing and communication plans for the site relaunch and recently hosted an online workshop with @westnz on recording impressive demos.

  • Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?

    @westnz is completing work on the custom post-type video.

    @Jamie Madden reviewed tutorials provided by @westnz and @Jonathan.

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.

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