| Note Taker/Meeting Summarizers | Takes notes during weekly meetings and post them on the “Make Training” team blog. | Take notes during (or after) the weekly meeting.
Post the minutes on “Make Training”. |
| Meeting Facilitators | Leads the weekly team meetings in Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
Posts the agenda on the “Make Training” team blog. | Post the agenda in the Slack channel before the meeting (preferably several hours before).
Lead the discussion of the agenda in the Slack channel. |
| Training Team Liasion | Reports to the larger WordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ organization. | Provide a weekly update on the Team Updates blog.
Connect with other teams such as Accessibility 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), Design, Docs, Meta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress., Community, or Marketing (or any other) as needed. |
| Lesson Plan Writers | Creates the initial drafts of lesson plans.
You do not have to be expert on the topic, but can work with the Subject Matter Experts to get the information they need. | Identify the lesson plan you want to work on. |
| Subject Matter Experts | People with expertise that can help with lesson plans including drafting or reviewing them. | Identify your area of expertise and the lesson plan you want to work on. |
| Instructional Design Experts | Reviews high level overview of all content on Learn, looking for areas where content is needed.
Plans curriculum, review assessment methods, consider learning styles and content delivery.
Provides feedback within a single lesson but you are more oriented toward broad content review.
It is similar to a Scrum Product Owner. | Scope new courses, audit gaps in content, set standards for content delivery, and evaluate content being delivered. |
| SEO Experts | Researches and provides suggested keywords before content is created.
Audits existing content for SEO opportunities.
Reviews content when possible before publishing for SEO opportunities. | Partner with Training and Marketing to research and share opportunities to position Learn material well in SERPs, Social Media results, and more. |
| Copy Editors | Reviews lesson plans for typos, grammar, completeness, understandability, etc. | Identify the lesson plan that needs editing.
Review and edit the lesson plan as you see fit. |
| Designers | Provides the design assets for a lesson plan such as slides, screenshots and featured images. | Identify the lesson plan that needs design assets.
Create the design asset in accordance with any guidelines. |
| Developers | Reviews and tests the code snippets on a lesson plan. | Identify the lesson plan that needs a code review.
Test and make any necessary amendments. |
| Lesson Plan Testers | Conducts in-person lessons and provides feedback | Identify the lesson plan you are testing.
Provide feedback using the feedback form. |
| Auditors | Checks the content for accuracy with the current version of WordPress. | Be aware of changes within each release. |
| Team Welcome Wrangler | Welcomes new members to the team. | Add new members to the tools used by the team such as Trello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing., “Make Training”, and “Learn WordPress”
Helps them learn our workflow and team structure.
Answers their questions. |
| Style Guide Wrangler | Be responsible for the content of the Style Guide and keeping it up to date.
Incorporates the feedback of the team for changes. | Update the Style Guide which is on the Make blog
Update the reusable block 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 |
| Support Flow Wrangler | Regularly reviews messages sent through the website to Support Flow and “Help Hub” | Review and respond to the the Support Flow tickets in “Make Training” site.
Review and respond to the the Support Flow tickets in “Learn WordPress†site.
Review and respond to the tickets in “Help Hub”. |
| “Make†Site Wrangler | “Make Training” site houses the team’s handbook of information on what we do and how people can contribute to the team.
This role makes sure that information is accurate and works to improve it. | Maintain and update the team’s handbook. |
| Trello Board Wrangler | Manages the lists and cards on the team’s Trello board. | Move, archive and update cards in line with the team’s sprint cycle.
Assign and remove users to a card or the board. |
| GitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ Wrangler | Vets issues that have been submitted to Learn.
Respond to any requests from Meta or other functionality related needs of Learn. | Read GitHub notifications and respond.
Discuss at team meetings any concerns or what items we might submit to GitHub Learn. |
| “Make” Team Buddy | Reports to the Make teams such as Accessibility, Design, Docs, Community, Marketing, Meta, Polyglots, Support, and any other team. | Be aware of what the Make Training Team is working on. (Keep up with their Make blog and Slack channel.)
Bring any relevant items that they are working on to the attention of the Training Team.
Be the voice of the Training Team in their Make Team discussions. |
| Contributor 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/. Coordinator | Provide information and assistance on Contributor days so that the Training Team is represented. | Be aware of WordCamps having Contributor Days.
Connects with their organizers to provide support. |