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Recap of Training Team meetings, February 22 and 24, 2022

Slack Log for EMEA/Americas Meeting (Tuesday, February 22, 2022)
Slack Log for APAC Meeting (Thursday, February 24, 2022)

(Logs require a Slack 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: @azhiyadev, @courane01, @webtechpooja, @ndiego, @gudrun, @boogah, @aurooba, @sumitsingh, and @arasae

Attendance APAC Meeting: @chaion07, @webtechpooja, @azhiyadev, @meher, @onealtr, and @bestony

Welcoming the newcomers joining the Training team in the last week (Slack usernames): @Destiny, @Adi Cahyaludin, @ren, @Kajal Gohel, and @Sumit Singh

Meeting Note Takers

We are looking for team members interested in taking notes on the following dates:

  • March 1 – Volunteer needed
  • March 8 – Volunteer needed
  • March 15 – Volunteer needed
  • March 22 – Volunteer needed

News

WordPress 6.0 Planning Roundup

Training is very new to participating in having content ready at release. As we continue to improve our processes, we will continue to work on having as much content ready at release. Key dates to note:

  • March 29, 2022, is a feature freeze. This is the point at which we can begin assessing everything that would need to be revised or created related to 6.0.
  • April 12, 2022, is tentatively Beta 1 – This is the point where we can begin creating the text of new content
  • May 3, 2022, is tentatively Release Candidate 1 – This is the point where we can safely take screenshots and videos.
  • May 24, 2022, is tentatively 6.0 release day

The Training team agreed to try and align with these dates. Discussion about what content is needed for the 6.0 release will begin when we hit feature freeze.

@courane01 would also like to open up a training session around feature freeze inviting contributors from #docs , #marketing , and #training to discover what will go into the release. There was consensus within the meeting attendees that such a session would be of interest.

Translating Content on LearnWP

@dd32 is still working on temporary solutions, knowing that GlotPress will be quite ways out yet. We’d really like to get some input from Hugh Lashbrooke around possible solutions in the interim.

Enhancing Content on LearnWP

There is a discussion around using categories on LearnWP, as we do for workshops. But we really need to think about the Courses landing page, and how it could be improved. 

@gudrun mentioned that there isn’t a great overview of current lesson plans. @courane01 pointed out a page she made recently called Pathways to Learn WordPress. This page is not yet directly accessible from the LeanWP navigation menu and the design of the page still needs work. @courane01 is going to continue working on this.

Proposal: Faculty Program Structure

We are still awaiting info from Hugh Lashbrooke regarding next steps to launch this. In short, it’d be a team of folks that help review the content, priorities, and other reviewing types of things. If you have not provided a comment on the proposal post yet, please do as we are eager to continue rolling this program out.

Time changes

Daylight savings time is coming up. The Americas change on March 13 and most of Europe changes on March 27.

For the EMEA/Americas Meeting, the team agreed to shift the meetings with the time change on March 27. This includes the office and coffee hours. This means that for those in the Americas, there will be two weeks between March 13 and March 27 where the meetings are at an odd time. Over the next few weeks we will remind folks of the change.

For the APAC meeting, since many participants are in India, which doesn’t have a daylight saving change, that meeting will remain at the same UTC.

News From Around WordPress

Sprint

February 2022 Progress

Lesson Plans Published this Week

  1. Using Page Templates thanks @west7 reviewed by @courane01 and @azhiyadev
  2. Building A Sitemap For A Site thanks @azhiyadev reviewed by @aurooba and @webtechpooja

Workshops Published this Week

  1. Building Sidebars With the Site Editor thanks @arasaere viewed by @courane01

Help Needed – Content Ready for Review

  1. Introduction to CSS submitted by @hilayt24 (@gudrun offered to review)
  2. Managing Settings: Permalinks submitted by @west7

Check-in

  1. What did you commit to last week?
  2. What did you do?
  3. Any blockers?
  4. What will you do next week?

@ndiego

  • NA
  • Wrote last weeks meeting notes
  • NA
  • Write this weeks meeting notes

@webtechpooja

  1. I committed to Trello -> Github migration
  2.  I am finding a way to migrate it automatically, hope soon find a way.
  3. Time
  4. I Will continuing work on migration process and reviewing lesson plan.

@aurooba

  1. No commitments last week.
  2. NA
  3. Nope!
  4. Proof Building a Sitemap for a Site lesson

@courane01

  1. Trello > GitHub migration
  2. Recruited some help to investigate Trello > GitHub, started a draft of everything published on LearnWP for make.wordpress.org/updates to share with Forums/support, Marketing, and Community teams
  3. I had very limited capacity last week.
  4. Trello > Github is my highest priority, followed by needs analysis.

@gudrun

  1. NA
  2. Worked on gathering learn content that is available in German.
  3. NA
  4. NA

@azhiyadev

  1. Sitemap lesson plan and Trello-GitHub migration.
  2. Sitemap lesson plan. I looked into the Trello-GitHub migration now to figure out how to identify the column ids, in GitHub
  3. No blockers
  4. I will work on How to set site icons and logo (without a customizer)

@arasae

  1. Sidebars Workshop + LP
  2. The workshop is done + published and the LP has a frame. Need to migrate that to Learn soon. I also found a lot of inspiration in child themes and have started drafting both a LP and a workshop. I will probably break these into two mini-topics (beginner and intermediate) with two separate lesson plans, because with new block-based themes, it’s not super optional to not know theme.Json (or at least the basics). So, those are in development and well on their way.
  3. I keep getting stuck on LPs. I always make a frame before a workshop, but my brain wants me to extend the LP beyond it, which im not sure is necessary. Just my own mental blocks I suppose. 🙂
  4. I will finish child themes part 1 LP, ready for review next week. Will probably look also at making a simple workshop for it and more theme.Json development.

Upcoming Social Learning Spaces

  1. Honey, I Broke My Website! What To Do When Site Editing Goes Wrong
  2. Beginner’s Guide To Full Site Editing
  3. Templates And Template Parts

Open Discussions

@azhiyadev

Next week we will carry out a Retrospective of the February Sprint as well as a plan for March. If you are working on something that is not currently on the Sprint please be sure to add it.

Upcoming Meetings

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