Slack Log for EMEA/Americas Meeting (Tuesday 5 July at 16:00 UTC)
Slack Log for APAC Meeting (Thursday 7 July at 11:30 UTC)
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Introductions and Welcome
Attendance EMEA/Americas Meeting: @arasae, @courane01, @artdecotech, @eboxnet, @azhiyadev, @kemmy99, @trynet, @caraya, @piyopiyofox, @leogopal, @ndiego, @magicroundabout, @courtneypk, @bsanevans, @chaion07, @sabbir16, @amitpatelmd
Attendance APAC Meeting: @webtechpooja, @psykro, @kemmy99, @amitpatelmd, @chaion07, @sabbir16, @courtneypk
Welcoming the newcomers joining the Training team in the last week (Slack usernames): @Jonny Bull, @Amit Patel, @colorful-tones, @Joe Bailey-Roberts, @Mike F., @Nayan Thakor, @hztyfoon, @ABDULLAH AL NEFATH, @Asif
Meeting Note Takers
- July 12: @samanthaxmunoz
- July 19: @kryzpt
- July 26: @psykro
News
6.1 planning roundup
The proposed 6.1 schedule and features as well as the call for the release squad call has been announced. The release will happen at the end of October. See the linked post for more details.
GitHub automation updates
@courane01, @courtneypk, @azhiyadev, and @piyopiyofox met last Friday to share the goals for GitHub actions & automation. It’s more nuanced than it would first appear, but would help better credit contributors and reduce administrative overhead.
If you are experienced in creating YML files to programmatically create GitHub Actions and Automations, we’re open for volunteers! Please leave a comment on the post if you’d like to help.
Call for volunteers to review content
Instructional Designers/Professional Educators and Style Guide Reviewers: If you would like to review content others create for those 2 areas, please leave a comment.
Update about the individual survey
We’ve had some queries around the form, and after further investigation we confirmed that we will be migrating the Google form and utilizing the Crowdsignal plugin currently on Learn.
We’ve taken the link down until this is moved to Crowdsignal. @webtechpooja and @piyopiyofox are working on that migration.
Needs Analysis working group poll
A more formalized Needs Analysis is planned on behalf of Learn. The objective is to survey many parts of the WordPress community, as shown in our 2022 goals, to assess how we can best serve the learning needs of those using WordPress.
Want to help create this survey? Share your availability on the Needs Analysis working group poll.
Learn WordPress Development: Creating a Public Roadmap for Content Creation
@psykro worked on the roadmap and broke it down into the development portion of learning, with suggested topics within each. Have a look and see if there is anything missing or if you have further suggestions.
Discussion: Naming content types on Learn WordPress
There are currently four types of content on Learn WordPress:
- Workshops (5-15 minute instructional videos)
- Courses (long-form content with multiple lessons in multiple media formats)
- Social Learning Spaces (live and collaborative learning sessions)
- Lesson Plans (structured plans that trainers can use to teach others)
The current names for some of these are not universally understood and not always simple to translate, so it would be a good idea to look closely at these names and come up with alternatives that are both easy to understand and easy to translate. We welcome your feedback on the names in the discussion post.
Rethinking the Lesson Plan Creation & Updating Process
Some contributors express confusion when attempting to contribute to lesson plan creation. This post aims to look at how we can improve that experience by documenting the barriers experienced by these contributors, raising additional questions for the team’s consideration, and making suggestions for consideration on how to move forward.
Tracking social learning spaces
To avoid duplication and provide a holistic view of all the topics being covered, it has been suggested that we should bring the tracking of social learning spaces into GitHub.
- Is Github the right place to track social learning space topics?
- What is a useful way to track it?
Please leave your thoughts in the comments of the post. We would appreciate them!
Training Team Goals and Strategy Call
Training Team Reps and Faculty Program Members held two calls to discuss the progress of the training team goals and our strategy for meeting them. Click through to the post to get the recap.
Monthly Sprint
Tracking updates
We have been discussing how best to manage tracking content creation updates at team meetings. After discussion during this meeting, we settled on these suggestions:
- Weekly meetings – quick stand-up
- Beginning of the week – slack prompt to check GitHub notifications/provide an update
- Use GitHub to ping owners for an update.
If you have feedback on this process, please leave a comment.
Sprint Status
- Drafts in progress: 21 in active development
- Ready to Create – You Can Help!: These are many lesson plans and workshops that are in need of a contributor to draft them.
- Reviews in Progress: 13 Lesson Plans, 6 workshops
- Published: 4 Workshops, 2 Lesson Plans
Retrospective
Please share your comments for the June retrospective here. We will publish the comments in a post therefore please feel free to comment async. See last month’s May retrospective for an example of how this will be presented.
Social Learning Spaces (SLS) this Week
Open Discussions
- WordCamp Asia
- Call for Sponsors Is Now Open
- Worth watching: WCAsia Roadmap
Upcoming Meetings
- Tuesday 16:00 UTC Team meeting, weekly
- Thursday 11:30 UTC APAC Team meeting, weekly
- Friday 13:00 UTC Coffee hour, weekly
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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