Thank you for joining the Training Team for WordCamp US 2024 Contributor Day! We’ve prepared activities for both new and experienced contributors to join in on the day. See the schedule for WCUS Contributor Day here.
We are excited to announce that we will be hosting online events during Contributor Day, allowing those who couldn’t attend WordCamp US to participate remotely. You can join us for online contributions by following the Meetup link below. Stay tuned for scheduled events!
Join the online events on Meetup: link TBA
Table Leads: Laura Adamonis (@lada7042), Kathryn Presner (@zoonini), Cynthia Norman (@cnormandigital)
Slack Monitor: looking for volunteer
Online Coordinator: Oderinde Oluwasegun (@webcreative), Jonathan Bossenger (@psykro)
How can I best prepare?
You can prepare for Contributor Day by ensuring you’ve got these starter tools ready:
- Your WordPress.org account and username
- Joined the Make WordPress Slack instance and the #training team channel
- Set up a GitHub Account
- Connect your GitHub account to your WordPress profile.
Instructions for preparing in advance can be found here: Welcome to the Training Team! If you are a developer, check out these Dev-squad guidelines.
Please Note: For registering for Slack, be sure to log in using [email protected] as your email address. Not your normal email address.
Training Team Mission
The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through courses, lessons and Online Workshops, via learn.wordpress.org.
I’m new to the Training Team!
Thanks for joining! Please walk through our brand-new Onboarding Program. This will give you an overview of the team, help you set up the accounts you need to contribute, and even walk you through your first contribution!
We expect the onboarding program above to take 30-60 minutes. Once you’ve completed onboarding, jump into these other activities to continue contributing!
Review published content and submit feedback
WordPress software continues to grow and new features get added all the time. Reviewing published content and updating content is important in keeping the Learn WordPress website current. Follow the team guide about reviewing published content to leave feedback about any content below. (Reviewing older content would be helpful!)
Thumbnail Creation Project
This ongoing project continues to need to create a large quantity of small graphics – called thumbnails – to serve as featured images for each course, lesson, and tutorial. This will create a visually appealing site that will entice learners to dive in and get started on their learning journey. Thumbnail Creation Project
I have experience working as a contributor!
Thanks for joining! Depending on your interests, there are a few ways you can get involved. For each of the tasks below, the team handbook should help you with process specifics. But if you have any questions, feel free to reach out!
- Content reviews
- Validating and applying feedback issues
- Data migration
Content reviews
Are you interested in editing content? If so, then reviewing content waiting to be published is our priority today.
Start by finding a piece of content to review in our content development board. This GitHub view has filtered all content waiting for reviews before it is published. Follow the team’s Guidelines for reviewing content and leave your reviews right there in GitHub.
Validating and applying feedback issues
Are you a developer interested in working on issues for the Learn website? If so, then working through our LearnWP Content – Feedback project board
Start by reviewing issues “Follow these steps”. Any help you can provide regarding issues “Awaiting Fix” would be great, too. But in general, any attention you can give to any issue would be much appreciated.
If there are enough interested Developers, then we can also create a developer-focused working group so that they can focus on related issues.
Data migration (more information to come)
- Tutorial data migration
- Map deprecated tutorials to updated lessons
- Use spreadsheet- Learn Tutorials, Courses & Lessons – 2024.05-06
- Go through non-English tutorials
- Go through rest of English tutorials
Brainstorming session
We would like to set aside time (TBA) for a brainstorming session to come up with proposals for activities to draw new learners to Learn.WordPress.org, based on an upcoming p2 (blog) post.
Before you leave…
We’d love to hear what you achieved on the day. Before leaving the table, please submit the Contributor Day Attendee Feedback Form and respond to the relevant thread in Slack.
Contributor Day Attendee Feedback Form
#contributor-days, #training-team #WCUS2024