Meeting Agenda for March 7th, 2023

This week’s meeting will be held in the APAC timezone on Tuesday, March 7th 2023 at 07:00 UTC with @bsanevans and @webtechpooja hosting.

1. Intro/Welcome
   • @shilpa
2. News
   1. Meeting Note Takers
      • March 7 – @afrin29
      • March 14 – need volunteer
      • March 21 – need volunteer
      • March 28 – need volunteer
   2. Faculty Members Update
      • February 2023 Faculty Meeting
      • We are considering discontinuing async meetings. Please leave your comments on this Slack discussion.
   3. Training Team goals for 2023 have been published
   4. WordPress 6.2 Release
   5. Daylight Savings Time ends on March 12 for AMER and March 26th for EMEA — please vote on what to do.
      • The poll is available in this Slack discussion. What the team will do will be decided in this meeting.
   6. The first Learn WordPress Newsletter was published: Learn WordPress March Newsletter
   7. With the launch of the new onboarding program, the Welcome Wrangler role has evolved. Come and join the renewed Welcome Committee!
   8. How shall we refer to the site https://learn.wordpress.org? Add your thoughts to this Slack discussion.
   9. 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. Destiny will be away from March 1 – June 1 for a sabbatical.
   10. A discussion has started to include Online Workshops in the WordPress admin dashboard widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user.: Proposal: Modify the Events and News widget to show topic-based meetups worldwide
3. Published Content
   • Tutorial
   • Lesson Plan
   • Course
4. Start working on revising and creating content for  WP 6.2 on LearnWP – WordPress 6.2 Beta 1 launched on Feb 7
   • Information Sources for WordPress 6.2
   • WP 6.2 content (comment on what you can commit to contributing)
   • For revisions, use this custom plugin in LearnWP
   • Use this link to create a site while revising/creating content, testing features, etc.
5. Projects
   • Content Localization Foundation – @bsanevans is now leading the project
   • Individual Learning Survey for the Needs Analysis – @west7
6. 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
7. Request for review
   • Tutorial
     • Intro to the Site Editor and Template Editor – Tutorial
     • Using Block Patterns – Tutorial
     • Tutorial – Interacting with the WP REST API
     • Tutorial – Displaying testimonials on your website
     • Tutorial – WP REST API – Custom Fields, Authentication
     • Tutorial – How to Use Featured Images
     • Tutorial – WP REST API modifying responses
   • Lesson Plan
     • CSS Flexbox – Lesson Plan
   • Course
     • Course – Converting a Shortcode to a Block
8. Open Discussions

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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