Slack Log for EMEA/Americas Meeting (Tuesday, March 22, 2022)
Slack Log for APAC Meeting (Thursday, March 24, 2022)
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Introductions and Welcome
Attendance EMEA/Americas Meeting: @courane01, @webtechpooja, @azhiyadev, @boogah, @artdecotech, @piyopiyofox, @ndiego
Attendance APAC Meeting: @webtechpooja, @anandau14, @hilayt24, @west7, @psykro, @baroliyamayur
Welcoming the newcomers joining the Training team in the last week (Slack usernames):
@Angela K Carey, @Vlad, @KGagne, @abdullahsajjad, @Himali, @sagarprajapati
Meeting Note Takers
- March 29 – @ndiego
- April 5 – volunteer needed
News
GitHub Migration
We’ve cleaned up the projects boards in GitHub: https://github.com/WordPress/learn/projects.
- For the present, comment on the Sprint Post if you need reviews, have questions, or want to volunteer.
- You can see all open issues using a filter on our Content Development board.
- We are using the Training Team administration board for ongoing tasks and setting up automation.
Translating Content on LearnWP
We’ve had a lot of interest and already folks starting to translate content on LearnWP into other languages. This is a great problem to have. Our updates are really found so far in this thread from last week: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1647364812319309 (Engage on this thread for replies as it includes Meta and Polyglots.
WordPress 6.0
We are still working with #docs #marketing and 6.0 release comms to coordinate this. Reading over the Sources of Info articles will help each of us know what will be coming.
Time change
EMEA/Americas will adjust March 27, and the APAC meeting will not get affected by time changes.
Sensei Pro request on .org site.
Feedback was requested on this thread https://github.com/WordPress/learn/issues/664 was fixed and sensei pro was included in the learn repo.
Upcoming Social Learning Spaces (SLS)
Open Discussions
Additional Office and Coffee hours
We’ve had requests to create office and coffee hours in additional timezones. If we do so, we’ll be only maintaining the same number of events per week but rotating what times those happen, not adding additional sessions.
Two members requested more Pacific Timezone inclusive hours.
Sprint
March Sprint
The Training team is using the Sprint method to determine what we are working on and to determine our timeframe for delivery.
Workshops Published
Help Needed ≠ Needs Review
We have a number of issues as well as revisions and new content:
- Lesson Plan ready for review Template Hierarchy
- Lesson Plan ready for review Yoast SEO
- Workshop ready for review – Slack link for Taking Advantage of Query Loops
It is requested that feedback be shared within one week from the review request.
The spring retrospective is occurring next week.
Check-in
1. Anatomy of a Theme
Pending feedback from @ironprogrammer, please comment on this post with your update if you can.
2. Setting up a Dev Environment
@aurooba committed to having updates completed by March 22nd.
3. W3 Total Cache
@webtechpooja aims to fix the broken images and lesson plan format by March 24th.
4. How to set site icons and logo (without Customizer)
@azhiyadev committed to having a draft ready for review by March 23rd.
5. Gallery Block
No updates from @courane01
6. Submitting photos to the photo directory
@mdburnette noted that the lesson plan is workshop is 30% done and they will finish it up this week.
Sprint work picked up this week
To help folks better choose what work to pick up, kindly note that we consider anything under the New Content Needed section to be high priority, and anything under Needs Revision are considered quick win items for folks with not too much time capacity.
- Block Theme Template Hierarchy picked up by @webtechpooja
- Difference between reusable blocks, block pattern, templates, template parts picked up by @west7
- “Query Loop” Workshop picked up by @west7
- “Comments Block” Lesson Plan & Workshop picked up by @west7
- What to include in functions.php picked up by @psykro
Upcoming Meetings
- Tuesday 17:00 UTC Team meeting, weekly
- Thursday 11:30 UTC APAC Team meeting, weekly
- Friday 11:00 UTC Office hour, weekly
- Friday 14:00 UTC Coffee hour, weekly
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.
Training Team Mission
The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments, via learn.wordpress.org.
Getting Involved
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects.