Meeting Agenda for February 7, 2023

Please join us for our Team Meeting Tuesdays at 07:00 UTC (APAC friendly) OR Tuesdays at 16:00 UTC (AMER/EMEA friendly) in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meetings!

This Week’s Agenda

This week’s meeting will be held in APAC timezone, at Tuesdays at 07:00 UTC with @bsanevans and @piyopiyofox hosting.

1. Intro/Welcome
   • Welcome: @Jacquelyn Lopez @Satish Prajapati @Saloni Patel @Carlos Arturo Quiroga @AR Rasel @Bhavika Raut @Jeff Sandquist @drussell17
2. News
   1. Meeting Note Takers
      • February 7 – @sadmansakibnadvi
      • February 14 – @faguni22
      • February 21 –  @afrin29
   2. Faculty Members Update
      • January 2023 Faculty Meeting
      • Ask: We need a host for the February meeting
   3. Brainstorm – WordCamp Asia 2023 Contributor Day
   4. Training Team Values Exercise Recap
   5. Training Team 2023 Goals Setting
   6. The Highlighted Posts section on the team site has been updated and renamed to Current Focus Areas
   7. Learn Newsletter draft
   8. Our current Training Team Office hour slots will convert into Coffee Hours
   9. Open discussions: Going forward, open discussions will have a 2 week feedback timebox in meetings starting from when the topic is posted.
   10. Feedback request
       • Proposal: Training Faculty Developer Squad
3. Published Content
   • Tutorial
     • Introduction to securely developing plugins
   • Lesson Plans
     • साइट संपादक और टेम्प्लेट का परिचय
4. Projects
   • Content Localization Foundation – @piyopiyofox
     • February 6 update
   • Training Team Onboarding Paths – @bsanevans
     • Retiring the Training Team Contact form
   • Learning Needs Analysis – @west7
     • The Individual Learner survey will now be closed on the 20th of February and not the 15th of February which means all the deadline dates have been pushed forward by 5 days. 
     • See full comprehensive Feb 7 update here
5. Other Work in Progress
   • Request for Testing: Slides Plugin – @courane01 @meaganhanes
   • Skill Management platform – @courane01
   • Exploring WordPress Certifications – @courane01
   • Training Team Site GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc.
     https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ blocks – @amitpatelmd
6. Request for review
   • Tutorial
     • Interacting with the WP REST API #1267
     • Designing with the columns block #1192
     • How to migrate your WordPress site #1187
     • Creating a custom template – Tutorial #1266
   • Lesson Plan
     • CSS Flexbox #713
     • Spanish translation for Lesson Plan “Managing Comments” #1133
7. Other ways to Contribute
   • Co-host an upcoming Online Workshop
   • Help resolve a Content Error
8. Open Discussions

Upcoming Meetings

• Tuesday 07:00 UTC APAC Team meeting, weekly
• Tuesday 16:00 UTC AMER/EMEA Team meeting, weekly
• Friday 13:00 UTC AMER/EMEA Coffee hour, weekly
• Faculty Meetings are held monthly on the 15th or the closest business day through a Training Team post

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.

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