Meeting Agenda September 26, 2023

[webtechpooja]

Training Team meetings start at 07:00 UTC weekly on Tuesdays. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the meeting by commenting on Slack threads throughout the week. Meeting notes will be published at the end of the week to incorporate these asynchronous conversations.

This week’s meeting will be hosted by @webtechpooja.

1. Intro/Welcome

Welcome to all new teammates who joined the Training Team this week!

2. News

1. Meeting Note Takers

• September 26 – @benjirahmed
• October 3 – @Sancastiza
• October 10 – @sumitsingh
• October 17 – Needs Volunteer

2. Looking for feedback

• Proposal: Updating the Contributor Ladder to a five-path model
• What data should we collect to highlight the Training Team’s impact on the WordPress Community and on Learn?
• The team started a conversation last to last week about how we could indicate folks have completed a course cohort. Please leave your ideas in this Slack thread from last week's meeting.
• The team also started discussing: "When can an interested contributor take over developing a piece of content which had originally been assigned to another contributor, but no progress has been made for some time?" Please leave your feedback in this Slack thread from last week's meeting.
• Looking for Feedback: Learn Website Information Architecture - We’d love to receive more feedback from Training Team members on proposed changes to the site IA, and ask folks to review and share feedback on this post on what has been drafted.

3. Looking for volunteers

• We're looking for volunteers to author the October edition of the Learn WordPress newsletter. (See the Learn WordPress Newsletter – September 2023 to see how its structured)
• Abha is looking for volunteers to help present about Learn WordPress for a Portsmouth Meetup in November.

4. Updates from last week's dev-squad triage session

Triaged one new open PR and two new open bugs

• Add function_exists check #1871
• Bug report - color contrast on course completion page not accessible #1874
• Search box is working differently on same page #1875

5. Other news

• Contributor Badges Awarded: Harsh Gajipara, Akshaya Rane
• WordPress 6.4 Beta 1 releasing on Sept 26
• Come check out Let’s share our notes from the Community Summit
• Educational content from Learn WordPress has been added to this Hosting Handbook page.
• Hallway Hangout: What's new for developers in WordPress 6.4

3. Open requests for review

See our Guidelines for reviewing content to review the following content.

• Tutorials
  • Choosing and Installing a Theme Tutorial #758
  • Using Page Templates - Tutorial #455
  • Tutorial - Common APIs – Responsive Images #1830
• Lesson Plans
  • WordPress Action Hooks - Lesson Plan #806
• Translated Content
  • German Subtitles "What kind of WordPress theme do I have: classic, block, or something else?" #1873 (German)
  • Bangla translation for Tutorial "Getting to know the WordPress Dashboard" #1882 (Bangla)
  • Gujarati translation for "7 Tips to improve website security" #1881 (Gujrati)
  • Finnish translation for Tutorial "Building a home page with a block theme" #1865 (Finnish)
  • Chinese Traditional translation for Lesson Plan "What You Can Do With WordPress" #1858 (Chinese)

4. Project updates

• Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress
• Next steps for GitHub updates

5 Faculty Updates

Time for a Faculty check-in! @faculty please answer any that apply:
• 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 Faculty or Training Team members help you in some way?

6. Open Discussions

If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this issue.

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[webtechpooja]

@jonathanbossenger Could you share an update from last week's dev-squad triage session, please? 🙇‍♂️

[bsanevans]

What data should we collect to highlight the Training Team’s impact on the WordPress Community and on Learn?

This recent post by Courtney Robertson ties in nicely with this topic. Please highlight this post: https://make.wordpress.org/project/2023/09/25/request-for-feedback-make-team-dashboards/

[Piyopiyo-Kitsune]

Added this above: Looking for Feedback: Learn Website Information Architecture

[jonathanbossenger]

dev squad triage update added.

[webtechpooja]

Recap notes are published - https://make.wordpress.org/training/2023/10/12/training-team-meeting-recap-26th-september-2023/