December 2022 Faculty Meeting

Faculty Members have opted into an asynchronous meeting every 15th of the month (or the closest business day). We will hold our meeting over a two-week period, and the meeting host (typically the poster) or another assigned individual will post discussion outcomes at the end of the feedback period.

Please find outlined below Updates for review, Topics for Discussion, and items that require assistance in the Working Together section. The meeting host will add a comment for each topic for discussion.

Discussion period: December 20, 2022 to January 9th, 2023

Updates

Here are some recent happenings and open feedback requests.

• @robinwpdeveloper recently joined us as our newest Content Creator Faculty Members
• @onealtr and @bsanevans are working on Tutorial Presenter and Online Workshop Facilitator applications
• @amitpatelmd and @piyopiyofox are working on Welcome Wrangling
• @amitpatelmd, @bsanevans, @digitalchild & @webtechpooja are working on Training team onboarding paths.
• We are still looking for project members who can help with our Content Localization translation goals.
• Open Feedback Requests:
  • Reimagining the TT Contributor Ladder (See related project discussion here)
  • Drafted handbook pages for GitHub Process Updates (See project thread here)

Topics for Discussion

Please comment on this post with answers to the Faculty Member check-in items and your input on our topics for discussion.

• Check-in: Please feel free to answer some or all of the below self check-in items
  • How are you doing?
  • What’s your bandwidth like?
  • How best can you help or be tapped in this coming month?
  • Anything you’d like extra eyes on?
• How can we increase/enable Faculty Member activity?

Have any other topics for discussion? Please your walk-on topic in the comment titled Walk-on Topics for discussion.

Working Together

Outlined below are the tasks per role that require assistance. All tasks are logged in the Training Team’s LearnWP Content Development board.

All

The following Faculty Members work to progress the needs of all roles: @courane01, @azhiyadev, @webtechpooja, @hlashbrooke, @piyopiyofox, @courtneypk, @bsanevans

Editors

Faculty Members: @fikekomala @aion11 @mrfoxtalbot, @digitalchild, @afshanadiya

Assistance required

• There are 4 items Ready for Review:
  • CSS Flexbox – Lesson Plan#713
  • Taking Advantage of Query Loops – Tutorial#524
  • [Related Course: Create a Custom Block Theme #1] How Classic and Block Themes Are Developed – Lesson Plan#832
  • Gujarati translation for Lesson Plan “Choosing And Installing Plugins”#1182

Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)

Faculty Members: @wpscholar, @annezazu, @pbrocks, @richtabor, @chetan200891 , @HardeepAsrani, @chrismkindred, @amitpatelmd, @psykro, @digitalchild, @afshanadiya

Assistance required

• There are 2 Topic Ideas that require vetting:
  • Creating a Front Page in Block Themes – Lesson Plan
  • Working faster in WordPress – Lesson Plan

Content Creator

Faculty Members: @amitpatelmd, @psykro, @arasae, @west7, @ndiego, @trynet, @chrisbadgett, @colorful-tones, @eboxnet, @robinwpdeveloper

Assistance required

• There are 4 6.1-related items Ready to Create requiring assignment:
  • Featured Image – Lesson Plan#765 – requires updates
  • Theme.json – Lesson Plan#652 @caraya is working on this but has asked for help generating assessment questions.
  • Styling your site with global styles – Lesson Plan#447 – requires updates
  • Advanced Layouts with the Block Editor – Lesson Plan#1002 – requires updates

Administrator

Faculty Members: @onealtr @meaganhanes

Assistance required

• We need Administrative help on logging Learn Content Errors in GitHub

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