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Hauwa 1:30 pm on December 14, 2021
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Training Meeting Agenda for December 14, 2021

Please join us Team Meeting Tuesdays 17:00 UTC OR Office Hour Friday 11:00 UTC OR Coffee Hour Friday 14:00 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
      1. December 14 – @kemmy99
      2. December 21 – @Webtechpooja
      3. December 28 – no meeting
      4. January 4
      5. January 11
    3. Team Goal Setting 2022
    4. APAC friendly meeting Doodle poll
  3. Upcoming events
    1. State of the Word
    2. WordPress 2021 annual Survey
    3. Social learning spaces
  4. December Sprint
    1. 5.9 Audit
    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.

  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

Pooja Derashri 9:37 am on December 13, 2021
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Recap for Training Team Meeting December 7, 2021

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The agenda for the meeting can be found here

Introductions and Welcome

In attendance: @rkohilakis @azhiyadev @arasae @courane01 @webtechpooja @boogah @peteringersoll @meher @weblink @onealtr

Welcoming the newcomers joining the team (Slack usernames): @Razon Komar Pal @djp424 @Hasanuzzaman

News

Meeting Note Takers

Meeting recap notes is one of the best ways to get started contributing to a team. Please refer to this guide to get started.

  1. December 14 – @Makinde Ruth Oluwakemi
  2. December 21 – @Webtechpooja
  3. December 28 – no meeting
  4. January 4
  5. January 11

We are looking for note-takers for January, Interested? Let us know!

We’d still like a few folks to help provide access to the team site during meetings and welcome anyone along. Interested? Let us know

Team Goal Setting 2022

On Dec 6 at 7:00 PM UTC team met for a goal-setting meeting as we look ahead to 2022. This was fantastic. We used a Miro board (like virtual sticky notes).  We have frames 1-4 mostly done. We will continue to work on this async and review it next week on Dec 13 at the same time.

IST Timezone meetings

We are looking at APAC-friendly meetings again.  We have a number of contributors in the APAC regions that read our posts async. I will share the doodle link soon. Please vote if you are interested.

Upcoming events

  1. Discussion groups/social learning spaces
  2. State of the Word
  3. Related – please complete the WP 2021 Survey in red at the top of .org sites

Sprint

December Sprint
As agreed if you were working on anything in November, you can continue to work on this. We are holding off on creating new content until we can assess what we have for the 5.9 release. We especially need help reviewing lesson plans for versions of WordPress depicted and workshops for WP version + Included Content taxonomies

For reference on updates please see

https://make.wordpress.org/training/2021/09/24/preparing-learn-for-wordpress-updates/

Progress

Hugh has posted updates on the 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/ issues for Learn.

To keep everyone in the loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. without you having to review GitHub issues – a few neat updates to Learn just went live:

  • Page titles now match the other content types (so the title appears in the same way and the menu + search box is there on pages now too)
  • Placeholder and betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. courses are now hidden from search results, since they shouldn’t have been there in the first place
  • All metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. data for lesson plans and workshops now links back to the filtered archive page to show other content with that same meta data (e.g. the lesson plan target audience links to the archive page showing all lesson plans tagged with that target audience)

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?

@arasae:

  1. IIRC, I was working on the Clone/Copy a site. However, that led me to think that it would be helpful to create a workshop on local installation, so
  2. I have workshop rough drafts in process for both those topics
  3. Just life. In theory, the last of my blockers has passed for now! :smile:
  4. I should have at least one workshop completed for review by next meeting.

@courane01:

  1. preparing for goal settings
  2. attended goal settings
  3. need to finish
  4. Finish goal setting AND work 4 hrs on auditing Learn for WP updates. Also run through https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/11/30/help-test-wordpress-5-9-features/ to help me spot any areas that we should update.

@rkohilakis:

  1. Hmm, I don’t know if I commit to anything.  I’ve been working on the FSE course.
  2. I posted the rough draft of FSE course to the team channel.  Would love some content and flow-related feedback!
  3. Just feeling stressed about the quality of the course and if it would actually help a new user get started right away with FSE design.  I think it would, but I am severely doubting myself!
  4. My goal for next week is to incorporate any public feedback so that I can get this course out before the 5.9 release 

@azhiyadev:

  1. I think we all did the team goal setting and review of brand content.
  2. Reviewed brand content and I have started to audit our 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. boards and will continue to do so
  3. Time
  4. I will continue to audit our boards – @hlashbrooke I will need help reviewing the functionality board

@boogah:

  1. Haven’t made any commitments yet. About to tho. :sweat_smile:
  2. See above.
  3. Nope.
  4. I plan on signing up to facilitate a social learning space on improving site performance.

@webtechpooja:

  1. I haven’t committed anything for last week
  2. I attended goal setting meeting 
  3. Nope
  4. Auditing lesson plans for WP 5.9 version

Open Discussions

Question: for social learning spaces – can anyone sign up to facilitate?

 Answer: There is a signup form to facilitate on learn.wordpress.org/social-learning

https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/social-learning/applying-to-facilitate/

We discussed the rotation of email support for Help scout and adding the Social learning space section into the handbook.

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.

  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 2:27 pm on December 7, 2021
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December 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

Audit of Learn for 5.9 Release (high priority)

Preparing Learn content for future WordPress updates.

Team Goal Setting

Looking back at our progress over the past year and looking ahead to next year, join us.

Audit

  1. Learn content roadmap Trello board @azhiyadev
  2. Learn functionality Trello board @azhiyadev
  3. Learn Team members Trello board @azhiyadev
  4. Fix 404 errors on Learn

Continue working on

Workshops

  1. Keeping your site secure @arasae
  2. Migrating/cloning a site @arasae
  3. Query loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. @arasae
  4. Installing WordPress locally @arasae
  5. 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. directory @west7
  6. Navigation block @west7

Courses

  1. User Facing Full Site Editing (FSE) – Part 1 @rkohilakis
  2. User FSE – Part 2 @west7

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.

  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 12:36 pm on December 7, 2021
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Team Meeting Agenda for December 7, 2021

Please join us Team Meeting Tuesdays 17:00 UTC OR Office Hour Friday 11:00 UTC OR Coffee Hour Friday 14:00 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
      1. December 7
      2. December 14 – @kemmy99
      3. December 21 – @Webtechpooja
      4. December 28 – no meeting
      5. January 4
      6. January 11
    3. Team Goal Setting 2022
    4. IST timezone meeting
    5. Upcoming events
      1. Social learning spaces
      2. State of the Word
  3. December 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.

  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

Femy Praseeth 2:09 pm on December 1, 2021
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Recap for Training Team Meeting November 30, 2021

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The agenda for the meeting can be found here.

Introductions and Welcome

In attendance: @Webtechpooja @rkohilakis @alexstine @azhiyadev @arasae @courane01 @femkreations @boogah @peteringersoll @onealtr @tantienhime

Welcoming the newcomers joining the team (Slack usernames): @agentbzr @costdev

News

Meeting Note Takers

Meeting recap notes is one of the best ways to get started contributing to a team. Please refer to this guide to get started.

  1. November 30 – @femkreations  – Today
  2. December 7
  3. December 14
  4. December 21 – @Webtechpooja
  5. December 28 – no meeting
  6. January 4
  7. January 11

We are looking for note-takers for December, Interested? Let us know!

Team Goal Setting 2022

It has been a few years since we last set goals for the year ahead. We will have a planning session on December 7 at 7 PM UTC. Reach out to @hlashbrooke if you want an invite. We do anticipate this meeting to last more than one hour, and likely have follow-up tasks and perhaps meetings to scope out 2022.

Upcoming events

  1. Discussion groups/social learning spaces
  2. State of the Word
  3. Related – please complete the WP 2021 Survey in red at the top of .org sites

Editing Roles

Proposal for a Lesson Plan Editor role: https://github.com/WordPress/learn/issues/291.
The term Workshop Reviewer began on https://make.wordpress.org/training/2021/05/27/proposal-adding-custom-user-roles-to-learn-wordpress/. 

As we consider how the team audits and with an upcoming faculty (deputy) team, we realized updating the label for the role and clarifying what an editor can do became important.

We’ve had a need for folks to edit and audit content across the entire Learn siteLearn site The Training Team publishes its completed lesson plans at https://learn.wordpress.org/ which is often referred to as the "Learn" site., but have had a few mishaps of content being published that didn’t follow the guidelines of the site. A final review by those vetting content would be helpful. We do have means of storing revised content on the site before changes are made public.

Sprint

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

November Sprint

As it is the end of the month, we will go over what we planned for this month and reflect on the following:

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

Response:

@courane01

  1. We are making incremental progress on publishing lesson plans that mention brands. We’ve reached out to the companies related for review. We’ve added RSS for all Learn content types + 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/ issues (and already had our 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. notifications coming in) for more visibility on team activity.  Team members are asking more questions publicly or holding conversation in the main channel. Planned a team goal setting meeting.
  2. Improve: finish auditing all content for custom taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. that would make identifying what to revise for WP 5.9 easier. Also this month saw the term Social Learning Spaces appear in place of Discussion Groups. The team as a whole was unaware of this changeover or reasoning, and thus unable to answer questions from others about the rename.
  3. Continue encouraging all team members to share updates and ask questions here in the team channel. Consider GitHub Projects for Site Functionality Roadmap, and possibly move Trello Content Roadmap to GitHub projects.

@Webtechpooja

  1. Scheduling of note takers was excellent. we can continue this for our next meetings
  2. We can plan auditing our existing lesson plans according to upcoming releases and can include in our monthly sprint. so all our lessons plans will be up to date.
  3. we can divide lesson plans or courses into sections and allow contributor to pick that section according to their comfort for eg. If any course (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), so anyone can volunteer for preparing outline and then another can pick any topic form the outline.

@arasae

  1. A lot of new content was added to Learn, which is exciting, including new course formats — they need work, and some thoughtful changes could improve the user experience for everyone, but–it’s a step forward. I also really appreciated working in the open in this channel; I appreciated a lot of the conversations that we had.
  2. A lot of what has been published on Learn doesn’t seem to be reflected in the sprint from November.
  3. What can we do differently to make sure we’re all on the same page content-wise without slowing down the speed of production? Maybe I’m just not caught up from the holiday, but it feels like there is room for improvement here.

@azhiyadev

What went well?

  • Getting a schedule for note takers
  • A few workshops were published (thanks @arasae @west7)
  • We’ve made some progress with lesson plans covering brands with some brands coming forward to take ownership of updating the lesson plans
  • We published our first course (thanks @arasae)
  • 10 issues closed on GitHub

What could we improve?

  • Thinking about what we planned for this month, we still have a number of lesson plans with owners that haven’t moved forward. We need to identify why this is the case, is it process, time, or other factor that is blocker? Should we be planning this more in line with releases? I think that our Goal Setting workshop will help with this.

What could we do differently?

  • Align team Sprints with goal setting for 2022
  • I would love to see a Contributor onboarding course

December Planning

@azhiyadev : We are holding off creating new content until we assess what’s included in the 5.9 release. We especially need help reviewing lesson plans for versions of WordPress depicted and workshops for WP version + Included Content taxonomies. https://make.wordpress.org/training/2021/09/24/preparing-learn-for-wordpress-updates/  If anyone is working on anything, they can continue to work on this for December.

@arasae : Have a few workshops that are currently in various stages of development (keeping your site secure, migrating/cloning a site)

@courane01 : Is tracking the specifics of what should be updated here. At this time, workshops need to be fully audited and then notes added to the spreadsheet for what specifically to update.

We will be scheduling a working session for 5.9.

We will have our goal setting session, which will feed into our work for 2022.

@rkohilakis and @west7: are working on a user facing FSE course.  But due to the scale of it, they are going to break it into two parts for cognitive load. And have at least one part published before the release in Jan.

Open Discussions

@courane01 : will get back to the Contributor course soon.

@azhiyadev : thinks that we need to make sure that we capture what everyone is doing on the Sprint. If you are working on something and it’s not listed there, please let us know by adding it as a comment onto the post. Additionally, if the work we have posted on there is no longer relevant, please let us know.

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.

  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 12:30 pm on November 30, 2021
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Meeting Agenda for November 30, 2021

Please join us Team Meeting Tuesdays 17:00 UTC OR Team Meeting Wednesday 06:00 UTC (APAC friendly) OR Office Hour Friday 11:00 UTC OR Coffee Hour Friday 14:00 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
      1. November
        1. 23rd – @ashiquzzaman awaiting notes
        2. 30th – @femkreations
      2. December
        1. 7th – to be confirmed
        2. 14th – to be confirmed
        3. 21st – @webtechpooja
        4. 28th – to be confirmed
    3. Team Goal Setting 2022
    4. Upcoming events
      1. Discussion groups/social learning spaces
      2. State of the Word
  3. November Sprint
    1. Retrospective
      1. What went well?
      2. What could we improve?
      3. What will we do differently?
    2. Planning for December
  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.

  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

Kemmy99 3:55 pm on November 23, 2021
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Recap for Training Team Meeting November 16, 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 @rkohilakis @boogah @peteringersoll @Webtechpooja @onealtr  @kemmy99 @tantienhime

Welcoming the newcomers joining the team (Slack usernames): @Dimitri Nakos @Jitin @davexpression @Luis Rieke @Arif_me

News

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.

Meeting Note Takers

  1. November 16 – @Makinde Ruth Oluwakemi  – Today
  2. November 23 – @ashiquzzaman  
  3. November 30 – @Femy  

We are looking for note-takers for December, Interested? Let us know!

Response:

Dec 21: Webtechpooja

Documentation for faculty program with Automattic – Automattic hosted a focused Documentation Sprint from 10 – 12 November 2021. Thanks to everyone that got involved, a lot of documentation was written. Progress report on what has been published is available in this Google doc (please refer to Slack for access).

Request: New Social Learning Slack channel
Discussion groups have been renamed to Social Learning with events called Social Learning Spaces (SLS). The SLS will also be managed by the Training team, previously this was managed by the Community team in #community-eventsFrom Hugh
“This new channel would be reserved for these live, synchronous events and nothing else – it means that all attendees would need to join Slack in order to take part.”
The request will be open for feedback until Friday, 19 November at 2 AM UTC

Nominations for Training Team Reps 2022
Nominations will close tomorrow, 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. 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 RepTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts.

 Team Goal Setting 2022It has been a few years since we last set goals for the year ahead. We want to start doing this again and we will have a planning session on December 7 at 7 PM UTC. Reach out to @Hugh Lashbrooke if you want an invite. Timezones are tricky, would recording the session then making it available for others to comment on be useful for those who are unable to attend? We would also need to think about how to make this accessible.

Sprint

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

November Sprint

Current Progress: We now have different sidebars for the content on Learn. You will notice this when you look at Workshops and Lesson Plans. All content on Learn shows the creative commons licence. This is also displayed in the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme..

@Courtney has started compiling what we as a team need to update on Learn for  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1fzRIkGoqYRWNWNLwrKvpX26g1axPDjCIoE3_VV4L5RQ/edit?usp=sharing

Checks In

Last week’s check-in:
https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1636479040250900

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?

Response:

@peteringersoll
I was MIA for a bit.
Committing to getting back in.
Projects, life, and general time management were the blockers. 

@rkohilakis

  1. Finish compiling content for FSE user-facing course
  2. Ugh, almost finished compiling content. 
  3. I had a week long work meeting last week that was fantastic, but definitely feel behind on the course now.  FSE is a big topic and I’m struggling seeing where a user should be taking off.  I keep going back and forth on my outline.
  4. Finish Needs Analysis Canvas today, Move on to Learning Objectives for course, and finish outline.  Start making it into an actual course!

@Webtechpooja:

1. Volunteered for meeting recap notes 

2. I worked on a meeting recap last week.
3. I volunteered for an 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 course, but time is the only blocker.
 4. Will definitely start preparing the outline in the upcoming days for this

@azhiyadev:

  1. I was going to work on the Documentation Sprint but something else came up
  2. I have started looking at the branded lesson plans that we could potentially publish
  3. Time, much like everyone else
  4. Work on the lesson plans currently in Audit

@courane01:

  1. Committed to work on documentation in the sprint
  2. Shipped a lesson plan about lesson plans that is ready to be reviewed for instructional design and  participated in the docs sprint by locating existing resources, rounding up content to be updated for 5.9
  3. No
  4. Publish the list of all content for updating to WP 5.9, submit a lesson plan & workshop proposal on differences between reusable blocks, 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. patterns, and template parts. Explore team goal setting methods. Test managing projects 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/.

Open Discussions

@azhiyadev:

Don’t forget to take the Annual WordPress Survey. In the past few years not that many people have filled it out and we need you to complete the survey in order to help the project.

State of the Word will be held on the 14th of December. It will finish right around the time our meeting starts so we may shift the meeting that week. We could also hold a Watch Party. We will get back to you.

@boogah noted that the meetings are showing up on the Make WordPress meeting calendar as happening at 8 am: https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/#training @courane01 will update.

@courane01 mentioned that after our Goal Setting, we hope to write an Epic, a larger project management approach to the scope for the Learn siteLearn site The Training Team publishes its completed lesson plans at https://learn.wordpress.org/ which is often referred to as the "Learn" site. functionality soon after. This should be a more comprehensive approach that will help devs contribute to building out the site for improving learning.

@courane01 – in fun news, help raise funds for :orange_heart: Big Orange Heart.  Nominate yourself or someone else for the WP Builds WordPress Awards 2021.

@courane01: plans to run through the latest call for testing for FSE in a zoom room and send in feedback

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.

  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 12:30 pm on November 23, 2021
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Meeting Agenda for November 22, 2021

Please join us Team Meeting Tuesdays 17:00 UTC OR Team Meeting Wednesday 06:00 UTC (APAC friendly) OR Office Hour Friday 11:00 UTC OR Coffee Hour Friday 14:00 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
      1. November
        1. 23rd – @ashiquzzaman
        2. 30th – @femkreations
      2. December
        1. 7th – to be confirmed
        2. 14th – to be confirmed
        3. 21st – @webtechpooja
        4. 28th – to be confirmed
    3. Request: New Social Learning Slack channel
    4. Nominations for Training Team Reps 2022
    5. Team Goal Setting 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.

  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 Robertson 2:18 pm on November 16, 2021
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Team Goal Setting 2022

It’s that time of year – looking back at our progress over the past year and looking ahead to next year. It’s been a few years since the Training Team set goals for the year ahead.

We are planning to have a meeting around team goals on December 6 (or 7th in APAC) at 7PM UTC. Time is hard. Here’s a quick way to check in your locale: Time.is.

Part 2 continued next week.

I can’t wait to see where we are headed. Those previous goals were before Learn launched, and before we had Workshops and Courses.

Reach out to @hlashbrooke in the training channel for an invite to the goal meeting.

#goals

Hauwa 12:30 pm on November 16, 2021
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Meeting Agenda for November 16, 2021

Please join us Team Meeting Tuesdays 17:00 UTC OR Team Meeting Wednesday 06:00 UTC (APAC friendly) OR Office Hour Friday 11:00 UTC OR Coffee Hour Friday 14:00 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
      1. November 16 – @kemmy99
      2. November 23 – @ashiquzzaman
      3. November 30 – @femkreations
    3. Documentation with Automattic for faculty program
    4. Request: New Social Learning Slack channel
    5. Nominations for Training Team Reps 2022
    6. Team Goal Setting 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.

  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