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Recap of Training Team meetings, April 19 and 21, 2022

Slack Log for EMEA/Americas Meeting (Tuesday, April 19, 2022)
Slack Log for APAC Meeting (Thursday, April 21, 2022)

(Logs require a 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/ login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account.)

The agenda for both meetings can be found here.

Introductions and Welcome

Attendance EMEA/Americas Meeting: @courane01, @webtechpooja, @azhiyadev, @caraya, @ndiego, @piyopiyofox, @artdecotech

Attendance APAC Meeting: @webtechpooja, @west7, @onealtr, @anandau14

Welcoming the newcomers joining the Training team in the last week (Slack usernames): 
@Shubham, @Sam Greenwood

Meeting Note Takers

News

Migrating Contributor Training to Learn WordPress

There are courses about contributing to WP that were created before LearnWP launched that we will be migrating.

Brand guidelines – linking out to external training resources

Last call for comments before the policy is defined.

Demo Sites for Learn WordPress Users

Course participants can now access demo sites sponsored by WP Sandboxith up to 250 active at any time. See the full post for details.

Content Development GitHub project board 

We are matching workshops, lesson plans, and courses with its 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 contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue. Will also be doing something similar for Social Learning Spaces (SLS).

WordPress 6.0 Beta 2 

The release is coming and we are working to sync workshops and lesson plan work on Github.

Sprint

April Sprint

Workshop Published this Week:

  1. Submitting Block Patterns to the Directory
  2. Finding Images Using the WordPress Photo Directory
  3. Finding Images Using Openverse

Social Learning Spaces (SLS) this Week:

We are now breaking sprint posts into sections that mimic our boards on Github:

  1. Learn Content
  2. Website Development
  3. Training Team Administration

If you would like to contribute to an issue:

  1. Pick a topic from the Next Up – You Can Help column.
  2. Assign yourself to the issue. If you are unable to do this, please comment on the issue and a Team Admin will assign you to the issue. Once you’ve selected your issue (card) please move it to the Drafts in Progress column.

Content Development

Every column in our Content Development board has a “how to use this column” issue.

  1. Drafts:  you’ll find the person assigned to the issue in the drafts column.
  2. Reviews: these are ready for feedback, proofreading, comments, etc.
  3. Published
  4. Help Needed
    1. Content
    2. Ready to Create – You Can Help
      1. High Priority
      2. Medium Priority
      3. Quick Fix
    3. Topic Ideas

Website Development

If you want to contribute to the site functionality of Learn then please have a look at our Website development project board. Items on this board also have a priority label (high, medium and low) as well as good first issues.

  1. High Priority Issues
  2. Medium Priority Issues
  3. Good First Issues

Training Team Administration

We will use this board for our general admin like meeting notes recap. We have created templates that you can use.

Open Discussions

WordPress 6.0 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 2 is now available: https://wordpress.org/news/2022/04/wordpress-6-0-beta-2/

Please help test and give feedback! For more details on what to test, check out this post: https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/04/12/help-wanted-test-wordpress-6-0/

Upcoming Meetings

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.

  1. Learn.WordPress.org
    1. Lesson Plans
    2. Workshops
    3. Courses
    4. Social Learning Spaces
    5. Pathways to Learn WordPress
  2. Getting Involved
    1. GitHub Website Development
    2. GitHub Content Development
    3. What We Are Currently Working On This Month
  3. About The Team
  4. Our Team Blog

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