Noruzzaman 10:58 am on July 25, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 18th July 2024

This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. 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.)

Introductions and Welcome

There were 24 attendees @piyopiyofox, @cotorra42, @west7, @voboghure, @jagirbahesh, @digitalchild, @dhaval59, @devmuhib, @onealtr(async), @rithika3, @nishitajoshi, @rinkuiihglobal, @darshanprajapat9, @sumitsingh, @zeelthakkar, @rfluethi, @psykro, @lada7042, @cnormandigital, @zoonini, @amitpatelmd, @sierratr, @quitevisible, @ironnysh

Welcome to all the new contributors who joined the Training Team’s Slack channel in the last week:

@mokosu, @imranex, @priyazes, @greeninkerry, @eizwanzulkipli, @jwilson254wp, @roelof, @hardipparmar, @sam33r42, @raissamatho, @keithnoseworthy, @piotrmonka, @enamulwp

For those who are new here, the WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through educational content hosted on Learn.WordPress.org.

If you haven’t seen them yet, then I recommend checking out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program

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.

Looking for feedback

@digitalchild is finalizing a survey for Online Workshop attendees in our Online Workshop MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. group.

  • Please share your feedback when the survey goes out
  • Also, if you are hosting an online workshop, please share the survey link after your session!

Jamie will share the survey link here once it’s finalized.

Looking for volunteers

Brainstorm & Table Lead – WordCamp US 2024 Contributor Day – we are looking for onsite and online table lead volunteers and ideas for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.!

  • Comment on this post with your ideas for what we should work on
  • Comment on this post to be considered for the table lead role

Project Thread: Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1 — we are recruiting project members for this project to help us with research and documentation.

  • Comment on this post if you are able to help with this work, and which part you’d like to help with 

Dev Squad Updates

I see that the dev squad met last week—any updates to share? @faculty-dev-squad

Other News

Gutenberg Times mentioned Learning Pathways 

Destiny Kanno says about WordCamp Canada last week — do attendees have any highlights to share?
Kathryn Presner says It was an excellent inaugural WordCamp Canada in Ottawa, Ontario! She ran the Training team table during Contributor Day and got three people started with testing the new Learn WordPress site (more details in the props section). They all did a great job finding bugs and reporting issues on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/, and one of them also made some thumbnails!

It was delightful to chat with Cynthia Norman (content creator working on the Intermediate Theme Developer Learning Pathway course) Bud Kraus (participant in the recent course cohort on developing your first blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.). She also gave a talk on Untangling Templates and had some great audience questions!

Come and Contribute

We’d like folks to focus on Content ready for review this week 

Find other ways to contribute to this

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • We have 2 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

Contribution Acknowledgement

Kathryn Presner shares: Props to the three people who attended WordCamp Canada’s Contributor Day and tested out the new Learn WordPress site: Ryan Frizzell, Teuila Mau, and Keith Noseworthy. Among them, they submitted five GitHub issues, and Teuila also created seven thumbnails! Thank you so much for your efforts in helping to make the new site the best it can be.

Teuila Mau also shares: It was nice meeting everyone! The Figma thumbnail generator was very easy to use and thanks to Kathryn Presner for getting me started on GitHub 

Project Updates

Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

Project Thread: Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1

  • We kicked off the What is Learn WordPress’s north star and content commitments. discussion the previous week and we’ll bring it up again in today’s meeting for further feedback

Contributor Updates

Wes Theron has been working on a video lesson about WordPress 6.6 and a lesson for the Advanced user learning pathway.  Things have been progressing nicely. He was wondering if there are any folks who would be keen to write scripts for the Advanced user learning pathway.  This is a great way to contribute to content creation as well.

Muhibul Haque worked on a thumbnail generator project.

Destiny Kanno has done some handbook page updates for online workshops and is working on recording an updated video for creating an online workshop. I’m also trying to gather feedback for the new content maintenance process project.

Sumit Singh is guiding new members and he can see some more Indian WP folks active in today’s meeting. Also, he is working on polyglot for my local language

Rico worked on the thumbnail. He helps newcomers go through the WordPress Learn paths and answer additional questions. He also tries to find out why WordPress Learn is hardly known in German-speaking countries. (For example, the Learn page on the German-language WordPress.org site is only linked in the footer). Try to find the person responsible who can change this.

Laura Adamonis is Working on handbook pages about writing newsletters and team updates, online workshops, guide program.

Cynthia Norman has completed the recording of all of the planned Intermediate Theme Developer Learning Pathway lessons. Lessons are in review and should be on Sensei soon.

Kathryn Presner participated in WordCamp Canada as a speaker, Training team table lead at Contributor Day, and Happiness Bar volunteer. Continued to help with the Learn WP remake, including coordination of testing, thumbnails, marketing, an Online Workshop, and launch timing. Ongoing coordination of the Guide program, and worked on the first steps to retire the Faculty Program, which involved access changes and some initial handbook tweaks.

Open Discussions

  • What are Learn WordPress’s north star and content commitments?
    • Wes Theron says he is teaching and assisting learners of all skill levels to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress. He asked Destiny Kanno could you clarify what you mean by Learn’s content commitments?
    • Destiny Kanno replied Absolutely! I mean when it comes to our content maintenance. For example, is Learn WordPress focused on the most up-to-date and relevant content?
  • Last topic for the day… – Are the meeting notes in its current form beneficial?

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.

#learn-wordpress, #meeting-recap, #training, #training-team

Kruti Upadhyay 10:22 am on July 16, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 11th July 2024

This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. 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.)

Introductions and Welcome

There were 22 attendees @lada7042, @jagirbahesh, @piyopiyofox, @digitalchild, @dhaval59, @zeelthakkar,@noruzzaman, @nazmul111, @voboghure (async), @devmuhib (async), @sumitsingh(async), @rithika3(async), @nishitajoshi(async), @Maya(async), @zoonini, @psykro, @ironnysh(async), @west7, @iRonnysh, @rinkuiihglobal, @askdesign, @zoonini

Welcome all the new contributors who joined the Training Team’s Slack channel in the last week:

@hellosatya, @Vince, @mustakim5,  @archanasolanki, @roelof, @eizwanzulkipli, @Hardip ,@Julia @KeithN, @teuila_mau, @rjfrizz, @piotrmonka, @enamulwp, @sam33r42, @keithnoseworthy, @raissamatho, @priyazes, @imranex

For those who are new here, the WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through educational content hosted on Learn.WordPress.org.

If you haven’t seen them yet, then I recommend checking out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program

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 in this handbook page.

Looking for feedback

@lada7042 shared some thoughts with on
What is Learn WordPress’ North Star?
– Learn WordPress’s north star

– 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

@lada7042 set for The original WordPress.org Training Team site is archived
Can #dev-squad help with this?Please share your feedback

Looking for volunteers

We are looking for folks – Thumbnail Creation Project creating and uploading the new thumbnails.

Testing the new Learn WordPress

Help test the new Learn WordPress site and report any bugs you find. Full guide here:

Let’s start testing Learn.WordPress.org

Other News

Content Overriding Issue: As mentioned in the Slack channel, original content was overridden by a translated version. Thank you to everyone who communicated and resolved the issue.

Important Reminder: Please DO NOT assign translated lessons to a course. Publish them as standalone lessons.

Updates: @piyopiyofox has updated the handbook page. See the Slack post “Translating and Publishing a Lesson”

Tutorial Deprecation: To reduce content types on the Learn WP site, Tutorials are being deprecated and will be converted into Lessons (Tutorial data migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. #2393). A note has been added to all Tutorial-related handbook pages. Once the conversion is complete, these pages will be fully retired.

Join us for an opportunity to discuss and collaborate on learning pathway content. Whether you’re working on content or interested in contributing, this is the perfect time to meet, ask questions, and find projects to work on. Meetings alternate between two time zones each month

Come and Contribute

This Week’s Focus: Review 10 issues following the content review guidelines.

Feedback Awaiting Validation: 25 issues need validation. Refer to “Validating and Applying Content Feedback” for guidance.

Topics Awaiting Vetting: 4 issues need vetting. Refer to “Vetting Topic Ideas” for guidance.

Good First Issues for Developers: Currently, no issues require development. Refer to “Developing Learn WordPress” for instructions.

Validated Feedback Awaiting Fix: 20 issues need fixes. Faculty Editors should follow the “Validating and Applying Content Feedback” guide.

Contribution Acknowledgement

Badges Awarded:

  • At the end of the month

Props:

  • Special thanks to @devmuhib for uploading many thumbnails and organizing a local Contributor Hour to create more thumbnails.
  • Any other props for this week? Please add to the thread.

Contributors in the Community:

  • Check out an interview with content creator @west7 in the recent WP Briefing podcast discussing Learning Pathways and their benefits for WordPress learners.

https://wordpress.org/news/2024/07/episode-83-learning-pathways

Project updates

Learn WP Remake project update: https://make.wordpress.org/training/2023/07/07/project-thread-learning-pathways-on-learn-wordpress/#comment-4303

Open Discussions:

If you have topics for the meeting, please comment on this issue.

Contributors in the Community:

  • Check out @zoonini‘s presentation, “Untangling Templates,” from WC Canada. Look for the live stream or replay.

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.

#meeting-recap, #training, #training-team

Jamie 12:14 am on July 16, 2024
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Brainstorm & Table Lead – WordCamp US 2024 Contributor Day

The WordCamp US Contributor Day will be taking place on the 17th of September 2024! In preparation for the day, we’d like you to share ideas of what contributors at the Training Team table can get involved with that day.

You can read our Preparing for a Flagship WordCamp Contributor Day handbook page to learn more about how the Training Team prepares for Flagship WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Contributor Days.

Table Leads

We are looking for Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. table co-leads for WordCamp US 2024– do we have any volunteers?

Brainstorm

Below are some ideas to kick-start discussions. Feel free to comment on this post with your ideas, too!

This brainstorming is open until Monday, August 19th.

Team reps and table leads will consider all ideas and publish a post with a final plan by August 30th.

Experienced Contributors

  • Review Ready for Review content
  • Write a script for a learning pathway lesson or other lessons under Ready to Create
  • Assist with Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress
  • Join a session discussing practical insights into lesson creation
  • Create content
  • Work on Content Localization
  • Vet Topic Ideas
  • Cross-team collaboration opportunities  

New Contributors

  • Contributors walk through the Onboarding Paths
  • Review online courses and submit feedback
  • Write a script for a learning pathway lesson or other lessons under Ready to Create 
  • Review published content and submit an error report
    • Spelling mistakes
    • Outdated content
    • Something is not clear and needs improvement
    • Screenshot/images missing.

#contributor-days, #wordcampus

Arun Sharma 9:06 am on July 12, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 27th June 2024

This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. 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.)

Introductions and Welcome

There were 23 attendees @piyopiyofox, @gmrafi, @west7, @soir7, @digitalchild, @huzaifaalmeabah, @sumitsingh, @voboghure (async), @dextorlobo (async), @rithika3 (async), @freewebmentor (async), @mebo (async), @baheshjagir (async), @zeelthakkar (async), @devmuhib (async), @zoonini (async), @cnormandigital (async), @ironnysh (async), @backpocketACE (async), @lada7042 (async), @quitevisible (async), @sierratr (async), @rfluethi (async)

Welcome all the new contributors who joined the Training Team’s Slack channel in the last week:

@mokona84, @cotorra42, @laurahartwigdesign, @vonconcepts, @stanfordgriffith, @nilovelez, @saeedja, @gorangagrawal, @chauhanraj754, @kel-dc, @hmbashar, @darshanprajapat09

For those who are new here, the WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through educational content hosted on Learn.WordPress.org.

If you haven’t seen them yet, then I recommend checking out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program

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 in this handbook page.

Looking for feedback

Looking for volunteers

Other news

GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ clean up updates – I have gone through our Content Development board and closed issues that are not Lessons, Learning Pathways content or Online Workshops. Some issues flagged as Tutorial remain as we determine whether or not they can be made into Lessons.

Come and Contribute

We’d like folks to focus on Feedback awaiting validation this week :bulb:

Find other ways to contribute:

Topics awaiting vetting

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

Content ready for review

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Contribution Acknowledgement

Badges awarded: Training Contributor Badge awarded to @shiponkarmakar

  • Props:
  • @zoonini sends props to @lada7042 for co-hosting the Thumbnail-a-thon Online Workshop with me at the last minute!
  • She also shared props with @laurahartwigdesign, @rfluethi, @Kel Santiago-Pilarski, @nilovelez and @hellosatya for helping create thumbnails :smile:
  • @west7 for his great work on these advanced topics in website optimisation
  • @ironnysh – Helping with the advanced learning pathway outline + writing scripts
  • @digitalchild Reviewing content and providing helpful feedback
  • @lada7042 Running a three-part Online Workshop series
  • @psykro Publishing the Beginner developer learning pathway
  • @zoonini – Managing the thumbnail creation project + site redesign
  • @lada7042 for her patience and kindness and her encouragement in getting me started on this venture.

Project updates

  • Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress – see the full latest update on the thread here and some snippets below:
    • This week the dev team shipped a number of templates, a fallback featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. (used in the card grids in all archives), and filters on taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. archives. See screenshots in Slack.
    • The community’s help will be needed when the site is ready for QA.
    • Work is under way on a video walkthrough, News announcement, and Media Corps briefing – GitHub issue.
    • We’ll plan an Online Workshop to go through the new site for week after launch so it can be included in News announcement.
  • Thumbnail Creation Project
    • An Online Workshop Thumbnail-a-thon was held yesterday to get community help in generating thumbnails. Help is still needed! Watch the recording and check out the resources in the comments, and pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” in the #training channel in Slack if you have any questions.

Contributor Updates

As noted in last week’s meeting, we are transforming the bi-weekly Faculty Updates into Contributor Updates , and invite everyone in the Training Team to share what they have been working on recently :smile: :dance:

You can engage in sharing 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 Training Team members help you in some way?
  • @sumitsingh
    • I have 5 new contributors and I am starting soon guide program with all
  • @digitalchild
    • Content reviews including videos and scripts. Interim training rep duties. No blockers. We can always use more people reviewing content/tutorials for the new pathways.
  • @west7
    • Created 2 new lessons
    • Created activities and quizzes for the Intermediate user learning pathway
    • Blockers:
      • Coordinating reviews and updates across different time zones with various participants  :sweat_smile:
      • Updating content can be time consuming
  • @rfluethi
    • I am still trying to find my way around the extensive information provided by the training team. (Sorry for my slowness.)
    • Creating thumbnails
    • Talking to the local team about the need for learning path translations
    • Discussions with MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. organisers about the possibilities of forming supportive learning groups of participants in learning paths
  • @zoonini
    • Wrapping up the second course cohort and preparing recap post
    • Helping coordinate the Learn remake, including wrangling thumbnail creation and hosting thumbnail-a-thon Online Workshop, and planning community QA/testing
    • Ongoing admin for the Guide program
    • Working on Faculty program retirement plan
  • @cnormandigital
    • LP lessons for theme development
  • @lada7042
    • onboarding 2 contributors
    • team rep meeting
    • GatherPress test site
    • scheduling online workshops
  • @piyopiyofox
    • Working with a Guide Program
    • Drafting a proposal for our content migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. project
    • Preparing Learn Newsletter and Monthly Update
      I’m also preparing for some AFK next week :slightly_smiling_face:

Open Discussions

Does anyone have an open discussion topic to bring to the team?

@gusa I have a random question coming out the recent Contributor Working Group chat. In our discussion about potential mentorship projects for the next cohort, the idea of do_action for mentored contributions once again came up. This was also something we’ve on/off discussed with the training team in meetings and related issues (for example). Noticing that issue was closed (yesterday I think?), I was wondering if that means there’s been progress (or possibly because that particular issue hasn’t been active recently).

In addition to creating training materials for do_action, it seems like other potential mentorship projects along with the goal to launch “On Demand Mentorship” would benefit from resources provided by the Training Team.

Curious if there’s been recent cross team/working group discussions on any of the above.

#learn-wordpress, #meeting-recap, #training, #training-team

zeelthakkar 6:27 am on July 10, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 4th July 2024

This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. 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.)

Introductions and Welcome

There were 19 attendees @Jamie Madden, @newyorkerlaura, @lada7042, @voboghure, @west7, @zeelthakkar, @noruzzaman, @jagirbahesh, @devmuhib, @sumitsingh, @zoonini, @amitpatelmd (async), @gmrafi (async), @ironnysh (async), @freewebmentor (async), @cnormandigital (async), @quitevisible (async), @piyopiyofox (async), @backpocketACE(async).

Welcome, to all the new contributors who joined the Training Team’s Slack channel in the last week:

@Soir, @Abheesh, @omerkurd, @Billal hossain, @Chigozie Orunta, @Anfisa Breus

For those who are new here, the WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through educational content hosted on Learn.WordPress.org.

If you haven’t seen them yet, then I recommend checking out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program.

News

Meeting Note Takers

July 4 – @zeelthakkar
July 11 – @Kruti
July 18 – @noruzzaman
July 25 – @jagirbahesh

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.

Looking for feedback

Looking for volunteers

  • We are looking for folks to review tutorials and determine if we keep, update, or deprecate them.
  • The Thumbnail Creation Project also requires volunteers to help make thumbnails for the new Learn siteLearn site The Training Team publishes its completed lesson plans at https://learn.wordpress.org/ which is often referred to as the "Learn" site..

Other News

  • Translating lesson content: It looks like if translators assign a translated lesson to the original course and module, it replaces that lesson in the course (more information here). We will need to investigate to confirm this, but until we do, it might be useful if translators of lesson content don’t assign the course or module to a translated lesson.
  • The second course cohort wrapped and the recap post is up, including feedback survey results from participants and next steps: https://make.wordpress.org/training/2024/07/02/recap-the-second-learn-wordpress-course-cohort/
  • Thumbnail Creation Project
  • The Thumbnail-a-thon online event on the 26th of June, with 18 participants working on creating thumbnails for the project.
  • A total of 21 thumbnails were created for the project

@zeelthakkar is interested in creating thumbnails. @west7 suggested reviewing @zoonini‘s online workshop recording for guidance and to reach out to @zoonini with any questions.
@jagirbahesh also interested to creating thumbnails.he will check the post.
@sumitsingh and @zoonini are available to help with creating thumbnails. Feel free to pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me if you need assistance.
@zoonini thanked for pitching in!
@piyopiyofox advises that translated lessons should only be created as standalone unless the entire course is fully translated.

Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

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

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Contributor Acknowledgement

@Jamie Madden expressed appreciation for @west7 diligence in updating content based on recent reviews.
@Laura A thanked @Jamie Madden for hosting his first Training Team meeting!
@jagirbahesh suggested giving props to @zeelthakkar for actively working on meeting recap posts.
@zoonini suggested giving props to @laurahartwigdesign for creating 53 thumbnail graphics for lessons on the Learn WP site!

Project Updates

Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

An amazing amount of work has been going into the learning pathways project. Folks are always welcome to volunteer their time to our team projects as well 

Contributor Updates

You can engage in sharing updates in this

  • 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 Training Team members help you in some way?

Sure, here’s a rephrased version:

@Jamie Madden has started their role as the training team interim rep. They have been reviewing several advanced tutorials and assisting @west7 with scripts and feedback on a few tutorials. Currently, they have no blockers.

@lada7042 is preparing for her upcoming online workshop after a productive WP fun day exploring new site editor features.

@west7 is currently publishing the Intermediate user learning pathway, updating existing content, and developing new lessons.

@sumitsingh is providing training new WP users, reviewing and translating Hindi content, and planning to create more thumbnails.

@zoonini wrapped up the course cohort, published a recap post, coordinated the thumbnail project, assisted with the Learn WP remake, guided program admin, published the Faculty program retirement plan, and prepared a testing/QA plan for the Learn site.

@Rico creates thumbnails, trains WP users, and organizes local learning groups to go through learning paths together.

@cnormandigital is completing the Intermediate Theme Developer learning pathway.

@devmuhib is publishing thumbnails on Learn WordPress, mentoring in the Guide Program, and assisting with translations.

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.

#learn-wordpress, #meeting-recap, #training, #training-team

Kathryn Presner 2:41 pm on July 9, 2024
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Let’s start testing Learn.WordPress.org

The new Learn.WordPress.org is launching soon, complete with four courses in the User and Developer Learning Pathways. Your help is needed to QA/test the new site! Please follow these steps and report any bugs you find. 

Testing steps

  • Log into WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ if you’re not already.
  • Visit https://learn.wordpress.org/?new-theme=1 or click the “Preview the new theme” link in the admin bar.
  • Navigate the site and make sure all links work as expected, and everything looks as expected.
  • Register for a course and go through all the lessons/quizzes.
  • Try different browsers and devices, including mobile devices.
  • Repeat the above steps – except for course registration – while logged out. (The new-theme preview link now works while logged out.)

Pages to visit

Testing Courses and Quizzes

Reporting Bugs

If you find any issues:

  • Search the Learn WordPress GitHub repository to see whether the issue has already been reported. (See also list of current reported bugs, and milestones of issues for launch and post-launch.)
  • If it’s a new report, create a new GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue in the Learn repository using the Feedback template.
  • Mention in your issue that the report is for the new Learn WordPress site.
  • If you have the ability to assign the issue to a GitHub Project, select “WordPress.org Redesign” project, and if possible, also the “LearnWP Website Development” project. If not, no worries – leave Project blank and it will be assigned for you. 
  • Please include:
    • Your OS and version
    • Your browser and version
    • Link to the specific page you found the bug on
    • Screenshot or screencast showing the problem

Known issues, enhancements, and prioritization

  • Current reported bugs.
  • The thumbnail creation process is still ongoing, so some lessons and other content “cards” do not have custom thumbnails yet. You can still help create more thumbnails – get all the details.
  • While suggestions for future enhancements are also welcome, the priority at the moment is to find urgent bugs that may affect the launch.
  • The dev team will prioritize bugs that are blockers to launch, with other issues set to be addressed post-launch.
  • Don’t worry if you’re not sure whether something has already been reported or isn’t actually a bug. Better to report it just in case.

Deadline

Please log all GitHub issues by July 17, if possible.

Thank you in advance for helping make the new Learn WordPress the best it can be!

#testing

Kathryn Presner 6:04 pm on July 2, 2024  

Project Thread: Retiring the Faculty Program

Project objective

After discussion, the Training team has decided to go forward with retiring the Faculty Program, in order to streamline processes, help the team run more efficiently, and free up people’s time to focus on higher-impact areas. 

Project members

Project lead: @zoonini

Members: the team reps – @piyopiyofox, @digitalchild, @lada7042

Project timeline

Start: July 18, 2024

End: September 12, 2024

Background

The Faculty Program consisted of a group of Training team members who helped establish team processes, catch up on a backlog of tasks, and set up the team for future success. With the team evolving over time, it became evident that many Faculty members were no longer active on the team, many roles were under-used and difficult to recruit for, and the program required time-consuming administrative overhead. In addition, needing to apply to be part of the Faculty program could be seen by contributors as a barrier to doing certain types of work on the team. In addition, the now-established Guide Program serves as a welcoming path for people to get more involved with the team’s activities.

Process

The plan includes:

  • Adding a new area in the handbook, outlining the history of Learn.WordPress.org and the Training team. This section will include the names of past team reps and Faculty members, so that folks’ contributions are visible and recognized in the context of the Training team’s history.
  • Shifting the work done by the current Faculty Admin group to a smaller group of administrators, starting with the team reps. Additional admins will be added over time, while the current admin needs of the team are reassessed. We will likely look for Training team members who have made consistent contributions over the last 6-12 months.
  • Updating the handbook to remove the Faculty Program section.

Below is a detailed schedule outlining the tasks to be performed and target completion dates.

If there are any questions about this process, please feel free to drop them in the comments.

Once again, a big thank you to everyone who has been a part of the Faculty Program over the years. Your invaluable help has made the Training team stronger than ever.

DeadlineItemNotes
2024-07-18Access updates– Update access as needed, including Canvas with login info
– Let people know if any access has been changed
2024-08-08Research & write new handbook page compiling a history of the Training team– Collect names of all past & current team reps and Faculty program members
– Include a general history section 
– Draft page
– Share page with Training team for feedback
– Make revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. as needed
– Publish page
2024-08-15SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. updates– Determine what Slack changes are needed
– Archive current Faculty channel
– Review and update Slack bookmarks and pinned channel items in #training and related channels
2024-08-29Process updates– Go through all team processes and make a list of what will need updating, in collaboration with team reps
2024-09-12Handbook updates– Update old handbook pages as needed, based on discovery above. 
– Unpublish pages related to the Faculty Program
– Keep a log of which pages were unpublished, to be included in final project update
2024-09-12Help Scout updates– Go through all Help Scout Saved Replies and update as needed
Kathryn Presner 2:13 pm on July 2, 2024  

Recap: The second Learn WordPress course cohort

The Training Team has just facilitated Learn’s second course cohort. We saw great improvement from the first cohort, both in learner engagement and ease of administration. We think this is an effective learning method that can be continued on a regular basis.

Cohort overview

  • Invitations were sent to the 37 applicants on the waitlist from the first course cohort, and to 2 people who contacted cohort administrators showing interest to join.
  • Of those, 19 responded (51%) and 17 accepted (46%).
  • The cohort ran for 6 weeks (May 9th – June 20th) and included 6 calls.
  • An average of 9.3 participants attended each week’s call.
  • 5 participants completed the course content by the final call.
  • 2 participants did not start on the content.

Changes from the first cohort

  • The roles of course administration and teaching were split, with @bsanevans and @zoonini serving as administrators, and @psykro as the Subject Matter Expert (SME).
  • As the waitlist from the last cohort was used, no public call for participants was made.
  • All communication happened on 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/. both prior to and during the cohort.
  • There was no content drip and participants were given access to all content on the first day.

Feedback survey results

Participants were asked to complete a feedback survey once they had completed the course. 

  • Of 17 participants, 10 filled out the survey (59%).
  • 70% of respondents indicated that the course achieved all of their expected learning outcomes, while 30% said it achieved many of their learning outcomes.
  • 80% of the participants thought there was enough time to complete the course, while another 20% felt that “the course workload was manageable, but external factors kept me from completing the course in time.”
View more survey feedback

Respondents highlighted the following areas as aspects they liked about the way the course content was presented:

  • The course walked through a pretty clear step-by-step approach with the most important part of each lesson at the beginning, with supplemental information afterward. I also appreciate that there was written content in addition to the video. I personally don’t like learning from videos and much prefer written content, so I don’t think I watched any of the videos, only read the content, which contained everything I needed. 
  • It was very bite-sized. I enjoyed that.
  • I really liked the way the course was presented.
  • Live demonstration.
  • The classes were the fun part. The live coding really helped as did Jonathan’s work to get people to interact in the class.
  • Clearly outlined / Inclusive of all skill levels / Feedback loops / Code review / Weekly meetings     
  • It was very well structured. It had the feeling of learning, taking stock of where I was and then moving on.
  • This was my first time doing any course where there was a live and real-time chat component so I did love having that ability to ask questions in realtime! Also, felt Jonathan & team were awesome. Really wanted us to succeed but also was realistic about development too and the issues that pop up. Looking forward to more from the Learn team!

Only one respondent highlighted a missing topic they expected to learn in this course: the REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. “in detail.” Another respondent added, “BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. creation is quite a vast topic. Considering the regular development going on, it’s difficult to include everything and learn. Any guidance on how to keep up to date with upcoming features is helpful.” One more respondent shared, “The course was well designed and explained. It had some challenges but nothing that was too difficult to overcome with a little work.”

While most of the respondents indicated that the course instructions were clear and easy to follow, one person mentioned that it was hard to see and follow the live coding portions without being zoomed in, while another said that, “Instructions were fairly clear, but I had to ask questions to clarify some details.”

When asked if there was anything that would have made this course more successful, respondents shared the following suggestions:

  • Bonus quests/jumping off points after lessons, such as, “Try to add XYZ support” or “Take a look at this CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. block [link] and determine how it stores its data and renders it dynamically”     
  • I wonder if it would be worth splitting cohorts by experience level; e.g. one cohort for people who are more experienced developers and one for complete novices.
  • Links to advanced learning, Any example blocks challenges if we can try etc
  • I really would have liked some pair programming. This might be something that can be added to the course to have people work together. I think that it would foster a better experience when the meetings happened as it would allow for people to talk about the experiences with the curriculum.     

Other feedback and suggestions:

  • I didn’t get a ton of value from the weekly calls. I think I went into them expecting a deeper dive on the week’s lesson, rather than just a Q&A time. That’s okay though, because other folks seemed to get a lot out of the weekly calls.  
  • Use of git Roadmap for block development 
  • Thank you for the time and effort that has gone into creating and delivering this course; it’s been really useful.    
  • The only feedback I have is that I would have loved to have a lesson/challenge at the end of like, now that you’ve completed this, please try to do X, you will use what you learned and should be able to do this small task of adding this to your block.     
  • Jonathan & Kathryn were helpful. They were patient with our questions and their down to earth approach made me comfortable to ask questions.

Some participants also shared feedback on their blogs and social media:

Summary and next steps

The aim of this cohort was to build a sustainable program the Training Team can continue to administer for learners on Learn. In that light:

  • Administrative changes tested this time around all contributed to a more effective cohort management, and have been reflected in the course cohort handbook page.
  • The drop-off rate of participants throughout the cohort was similar to that of the last cohort. Based on these, inviting around 40 applicants will result in around 10 engaged participants and is a comfortably manageable cohort size.

The goals of a course cohort are similar to those of Online Workshops. The two differ only in that course cohorts happen across consecutive sessions while Online Workshops are generally one-off sessions.

  • By reconsidering course cohorts as an extension of Online Workshops, the administration of hosting course cohorts could probably be reduced further.
  • With the launch of Learning Pathways, the team now has multiple courses that could be used as the subject of course cohorts.

Based on these observations, we propose that the Training Team look to host future course cohorts as a series of Online Workshops that walks participants through Learning Pathways content.

Please comment below with any additional thoughts or questions. Thanks!

This post was written by @bsanevans with additional material by @zoonini.

Destiny Kanno 5:50 am on June 28, 2024  

Project Thread: Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1

Project Overview

Project Objective: Create comprehensive and sustainable process for maintaining content on Learn WordPress.

Based on the feedback from Proposal: Learn WordPress Content Maintenance Process, we will align as a team on what our content maintenance priorities are for Learn, research what modern learning sites do with out of date content, utilize data to make informed decisions, and publish documentation on our content maintenance process.

Project Members

Project lead: TBD

Members: @piyopiyofox @zoonini

Project Timeline

Start: July 1, 2024

End: November 30, 2024

Tasks

Discuss

As the Training Team, let’s discuss and align on the follow question: What is Learn WordPress’s north star and content commitments?

  • For example, we have the WordPress Codex, Documentation, and Developer handbook sites which contain plenty of out of date content for those not on the most recent versions of WordPress. Do we really feel it’s necessary to duplicate this content further on Learn WordPress?
  • Is Learn WordPress the site where folks come to 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?

Deadline: September 15, 2024

Research

  • What do other modern learning sites do with out of date / irrelevant content?
  • What is the current view rate for Lesson Plans and Tutorials (Document started) on Learn?

Deadline: October 31, 2024

Plan & Document

  • Develop the deprecation/out of date evaluation framework
  • Create a data-driven framework and review checklist for content deprecation inclusive of:
    • Reviewing the view stats of video content marked for deprecation (Ex. If we are seeing low viewership for certain out of date content, then we deem it safe to deprecate)
    • Have a two review process, with a third review to “tie break” as needed
    • Research what other modern learning websites (even for certain products) leave deprecated/out of date content up on their Learning sites and how do they maintain that content?
  • Set up bi-annual review cycle

Deadline: November 30, 2024