This meeting followed this meeting agenda post. 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.)
(We have alternated our weekly team meetings according to the timezone. This week we are having the Team Meeting in the APAC timezone, and a Coffee Hour was held in the Americas/EMEA timezone at Tuesday 17:00 UTC.)
Introductions and Welcome
There are 16 attendees, either live or async: @webtechpooja, @digitalchild, @karthickmurugan, @bhargavbhandari90, @amitpatelmd, @afrin29, @nomadskateboarding, @chetan200891, @faguni22, @onealtr, @psykro, @lada7042, @eboxnet, @courane01, @courtneypk, @bsanevans
Welcome to the team (Slack usernames): @shilpa @Caleb Matteis @John, @Shipon Karmakar
News
Meeting Note Takers
Meeting recap notes are one of the best ways to get started contributing to a team, and you can find details on how to write notes on this handbook page.
Faculty Members Update
Training Team goals
Training Team goals for 2023 have been published. Please check out the team goals for this year. This will help us prioritize different tasks throughout the year.
Meeting Time Update
Daylight Savings Time ends on March 12th at 10:00 UTC and the UK and other parts of Europe change after March 26th. We created a poll for collecting votes and below result we got:
Learn Newsletter
The first Learn WordPress Newsletter was published. Please share this in your networks.
Come & Join The Renewed Welcome Committee
With the launch of the new onboarding program, the Welcome Wrangler role has evolved. Come check out the revamped role, and join the committee!
Process To Contribute To Learn WordPress
Add your thoughts to this Slack discussion. As to whether we should consistently stick to “Learn” or “Learn WordPress”, or whether both could be used interchangeably, we would be interested to hear the thoughts from the team.
Team RepTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. Update
Destiny will be away from March 1 – June 1 for a sabbatical. Please continue to lean on @bsanevans and @webtechpooja during this time.
Online Workshops Update
A discussion has started to include Online Workshops in the WordPress admin dashboard widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user.:: Proposal: Modify the Events and News widget to show topic-based meetups worldwide
Recap: Sensei Pro LMS Demo for Learn WordPress
Sensei Pro LMS Demo for Learn WordPress – Thanks @Courtney and @Ronnie Burt for the insight.
Here are the discussion points:
- Chapter 1: Navigating Learn WordPress Courses
- Chapter 2: Enhancing the Learning Experience with Interactive Blocks and Videos
- Chapter 3: Making Use of Video
- Chapter 4: Navigating Sensei Settings
- Chapter 5: Improving the Course Experience
Published Content
- Tutorial – Interacting with the WordPress REST API
WordPress 6.2 release Work:
Start working on revising and creating content for WP 6.2 on LearnWP WordPress 6.2 Beta 1 launched on Feb 7and you can check Recap: WordPress 6.2 Beta 4 Release Party Ride Along
We are looking for folks to create content related to the WordPress 6.2 release. You can find content needing creation on this GitHub project board. Here are other useful links:
- Information Sources for WordPress 6.2
- WP 6.2 content (comment on what you can commit to contributing)
- For revisions, use this custom plugin in LearnWP
- Use this link to create a site while revising/creating content, testing features, etc.
Projects
Content Localization Foundation
Content Localization Foundation – @bsanevans is now leading the project.
– Project completion is scheduled for March 31st – less than a month to go!
Learning Survey Update
Individual Learning Survey for the Needs Analysis which is now closed. @abhanonstopnewsuk and @Saloni Patel shared their thoughts on analyzing this survey data by 20 March (CC: project leader: @westnz).
Other Work In Progress
The following items are other projects that team members have volunteered to take on.
- Request for Testing: Slides Plugin – @Courtney and @meaganhanes
- Skill Management platform – @Courtney
- Exploring WordPress Certifications – @Courtney
- Training Team Site GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc.
https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ blocks – @Amit Patel. We had brainstormed on this project’s tasks and discussions on the same. Thanks, @Jamie Madden, @askaryabbas, @Sagar Ladani, @Karthick, and @Mayur Baroliya for participating in the same. We will have a few updates to share by the next team meeting.
- @Amit Patel gave an update on the Training team Handbook page – Team Profile Badges. He will publish the updated version this week.
Request For Review
- Tutorial
- Lesson Plan
- Course
- Converting a Shortcode to a Block – please review by March 16, 2023
Forthcoming Online Workshops
Online Workshop this Week:
Other Ways To Contribute
Ready to start contributing? Here are a couple of ways to get involved today!
- Co-host an upcoming Online Workshop. Learn more about Co-hosting an Online Workshop on our handbook page.
- Help resolve a Content Error. We have information on how to Validate and Triaging Content Error Reports.
- Join the Training Team Welcome Committee! Help us welcome new members to the Training Team and foster our growing community.
Open Discussions
@webtechpooja started the discussion by sharing one of her celebrations’ news Holi – Festival of Colors. Also, @karthickmurugan asked about “6 of my lesson plans and handbook pages Tamil translations are waiting for a reviewer. If we find a Tamil Reviewer for reviewing those, it would be great.” Proper discussion with solutions had been provided.
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.