Slack Log for AMER/EMEA Meeting (Tuesday 16:00 UTC)
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The meeting agenda.
Introductions and Welcome
14 people attended this week’s meeting, either live or async: @courane01 @eboxnet @nomadskateboarding @webtechpooja @onealtr @boogah @caraya @chrismkindred @robinwpdeveloper @chaion07 @lada7042 @amitpatelmd @bsanevans @azhiyadev
We welcomed 4 newcomers to the Training Team this week! @Karen Leslie @Louinel @Nikhil Gudadhe @Mayur Khuman
Meeting Note Takers
The following people have volunteered to take notes for the team.
- January 24 – @karthickmurugan
- January 31 – @onlykawshar
- February 7 – @sadmansakibnadvi
- February 14 – @faguni22
- February 17 – @Afrin
- January 31 – @onlykawshar
- February 7 – @sadmansakibnadvi
Please let a team rep know if you’d like to take notes, too!
News
Training Team: Discovering Our Values
On January 23rd, the Training Team will be conducting two 2-hour exercises to discover our shared values. These exercises are open to anyone interested in participating, and will be recorded.
Here are the session details:
- Monday, 23 January 2023 at 07:00UTC to Monday, 23 January 2023 at 9:00 UTC, facilitated by @bsanevans
- Tuesday, 24 January 2023 at 19:00UTC to Tuesday, 24 January 2023 at 21:00 UTC facilitated by @angelasjin
January 2023 Faculty Meeting
The January Faculty Meeting has been posted and the discussion period is between 15–31 January, 2023.
Information Sources For WordPress 6.2
What you’ll find in here are the links to Gutenberg changelogs. We anticipate Gutenberg versions 14.2 – 15.1 to be merged into WP 6.2. There are links for Core Trac which would be all things not Gutenberg, or beyond FSE. We expect more yet to come in between now and Feb 7, but ideally on Feb 7 when beta 1 releases, we can start work on this.
Before we start the work, folks can volunteer for any issues tagged as 6.2. Just hold off on screenshots and videos until then.
There is a new #training-notifications Slack channel
This is a new dedicated Slack channel for notifications about Tutorials, Lesson Plans, Online Workshops, and Courses that have been recently published.
Published Content
Tutorial
Lesson Plans
- Gujarati
- Hindi
Projects
Content Localization Foundation
This project thread expands upon our Project Proposal: Content Localization and seeks to outline the tasks we aim to complete to accomplish the project’s goals to increase and expand availability of content on Learn WordPress to a variety of non-English locales.
- Project members have been added as Contributors to the Learn site so that they can create and edit their translated content directly on the site prior to publication.
- @piyopiyofox is working on a guide outlining content translation creation -> publication with videos and will have a draft ready this week.
- 3 pieces of content have been published! Congratulations @pitamdey and @sagarladani!
- There are more published translations to come! @piyopiyofox is reaching out to Local Ambassadors this week to see how we can get other translators in other key languages activated for the project.
Training Team Onboarding Paths
- We discussed what a good way would be for contributors to add themselves to a list of contributors for each area of contribution. We’ve decided to create a Google Form which would be connected to a Google Spreadsheet team admins can maintain. The form would be embedded into the onboarding docs. Here is how the project is going.
- We also discussed what would be good “first contributions” for each of the five onboarding paths. Ideally, these “first contributions” would be things people can complete in 30-60 minutes. We will be creating guides for each process in the Handbook, and linking to them from the onboarding documents. These are the first contributions we decided on.
Learning Needs Analysis
We are working to create a needs analysis document to help determine the most high-impact resources to provide on Learn WordPress. Please see the post Project Overview: Learning Needs Analysis for a more in-depth background and overview.
This project will be lead by @westnz and the project is in need of more project members. Please comment on this post if you are interested in helping out!
The deadline for the survey to be completed is on the 15th of February. The marketing team was briefed by @courane01 at their January 17th meeting of our need to have a marketing push before the cutoff.
Looking For Feedback
@amitpatelmd is looking for feedback on these two handbook pages:
- Updates to Team Profile Badge page
- A new SEO Experts page, which will expand on and replace the current section on SEO Experts.
Other Work In Progress
Request for Testing: Slides Plugin
- @victorr has forked the original Slides plugin referenced in this post and is in the process of unit testing and prioritizing Core block supports for the plugin.
- We attempted to reach out to the original plugin dev but had no responses.
- By sourcing this as a custom post type on Learn, it will give contributors an interface they are familiar with.
- Thank you @victorr and staff have contributed towards the development work, and @meaganhanes for some scoping and testing.
Skill Management Platform
Request For Review
The following content is ready for review:
- Tutorial
- Lesson Plan
- Course
Online Workshop This Week
Open Discussions
Revising Our Content Creation Checklists
There is a huge checklist for content creation at this time. We are thinking to revise this checklist so new contributors can easily understand the workflow. any suggestions are welcome. Please use these links to see Lesson Plan and Tutorial template issue on Github.
What would we like to know from participants?
Can we do a monthly newsletter on Learn to announce newly published content? This newsletter will be shared with Marketing.
Who will be attending from the training team? @bsanevans and @chetan200891 will be Table Leads for contributor day at WCAsia.
How can we make reviews easier to pick up?
Upcoming Meetings
- Tuesday 07:00 UTC APAC Team meeting, weekly
- Tuesday 16:00 UTC AMER/EMEA Team meeting, weekly
- Friday 13:00 UTC Coffee hour, weekly
- Tuesday 19:00 UTC Faculty Meeting, every last Tuesday AMER/EMEA
- Wednesday 05:00 UTC Faculty Meeting, every last Wednesday APAC
You are welcome to join the team at any time! If you are new to the Training Team, please introduce yourself in the #training channel before the meeting (or anytime!) and feel free to join us in the meeting and participate as you are able.
Training Team Mission
The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments, via learn.wordpress.org.
Getting Involved
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects.
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