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Training Team Meeting Recap – 4th November 2025

This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have 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/ account, you can set one up.)

Introductions and Welcome

There were 34 attendees:: @azharderaiya, @Dhruvang21, @mosescursor, @abduremon, @sumitsingh, @noruzzaman, @ranupatel11, @devmuhib, @dilip2615, @ravigadhiyawp, @praful2111, @vishitshah, @dhruval04, @rithika3, @sonaliprajapati, @muddassirnasim, @VasantRajput, @zeelthakkar, @jagirbahesh, @rfluethi (async), @rraventos (async), @joesimpsonjr (async), @mohkatz (async), @jaydipgoswami (async), @mebo (async), @utsav72640 (async), @sunilkumarthz (async), @clk87 (async), @nikunj8866 (async), @nishitajoshi (async), @andrewssanya (async), @ursha (async), @margheweb (async), @sibokul (async)

Newcomers: @Aqdesk, @FoadAdeli, @Olimjanof, @DigantaSarkar01
Note taker: @VasantRajput
Meeting hosted by: @SumitSingh

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.

1. News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current note-taker roster:

Looking for feedback

  • The content translation process in the Training Team could use some improvement. Currently, our lessons rely on transcripts as their main written content. However, these machine-generated transcripts are often difficult to understand. We originally included them to ensure there was at least some content alongside the video, which could then be translated into different languages.
  • Since all lesson videos are hosted on YouTube — which already provides a strong transcription system — we don’t need to manually translate these transcripts. Instead, we’d like to provide high-quality written content that is directly related to each lesson.
  • We understand that video lesson producers may not always have enough time to create this text content themselves. In those cases, another contributor could watch the video carefully and create accurate written content.
  • We are prioritizing this change because we’ve received feedback from members of the disability community who reported that translated transcripts often fail to convey the original meaning or ideas of the lesson. We consider this an accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) issue and want to ensure our lessons are inclusive. By providing well-written, human-curated text content, we can better support learners with hearing impairments, enabling them to fully engage with the material.

Looking for volunteers

Please share your thoughts in the Training Team Slack channel or on GitHub. Your insights will help shape the next generation of Learn. WordPress experiences and ensures that learning WordPress feels personal and accessible to everyone — wherever they are in the world.

Update for last week’s triage squad

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Other news

2. Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

Good first issues for developers

Validated feedback awaiting fix

3. Contribution Acknowledgement

Badges Awarded

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Give Props

Let’s give props! Do you have someone from the team you want to celebrate? 

  • @muddassirnasim: Props to @devmuhib for planned Bengali course cohort “WordPress BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Editor Basics”

4. Project updates

5. Upcoming Online Workshops

6. Contributor 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 contributor or Training Team members help you in some way?

7. Open Discussions

  • If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this issue. Slack Thread
    • @mosescursor: When do we propose a Training Triage so we can triage some of the issues in our repo? We could have a simple Triage session just to see how things happen and then propose on making it better.
    • Also, can we start documenting the coffee hour? Not to great detail of who said what and when but atleast publish the ideas in a simple summary. Maybe this will encourage more people to come on board and do things
      • I feel like people are not coming because they actually do not know what happens
    • @rfluethi: I think the idea of a short summary of the Coffee Hour meeting is good. We tried it twice before but didn’t get any feedback. Maybe we should keep doing it anyway. Would you like to do it next Saturday?

You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.

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