Training Team Meeting Recap – 22nd October 2024 – DocsWP

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2961

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Attendees: @jagirbahesh @dapobabarinde @kaitohm @jhimross @devmuhib @digitalchild @jdy68 @psykro @vanpariyar (async) @noruzzaman @22halomedia @west7 @rithika3 (async) @nishitajoshi (async) @zeelthakkar (async) @rinkuiihglobal (async) @cnormandigial (async) @rfluethi (async) @quitevisible (async) @malayladu (async) @chauhanraj754 (async) @malayladu

Newcomers: @ludovv @mielbu @devshakhawat @santoshkori26 @rubel85 @benjaminbradley @kurtvonahnen @meher @meeraparmar

Note taker: @dapobabarinde

News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current notetaker roster:

Oct 22 – @dapobabarinde
Oct 29 – @sancastiza
Nov 5 – @dapobabarinde
Nov 12 – Looking for a volunteer

Looking for feedback

Nomination for 2025 Training Team Reps
- It’s that time of year again! We’re looking for nominations for 2025 Training Team Reps.
- Nominations close this Friday. Please nominate next year’s team reps on the post by October 25th.
@cnormandigital has drafted a handbook page about creating quizzes/activities for content on Learn WordPress and is looking for feedback.
- Please leave feedback directly in this 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: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2946
Looking for thoughts about how to add Facilitator Notes to Learn
- Designers and developers are discussing how best to implement Facilitator Notes to Learn WordPress. The team will be concluding discussions and moving to implementation soon.
- Join the discussion directly in this GitHub issue: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/pull/2927
Retiring the Subject Matter Expert (SME) role in favor of the GitHub Editors group
- The Training Team has tried using the SME role for two tasks: vetting content topics and assisting content creators. We’ve not seen SMEs vet content topics in a while. And we believe assisting content creators can be done in an editor capacity. To simplify team roles and remove friction, team reps recommend removing the SME role and relying on the GitHub Editors group instead.
- What do folks think about this proposal? Leave your thoughts (and questions) in the thread.

Looking for volunteers

There were no projects that required volunteers this week.

Triage Squad Updates

The Dev-squad has been renamed to the Triage Squad to better represent the role of the squad within the Training Team.
As part of this change, the squad will include content issues awaiting validation as part of its tasks.
Issues triaged this week

Anyone is welcome to join the squad’s triage sessions. See this meeting calendar for when the next triage session is.

Other News

Sign up for the next Course Cohort: Sign-ups are open to join the next Learn WordPress Course Cohort.
- Sign-up closes on October 25th – this Friday.
Reminder – we have a //review workflow in GitHub
- This is a reminder to content creators that we have a //review workflow set up in our GitHub repo. When an issue is ready to be reviewed, simply type //review in a comment on the issue.
- That will add review instructions and a review checklist to the issue for reviewers to reference.

Come and Contribute

Feedback awaiting validation
- See Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on validating feedback.
- We have 34 issues that require validation.
Content ready for review
- See Guidelines for reviewing content when reviewing content.
- We have 4 issues ready for review.
Topics awaiting vetting
- See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
- We have 3 issues that require vetting.
Validated feedback awaiting fix
- Contributors, see Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on applying feedback that has been validated.
- We have 25 issues awaiting a fix.

Contribution Acknowledgement

@kaitohm: Props to @jdy68 for helping make our documentation around translating content better and safer in https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2954

Project updates

Learning Pathway: Intermediate Plugin Developer #2044
- @psykro has posted a project update in the GitHub issue
- The publishing date has been moved to 24 February 2025.
Learning Pathway: Beginner Designer #2889
- @west7: We are making progress. I would appreciate it if more folks could review the content. Two lessons have been published, and two more are ready for review. We will also be reusing some lessons from the user learning pathways.
- I am also working on a new lesson and have written two scripts that are being checked by an SME.

Upcoming Online Workshops

Those last two are a new type of Online Workshop I thought I’d try. They’re open study sessions where folks will individually work through Learning Pathways on Learn but at the same time. I see folks have started signing up for these already, and I’m interested to see how they go.

Open discussions

@psykro: I’ve been in discussions with @jamesmarsland (the new head of WordPress YouTube) around re-creating one of our lesson videos, but based on Jamie’s experience creating videos for YouTube. We plan to have this experiment launched by the end of October and hope to be able to apply some of what we learn from it to future Learn WordPress lesson videos.

And then a short documentation update: the course cohort documentation has been updated based on the leanings from our last two cohorts in preparation for the next cohort.

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