Meeting Agenda for March 21, 2023

This week’s meeting will be held in APAC timezone on Tuesday, March 21st, 2023, at 07:00 UTC, and @bsanevans will be hosting.

1. Intro/Welcome

Welcome to all new teammates who joined the Training Team this week!

2. News

1. Meeting Note Takers
   • March 21 – @nomadskateboarding
   • March 28 – need volunteer
   • April 4 – need volunteer
   • April 11 – need volunteer
2. Faculty Members Update
   • Monthly faculty meetings have been discontinued.
   • Faculty members had an annual check-in survey they completed recently. @courtneypk will be sharing results in the next week or so.
3. Meeting times for EMEA/Americas is changing from this week
   • Please see the Make WordPress Meeting Calendar for up-to-date information about meeting times.
     • EMEA/Americas meetings and coffee hours on Tuesdays will now be held at 16:00 UTC. Friday EMEA/Americas coffee hours will continue to be held at 10:00 UTC.
     • There are no changes to APAC meeting times.
4. Dev-squad update: Triage sessions planning
   • This week’s session will be held on Tuesday at 22:00 UTC for 30 minutes
   • @psykro posted a report of last week’s triage session
5. Learning pathways
   • @psykro is looking for feedback on developer-specific proposal Introduction to WordPress Development: A proposed learning path by 21st March
   • @courane01 is also looking for feedback on a broader proposal. Please leave feedback on the Google Doc linked in this Slack thread.
6. Team badges
   • The process of requesting a team badge has been updated. Please see Team Profile Badges for details.
   • @psykro was awarded the Training Team Badge this week for 12 months of consistent contribution to the team.
7. We’re looking for WordCamp EU Contributor Day Table Lead volunteers!
   • WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. EU 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://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ will be on June 8th this year. @webtechpooja will be attending, and will be one of two Table Leads. We’re looking for one more volunteer!
   • If you’re interested in becoming a Table Lead, please reach out to a 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. (Pooja or Ben) to show your interest.
   • Please show interest by March 29th. The selection will be announced by March 31st.
8. We have a new handbook page drafted: Preparing for a WordCamp Contributor Day
   • Please leave feedback on the draft by March 31st. You can find the draft linked in this Slack message.
9. News from other WordPress teams
   • Launching the Contributor Working Group: Call for Volunteers (Community team)
   • Call for volunteers to help with 6.2 end user documentation (Documentation team)

3. Creating content for the WordPress 6.2 release

Please reference the resources below as we prepare content on Learn for the 6.2 release.

• WordPress 6.2 Release Candidate 2
• Your WordPress 6.2 Preview
• For revisions, use this custom plugin in LearnWP
• Use this link to create a site while revising/creating content, testing features, etc.

Content for 6.2

• Looking for Content Creators (vetted topics with no assignee)
  • Managing Widgets – Lesson Plan
  • Using Gobal Settings & Styles – Lesson Plan
  • Tutorial – Migrating from Classic theme to Block theme
• Looking for Subject-Matter Experts (topics not yet vetted)
  • Working with images
  • Kearning vs Leading vs Tracking and how to use these in Site Editor – Lesson Plan
  • Kearning vs Leading vs Tracking and how to use these in Site Editor – Tutorial

4. Content published in the last week

• Tutorial
  • Displaying testimonials on your website
• Lesson Plan
  • Cosa fare quando non ti ricordi la password (Italian)
  • Pagine vs. articoli (Italian)

5. Open requests for review

• Tutorial
  • Intro to the Site Editor and Template Editor – Tutorial
  • Using Block Patterns – Tutorial
  • Tutorial – WP REST API modifying responses
  • Tutorial – WP REST API – custom routes and endpoints
  • Tutorial – Plugin Security: Common Vulnerabilities
  • Tutorial – Add media and Openverse images to your content directly from the Inserter
• Lesson Plan
  • CSS Flexbox – Lesson Plan
• Course
  • Course – Converting a Shortcode to a Block
• Translated content
  • Spanish
    • Spanish translation for Lesson Plan “Managing Comments”
  • Tamil
    • Tamil translation for Lesson Plan “Choosing And Installing Plugins”
    • Tamil translation for Lesson Plan “Pages vs. Posts”
    • Tamil translation for Hanbook Page “Tutorials”
    • Tamil translation for Lesson Plan “Intro to the Site Editor and Templates”
  • Khmer
    • Khmer translation for Lesson Plan “Dashboard Overview”

6. Project updates

• Content Localization Foundation – @bsanevans
  • @bsanevans has been checking in with project members to see how progress is for each locale
  • The project completion date will be extended by a month until April 30, in order to achieve the goal: “Translate 10 priority learning content 5 languages”
• Individual Learning Survey for the Needs Analysis – @west7
  • An analysis report of the data has now been pushed back to April 6th. See this recent update for more information.
• Other projects
  • 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

7. Open discussions

If you have topics you’d liked discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this post.

You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.

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