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Notes
- WC India Recap
- @webtechpooja provided an update on the Contributor Day held on February 6 and 7. @webtechpooja facilitated the event on both days with @chetan200891 supporting her on the first day. Those who joined worked on testing the slides plugin, reviewing the Training team handbook and learning more about what the team does.
- Sprint Lesson plans for WP 5.7
- Request for volunteers to complete drafts for the following Lesson plans by February 23, 2021. Most of these have video workshops:
- Using blocks in a Post – volunteers still required
- Block Patterns – @evarlese @megphillips91 @courane01 @webcommsat
- Reusable Blocks – @webtechpooja
- Block Directory – @courane01
Blocks in Widgets– omitted as it is unlikely to ship with 5.7- How to Configure WordPress installation for Contributor and Developer Testing – @paaljoachim
- Request for volunteers to complete drafts for the following Lesson plans by February 23, 2021. Most of these have video workshops:
- Slides unified and proposal submitted to Meta (help us test)
- This plugin helps creates slides and that one can easily update/revise on Learn WordPress.
- Contributors on WC India (Hardik, Anand Vaid, Abhijeet) and @nalininonstopnewsuk tested the plugin
- @paaljoachim has volunteered to test the plugin on 5.7
- @courane01 has submitted 2 support tickets and is awaiting a response
- You are encouraged to test and provide any feedback on the post.
- Logistics on staying in step with a release (read release notes)
- During the weeks from RC1 to release, we want to test things including content we are creating on lesson plans.
- @courane01 to ask #docs if they have a documented workflow on when to pull release candidates and begin updating content.
- #training, #marketing and #docs to work more closely on this and make notes on what details we would like to see included
- @coreymckrill and @dufresnesteven are working on Scheduling updates to publish posts on WordPress.org. This will help us in working ahead to keep releases and content in sync.
- Plan March sprint with key stakeholders (Meta, Design, Marketing, etc.
- Training will operate sprint as a month-long cycle with specific goals for now. Other goals, like Learn functionality, that go beyond Core releases will be part of the Learn Working Group. Defining who are our key stakeholders for March and planning times to gather is our goal for this month.
- Handbooks
- Training handbook (team roles, procedures) – @azhiyadev is almost done with the first pass of the review. Team members are welcome to review and comment (link to the document is available in Slack). @azhiydev will be available for discussion during office hours in #training this Friday, February 12, 2021, 11:00 UTC
- Learn handbook (how to use Learn, guidelines about brands, etc) – @camikaos put out a call for volunteers to develop the Learn WordPress Handbook. The meeting/sprint time for working on this will be Thursday, February 11, 2021, 05:00 PM UTC.
Upcoming team meetings
- Training:
- Friday, February 12, 2021, 11:00 AM UTC (Fridays have become drop-in office hours/working sessions)
- Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 05:00 PM UTC
- Learn Working group:
Open announcements/discussion
Feedback requested on the following: