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  • Onboarding session for GitHub-related roles

    The Documentation team recently revised team roles and areas of responsibility, which are documented in our handbook. While doing so, we identified a number of areas that are not project related but require enough work to be considered separate roles. Three of those roles (Issue triage facilitator, Issues coordinator, and Issues reviewer) are tight to…

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  • Update: APAC Meetup Reactivation Project

    Last July, the MeetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. Reactivation Project was launched. We sought support from around the world as we believe local community leaders have the networks and experiences to…

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  • Proposal: Training Faculty Developer Squad

    With the growth of the Learn WordPress platform, the number of open bugs, enhancements, and open pull requests related to the platform’s development and maintenance has increased: In order to keep an eye on these, and any future bugs and enhancement requests, I’d like to propose a new developer squad within the Training Faculty made…

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  • GlotPress as a Local Translation Plugin

    Over the past months, we(1) have been working to improve some elements in the GlotPressGlotPress GlotPress is the translation management software that powers Translate.WordPress.org. More information is available at glotpress.org. pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or…

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  • New Learn WordPress GitHub Project View Updates

    The Training Team currently uses GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by…

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  • CLPTE Request

    Hi Polyglots, I would like to request #clpte access for the Time Slot plugin at https://wordpress.org/plugins/timeslot/ I created a new account for CLPTE ( https://profiles.wordpress.org/timeslottranslations/ @timeslottranslations ) and a new SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ account (@timeslottranslations). Regarding the CLPTECross-locale Project…

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  • Locale Request for Toki Pona…

    LocaleLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ Request for Toki Pona Locale: tok Country code: [N/A] Plural forms: nplurals=1; plural=0; Language native name: toki pona Sub-domain:…

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  • Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: February 3, 2023

    This is the proposed agenda for the weekly AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)…

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  • How to Translate

    Quick Start Ready to get started? Here is a summary of the steps to begin translating WordPress: Review your localeLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/’s…

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  • Training Team Values Exercise Recap

    On January 23, 2023, members of the Training Team participated in two, 2-hour exercises to discover shared values. Background for this exercise can be found in this announcement.  What we did Prior to the workshops, participants were asked to reflect on an amazing past team experience, and to envision the very best version of the…

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