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Introductions and Welcome
There were 14 attendees: @piyopiyofox, @sierratr, @west7, @lada7042, @devmuhib, @huzaifaalmesbah, @amitpatelmd, @melbos, @psykro, @margheweb, @onealtr, @cnormandigital, @quitevisible, and @bsanevans
We’ve had some new people join the channel recently:
@Quentin, @Zoran Stojkovic, @Agil Julio, @francisco, @Morais Junior, and @justingreerbbi
Welcome! Please post in the #training channel or reach out to a team member to help you with contributing. Resources to check out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program.
News
Meeting Note Takers
- February 22 – @freewebmentor
- February 29 –@narolainfotech
- March 7 – @freewebmentor
- March 14 – @freewebmentor
Looking for feedback
Discussion: Bringing accessibility-first approaches into content development — this is a new discussion started with the team, and we need member’s feedback.
I also want to tie in a conversation @Courtney shared in #meta recently which ties into accessibility work as well https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB8GMM/p1708544941159409 (note that this thread will take you out of the meeting)
Looking for volunteers
WordCamp Asia 2024 Contributor Day — we are currently looking for a host on site for the online portion. If you will be attending WordCamp Asia and could assist with hosting the online portion of Contributor day, please let us know!
Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session
Dev-squad GitHub triage meetings happen in #meta-learn every Thursday at 07:00 UTC — if you have developer experience or are interested in helping manage that work please tune in later today!
Feb 14 attendees: @jonathan and @devmuhib
There were no new PRs or bugs to triage this week, so the team moved into triaging Content Feedback issues.
- [Related Course: Create a Custom Block Theme #1] Saving Your Work: Create Block Theme – Lesson Plan #853 (fixed and closed)
- Content Feedback – #1692 (outdated, so closed)
They also updated the Dev-squad triage handbook page to include details on validating Content Feedback issues for future meetings.
Other News
- Discussion: Translation Plugin on Learn — This conversation is now closed– thank you to everyone who shared their insights! In summary, we will proceed with testing Polylang and WPML for our translation needs on Learn WordPress.
- Brainstorm: What trends about Learn WordPress learners do we want to observe?
Ooop, this should have been in Looking for Feedback, my apologies! This conversation is ongoing until February 25th. Please share your thoughts on how we can measure impact on Learn WordPress.
- Discussion: Training’s contribution to the 6.5 release (and beyond) – we have some next steps outlined:
- @psykro and @greenshady are planning on facilitating Online Workshops regarding developer focused features (reference).
- @trynet and @lada7042 are preparing an Online Workshop showcasing user-facing features.
- @west7 and @digitalchild have distilled user-facing priority content from @annezazu ’s source of truth and created GitHub issues for these to be worked on at WordCamp Asia Contributor Day.
- Process update: One GitHub issue will be created that will reference all the content that requires updating - @webcommsat & @courtneypk.
Come and Contribute
If you’re ready to jump in and start contributing to the team we have a bunch of things you can work on:
- See Guidelines for reviewing content when reviewing content.
- There are currently 17 issues requiring review cc/ @faculty-editors
- See Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on validating feedback.
- There are currently 26 issues awaiting validation cc/ @faculty-editors @faculty-smes
- See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
- There are currently 31 issues awaiting vetting cc/ @faculty-smes
Good first issues for developers
- See Developing Learn WordPress for instructions on contributing to the Learn WordPress code.
- There are currently 15 issues requiring developer assistance
I do want to be clear that any training team member can assist with the above. You do not need to be a Faculty Member to contribute to this work.
Validated feedback awaiting fix
- @faculty-editors, see Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on applying feedback that has been validated.
- We currently have 15 issues requiring editor assistance
If you don’t know where to start or have questions about any of the above, feel free to ask in this thread or send a DM.
Contribution Acknowledgement
This is a new section we’d like to make a regular part of the meeting to acknowledge and celebrate the great work folks our doing in the team!
props to @Jonathan for the huge amount of work shared re: developer learning pathway this week.
Project Updates
- Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress — you can read the latest update on the post through this link. Here’s a little tl;dr:
- Design is currently working on thumbnails for us to use on the Learn website and for online workshops.
- There is currently a new iteration of the Learn site which folks can provide feedback on here.
- We will also begin testing Polylang and WPML for translation purposes on Learn.
Faculty Updates
- 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?
Open Discussions
Want to bring up a tweet by Amber Hinds that we should add for future discussion. A lot of talk about accessibility.
The home page of Learn WordPress has 9 insufficient color contrast errors; 2 links with ambiguous anchor text; 2 links that open in a new tab without warning. https://twitter.com/heyamberhinds/status/1760140361429622848
Thank you for bringing this to the meeting, Laura! I want to tag in @francisco and @Nick Diego — our contacts helping us with the Learn WordPress redesign for their insight into this.
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