Meeting Agenda June 27, 2023

[kaitohm]

This week’s meeting will be held in APAC timezone on Tuesday, June 27th, 2023, at 07:00 UTC, and @bsanevans will be hosting.

1. Intro/Welcome

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

2. News

1. Meeting Note Takers

• June 27 – jominney
• July 4 - Need Volunteer
• July 11 - Nahid Sharif Komol
• July 18 - Need Volunteer
• July 25 - Need Volunteer

2. Looking for feedback

• Brainstorm & Table Lead – WordCamp US 2023 Contributor Day - though the deadline has come, any comments welcome
• Thoughts on switching meetings to: 1 Coffee hour for EMEA, 1 Coffee hour for APAC, 1 Global meeting - last week for feedback
• Proposal: New Contributor Guide Program - feedback by July 5th
• Proposal: Let’s actively promote the Learn WordPress platform in Learn WordPress content - the handbook has a new section added, and feedback is welcome at any time
• Project Proposal: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress - Please provide your feedback by July 4th on how we can improve the Learn WordPress website by creating Learning Pathways.

3. Looking for volunteers

• Creating guiding documents / advising on accessibility - Looking for a volunteer, who can work on a handbook page that has an accessibility checklist that can be used by content creators, editors, and meetup note-takers.
  • Ann N drafted Ideas towards an accessibility checklist for junior WordPress developers.
• Join the dev-squad triage sessions held every Thursday at 07:00 UTC in the #meta-learn channel.

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

• PRs looking for a reviewer
  • CSS updates for site title heading on the homepage #1434
  • Changed css to fix navigation issues in long menu names. #1621
• Site development PRs waiting on an update from the author
  • Remove the github-markdown class from lesson content #304 @aurooba
  • fixed the learn filter button issue #1348 @mayurbaroliya-multidots
  • Remove the white space above the footer. #1362 fixed header nav menu design #1366 Fixed card design issue #1368 Fixed Video Size Issue #1375 Fixed Code Page Design #1388 @aezazs-multidots

5. Other news

• Team reps will be auditing users on the team blog and Learn WordPress every 6 months. Access will remain for those who have shown activity within the last 6 months.
• Are you eligible for a Contributor badge? Learn how to request one!
• High priority content to translate - Content listed here will be updated regularly as needs change.
• Faculty members ready to create content on Learn are welcome to get started right away as vetted members of the team.
• The Training Team badge was awarded this month to quiteVisible and Sumit Singh

3. Open requests for review

• The following Courses are a priority this week, in preparation for the pilot launch of the Contributor Mentorship Program.

  • Open source basics
  • How Decisions Are Made in the WordPress Project
  • Community Meeting Etiquette
  • Writing in the WordPress Voice
  • Basic Principles of Conflict Resolution

• Tutorials

  • Tutorial - Developing for multisite #1543
  • Tutorial - Debugging in WordPress #1574
  • Lesson - Using caching to improve website performance - W3 Cache Total plugin #1579
  • Tutorial - Embedding media and third-party content on your website #1616

• Lesson Plans

  • WordPress Action Hooks - Lesson Plan #806

4. Project updates

• Contributor Guide Program - by @courtney-pk
  • A proposal has been published. Please leave feedback by July 5th.

5. Open Discussions

If you have topics you’d liked 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.

[kaitohm]

For the record, this meeting started here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1687849240747029

[kaitohm]

Meeting notes: https://make.wordpress.org/training/2023/07/03/training-team-meeting-recap-for-june-27th-2023/