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Hauwa Abashiya 1:54 pm on November 2, 2021
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Meeting Agenda for November 2, 2021

Please join us Team Meeting Tuesdays 1600 UTC OR Team Meeting Wednesday 0300 UTC (APAC friendly) OR Office Hour Friday 1000 UTC OR Coffee Hour Friday 1300 UTC in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meetings!

This Week’s Agenda

  1. Intro/Welcome
  2. News
    1. Welcome and Support Flow Wranglers
    2. Meeting Note Takers
    3. Documentation with Automattic for faculty program
    4. Meeting Time Changes
      1. EMEA and Amercias will meet at 5PM UTC.
      2. APAC (@hlashbrooke to confirm)
    5. Contributor Days
      1. Contribute2WP with WP Engine
    6. Nominations for Training Team Reps 2022
  3. November Sprint
    1. Progress
    2. Check-in
      1. What did you commit to last week?
      2. What did you do?
      3. Any blockers?
      4. What will you do next week?
  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 Involved

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

Team Links

  1. Getting Involved:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/
  2. About The Team:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/about/ 
  3. Our Team Blog:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/ 
  4. Our Content Roadmap:- https://trello.com/b/BsfzszRM/wordpress-training-team-lesson-plan-development 
  5. What We Are Currently Working On This Month:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/category/sprint/
  6. Learn WordPress Roadmap:- https://trello.com/b/rK1tztAA/learn-wordpress 
  7. Learn WordPress Issues Log:- https://github.com/WordPress/learn
  8. Our Lesson Plans:- https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson-plans/
  9. Our YouTube Channel:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnxqNA0WORZXWurEP6cNV6w 
  10. Learn Website:- https://learn.wordpress.org/

#learn-wordpress, #training, #training-team

Hauwa Abashiya 1:31 pm on November 2, 2021
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Nominations for Training Team Reps 2022

This post kicks off the call for Training team reps.

The Role

Each team has one or more representatives (reps). Team reps are responsible for communicating on behalf of their team to other contributor teams. They represent the team, collaborate with other teams, raise, manage and address any issues. This role averages two to five hours per week in team organizational duties.

The Election Process

We will follow the same process as other teams, dates may differ slightly.

Nominations

Nominations will open on November 3, 2021 at 12:00 UTC and will remain open until November 17, 2021 at 12:00 UTC. Please add your nominations as a comment on this post. You can nominate yourself or someone else if you think they are a great fit.

Elections

We will review the nominations at our team meeting on November 23, 2021. If there are more than 3 nominations, we will organize a poll to select the Team Reps.

If we need to have a poll, this will be open until 10 December 10, 2021 at 12:00 UTC. This takes into account the US Thanksgiving holiday.

Annoucements

We will announce the results at the next team meeting on November 23, 2021. If there are more than 3 nominations, we will announce the results at the December 14, 2021 team meeting.

If you have any questions, please ask in the comments!

#nominations, #training-team

Hauwa Abashiya 11:30 am on November 1, 2021
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November 2021 Team Sprint

The Training team is using the Sprint method to determine what we are working on and to determine our timeframe for delivery.

What is a Sprint?

Sprints are fixed length events of one month or less to create consistency. A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.

https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-a-sprint-in-scrum

Sprint Goals

Learn Content

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 manage and keep track of the status of each piece of content on Learn (lesson plans, video workshops and courses). Every piece of content has its own Trello card. The Trello lists represent our Development Workflow, each list contains a card that explains how to use that list.

Lesson Plan, Workshop Video Workshop and Course Ideas

The cards in this list are in need of a contributor to:

  • 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 that’s you, add yourself as a Member on the card and as the Current Owner. If you need any help, please ask in the 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/. #training channel.

    1. Lesson Plans
      1. Using Global Styles & Settings
      2. How to use the Query Loop
      3. Intro to the Block Editor
      4. Frequently Used Blocks
      5. Form Email Deliverability (SMTP Issues) @magicroundabout
    2. Courses
      1. Advanced 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 Development @webtechpooja
      2. 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 @peteringersoll
      3. An intro to WP-CLI @magicroundabout
      4. 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. @daisyo

    Next Up – You Can Help!

    The cards in this list are in need of a contributor to draft them up. If that’s you, add yourself as a Member on the card and as the Current Owner. Then move the card to the Drafts in Progress list. If you need any help, please ask in the Slack #training channel.

    1. Lesson Plans
      1. Site Backup
      2. Introduction to Gutenberg
    2. Video Workshops
      1. How to Faciliate a Discussion Group

    Drafts in Progress

    A team member has taken ownership of the cards in this list and is currently working on it. If you have started working on a card and are unable to take it to completion, please let the team know in the Slack #training channel.

    1. Lesson Plans
      1. How to create a blog post in WordPress 5.x @geheren
      2. How to Configure WordPress Installation for Contributor and Developer Testing @woodnet @caseymilne @paaljaochim This will need to be organised to follow our normal lesson plan and workshop formats. It is also in need of Windoes user to help with the testing enviroment.
      3. Testing a Trac ticket or GitHub PR @woodnet @caseymilne @paaljaochim
    2. Courses
      1. How to Contribute to the Training Team @courane01 begin creating
      2. Theme Course Development @courane01 will continue scoping into October
      3. Full Site Editing @rkohilakis

    Instructional Review

    The cards in this list have been drafted but are in need of a team member to quality check them before going to copyediting:

  • Does the description fairly describe what is covered?

  • Have the objectives been written using Bloom’s Taxonomy?

  • Have the objectives been met?

  • Does the assessment (quiz) match the objectives?
  • Are the pre-requisite skills really necessary?

  • Will “students” be able to perform the exercises with what has been covered?

  • Does the content build from or duplicate material in other lesson plans, video workshops, or courses?

    • If that’s you, add yourself as a Member on the card and as the Current Owner. When you finished, move the card to the Ready for Copyediting list. If you have started working on a card and are unable to take it to completion, please let the team know in the Slack #training channel.

    1. Lesson Plans
      1. Using a browser inspector@woodnet (revising screenshots)

    Ready for Copyediting

    The cards in this list are ready to be reviewed for typos, grammar, understandability, completeness, and general style. If that’s you, add yourself as a Member on the card and as the Current Owner. Then move the card to the Copyediting in Progress list. If you need any help, please ask in the Slack #training channel.

    Copyediting in Progress

    The cards in this list are undergoing active work on copyediting. A team member has taken ownership and is currently working on it. Check:

  • Spelling errors (if applicable)

  • Grammar errors (if applicable)

  • Readability (use a tool such as https://www.perrymarshall.com/grade/, we should stay under 9th grade, but technical stuff may differ) (if applicable)

    • If that’s you, add yourself as a Member on the card and as the Current Owner. When you finished, move the card to the Style Guide Review list. If you have started working on a card and are unable to take it to completion, please let the team know in the Slack #training channel.

    Style Guide Review

    These are cards that need to be checked to make sure they adhere to the team’s style guide. If that’s you, add yourself as a Member on the card and as the Current Owner. When you finished, move the card to the Ready for Final Review list. If you have started working on a card and are unable to take it to completion, please let the team know in the Slack #training channel.

    Ready for Final Review

    The cards in this list have been through copyediting, instructional review, and testing and are nearly ready for official publication. The Training Team admins will review the cards for:

  • Adherence to the current style guide

  • Quality and completeness of the information

  • Any technical formatting details that need to be changed in order for the content to be published

  • Slide review or creation

  • Anything else needing attention before publication

    • Cards move out of this list (and to the Lesson Plans Ready for Publication list) when they have been approved by the team admins.

    1. Lesson Plans
    2. Courses
      1. Unleasing the Power of WordPress
      2. Publishing with WordPress
      3. Getting Started with WordPress

    Learn Maintenance

    Expand

    Expanding existing content on Learn

    1. Turning existing lesson plans into video workshops.
      1. Migrate, Copy, or Clone a Site @arasae
      2. Managing Widgets @west7
    2. Preparing 5.9 updates

    Audit

    Auditing lesson plans and video workshops.

    1. Preparing Learn content for future WordPress updates @tantienhime
    2. Review unpublished brand specific lesson plans against newly published brand guidelines
      1. Yes but may require an update
        1. Coding Best Practice
        2. Introduction to Common Plugins
        3. Building a Sitemap for a Site
      2. Needs vetting
        1. One-click Install Using Bluehost
        2. Using the Advanced Custom Fields Plugin
        3. What are Google XML Sitemaps
        4. What is W3 Total Cache
        5. What is Yoast SEO
        6. What is Akismet
        7. What is Contact Form 7
        8. What is Wordfence Security
      3. Draft – missing information
        1. Popular Plugins
        2. RSS Feeds
        3. Setting Up e-Commerce Using WooCommerce
        4. Introduction to the Theme Review Process
      4. Review the Templates in Learn – awaiting 5.9
    3. Creating slides for new lesson plans

    Learn Functionality

    These are our high priority items. If you are interested in helping out, please let us know in the #meta-learn Slack channel.

    Visit GitHub for a complete list of open issues.

    1. Style a print-friendly style sheet (transcripts and lesson plans)
    2. Integrate speaker feedback tool
    3. Disable the News XML sitemap
    4. Add license information for the contents
    5. Google Slides block for Lesson Plans The team is carrying out an audit of the Slides Plugin to ascertain the level of maintenance required and amount of work needed to fix the bug @binarygary @alexstine @danilong
    6. Updates to handle course, lesson & quiz flows
    7. Add details about discussion groups in workshop pages
    8. Automatically recognize contributions on Profiles
    9. Fix quiz button styling to match other buttons
    10. Learner recognition on WordPress.org profile
    11. Use consistent templates and styles across post types
    12. Styling for the Details Summary block
    13. Modify workshop archive ordering
    14. Menu does not show on pages

    Training Team

    Administrative tasks for the team, some of these are ongoing.

    1. Audit Learn Functionality Trello board
    2. Faculty Program Documentation Sprint – Automattic is hosting this from the 10 – 12 November in the #training Slack channel. This will cover all timezones.
      1. https://github.com/wpmarketingteam/Marcomms-Learn-WP/issues/6
      2. Social Learning
    3. Update Learn Handbook – Faculty Program will feed into this
    4. Ongoing: conduct a retrospective on the previous sprint.

    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 Involved

    Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects. Here’s what you need to know to get started.

    Team Links

    1. Getting Involved:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/
    2. About The Team:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/about/ 
    3. Our Team Blog:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/ 
    4. Our Content Roadmap:- https://trello.com/b/BsfzszRM/wordpress-training-team-lesson-plan-development 
    5. What We Are Currently Working On This Month:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/category/sprint/
    6. Learn WordPress Roadmap:- https://trello.com/b/rK1tztAA/learn-wordpress 
    7. Learn WordPress Issues Log:- https://github.com/WordPress/learn
    8. Our Lesson Plans:- https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson-plans/
    9. Our YouTube Channel:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnxqNA0WORZXWurEP6cNV6w 
    10. Learn Website:- https://learn.wordpress.org/

    #learn-wordpress, #training, #training-team

    Courtney Engle Robertson 2:10 am on October 29, 2021
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    #Contribute2WP – Learn/Training Contributor Day

    Announcing #Contribute2WP A Two-Day WordPress Contribution Event

    In conjunction with WP Engine, the Training team will host an onboarding session for contributors interested in working on Learn.WordPress.org. WP Engine will host the contributor times from 8 am PDT on October 29 to 8 am PDT on October 31.

    Sign Up

    Learn WordPress Includes:

    Workshop

    Lesson Plan

    Course

    Contribution Needs:

    Sign Up

    Learn has a lot of work in progress

    Want to get up to speed with some of the big decisions happening about LearnWP? Review and comments welcome.

    1. Learner achievements for courses
    2. Learn WordPress Needs Assement Results (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 Results)
    3. A Dedicated Volunteer Program for the Training Team
    4. Should Learn WordPress contributors be GPL compliant?
    5. PROPOSAL: Ensuring high-quality video contributions to Learn WordPress
    6. Monthly Sprints (What we’re creating now)
    Sign Up

    #5ftf

    Kemmy99 1:10 pm on October 27, 2021
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    Recap for Training Team Meeting October 26, 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

    In attendance: @rkohilakis @arasae @courane01 @azhiyadev @alexstine @onealtr @tantienhime

    Welcoming the newcomers joining the team (Slack usernames): @thomassausen @Reetu @Gianluca Barranca @Amanda McElvain @Yeasin Arafat @Devin Maeztri

    News

    1. Welcome and Help Scout Wranglers – we are still looking for team members interested in managing account access to Learn/Training team sites, and answering any questions for new people. This could also include helping new team members draft meeting recaps, pointing them to specific content in the handbook, and more. Interested? Let us know!
    2. Meeting Note Takers – @kemmy99 volunteered this week to write the recap post. This can be done during meeting or within a day or so after meetings are concluded. We are still seeking additional volunteers, and perhaps we would like to build a regular rotation of folks willing to do this task. It’s a great way to get started and contribute to the team.
    3. A Dedicated Volunteer Program for the Training Team – This could use additional comments. This would be similar to the deputies in #community-team but with roles and tasks specific to the Training team needs. @arasae likes the idea of a rotation. People can learn what to expect before they do it for the first time.
    4. Meeting Time Changes – If you haven’t voted, please do this now. @azhiyadev will share the results before the end of the meeting.
    5. Contributor Days –with WP Engine. In conjunction with WP Engine, the Training will host an onboarding session for contributors interested in working on Learn.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/. WP Engine will host this from 8 am PDT on October 29 to 8 am PDT on October 31. This is an open opportunity for ALL contributors, not specific to this organization. All are welcome to come and learn how to get started creating content on LearnWP. If you would like to help promote the event reshare the following:
      1. https://twitter.com/TheTorqueMag/status/1453013652659912704 
      2. https://twitter.com/wpdavidv/status/1452984417350086659 
      3. https://twitter.com/bgardner/status/1452736396859428867 
    6. Documentation for faculty program with Automattic – the week of November 8, @hughlashbrooke, @arasae, @rkohilakis, @west7, and more will be working on handbook documentation for all the workflows and processes our team goes through for all the content on Learn. If you are interested, comment in #training on Slack.  More details to come soon on when these folks will be working on this.
    7. Comments needed on 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/ about Workshops

    Sprint

    Monthly team retrospective and a look ahead at the November Sprint

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

    Progress

    Learn Content – 9 video workshops completed this month.

    1. Managing Spam on Your Website
    2. Best Practices for Capturing Images
    3. Customer Taglines
    4. How to Create a Post or Page with the WordPress Block Editor
    5. Managing Settings: Writing
    6. How to Submit a Workshop
    7. Using the Block Widget Editor 
    8. Managing Settings: Reading
    9. How to Submit a Lesson Plan

    Learn Maintenance – 11 issues closed on GitHub most notably:

    Thank you to everyone who has worked on these tickets.

    October Retrospective

    1. What went well?
    2. What could we improve?
    3. What will we do to differently?

    Responses

    @rkohilakis

    1. I’m glad that I broke up my Settings workshop into smaller chunks.  It will make it easier for learners looking for a specific piece of how to use settings and allowed me to make it more scenario based.
    2. Now that I’m getting the hang of my new job, contributing to the training team, and making workshops – I want to make sure the content I am contributing is super relevant to what is going on with the rest of the WordPress world 

    @arasae

    I really appreciate the amount of thoughtful work that is going into everything. Looking at the list of accomplishments makes me feel so proud of ya’ll. Let’s keep that going!

    1. As I work on my own course + the “how to make a course”, I want to figure out a better way to break it down that makes it more manageable and chunked.
    2. Still working on the “how” as far as manageable and chunked.

    @courane01

    1. Well: Videos in my personal backlog published
    2. Improve: I am setting aside content creation time as a separate contribution on my own calendar that is not to be interrupted by other ways I contribute and sticking to it. Basically, having times I do behind the scenes whatever stuff vs content creation time.
    3. Differently: hm, thinking about that still.

    @azhiyadev

    1. The idea to convert existing lesson plans into video workshops has resulted in more content being produced. I’m looking forward to seeing all our Lesson plans (where possible) have a corresponding video workshop. The engagement that we’ve had with Yoast and GoDaddy Contributor days – I want to see more of these.
    2. I think we still need to work on our onboarding process and I’m so happy that we’ve got the videos on creating a lesson plan and video workshop.
    3. Getting a better handle of the activity on GitHub, I need dedicate time to this. Remove the unnecessary sections in our Sprint where there is no activity so that it is easier to read.

    November Sprint

    Here’s a preview link (as it is not yet posted). If you want us to remove something, please let the team know.

    You may notice that we’ve listed a number of Lesson Plans under “Audit”. The majority of these are branded content,  that could be published. There is a number that needs to be vetted to ensure they meet our brand guidelines and have been given the go-ahead by the company.

    There are at least 3 lesson plans that could potentially be published and may only require a few updates:

    1. Coding Best Practice
    2. Introduction to Common Plugins
    3. Building a Sitemap for a Site –

    If you are interested in working on these, please us know https://learn.wordpress.org/workshop/how-to-create-a-lesson-plan/. The November Sprint is set to be published on November 1, 2021. There is time to add or remove items.

    • @arasae is going to work on video workshops for:
      • Video Workshops:
        • Migrate, Copy, or Clone a Site
        • Adding Demo Content
        • Keeping WP Websites Secure
      • Lesson Plans
        • QueryLoops which can then be turned into a video workshop
      • Courses
    • @roxy is going to work on a Full Site Editing course for Users
    • @Courtney will be helping to create lesson plans as well

    Open Discussion

    @rkohilakis asked about threading in meetings as the #acessiblity team avoids this. @alexstine that it was more of a visual thing. Some people may have trouble visually identifying if a message contains a thread. The team decided to keep attendance organized in a thread and aim not to thread other things.

    Results of Team Meeting Time Changes Poll

    1. EMEA and Amercias will meet at 5PM UTC.
    2. @hughlashbrook will announce the APAC meeting time.

    Team Links

    1. Getting Involved:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/
    2. About The Team:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/about/ 
    3. Our Team Blog:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/ 
    4. Our Content Roadmap:- https://trello.com/b/BsfzszRM/wordpress-training-team-lesson-plan-development 
    5. What We Are Currently Working On This Month:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/category/sprint/
    6. Learn WordPress Roadmap:- https://trello.com/b/rK1tztAA/learn-wordpress 
    7. Learn WordPress Issues Log:- https://github.com/WordPress/learn
    8. Our Lesson Plans:- https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson-plans/
    9. Our YouTube Channel:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnxqNA0WORZXWurEP6cNV6w 
    10. Learn Website:- https://learn.wordpress.org/

    #learn-wordpress, #training-team

    Hugh Lashbrooke 1:18 am on October 27, 2021
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    Documentation Sprint

    In light of planning for the Faculty program – a dedicated and trained volunteer program for the Training team – we need to make some real progress on documenting all of the great work that this team does. After all – you can’t have a dedicated volunteer team without documentation!

    To that end, I have put together a sheet for tracking which docs we need and what their current status is: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XicSs4YWogmptQgqd1raZSVTQQZ8KTfswfPDKiZwN2A/edit

    We can use this sheet as a base and work in separate Google Docs for each document.

    A Focused Sprint

    In order to really kickstart this process, we’re going to hold a focused documentation sprint from 10 – 12 November 2021.

    The sprint will be across all time zones and will take place in the #training channel in the Making WordPress Slack group. The Automattic sponsored team – that’s @hlashbrooke, @rkohilakis, @west7, and @arasae – will be spending dedicated time on this project during those days and we invite you to join us!

    We would love to get all of the documentation done during this time, but if not we will work to complete it as soon after the sprint as possible.

    If there are any docs not mentioned in the sheet then please comment here or add them directly to the sheet itself (it’s open for editing). Anyone is welcome to begin work on these docs right now – you don’t need to wait for the sprint to start! Just make a note in the sheet that you’re doing it and mention it in the #training channel so the team is aware of your work.

    Looking forward to getting this done alongside all of you!

    #documentation, #sprint

    Courtney Engle Robertson 2:08 pm on October 26, 2021
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    Meeting Agenda for October 26, 2021

    Please join us Team Meeting Tuesdays 1600 UTC OR Team Meeting Wednesday 0300 UTC (APAC friendly) OR Office Hour Friday 1000 UTC OR Coffee Hour Friday 1300 UTC in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meetings!

    This Week’s Agenda

    1. Intro/Welcome
    2. News
      1. Welcome and Support Flow Wranglers
      2. Meeting Note Takers
      3. A Dedicated Volunteer Program for the Training Team
      4. Meeting Time Changes
      5. Contributor Days
        1. Contribute2WP with WP Engine
        2. Documentation for faculty program with Automattic
    3. Sprint
      1. Retrospective
      2. Planning for November
    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 Involved

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

    Team Links

    1. Getting Involved:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/
    2. About The Team:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/about/ 
    3. Our Team Blog:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/ 
    4. Our Content Roadmap:- https://trello.com/b/BsfzszRM/wordpress-training-team-lesson-plan-development 
    5. What We Are Currently Working On This Month:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/category/sprint/
    6. Learn WordPress Roadmap:- https://trello.com/b/rK1tztAA/learn-wordpress 
    7. Learn WordPress Issues Log:- https://github.com/WordPress/learn
    8. Our Lesson Plans:- https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson-plans/
    9. Our YouTube Channel:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnxqNA0WORZXWurEP6cNV6w 
    10. Learn Website:- https://learn.wordpress.org/

    #training, #training-team

    Hauwa Abashiya 3:25 pm on October 22, 2021
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    Recap for Training Team Meeting October 19, 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

    In attendance: @azhiyadev @courane01 @nikhiljoshua @onealtr @peteringersoll @tantienhime @arasae @rkohilakis @webcommsat

    Welcome to the following:

    News

    1. Welcome and Support Flow Wranglers – we are still looking for team members interested in managing account access to Learn/Training team sites, and answering any questions for new people. This could also include helping new team members draft meeting recaps, pointing them to specific content in the handbook, and more. Interested? Let us know!
    2. Meeting Note Takers – We haven’t had any meeting notes for a few weeks now and urgently need help with this. It is a great way to learn more about the Training Team and what we are working on. Interested? Let us know!
    3. A Dedicated Volunteer Program for the Training Team – this is similar to the deputies in #community-team but specific to Learn/Training. Comments on this have now closed. A8C will be hosting a session to document all the work that goes into Learn WordPress management. This has been scheduled for the week beginning 8th November. Exact times and dates to be communicated. Everyone is invited.
    4. Meeting Time Changes – Please let us know your preference for future meetings by completing our poll. We will close the poll at next week’s meeting and annouce the results after the meeting.
    5. Contributor Days – these are open opportunities for our team and anyone interested to participate.
      1. Contribute2WP with WP Engine – Sign up forms are on the WP Engine post, and this is awaiting review from their team. Many will be new to contributing and Learn itself. @rkohilakis is going to work on some instructional design ideas that could help out. This will hopefully develop into a workflow around working with Subject Matter Experts.
      2. Documentation for faculty program with Automattic – we will await more info on the Automattic contributor session will occur during the week of November 8.
    6. Comments needed on 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/ about Workshops – this is a continuation of the video production quality.

    Badges Awarded

    These folks have contributed content, community outreach, and more over the past few months. Check out your .org profiles @peteringersoll @binarygary @hughlashbrooke @rkohilakis @west7 @arasae

    October Sprint

    Progress

    1. Learn Content- the following workshops have now been published:
      1. How to create a Post of Page with the WordPress Block Editor @west7
      2. Managing Settings: General @rkohilakis
      3. We need start a workflow to promote these. During Yoast’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/., @abhanonstopnewsuk @vimes1984, @yvettesonneveld and others began drafting social media posts to promote each published item on Learn. We’d will continue sharing what is published and ready for promotion. This will be held in #marketing after their team meeting which starts at 14:00 UTC.
    2. Learn Maintenance
      1. Check out the list of open Learn issues on GitHub. If you are interested in helping out then please let us know.

    Check-in

    @courane01 is going to write a lesson plan, create a workshop vid, get her workshop subtitled, and work on the Training team course.

    @rkohilakis will be breaking down the Admin Setting lesson plan into smaller video chunks as the original video was too long. She has also hosted her first discussion group. She will continue to keep updating the Setting workshops and plan for another meeting. For those interested in running a discussion group check out the following:

    @azhiyadev will recap all the meetings for this month.

    @arasae is still working on the course Getting Started With WordPress: Get Familiar. She has experienced a few issues uploading and linking to videos. She is considering making a few short video workshops to embed into the course as well as to engage all learning styles, specifically on Posts vs. Pages, demo content, and possibly query loops

    Open Discussions

    @peteringersoll asked if we have any stats on video workshops and courses viewed. This could be an indicator of how effective the promotion of new workshops is. We will be promoting content on Learn as part of the collaboration with #marketing tomorrow. @hughlashbrooke said video views are hard to obtain but page views can be obtained via Google Analytics. He is going to ask for this to be added to the dashboard.

    @peteringersoll asked if our hashtags are #LearnWP and #wptraining. @webcommsat confirmed that our hashtags are #LearnWP (in this format). #marketing does monitor #WPTraining which is used for non LearnWP items but it is not one that is currently used by #marketing. There are some promotions outside of WordPress, like #LearnWordPress that can be more effective.

    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 Involved

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

    Team Links

    1. Getting Involved:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/
    2. About The Team:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/about/ 
    3. Our Team Blog:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/ 
    4. Our Content Roadmap:- https://trello.com/b/BsfzszRM/wordpress-training-team-lesson-plan-development 
    5. What We Are Currently Working On This Month:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/category/sprint/
    6. Learn WordPress Roadmap:- https://trello.com/b/rK1tztAA/learn-wordpress 
    7. Learn WordPress Issues Log:- https://github.com/WordPress/learn
    8. Our Lesson Plans:- https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson-plans/
    9. Our YouTube Channel:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnxqNA0WORZXWurEP6cNV6w 
    10. Learn Website:- https://learn.wordpress.org/

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

    Hauwa Abashiya 10:30 am on October 18, 2021
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    Meeting Agenda for 19 October 2021

    Please join us Team Meeting Tuesdays 1600 UTC OR Team Meeting Wednesday 0300 UTC (APAC friendly) OR Office Hour Friday 1000 UTC OR Coffee Hour Friday 1300 UTC in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meetings!

    This Week’s Agenda

    1. Intro/Welcome
    2. News
      1. Welcome and Support Flow Wranglers
      2. Meeting Note Takers
      3. A Dedicated Volunteer Program for the Training Team
      4. Meeting Time Changes
      5. Contributor Days
        1. Contribute2WP with WP Engine
        2. Documentation for faculty program with Automattic
      6. Comments needed on 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/ about Workshops
    3. Badges Awarded
    4. Sprint
      1. Progress
      2. Check-in
        1. What did you commit to last week?
        2. What did you do?
        3. Any blockers?
        4. What will you do next week?
    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 Involved

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

    Team Links

    1. Getting Involved:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/
    2. About The Team:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/about/ 
    3. Our Team Blog:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/ 
    4. Our Content Roadmap:- https://trello.com/b/BsfzszRM/wordpress-training-team-lesson-plan-development 
    5. What We Are Currently Working On This Month:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/category/sprint/
    6. Learn WordPress Roadmap:- https://trello.com/b/rK1tztAA/learn-wordpress 
    7. Learn WordPress Issues Log:- https://github.com/WordPress/learn
    8. Our Lesson Plans:- https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson-plans/
    9. Our YouTube Channel:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnxqNA0WORZXWurEP6cNV6w 
    10. Learn Website:- https://learn.wordpress.org/

    #learn-wordpress, #learnwp, #meta-learn, #training, #training-team

    Hauwa Abashiya 11:36 am on October 15, 2021
    Tags: time change,   

    Training Team Meeting Time Change Survey

    The Training team currently runs 2 team meetings to cover the EMEA, Americas and APAC regions. We’re approaching that time of the year when clocks change for some regions. To accommodate this we propose changing the time we meet. Please indicate your preference.

    EMEA and Americas

    Tuesday 4:00PM UTC or 5:00PM UTC

    Vote EMEAs and Americas

    APAC

    Wednesday 2:00AM UTC or 3:00AM UTC

    Vote APAC

    #time-change, #training-team