Courtney Engle Robertson 12:35 pm on May 11, 2021  

Agenda for May 11, 2021

Please join us Tuesday 1600 UTC OR Office Hour  Friday 1000 UTC in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meetings!

This Week’s Agenda

  1. Intro/Welcome
  2. News
    1. WCEU team presentation
    2. High Level Roadmap to Learn WordPress
    3. Upcoming info
      1. Proposed user roles on Learn
      2. Proposing an audit tool
      3. Scope of Training Team
  3. Current work in process
    1. Lessons in process: (These need to incorporate the lesson plan template, and bump the content into the lesson plan walkthrough)
      1. Setting up a local WordPress Development Environment for Core
      2. Testing a Trac ticket or a Github PR
      3. Trial run on a lesson plan and workshop about overcoming Imposter Syndrom by @lepittenger as part of Web Dev Studios 5FTF to be included in the speaker series.
    2. Lessons ready to be drafted
      1. Use browser dev tools to anonymized info
      2. What other teams have found
      3. How to create a blog post in WordPress 5.x
      4. Using a browser inspector
      5. What to do when you forget your password
  4. Open Discussions

Upcoming Meetings

You are welcome to join the team at any time! If you are new to the Training Team, please introduce yourself in the #training channel before the meeting (or anytime!) and feel free to join us in the meeting and participate as you are able.

Training Team Mission

The WordPress training team creates downloadable lesson plans and related materials for facilitators to use in live environments.

Getting Involved

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects.

Team Links:

ashiquzzaman 4:19 pm on May 5, 2021
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Recap for Training Team meeting May 4, 2021

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The agenda for the meeting can be found here.

Attendance: @chaion07, @ashiquzzaman, @courane01, @alexstine, @onealtr, @evarlese , @paaljoachim, @thisisyeasin

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News:

  1. The Learn Working Group will begin merging the meetings into the training team meetings. Merging Learn Working Group into Training Team meetings
    @erica and @Hugh Lashbrooke have done a great deal around the workshops and the functionality of Learn. As part of flowing with where and when the people are present, and based upon feedback, it makes sense to consolidate the number of meetings. Look for agenda items around workshops and functionality to begin making their way into the Training Team meeting agendas soon.
  2. @courane01 has shared a High-Level Roadmap to Learn WordPress post. The post is dabbling with a way to map out what to learn in what order for new developers or new to WP.  Any kind of feedback is appreciated in the P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. post.
  3. @erica appended a comment to the Contributor Ladder – https://make.wordpress.org/training/2021/04/23/discussion-contributor-ladders-for-the-training-team-and-learn-wordpress/#comment-3015.  This is a segue into the user roles on Learn as well.
  4. The additional proposals in news – user roles – @erica has a doc in a draft state to help clarify what and why we need the unique roles on Learn. The training team had a discussion about what is needed as well for auditing content, and where #docs may overlap.  @courane01 will publish the proposal next week.

    Scope of Training Team – @andreamiddleton (she/her), @Hauwa Abashiya, @erica, @Hugh Lashbrooke, and @courane01 have been discussing creating a proposal to expand the scope and hope to open a discussion on the blog this week. Andrea will help draft that. Essentially when the Training Team formed, the goal was to create lesson plans.  A series of lesson plans would then be considered a workshop (think of a half or full single-day 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.). Learn has evolved from that original vision, and Training Team does help with scoping areas beyond lesson plans. The training team is in discussion on the mission statement of the Training Team, and what the team can grow into.

Current work in progress

  1. Lessons in the process: (These need to incorporate the lesson plan template, and bump the content into the lesson plan walkthrough)
    1. Setting up a local WordPress Development Environment for Core
    2. Testing a Trac ticket or a Github PR
    3. Trial run on a lesson plan and workshop about overcoming Imposter Syndrome by @lepittenger as part of Web Dev Studios 5FTF to be included in the speaker series.
  2. Lessons ready to be drafted
    1. Use browser dev tools to anonymized info
    2. What other teams have found
    3. How to create a blog post in WordPress 5.x
    4. Using a browser inspector
    5. What to do when you forget your password

A few of these @courane01 will take on as they are self-serving for onboarding folks to training/release-comms/docs teams.  @Lu has begun some work on the creating a blog post. If anyone would like to especially get started creating a lesson plan, Forgetting Your Password would be a great one to pick up

Open Discussion:

n/a

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Courtney Engle Robertson 3:44 pm on May 4, 2021  

Agenda for May 4, 2021

Please join us Tuesday 1600 UTC OR Office Hour  Friday 1000 UTC in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meetings!

This Week’s Agenda

  1. Intro/Welcome
  2. News
    1. Merging Learn Working Group into Training Team meetings
    2. High Level Roadmap to Learn WordPress
    3. Review and discuss Contributor ladder
    4. Upcoming info
      1. Proposed user roles on Learn
      2. Proposing an audit tool
      3. Scope of Training Team
  3. Current work in process
    1. Lessons in process: (These need to incorporate the lesson plan template, and bump the content into the lesson plan walkthrough)
      1. Setting up a local WordPress Development Environment for Core
      2. Testing a Trac ticket or a Github PR
      3. Trial run on a lesson plan and workshop about overcoming Imposter Syndrom by @lepittenger as part of Web Dev Studios 5FTF to be included in the speaker series.
    2. Lessons ready to be drafted
      1. Use browser dev tools to anonymized info
      2. What other teams have found
      3. How to create a blog post in WordPress 5.x
      4. Using a browser inspector
      5. What to do when you forget your password
  4. Open Discussions

Upcoming Meetings

You are welcome to join the team at any time! If you are new to the Training Team, please introduce yourself in the #training channel before the meeting (or anytime!) and feel free to join us in the meeting and participate as you are able.

Training Team Mission

The WordPress training team creates downloadable lesson plans and related materials for facilitators to use in live environments.

Getting Involved

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects.

Team Links:

ashiquzzaman 7:30 pm on April 27, 2021
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Recap for Training Team meeting April 27, 2021

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The agenda for the meeting can be found here.

Attendance: @evarlese , @courane01, @alexstine, @chaion07, @ashiquzzaman, @onealtr, @ella, @mukhe27, @Lu,

Introduction and Welcome:

We have few new members joining this week –  @Paapst , @Mike Murphy, @Marce, @ella, @shammex,

Review and discuss:

Last summer the training team regrouped.  With the onset of Covid, the team wasn’t especially active.  But the Learn helped get things moving again.  Since Learn launched, the training team now need to revise the team handbook, contributor flows, and badges to separate from the previous methods all tied to GitHubGitHub 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/ (we’re mostly no longer using GitHub). Hauwa has done a LOT of work on that handbook.  As part of that, we’ve been working on the contributor roles.

@erica posted a p2 post that the training team been working on with. You are most welcome to leave any feedback that you think is helpful.

Current work in process:

  1. Lessons in process: (These need to incorporate the lesson plan template, and bump the content into the lesson plan walkthrough)

Lessons ready to be drafted

  1. Use browser dev tools to anonymized info
  2. What other teams have found
  3. How to create a blog post in WordPress 5.x
  4. Using a browser inspector
  5. What to do when you forget your password

Some of those are definitely ones that @courane01 can help this week.  These plans are more self-serving for the team. Training the training team contributors around best practices for screenshots, how to create fake users, anonymize the names/brands shown, etc.

@Lu expressed interest in creating a blog post.  This would differ from the 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. editor lessons by synthesizing the rest of writing a post (scheduling, tags, categories, excerptExcerpt An excerpt is the description of the blog post or page that will by default show on the blog archive page, in search results (SERPs), and on social media. With an SEO plugin, the excerpt may also be in that plugin’s metabox., etc). If others have interest in those, let the team know they’ll help you get started with a lesson plan from the template.

Open Discussions

@erica said – for the Polyglots Training course, some folks on the Polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. are working on a course for Learn WordPress on how to get involved and contribute to translating WordPress and related projects. a lot of the content is in a draft format now, and will be shared here with the Training team for some additional feedback, all of the information and related links are in this post, so comments on the post or in the Google docs themselves would be super welcome https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2021/04/26/polyglots-training-working-group-update-3/

As for the Learn WordPress meeting front – for the past three or four months, the team been holding meetings 2x per month that are focused specifically on the Learn WordPress site functionality, workshops, and discussion groups. @erica shared an update on this post to propose that we cancel those meetings since a lot of what we talk about comes up in the Training team meetings and, well, why have more meetings when you can have less? she wanted to flag that here, though, in case anyone has concerns or thoughts about that https://make.wordpress.org/training/2021/04/09/improving-the-learn-wordpress-working-group-meetings/

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Courtney Engle Robertson 2:38 pm on April 27, 2021  

Agenda for April 27, 2021

Please join us Tuesday 1600 UTC OR Office Hour  Friday 1000 UTC in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meetings!

This Week’s Agenda

  1. Intro/Welcome
  2. Review and discuss
    1. Contributor ladder
  3. Current work in process
    1. Lessons in process: (These need to incorporate the lesson plan template, and bump the content into the lesson plan walkthrough)
      1. Setting up a local WordPress Development Environment for Core
      2. Testing a Trac ticket or a Github PR
    2. Lessons ready to be drafted
      1. Use browser dev tools to anonymized info
      2. What other teams have found
      3. How to create a blog post in WordPress 5.x
      4. Using a browser inspector
      5. What to do when you forget your password
  4. Open Discussions
    1. PolyGlots training course
    2. Learn Working Group Meeting

Upcoming Meetings

You are welcome to join the team at any time! If you are new to the Training Team, please introduce yourself in the #training channel before the meeting (or anytime!) and feel free to join us in the meeting and participate as you are able.

Training Team Mission

The WordPress training team creates downloadable lesson plans and related materials for facilitators to use in live environments.

Getting Involved

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects.

Team Links:

Erica Varlese 3:48 pm on April 21, 2021  

Recap for Training Team meeting April 20, 2021

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The agenda for the meeting can be found here.

Attendance: @evarlese, @onealtr, @carike, @ashiquzzaman

Meeting Recap

This week’s meeting format was a bit different, with topics shared for asynchronous input.

Updates

@paaljoachim shared a fix for a bug in the code 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 the Workshops post type.

April content sprint

For April, the goal is to publish the following lesson plans:

For those without owners in the TrelloTrello 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. board, volunteers are needed and welcome.

Likewise, the team is also looking for a volunteer to help review the lesson plans on the Learn WordPress site to check quizzes for any formatting errors that may have been introduced during the import process.

April functionality goals

The team is currently working on:

  • Developing a layout in the block editor for the /lesson-plans landing page.
  • Team contributor roles and the contributor ladder

@evarlese and @azhiyadev are working on a post for the second item and are hoping to publish that soon.

Discussion – Activity stream and badging

@carike shared a proposal to use Lesson Plan and Workshop revision history to hook into WordPress.orgWordPress.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/ profiles. The idea is to include revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. history in the WordPress.org profile activity stream to help make contributions more visible.

Likewise, this could potentially be used to automate providing badges to both Learn Workshop contributors and Training team contributors.

@iandunn created a ticket to automatically recognize contributions on profiles to identify what should be tracked and how that ties into badges, as well.

Upcoming meetings

Erica Varlese 8:55 pm on April 19, 2021
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Agenda for April 20, 2021

Please join us Tuesday 4:00 PM UTC OR Office Hour Friday 10:00 AM UTC in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meetings!

This Week’s Agenda

  1. Intro/Welcome
  2. April sprint – Content
  3. April sprint – Functionality goals updates
    • Making a layout for /lesson-plans
    • Team contributor roles
  4. Feedback needed
  5. Open Discussions

Upcoming Meetings

You are welcome to join the team at any time! If you are new to the Training Team, please introduce yourself in the #training channel before the meeting (or anytime!) and feel free to join us in the meeting and participate as you are able.

Training Team Mission

The WordPress training team creates downloadable lesson plans and related materials for facilitators to use in live environments.

Getting Involved

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects.

Team Links:

Erica Varlese 5:36 pm on April 14, 2021
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Learn WordPress Working Group agenda – April 15, 2021 (19:00 UTC)

The Learn WordPress Working Group will hold its next meeting Thursday, April 15, 2021 19:00 UTC. The meeting will take place in the #training channel in the Making WordPress Slack.

If there’s anything else you would like to see added to the agenda, if you’re interested in helping to co-facilitate, or if you’d like to take notes for this meeting, please add a note in the comments.

As a reminder, the Learn WordPress Working Group is a Community and Training cross-team working group that helps to organize discussion groups, review workshop content, and develop improvements to the Learn WordPress website.

New contributors are always welcome! If you’re interested in getting involved, please introduce yourself in the #training team channel or join us for the meeting.

#learnwg

+make.wordpress.org/community/

Courtney Engle Robertson 6:44 pm on April 12, 2021  

Agenda for April 13, 2021

Please join us Tuesday 1600 UTC OR Office Hour  Friday 1000 UTC in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meetings!

This Week’s Agenda

  1. Intro/Welcome
  2. April SprintContent goals
  3. Lesson Plans ready to be drafted
    1. Use browser dev tools to anonymized info
    1. What other teams have found
    2. How to create a blog post in WordPress 5.x
    3. Using a browser inspector
    4. What to do when you forget your password
    5. Imported quizzes
  4. Feedback Required
    1. Revisiting Learn WordPress Workshop Application Vetting Process
    2. Improving the Learn WordPress Working Group meetings
  5. Open Discussions

Upcoming Meetings

You are welcome to join the team at any time! If you are new to the Training Team, please introduce yourself in the #training channel before the meeting (or anytime!) and feel free to join us in the meeting and participate as you are able.

Training Team Mission

The WordPress training team creates downloadable lesson plans and related materials for facilitators to use in live environments.

Getting Involved

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects.

Team Links:

ashiquzzaman 6:35 pm on April 12, 2021
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Recap for Training Team meeting April 6, 2021

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The agenda for the meeting can be found here

Attendance: @azhiyadev , @webtechpooja, @courane01. @paaljoachim, @onealtr,  @evarlese, @mukesh27, @Lu

Introduction and Welcome:

We have few new members joining this week – @Chris Bell @Lu @Arul Prasad J

March Sprint Review:

March spring details can be found here

The training had people commit to working on 4 out of 6 lesson plans. Credit is where it’s due, kudos to @Courtney @cousett @paaljoachim @sarmstead for working on these.

April Sprint:

Lesson plans for April –

  1. Use browser dev tools to anonymized info
  2. What other teams have found
  3. How to create a blog post in WordPress 5.x
  4. Using a browser inspector
  5. What to do when you forget your password
    Plus the ones @paaljoachim is working on
  1. Content Goals Learn:
  2. Functionality Goals:
  3. Team Functionality Goals:

@Lu shared valuable insight about how overwhelming it is for a newcomer to get up to speed with the work and TrelloTrello 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. board.

The training team used to hold slides in GitHubGitHub 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/ but now moved to learn and is looking for a simplified way to create slides.

The training team is searching for a way to  print out our lesson plans, quizzes and transcripts for those who don’t have limited internet access.

The Landing page layout for lesson plan is still being worked on and will be ready by the end of this month.

Team Goals for March includes:

  • Team Contributor Roles – almost there, we have the roles and are aligning them to the Contributor ladder
  • Training Handbook – published 
  • Learn Handbook – published 
  • Initial draft for Brand guidelines – limited resources and impact of COVID means we need to review this later

The handbooks will continue to be works in progress

The stakeholders meeting for content planning was delayed due to limited resource availability.

@courane01 believes contributor lesson plans is in a regrowth phase, and also the part about the lessons not being great for new contributors for March.  That left more lift on those that have been also working on team functionality goals stretched thin.

@azhiyadev believes adding an update of the sprint to the meeting caps would help everyone see all the updates in one place.

Imported quizzes:

Some of the quizzes were not correctly imported from GitHub, need line breaks and a few questions are confusing. The training team is doing an audit to clean this up. 

Review of workshop videos that can be turned into Lesson Plans

Learn functionality goals:

  • Making a layout for lesson plans
  • Slides 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

Team functionality goals

  • Invites for stakeholders
  • Team Contributor roles
  • Brand guidelines

Open Discussion:

n/a


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