Meeting Agenda October 22, 2024

[kaitohm]

Training Team meetings start at 07:00 UTC weekly on Tuesdays. 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 @kaitohm .

Ice breaker - what's your favorite color?

1. News

1. Meeting Note Takers

• Oct 22 – Dapo
• Oct 29 - Sancastiza
• Nov 5 - Dapo
• Nov 12 - Looking for volunteer

2. Looking for feedback

• Nomination for 2025 Training Team Reps
  • It’s that time of year again! We’re looking for nominations for 2025 Training Team Reps. I will be continuing on as team rep next year and we are looking for 2 more members to join. Please nominate next year’s team reps on the post by October 25th - This Friday.
• Handbook page regarding creating quizzes/activities
  • @cynthianorman has drafted a handbook page and is looking for feedback. Feedback - Creating Lesson Module Quizzes/Activities section of handbook #2946
• Retiring the SME role in favor of the GitHub Editors group
  • The team has tried using the SME role for two tasks: vetting content topics and assisting content creators. We've not seen SMEs vet content topics in a while. And assisting content creators can be done in an editor capacity. To simplify team roles and remove friction, team reps recommend removing the SME role and relying on the GitHub Editors group instead. What do folks think?
• Leave your thoughts in Add Facilitator Notes #2927
  • Join the discussion about how we should practically implement facilitator notes.

3. Looking for volunteers

• item 1

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

• Dev-squad has been renamed to triage-squad to represent better the role of the squad within the training team
• As part of this change, we will include Content issues awaiting validation as part of our squad tasks
• Issues triaged this week
  • Feedback - Add license explanation to Learn #2928
  • Scoring calculation is wrong? #2916
  • Learn WordPress Content Feedback - Course: Open Source Basics and WordPress #1677

5. Other news

• Sign up for the next Course Cohort
  • Sign up closes on October 25th - this Friday.
• Reminder that we have the // review workflow that adds instructions on how to review a piece of content to a GitHub itssue.

2. Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

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

Feedback awaiting validation

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

Topics awaiting vetting

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

Good first issues for developers

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

Validated feedback awaiting fix

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

3. Contribution Acknowledgement

• Badges awarded:
• Props:

4. Project updates

• Learning Pathway: Intermediate Plugin Developer #2044
  • Project update: Learning Pathway: Intermediate Plugin Developer #2044 (comment)
  • Publishing date has been moved to 24 February 2025
• Learning Pathway: Beginner Designer #2889
  • @westnz

5. Upcoming Online Workshops

• Creating a portfolio site with a block theme and patterns
• Creating Your Own Contact Form Plugin - part 2

6. 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 contributor or Training Team members help you in some way?

7. Open Discussions

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

• @jonathanbossenger is in discussions with Jamie Marsland about testing out a new format for Learn videos on YouTube
• Course cohorts documentation has been updated in preparation for the next cohort.

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[jonathanbossenger]

Plugin developer learning pathway update and dev-squad/triage squad update added.

Also added an open discussion item I'd like to share news about.

[jonathanbossenger]

@kaitohm can we elevate this ongoing discussion around facilitator notes to the team: #2927.

[kaitohm]

This meeting started here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1729580434905079

[kaitohm]

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