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Introductions and Welcome
There were 22 attendees: @sumitsingh, @webtechpooja, @piyopiyofox, @digitalchild, @robinpal, @devmuhib, @ranjanrakesh, @sakibsnaz, @psykro, @bsanevans, @ardianimaya, @benjirahmed, @sancastiza, @onealtr, @lada7042, @amitpatelmd, @sierratr(async), @courtneypk(async), @quitevisible, @melbos, @west7 (async),Cynthia Norman
We’ve had some new people join the channel recently. @yotako, @dilip2615, @rubinwpvolunteer, @cksau, @dilip2615, @romanthemrb, @alihassan283, @benjamin_zekavica, @lewisushindi, @iahmed-1, @monir1999, @vicobot, @ardhrubo, @toukirwpdev , @mdibrahimk48, @kkai316 — welcome!
News
Meeting Note Takers
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- December 19 – @rabin pal
Two weeks with no meetings
- January 9 – Need volunteer
- January 16 – Need volunteer
- January 23 – @NF Tushar
Looking for volunteers
Training Team 2023 Year-End Review
We have a couple more goals that we are hoping to bring to the finish line before end of year.
- Plan promotions with the Marketing Team
- Establish monthly recurring onboarding Online Workshops in different timezones for training team roles
- Figure out a method to manage localized content translation
- Audit Handbook — thank you to Abha and Sumit for your assistance here!
Regarding the Handbook Audit, we’re looking for a full review of the handbook, noting what information is out of date, what information is missing etc.
If you have feedback, please submit the feedback to the team using the Feedback GitHub issue template: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/new/choose
Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session
The team triaged 1 pull request and 3 bugs
PRs triaged:
Issues triaged
- Enhancement Idea: consider supporting presenter bios on Lesson Plans. #1542 (closed)
- Allow users to report issues on individual course lessons and quizes #1709 (closed)
- Feedback – Embeds block not appearing correctly on the front end #2091
The dev-squad triage session will happen again this Thursday from 7:00 UTC. You can check the time in your own time zone from the team’s meeting calendar: https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/#training . This will run in #meta-learn
Other News
Training Team 2023 Year-End Review
In this post we mentioned how we did on our goals and the impact of our various pieces of work. If you see anything missing in this post, please add them in the comments.
Contributor Spotlight: Laura Adamonis
Congratulation @Laura A for the contributor spotlight she is our new Team Rep as well
Update on Matrix Migration: Pausing the Transition– As recently announced in the State of the Word – Matrix is on hold now, but please continue testing. (edited)
State of the Word 2023 Recap – On December 11, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg traveled to beautiful Madrid, Spain, to deliver his annual State of the Word keynote. It was the first time this event took place outside the United States.
Overflow Questions from State of the Word 2023 in Madrid, Spain – there were so many questions asked in the State of the Word Q&A round. and Matt spent his time answering all the questions. Although all were not answered during that time, so he created a post and answer all the asked questions there in this post.
Kudos to the other team members who worked hard behind the scenes to make this event a grand success.
Toward a More Interconnected Web
In this episode, WordPress Executive Director, Josepha Haden Chomphosy articulates the vision for a collaborative ecosystem where knowledge sharing and contributions to open-source tools lead to a more interconnected and empowered web.
Handbook pages updated
WordCamp Nepal is on January 12- 13. I will be leading the Training Table at Contributor Day on January 12. If you are around and attending the contributor day. Please join us at the Training team table.
@webtechpooja , I’m hosting my last meeting as a Team Rep. I am honored to have served as a team rep for the past 2 years and I’ll be continuing my contribution to the team as a faculty member.
The December Monthly Update and January Learn Newsletters will be posted on January 8th, 2024.
Meetings adjustment for 2024
Global meetings will take place on Thursday at 00:00 UTC. The first meeting of the new year is on Jan 11. As per the availability of our new team Reps, a common time concluded.
- Reminder about coffee hour
from the past few months we have not had any coffee hour, so I would like to ask do folks still want to do this?
Call for WordCamp Asia Contributor Day table leads volunteers
WordCamp Asia is on March 7–9, 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan. The first day of the event will be the contributor day. So I would like to invite folks who will be there and have a keen interest in the Training team. Please do join us there.
We are also looking for volunteers who can help the Training team as a lead if you want to be a team lead, please reply in this thread and you can also reach out to our Team Reps directly.
cc @Destiny, @Laura A, @Ben Evans
Badges Awarded – Contributor badges awarded to:
Congratulations to both of you!
Open requests for review
See our Guidelines for reviewing content to review the following content.
- Lesson Plan
- Tutorial
- Courses (Sensei) – Lessons
Faculty Check-in
I’s time for a Faculty check-in! @faculty please answer any that apply:
What have you been working on and how has it been going?
Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
Do you have any blockers?
Can other Faculty or Training Team members help you in some way?
Let me pause there for a minute… Were there any questions so far?
alright, seems there are no questions so far, so moving ahead.
Project Updates
Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress
Update and next steps on the Guidelines for creating, reviewing, and publishing lessons handbook pages.
- Thanks to everyone who shared their feedback on the guidelines
- Jonathan would like to publish the first version of these guidelines to the Training Team Handbook by Friday, 22 December 2023
- There may still be some open discussions in Google Docs. Jonathan would like to suggest that we publish what we have by Friday and pick up any open discussions in 2024 to revise the handbook pages accordingly.
is there any other update you would like to mention here @Jonathan
Now we move to our final thing of agenda
Open Discussions
Let’s celebrate achievements from the year
- Share your achievements/journey/stories/Plans or Goals for next year
- How do you contribute to the Training Team or any other Make WordPress teams?
We would love to hear about your achievements. Please feel to share any other thing you would like to share or discuss.
@Ben Evans – I only started contributing to the Training Team in June 2022. This year was really exciting for me as I contributed as a team rep, allowing me to work alongside so many people It was exciting to get to know so many WordPress enthusiasts, both through Slack, at Online Workshops, and even at Meetups and WordCamps. So, thanks to everyone who I was able to interact with this year’s
digitalchild – I can’t remember when I joined. After Ben that’s all I got heh
@Ben Evans – Training was able to refine onboarding, meeting formats, values, goals, contribution documentation, and direction for Learn… just so much! I look forward to what the team accomplishes next year
@webtechpooja – I made my first contribution to the Training team back in 2019, and then got more involved in the team at the time of the learn.wordpress.com website launch in 2020. After this, I never looked back and made continuous contributions here. For the past 2 years, I have served as a team rep, and for this, I am really honored. I learned many things from my fellow team members. the teamwork, collaboration, and work in different time zones async is truly amazing.
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