Courtney Robertson 6:21 pm on December 4, 2020  

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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 With the team evolving over time, it became evident that many Faculty members were no longer active on the team, many roles were under-used and difficult to recruit for, and the program required time-consuming administrative overhead.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

Laura Adamonis 4:44 pm on June 27, 2024  

Training team testing GatherPress

What is GatherPress?

GatherPress “is the collaborative effort to build a compelling event management application using open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. tools such as WordPress and BuddyPress. We’re creating the very network features we desire to host events and gather well.”

Why the training team is testing?

The training team manages the current Learn WordPress Online Workshops event scheduler. GatherPress would take the place of using the platform and have it “meet the diverse needs of event organizers and members” in the WordPress community.

Read about a case study.

WP Nashville was a participant in the case study. GatherPress – Press Release – Aug 2023

How you can help?

Where to share feedback

Please add feedback as a comment below. I will accumulate feedback about the training team testing and share it with the GatherPress group.

Test items

  • Ease of use
  • Registering
  • Editing attendance
  • Anything else that stands out
Jagir Bahesh 1:30 pm on June 26, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 20th 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 26 attendees @bsanevans, @piyopiyofox, @jagirbahesh, @lada7042, @gmrafi, @digitalchild, @huzaifaalmeabah, @freewebmentor, @sumitsingh, @zeelthakkar, @voboghure(async), @dextorlobo(async), @west7, @rfluethi(async), @amitpatelmd(async), @devmuhib(async), @psykro(async), @ironnysh(async), @cnormandigital(async), @sakibsnaz(async), @webcommsat(async), @mobarak, @zoonini, @sierratr(async), @ardianimaya(async), @backpocketACE(async)

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

@moltilearn8, @azizozbek, @aleenak19, @wpfy, @arunshenoy99, @rinkuiihglobal, @jinalparekh, @manishakhileri, @hazeldrio, @josevarghese, @grahambb, @estelaris, @redfra7, @sparklabs, @newyorkerlaura, @lcf, @manoel910, @brettface, @davidfcarr, @yuriykovalenko, @naveedalam, @nicolaemorosan2, @rahmatgumilar, @tsherk86, @soie7

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

  • Note takers, please remember to wait until the Tuesday following the meeting to publish the notes. This allows team members time to read and provide asynchronous comments.
  • After publishing the notes, please comment in the meeting agenda’s 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 with the link to the notes and then close the issue.
  • Here is our current note taker roster.
    June 20 – @Jagir Bahesh
    June 27 – @Arun Sharma
    July 4 – @Zeel Thakkar
    July 11 – @Kruti

Looking for feedback

  • Training Team 2024 Half Year Review is out!
    Let’s celebrate another 6 months of goals and projects accomplished! Please read through the post and share any additional thoughts in the comments.
  • Do we need a separate LearnWP Topic Vetting board for vetting topics?
    The team’s dynamics have changed since then, so let’s reevaluate. What is the value of having a dedicated board for topic vetting? Could we add back a column at the left of the LearnWP Content- Development board for issues waiting vetting?
    • According to @bsanevans Last year, SMEs struggled to find relevant issues to vet due to all topics being in a single column, leading to a backlog of 100+ issues. The topic vetting project board, with its categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. tabs, made it easier for SMEs to locate their issues.
      Now, only 5 issues are waiting to be vetted, a significant improvement from last year. This change allows us to consider reverting to a single column in the content development project board. The backlog was primarily due to Training creating many new issues per release, but this process has paused, making the vetting board more manageable.
    • @piyopiyofox closed all Lesson Plans and Tutorials unless requested to be converted into a Lesson. The team could benefit from an editorial calendar for release-related content and a general checklist to vet other content for relevancy and priority.
    • @webcommsat consider using the Dev Blog model for idea planning and discussion, though the emoji thumb voting might not work due to more people involved in training. Using GitHub for planning could be effective. We can filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. the existing board for ideas and adapt some Dev Blog practices for training. This could also aid in cross-mapping and linking published items, which is increasingly important. I already consider training when reviewing new Dev Blog ideas and posts.

Looking for volunteers

At 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. EU’s 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/., the team began creating thumbnails for Learn content, but many more are needed. @zoonini is hosting an online workshop next week to continue this effort. Click the link above to sign up and join the Thumbnail-a-thon!

Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session

Last week, @psykro and @digitalchild triaged the following bugs 

Other News

  • As there has been consensus around the proposal put forward two weeks ago (Slack thread) to retire the Faculty program, we’ll be moving ahead as discussed.
    • @zoonini will be leading this transition and will let the team know of next-steps soon.
    • As of today, we’ll be closing the Faculty application form.
  • New team meeting section – “Contributor Updates”.
    Although the Faculty program is ending, the “Faculty Updates” section in team meetings has been valuable. We want to continue this tradition and invite all training team members to share their current issues or projects.
    • Starting next week, the “Faculty Updates” section will be renamed “Contributor Updates” and all 2,655 Training Team members are invited to share their updates.
  • @piyopiyofox has been cleaning up the Topic Vetting Board by closing non-Lesson, non-Learning Pathways, and non-Online Workshop issues. We will next close similar issues in the Content Development Project board.
  • Suggestion to pause new Tutorial Presenter applications.
    We’re temporarily closing the Tutorial application form due to spam. We’re focusing on updating the content creator application process while keeping the Online Workshop facilitator application form open for vetted submissions. Please share any questions or thoughts in the threads above.

Contributor Acknowledgement

  • Props: @cnormandigital For won the Kim Parsell Scholarship by the WordPress Foundation.
  • Props: Special thanks to all the contributors who created thumbnail graphics for the new Learn WordPress site during and after WCEU Contributor Day. A particular shout-out to @sumitsingh and @bsanevans!
  • Props: @agiljulio for his work on creating the final video lessons for the Beginner developer learning pathway.
  • Props: @ironnysh for all her excellent reviews.
  • Props: @cnormandigital for her continued work on the theme developer pathway.
  • Props: @digitalchild for joining dev-squad live from WCEU.

Project Updates

  • Learn WordPress Remake

Open Discussions

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

Benjamin Evans 5:30 am on June 21, 2024
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WordCamp Europe 2024 presentation recap

On June 14, I had the privilege to present the Training Team’s vision for Learn WordPress at 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. Europe 2024. The presentation saw an engaged audience of 300-400 people in the main hall, with many more tuning in online. I wanted to document the feedback I received here for the team to consider as we continue improving Learn WordPress.

The presentation slides are available for download and reuse: Google Slides, PDF

Ideas from the community

  • Show Learn content in the WordPress dashboard.
    • Hosts would love for a way to show content right there without the user having to leave their site.
  • Provide Learn content in a way that hosts etc. can add/subtract modules as needed for their use cases.
    • Building a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party was one idea as a way to achieve this.
  • Clarify how users can get help with the content.
    • Learn could show a call-to-action “click here for help” within content.
  • Offer a glossary so that users know what to call the things they’re learning.
    • There have been previous efforts to create a unified WordPress glossary (Slack conversation) which would be great to integrate on Learn for learners.
  • Provide certifications for learning achievements.

#learnwordpress, #wordcamp

zeelthakkar 11:40 am on June 18, 2024
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Training Team Meeting Recap – 13th 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 18 attendees @lada7042, @devmuhib, @west7, @zeelthakkar, @jagirbahesh, @piyopiyofox, @pooja9712, @rcreators (async), @gmrafi (async), @voboghure (async), @digitalchild (async), @sumitsingh (async), @bsanevans (async), @freewebmentor (async), @cnormandigital (async), @zoonini (async), @ironnysh (async), @sierratr (async)

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

@mukisaorg, @ksthannan

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

June 13 – @zeelthakkar
June 20 – @jagirbahesh
June 27 – @Arun Sharma
July 4 – looking for volunteer

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

The Training Team has had an Administration project board in 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/ for a couple of years. With the majority of project tracking now happening on the team blog, team reps are planning on cleaning out the board, leaving just the meeting agenda and handbook feedback items. Are any team members still actively using this board?

Looking for volunteers

  • @Jonathan  and @westnz started triaging the Tutorials in this spreadsheet, marking those that the team should keep, modify, or retire. There are still over 100 Tutorials that need triaging. Feel free to add your thoughts directly in the spreadsheet, or comment here if you need assistance.

Other News

Our WordCamp Europe 2024 Contributor Day post is now up for contributors to review. You can participate either in person or online, so click this link to find out how to contribute Try and get a group photo.

Join The Thumbnail Creation Project to design graphics for the new site! Participate at WCEU’s 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/. or remotely. Check out the new handbook page for guidelines on creating video and event thumbnails for Learn WordPress and the Online Workshop group. Use the provided thumbnail generator for all Courses, Lessons, and Online Workshops.

Join our June Content Creation Coffee Hours! It’s a great chance for anyone working on or interested in learning pathway content to meet, discuss projects, ask questions, or find new content to work on. Meetings alternate between two time zones each month.

Check out these informal discovery and Q&A sessions about the Five for the Future program at WCEU this week for companies interested in joining. Sessions are on Saturday, June 15, at 9:00 AM and 3:15 PM, meeting at the Community Booth. The location might change based on attendance. Spread the word and refer to the newly published Five for the Future Handbook for more information. Thank you!

Come and Contribute

Feedback awaiting validation

Contributor Acknowledgement

Badges awarded:

Project Updates

Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress June 3rd Update: A theme switcher now lets you preview the new theme on the production siteProduction Site A production site is a live site online meant to be viewed by your visitors, as opposed to a site that is staged for development or testing., with all its data. You can try it at: https://learn.wordpress.org/?new-theme=1

Faculty Updates

  • What have you been working on and how has it been going?

    @lada7042 created a lesson on the Group 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. and worked on video editing and publishing. She encountered issues but received assistance from @westnz.

    @piyopiyofox began as a Guide in the Guide Program, onboarded @Jamie Madden as a new co-rep, and is actively involved in the content maintenance proposal while creating a half-year goals post.

    @westnz has recently created two new lessons for the Intermediate user learning pathway and is involved in the Guide program.

    @devmuhib recently co-hosted workshops on “WordPress Support Engineer Roles and Responsibilities” and “Training Team 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. Europe Contributor Day Online” with @jagirbahesh. He is actively managing HelpScout tickets, onboarded two new content creators this week, and is currently triaging GitHub issues related to content translation.

    @zoonini is currently coordinating a thumbnail creation/replacement project, matching guides with new contributors, and overseeing the Faculty program retirement proposal. She is also involved in coordinating marketing and communication plans for the site relaunch and recently hosted an online workshop with @westnz on recording impressive demos.

  • Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?

    @westnz is completing work on the custom post-type video.

    @Jamie Madden reviewed tutorials provided by @westnz and @Jonathan.

Open Discussions

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

Destiny Kanno 1:03 am on June 18, 2024
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Training Team 2024 Half Year Review

Hey there friends! With it now being June, it’s time for the team to take a look at how we are tracking toward the goals we set at the beginning of the year. We will use this post as a guide for ongoing conversations in our team meetings going forward as well.

Outlined below are the goals we have completed, what is currently in progress, and the details of the goal’s current state.

We have completed 4 out of 7 goals for the first half of the year, and have 5 goals from the second half of this year currently in progress.

You can review our 2024 goals in this Training Team Goals for 2024 post.

✅ = Complete

🚧 = In Progress

January to March 2024 – 1 Completed, and 3 In Progress

🚧 Create a Marketing Campaign for Learning Pathways with Marketing (Complete Q2)

  • Launch communication plan shared in GitHub, including a video tour of the new site

🚧 Brainstorm the evolution of Online Workshops

  • We are working to send out a survey to folks in our Online Workshops 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 to get their feedback on how they’d like to see Online Workshops evolve

✅ Implement data analyzing practices to gauge the health and effectiveness of the Training Team and Learn’s Content

🚧 Create Learning Pathway Content

  • We have launched the Beginner WordPress User Learning Pathway to date, and are due to launch three more Pathways by the end of July

April to June 2024 – 3 out of 3 Completed

✅ See Learn redesign to completion with Learning Pathways as the focus

✅ Create and maintain shared resources that promote the Training Team and Learn

✅ Create or update a handbook page that clarifies where people’s contributions to the team will appear/be displayed

July to September 2024 – 5 out of 5 In Progress

🚧 Work with the Community team to promote Learning Pathways at Meetups

  • We’ve been encouraged to share updates with the Community Team so that they can include it in their monthly newsletter

🚧 Figure out a method to manage localized content translation

🚧 Launch Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

🚧 Migrate/Deprecate Learn content

🚧 Run 1-2 outcome/project-based course cohorts

We will review our goals in this week’s team meeting.

#training-notifications

Kathryn Presner 7:25 pm on June 10, 2024  

Thumbnail Creation Project

If you’re still interested in helping create thumbnails for Learn.WordPress.org, feel free to check out this recording of the Online Workshop that took place on June 25, where I walked participants through the process outlined below.

In preparation for the relaunch of Learn.WordPress.org and Learning Pathways scheduled for July, we need to create a large quantity of small graphics – called thumbnails – to serve as featured images for each course, lesson, and tutorial. This will create a visually appealing site that will entice learners to dive in and get started on their learning journey.

We invite volunteers at WCEU’s Contributor Day on June 13 – and beyond – to pitch in and create as many of these thumbnails as possible. Even if you’re not attending WCEU in person, you’re welcome to help out. Just follow the steps below, and let the team know in the #training channel in Slack so we can recognize your contributions.

Thank you in advance to everyone who’s able to lend a hand with this group effort! We’ll keep the project going for as long as needed.

Preparation

  • Create a free Figma account – required.
  • Download the Figma app – optional, as Figma can also be run in the browser.
  • Carefully read the Figma thumbnail generator guide in the Design handbook and watch the video walkthrough. (Also below)
  • Generate a couple of test thumbnails, exporting, and verify that they look as expected.
See transcript below the video here

Process

Step 1: Choose your content

  • Open the content-tracking spreadsheet. (You’ll find the link in the Training team’s 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/. bookmarks – screenshot.)
  • Working from the top down in one of the three sheets (tabs), choose a lesson, course, or tutorial for which you’ll create a thumbnail. (Ignore anything with a “Deprecated” status.)
  • Put your name in the Thumbnail by column to claim it.
  • For those who speak a language other than English, see if there are any lessons, courses, or tutorials in that language and prioritize those first.

Step 2: Create your thumbnail

Create the thumbnail by going through the thumbnail creation guide, also following these important points specific to this project:

  • Vary the colour palette and slide template style. Try not to repeat the same template or colour palette on consecutive images. Keep in mind that the order in which the content is listed in the spreadsheet is the order in which the thumbnails will appear on the site, so the idea is to vary the thumbnail styles and colours that are next to each other. The goal is to end up with something a bit random like this:

And not end up with something where there are a lot of the same colour-palette variations repeated next to each other, like this:

  • Copy-paste the course/lesson/tutorial title into the text area of the thumbnail generator, from the column that says Lesson (tutorial/course) title – for copying. It’s not obligatory to use the title in your graphic; if you find a great image to represent the course/lesson/tutorial, feel free to use one of the templates without text. (More on finding images below.) 
  • We are not using Faces or Guest names for these thumbnails. If you’ve chosen a template with any Faces (avatars), click the Faces component and click the eye icon next to it to hide it, or right-click the component and select the “Show/Hide” option in the menu.


  • Similarly, if you’re using a template with Guest names, select the Speaker component and and click the eye icon next to it to hide it, or right-click the component and select the “Show/Hide” option in the menu.

  • If you’ve chosen a template that features an image (other than the ones that feature a preselected 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. Editor image), replace it with an open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. image from the WordPress Photo Directory, Openverse, or Pexels. Make sure no credit is required in the image’s license terms.

Step 3: Export, upload, and record your thumbnail

  • Export your thumbnail by following the handbook instructions. Rename the file using this naming convention: yyyy-mm-dd-name-of-tutorial-or-other-content-type
    Example: 2024-06-13-introducing-the-twenty-twenty-four-theme for a tutorial titled “Introducing the Twenty Twenty-Four theme.” (Do not use any spaces or uppercase letters in the file name.) The file will automatically be given the .png extension by the generator – don’t change it.
  • Upload the thumbnail file to the Google Drive, in either the Courses, Lessons, or Tutorials folder. (You’ll find the link in the Training team’s Slack bookmarks – screenshot.)
  • In the spreadsheet’s Thumbnail URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org column, paste the URL from the Google Drive by clicking the three dots next to the file > Share > Copy link.
  • Leave all other columns blank, unless you receive further instructions.
  • If you haven’t been able to upload thumbnails for all the ones you “claimed” in step 1, go back and remove your name next to that piece of content so someone else can get to it.

Resources

  • Thumbnail creation guide.
  • Google Drive for uploading thumbnails – the drive has sub-folders for these three content types:
    • Courses
    • Lessons
    • Tutorials
  • Content tracking spreadsheet

For security reasons, you’ll find links to the Google Drive and tracking spreadsheet in the Training team’s Slack bookmarks:

#training team Slack - bookmarks in the "Thumbnail project" folder