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Courtney Engle Robertson 3:42 pm on August 16, 2021  

Agenda for August 17, 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. APAC Meeting starts next week
    1. Badges for courses
    2. WCUS speaker application
    3. Translation Days
    4. Micro Courses proposal
    5. Coffee Hour & Work Day
      1. Coffee hour hangout Friday 9EDT/1PM UTC Zoom in 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/.
      2. Learn Workshop transcription working session
        1. Thursday, August 19, 2021, 09:00 PM EDT with @hlashbrooke managing the sprint.
        2. Friday, August 20, 2021, 10:00 AM EDT with @courane01 managing the sprint.
  3. Sprint
    1. August progress
      1. What did you commit to last week?
      2. What did you do?
      3. Any blockers?
      4. What will you do next week?
    2. September Sprint Planning suggestions
  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 helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments, via learn.wordpress.org.

Getting Invovled

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

Team Links:

Sarah 3:39 pm on August 12, 2021
Tags: course outline, microcourses, new course,   

WordPress 101: Microcourses Proposal

To further develop Learn for everyone, there are a few problems I’d like to see the training team solve through structured Microcourses. These microcourses will be “choose your own adventure” style. Before enrolling in a microcourse, learners will be prompted to assess their own existing knowledge and use their own interest to guide their course choices. 

Microcourses will be:

  • Largely text-and-image based (with a few short videos thrown in for variety) for accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)
  • Bite-sized; every lesson (currently known as a “workshop”) should be able to be completed quickly, within 5-10 minutes
  • Self-paced; unlike with longer videos, Learners can set down this learning and pick it back up as their schedule allows.
  • Leveled based on pre-existing knowledge (101/102? We would need to name each level and provide guidance on what someone would be expected to know at each level.)
  • Interactive; each course will prompt users to do something with their knowledge.

This benefits all learners because it creates…

  1. A shorter period of ramp-up time for the basics (from 4.5 hours to 1 hour or less for the basic WordPress 101 course, preferably)
  2. Personalized learning experiences based on need & interest
  3. Self-Paced learning with deliberate scaffolds in place for neurodiverse learners

Eventually, I would love for each course to be recommended based on how people answer certain questions. For now, however, each microcourse page will include “suggested prerequisites” — in other words, skills and knowledge people will need to have in order to best work through a new microcourse. 

Here is a potential structure for a Basic WordPress 101 Microcourse:

Setting Up WordPress

Prerequisites: None!

Take this course if…

  • You are getting started for the first time with WordPress;
  • You haven’t decided on a host yet;
  • You haven’t picked a domain name yet;
  • You haven’t set up WordPress in any way yet.

By the end of this unit, you will be able to… (Quiz questions will be based on these statements–you’ll notice these are very action-based)

  • Describe difference between a host and a domain name
  • Determine which kind of hosting may be best for your website development needs
  • Set up WordPress on a host or on a server of your own
  • Navigate WordPress’ unique dashboard

    Do you know this information already? Take the quiz and earn a badge!

Modules within a Microcourse: Modules/lessons would explore those objectives bit by bit in a fraction of the existing course time. Structured, carefully crafted formative assessments would exist throughout the course (partially to give us feedback on our own instruction). This would ultimately culminate in a summative assessment (quiz for now, complete with action tasks) at the end of the course.

Course Complete!

When someone completes a microcourse, it would be useful to provide suggestions for the next most useful microcourses they might take depending on their goals. 

For example, on a “Course Complete!” page, learners might see something like this:

Congratulations! You’ve finished the course, “Setting Up WordPress”. To decide what you’d like to learn next, let’s find out: Which of these is closest to your goal?

  1. Design a WordPress website with pages that does not have a blog.
  2. Design a WordPress website with pages that also has a blog.
  3. Set up a WordPress blog–no need for additional pages.
  4. Something more advanced (eCommerce website, etc.)

Potential Personalization: Depending on functionality, ideally, each of these options might take learners to a slightly different grouping of microcourses . 

For example, a single lesson for setting up a blog page wouldn’t be toggled on for a course if someone didn’t want a blog on their website. 

To find the proposed course outline (tentative), please click here to be taken to the public GoogleDoc. You are welcome to comment upon that document as well. I would like to begin work on this by Monday, the 16th of August.

Thoughts? Questions? Comments? Is there a topic I am missing from the original course outline? 

Drop your ideas in the comments! 

#course-outline, #microcourses, #new-course, #training

Hugh Lashbrooke 2:26 am on August 12, 2021
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Workshop Captioning and Transcription Sprint

Of the 53 workshops that currently live on Learn WordPress, 29 of them have captions and only 3 have full transcripts. Let’s fix that!

What are we doing?

We are going to hold a dedicated sprint for volunteers to join the Training Team in generating and uploading captions and transcripts for all 53 workshops.

When are we doing it?

The sprint will be held on Friday, 20 August at the following two times:

Each sprint will be 1-2 hours long (although it can go on as long as people are available) and volunteers can join for some or all of it.

Where are we doing it?

The sprint will be coordinated in the #training channel in the Making WordPress Slack group. All you need to do is show up in the channel at the right time.

How are we doing it?

We’ll be using two different services to generate captions and transcripts – Otter.ai for English videos and Sonix.ai for all other languages. This comprehensive guide walks you through the entire process so you don’t need any prior knowledge about how video captions or transcripts work. You will find a sheet with the caption/transcript status of all the published videos here.

Why are we doing it?

Captions and transcripts serve three main purposes for the workshop videos.

  1. AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) – captions and transcripts allow anyone to be able to read what is being presented thereby making the videos available to more people.
  2. Localisation – captions and transcripts, unlike the videos themselves, can be localised. Since all of the workshop videos are hosted on WordPress.tv, once captions have been added any Polyglots contributor can translate and upload them in any other language.
  3. SEO – the text in the captions and transcripts can be indexed by search engines, making the content significantly more findable across the web.

If you would like to get involved in this work outside of the hours designated for this sprint, then you are welcome (and encouraged!) to do so. Please follow the guide for instructions and let the team know in the #training channel that you’re doing it.

Once this work has concluded and all of the current videos have full captions and transcriptions, this will become a requirement for any new video published on Learn WordPress so we will never host a workshop without them again.

#sprint #learn-wordpress

Sarah 5:44 pm on August 11, 2021
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Recap for Training Team meeting August 3, 2021

Slack Log (Requires 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/. login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account.)

The agenda for the meeting can be found here

Introductions and Welcome

@courane01, @arasae, @binarygary, @peteringersoll, @afshanadiya, @femKreations, @Webtechpooja — Thank you for attending our meeting!Warm welcome to @Rajsmah Catindoy@yoga1103@Kelvin Zimmerman@Benachi  in Slack.

News

  • Notes! In the future, we would like existing contributors to help us onboard some new contributors to be able to take notes.
  • UX Survey – please complete and share the survey (with any and all social groups, here and on other social media) to help us improve Learn. We’ve kept it open until August 13th roughly to gather more feedback.
  • Who can Learn help? This is a summary of the different potential users of Learn. 
  • Badges for courses A proposal for creating badges for course completion. Take a look at this link, and please provide feedback there — if you love it, have questions, have additional thoughts, or generally just want to send support, please do so there!
  • WCUS is coming up. A few suggested topics jump out:
    • WordPress in the classroom/educational setting
    • Why should companies make contributing to open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. a priority
    • Finding your place to contribute
    • WordPress for the next generation
    • Please do reach out if you’d like to participate for WCUS in a group talk submission.
  • APAC Meeting. If you know of folks interested in the APAC timezones, help us get the word out.
  • Regular meetings for specific areas of focus: the training team is considering creating more time to work with contributors around specific topics. Some of these might be:
    • Subject matter experts/advisors
    • Lesson plan creators
    • Instructional designers
    • Workshop creators

Sprint

This is what we’re working on this month.

If you’re not sure who can conduct instructional reviews or what the different roles are, this guide is for you: https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/about/team-roles/.

Open Discussions

Upcoming Meetings

  • Friday 1000 UTC Office hour, weekly
  • Tuesday 1600 UTC Team meeting, weekly
    • New! Hang out after this meeting on Zoom or in #Slack to talk lesson planning, unit objectives, and ask any questions you might have.
  • Friday 1230 UTC Coffee Hour; come say ‘hi’ and get to know the Training team!

Training Team Mission

The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments, via learn.wordpress.org.

Getting Invovled

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

Team Links:

#audit, #badges, #sprint

Hugh Lashbrooke 1:08 am on August 10, 2021  

PROPOSAL: Learner achievements on profiles

A planned feature for Learn is integration with 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. There’s already an open issue on GitHub for recognising contributors with badges, so I’d like to nail down what kind of thing we would like to see regarding recognising learner achievements on profiles.

Here’s my proposal:

  • An activity stream entry whenever a learner completes a full course.
  • A persistent line showing the learner’s average grade on Learn WordPress – I envision this in the top right info 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. above the social links, but happy to be shown otherwise.
  • A new tab under ‘Activity’ called ‘Learning’ (or similar) that shows all of the courses they have completed along with their average grade for the course and what date they completed it on. This could also show individual lessons completed along with the relevant grades, or any other learning data that we have, but I think that courses will be the primary thing here.
  • A ‘Learner’ badge for everyone who has completed at least one course. This badge could use the same icon as the Training Team badge, but in a different colour.

One caveat is that we don’t have a lot of courses on the site at this stage, but that is changing as we develop new content so my hope is that we will have these rewards in place now and as content is created the rewards will flow naturally.

The goal here is twofold:

  1. To surface learning data as a way to make Learn WordPress more valuable to people, not to mention more prominent and visible
  2. To provide motivation for people to take courses

Is there anything else we could do on profiles to recognise learner achievements? Once we have agreement on this proposal it can be moved over 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/ for implementation.

Courtney Engle Robertson 10:05 am on August 9, 2021  

Meeting Agenda for August 10, 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. Survey
    2. Who can Learn help?
    3. Badges for courses
    4. WCUS coming up
    5. Translation Days
    6. Coffee Hour & Work Day Friday
  3. Additional Training Team community ideas
    1. Office hour before/after team meeting
    2. APAC Meeting
    3. Regular meetings for specific areas of focus
      1. Subject matter experts/advisors
      2. Lesson plan creators
      3. Instructional designers
      4. Workshop creators
  4. Sprint
    1. August progress
  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 helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments, via learn.wordpress.org.

Getting Invovled

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

Team Links:

Hugh Lashbrooke 12:44 am on August 9, 2021  

Scheduling an APAC-Friendly Meeting Time

As the Training Team has grown over the years, more contributors are joining from all over the world. This is super exciting to see! In order to accommodate contributors in as many timezones as possible, we’re going to need to set up dual meeting times in the same way that both the Polyglots and Community teams do. This means that the weekly Training Team meeting will be held twice, both times with the same agenda, in order to cater to different time zones.

The current team meeting is weekly on Tuesday at 4pm UTC. This generally works for people in the US and through most EMEA timezones, but it makes it pretty tough for people in APAC to attend, so let’s figure out a time that will allow more people to get involved in the Training Team!

If the current Training Team meeting time is impossible or difficult for you, then please use this poll to vote for times that could work for you (you may select as many options as applicable): https://poll.fm/10895749

Courtney Engle Robertson 5:57 pm on August 8, 2021  

Who can Learn help?

Defining who the Learn WordPress website is for is rather vast. Then again, so is 42% of the internet using WordPress.

Below is an evolving list of types of users for WordPress. This list will continue to evolve.

Interests

See Care and influence: a theory about the WordPress community

WordPress user types

  • Website Visitors
  • Subscriber
  • Content Contributor
  • Content Author
  • Content Editor
  • Website Administrator
  • MultisiteMultisite Multisite is a WordPress feature which allows users to create a network of sites on a single WordPress installation. Available since WordPress version 3.0, Multisite is a continuation of WPMU or WordPress Multiuser project. WordPress MultiUser project was discontinued and its features were included into WordPress core.https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network. Super Administrator

Extenders

  • Freelancer, Solorpreneur, Botique Agency
  • Hobbyist, Side Hustlers
  • Support
  • Quality Assurance
  • Designer
  • Developer
  • Engineer
  • Project Manager
  • Product Owner/Product Manager
  • Marketing
  • Dev Ops
  • Podcasters with a WordPress-related topic
  • Vloggers with a WordPress-related topic
  • Newsletters with a WordPress-related topic
  • Bloggers with a WordPress-related topic
  • WordPress-adjacent events
  • Trainers/tutorials with a WordPress-related topic

Contributors

  • Make teams and related WordPress project contirbutors
  • 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. Organizers
  • 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. Organizers
  • Open SourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. Contributors

Leaders

  • Release squads
  • Make team roles
  • Executive Director
  • Project Lead

Experience

Skills progression

  • Entry level
  • Mid level
  • Specializing between front/back end
  • Senior level
  • Career advancement
  • Ongoing professional development

Learning Styles

See The 8 Learning Styles

  • Visual (spatial) Learners.
  • Aural (audio) Learners.
  • Physical (tactile) Learners.
  • Verbal Learners (aka Linguistic Learners)
  • Logical (analytical) Learners.
  • Social Learners (aka Linguistic Learners)
  • Solo Learners.
  • Natural/ Nature Learners.

Considerations

  • AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)
  • Internationalization
  • Bandwidth consumption
  • Content for WordCamp Youth programs
  • Lowering barriers to entry
Sarah 10:09 pm on August 3, 2021
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Recap for Training Team meeting August 3, 2021

Slack Log (Requires 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/. login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account.)

The agenda for the meeting can be found here.

Introductions and Welcome

@Michel Moraes @M.M. Tanjil Hasan Ratul @binarygary @camwyn @Yusuf Omotoso @Oliver Klee @frankremmy @Israel Barragan @Chris Badgett

News

  • UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it. Audit update:@Hugh Lashbrooke has posted https://make.wordpress.org/training/2021/07/30/learn-wordpress-user-survey-focus-groups/.  We have a short turn around time to get survey answers, so you may have found postings about this all over social media.  Thank you to @HauwaAbashiya and @manzwebdesigns who were present and able to help us get the word out last Friday.  
    • Many have been filling out the form and also sharing with their meetups and other locations as well. This is really valuable for the UX audit organization to assess where things are and were various types of visitors to Learn want things to go.
  • WCUS is coming up.  I don’t have more to say yet on that, but will do some digging to see if the organizers anticipate any team talks and/or contribution sessions similar to WCEU.
  • Translation Day is Coming Up: #polyglots kicked off a translation day last year that just kept going and going…. for about a month. It was amazing. They will have another round lasting a few weeks in September. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2021/07/13/wordpress-translation-day-2021-planning-call-for-organizers/ – @evarlese and Nao – if you have any specific ways that the Training team can further support any help for participants that are focused on translating Learn, do let us know.
  • Informal Training Team Hangout: Last week we posted a survey asking about your interest or availability for a team informal Zoom hangout. This will follow the same code of conduct that we see for WordCamps and Meetups. Please complete the survey before we finish today’s meeting if you’d like to come meet some folks, talk about whatever, and just hang out.  The intention is for this to not be a work-oriented event.
  • Friday Drop-In Work Session: Friday between 9-5EDT, we are focused on any Training team work. If you’d like to join for a Zoom group work session, @courane01 can open a Zoom room for that as well.
  • @Hugh Lashbrooke is considering starting a parallel meeting to this for APAC timezone again. Due to attendance, Hauwa and I had to drop that a few months back.

Sprint

For those of you that are new here, we are using the Sprint methodology to track our work on a monthly basis.

Based on our review last week this is what we have planned for our August Sprint:

This month I’ve broken down the Learn Content so that it is easier to identify what needs to be done at each stage of our Developmental Workflow

We are currently using 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. to track the Content on Learn

1. We have a number of lesson plan ideas in the Lesson Plan and Workshop Ideas list that need:

  • Finalize description
  • Set objectives (goals)
  • Research and add links to support and developer docs
  • Identify marketing communications
  • Carry out an SEO review.
  • Review related material on Learn

If you are interested then please let us know which card you want to work on and we can assign you to it. Please note that we are not expecting you to complete all the above by yourself, pick what bit you want to work on.

2. Next Up – You Can Help!

These 3 lesson plans are ready to be drafted but have no current owner, let us know if you want to work on one (or all) of them.

  1. Site Backup
  2. Migrate, Copy, or Clone a Site
  3. Introduction to Gutenberg

3. We have 5 lesson plans currently in our Drafts in Progress list. These all have a current owner. Please let us know if you are experiencing any issues or are unable to continue working on them.

  1. Sample content – Theme Unit Test Data, Gutenberg Blocks Data, Monster Widget @cousett
  2. Annotation options @cousett
  3. When to use browser dev tools inspector to override some information (hiding your name) @cousett
  4. Zooming in, how to crop for enough focus and context, aspect ratios @courane01
  5. How to create a blog post in WordPress 5.x @geheren

4. We have 1 lesson plan ready for Instructional Review. Let us know if you have capacity to conduct this.

Using a browser inspector @woodnet


5. We hope to introduce a section for Workshops soon, so please keep an eye out for that.

We’ve had a few new folks join lately and some of their ideas and content will get documented soon.

@binarygary, who joins us as a subject matter expert. Gary does a lot of work in PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. and also mentors entry devs on their journey in: the following is a quick rundown he has for a current mentee.

  • HTTPHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. Requests – understanding this is foundational (GET, POST). We are going to walk through both WP and Laravel from where the request first hits the server to the time when the request is complete.
  • Language Constructs (clean code). conditionals, loops, functions, namespacing. We’ll also explore DRY
  • DB – I actually have been realizing that a LOT of the WP devs I know have a bit of trepidation around the database. So, being able to confidently interact with the DB directly is super helpful. (Obv this is mostly MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com/., but we are also going to talk about Elasticsearch and Redis)
  • OOP gets it’s own meeting(s) because the transition from thinking procedurally to OOP is a big shift.
  • Composer – though just a cursory exploration and explanation of how to use it. Knowing namespacing and OOP will make this really about “tooling”
  • Automated Testing – I’m planning on using cypress and using phpunit and leaving the integration testing for the future.

I also introduced @camwyn as well, who would also fit in amazingly as an SME (subject matter expert).  In years past, we’ve had others to refer to.  We’ll keep working to build back up this area of the team. They are welcome in as much as they want, but definitely encouraged as content advisors.

I invited Chris Badgette today, who has expressed interest (not tagging as it was just an hour back).  Chris is the co-founder of an LMS 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 – learning management system.  This is the thing that makes online courses possible. So – welcome friends, and here are the areas to contribute to now, and the help we really value in planning.

As a team, we haven’t had subject matter experts that weren’t also multitasking in other teams in quite a while, so this is exciting!

Subject matter experts are those who do this work, know it really well, and can help inform us what should be taught/included, what skills are needed in the workforce.

6. We can append to the content roadmap and also to Trello.  The difference?  The roadmap is more visually organized about everything there is to learn.  When we are closer to creating more of that content, it can get over to Trello.  We’ve so far kept Trello for the scope of current features in WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..

If we have further ideas/brainstorms on content, do be sure to post here or submit through https://learn.wordpress.org/contribute.

7. If you’re interested in joining us shape the Learn platform then we have a number of functionality goals we want to work on this month:

8. And last but not least our own Training Team Goals for the month:

  1. Publish initial draft for Brand guidelines, seeking specific feedback. (awaiting further input with #Marketing)
  2. Audit Learn Functionalitly Trello board
  3. Deputy program
  4. Update Training Team and Learn Handbook
  5. Schedule Learn Stakeholder meeting
  6. Conduct a retrospective on the previous sprint.

If you want to help out in any of these areas, let us know in the #training Slack and we can assign you to a card and give you access to Learn.

Open Discussions

There is a lot going on, and lots of new contributors!

  • Feel free to let us know your areas of expertise and what format you like to help with.  Writing lessons? Recording videos? Just hanging out… we welcome it all.
  • A good reminder is the truth that sometimes it takes time to find where you can pitch in.  Based on my experience, I encourage people to ask questions rather than wait for them to get answered implicitly.
  • Asynch (asynchronous) participation in meetings is always welcomed, or skimming through agendas and recaps of meetings too.
  • Friday may also provide a great opportunity to look into getting started, collaborating, and working together on Lesson Plans.
  • It is a bit of an overload at the beginning of the month as we set out what we plan to work on. Don’t hesitate to ask us for help. We want to make it easier for you to contribute, not harder. We use are here async and also use our Office Hours to answer any questions, these are run at every Friday at 10:00 AM UTC. We plan to hold some to cover the APAC region as well so please look out for that announcement. 

Upcoming Meetings

Training Team Mission

The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments, via learn.wordpress.org.

Getting Involved

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

Team Links:

#audit, #slides, #sprint

Courtney Engle Robertson 1:56 pm on August 3, 2021  

Meeting Agenda for August 3, 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. Survey
    2. WCUS coming up
    3. Translation Days
    4. Coffee hour – can you join?
    5. Friday drop-in work session
  3. Sprint
    1. August
  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 helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments, via learn.wordpress.org.

Getting Invovled

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

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