Meeting Agenda July 25, 2024

[ghost]

Training Team meetings start at 00:00 UTC weekly on Thursdays. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the meeting by commenting in Slack threads during the meeting and throughout the following days. Meeting notes will be published by the following Tuesday to also incorporate these asynchronous conversations.

This week’s meeting will be hosted by @lada7042 .

1. News

1. Meeting Note Takers

• July 25 – @jagirbahesh
  August 1 – @nazmul111
  August 8 – @dhaval59
  August 15- needs volunteer

2. Looking for feedback

• What is Learn WordPress's north star?
  - Current north star under the Learn WordPress heading
  - A 'north star' is similar to a mission statement about the purpose of our team.
  Please share your thoughts in the thread 🧵 so we can create our 'north star'.

Here are a few thoughts the team reps came up with in a brainstorming session.
- Is Learn WordPress the site where folks come to learn about the most relevant and up to date content
on WordPress? Is it the place where we encourage and guide folks to be at the forefront of the software?
- fostering a collaborative learning community
- Relevant + most up to date
- The place to come to learn about WordPress
comment from Wes @west7 : Teaching and assisting learners of all skill levels to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress.

• Online Workshop Meetup Survey
  - Jamie @digitalchild has finalizing a survey
  - Please share your feedback.
  - Also, if you are hosting an online workshop, please share the survey link after your session!

• The team reps are looking at updating the meeting notes format. Any suggestions? Please add to the thread 🧵

3. Looking for volunteers

• Brainstorm & Table Lead – WordCamp US 2024 Contributor Day - we are looking for table lead volunteers and ideas for WordCamp US Contributor Day-- please share your thoughts!
• Project Thread: Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1

4. dev-squad triage session
Anyone interested please join.

• 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month/calendar
• 07:00 UTC
• You can join this meeting from the #meta-learn Slack channel:

5. Other news

• Current Focus Areas
  Updated the current focus areas on the Make WordPress Training page to make it up-to-date and easier to see projects we are working on.

  • Updated the top to show only the goals
  • Removed the Highlight section
  • Updated “Work in Progress” area
  • Prioritized 3 projects at a time for the team

• Onboarding Hour
  - Hey all new contributors!!
  - Destiny @piyopiyofox hosting onboarding hour in August
  ➡️ August 5 at 23:00 UTC - Zoom link
  ➡️ August 7 at 07:00 UTC - Zoom Link
  Zoom links will be provided in the #training Slack channel 5 minutes before.

• We are closing the Training Team Administration GitHub board issues that are still relevant will be moving to LearnWP Content - Development

2. Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

• See Guidelines for reviewing content when reviewing content.
• We have 8 issues ready for review

Wes has two advanced learning pathway lessons are ready for review. We would appreciate some feedback as we are eager to know if people find these too technical or just enough for non-developers.

#2312
#2308

@cnormandigital will be publishing these Classic Theme lessons this week and would love to hear any available feedback first:
#2515
#2516
#2517
#2518
#2520

Feedback awaiting validation

• See Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on validating feedback.
• We have 31 issues that require validation

Topics awaiting vetting

• See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
• We have 4 issues that require vetting

Good first issues for developers

• See Developing Learn WordPress for instructions on contributing to the Learn WordPress code.
• We have 0 issues requiring development

Validated feedback awaiting fix

• Faculty Editors, see Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on applying feedback that has been validated.
• We have 20 issues awaiting a fix

3. Contribution Acknowledgement

• Badges awarded: at the last meeting of the month
• Props:

4. Project updates

• Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress
  - The call for QA/testing is still up. Thank you to everyone who’s tested the site so far and let's keep testing!
  - See full July 24 update

• Project Thread: Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1

5. Contributor Updates

• 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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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.

[westnz]

Two advanced learning pathway lessons have been shared for review. We would appreciate some feedback as we are eager to know if people find these too technical or just enough for non-developers.

• The building blocks of WordPress templates
• How styles are generated

[Piyopiyo-Kitsune]

I will be holding two Training Team onboarding sessions:

• August 5 at 23:00 UTC - Zoom link
• August 7 at 07:00 UTC - Zoom Link

Zoom links will be provided in the #training Slack channel 5 minutes before.

[cynthianorman]

I will be publishing these Classic Theme lessons this week and would love to hear any available feedback first:
#2515
#2516
#2517
#2518
#2520

[kathrynwp]

Learn remake project update:

https://make.wordpress.org/training/2023/07/07/project-thread-learning-pathways-on-learn-wordpress/#comment-4317

[ghost]

Meeting began on Slack: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1721865859957089

[Piyopiyo-Kitsune]

Notes: https://make.wordpress.org/training/2024/07/31/training-team-meeting-recap-25th-july-2024/