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Welcome

The WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through learn.wordpress.org.

Are you new to the team?

Getting Started – Join the team through this self-guided onboarding program
Current Focus Areas – What we’re currently focusing on

Already onboarded and ready to get involved?

See How we use GitHub to get started on one of our 6 project boards

Meetings (Calendar)

You can join these meetings from the #training Slack channel:

Weekly meeting: Thursdays 00:00 UTC

You can join this meeting from the #meta-learn Slack channel:

Dev-squad 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/ triage: Thursdays 07:00 UTC

See Meeting Details for more information.

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 @piyopiyofox, @voboghure, @jagirbahesh, @lada7042, @zeelthakkar, @devmuhib, @west7, @nhrrob(async), @freewebmentor(async), @jhimross(async), @huzaifaalmesbah(async), @cnormandigital(async), @zoonini(async), @sierratr(async), @quitevisible(async), @bsanevans(async), @amitpatelmd(async), @backpocketACE(async), @sumitsingh(async)

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

@krunalprajapati41, @mikhlasmemon, @digitalpritam, @pranjalmishra, @gmrafi, @shmollah1, @mrkdevelopment, @abdnafees, @marcorodrigues853, @showravhasan

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

May 30 – @Jagir Bahesh
June 6 – @Prem Tiwari
June 13 – @Zeel Thakkar
June 20 – @Jagir Bahesh

Looking for feedback

Proposal: Learn WordPress Content Maintenance Process — We already started discussing this topic in our meeting last week. Please share your thoughts by June 13th to continue the conversation.

Looking for volunteers

We are looking for volunteers to triage this spreadsheet of all the available tutorials and recommend which ones to keep, update or deprecate.

Other News

Our WordCamp Europe 2024 Contributor Day post is now available for review. You can participate either in person or online. Click this link to learn how to contribute.
The Training Team Reps are preparing a survey for our Meetup.com Online Workshop group. We will email this survey through 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. to better understand the types of workshops participants are interested in for the future.
We have a new handbook page on how to create video and event thumbnails for Learn WordPress and our Online Workshop group. Going forward, please use this thumbnail generator for all thumbnails that need to be created for Courses, Lessons, and Online Workshops.
Learn WordPress was mentioned in WordPress Briefing Episode 80: Unlocking Your WordPress Potential with Learn WordPress Tools — do you know of any other places where Learn WordPress was mentioned online recently?
There will be an online workshop called “Recording awesome videos for WordPress demos, courses, and more” in which we’ll go through the new Video Best Practices handbook content: https://www.meetup.com/learn-wordpress-online-workshops/events/301277091/

Come and Contribute

This week, we’d like the team to concentrate on Feedback awaiting validation

See Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on validating feedback.
We have 26 issues that require validation

Contributor Acknowledgement

Badges awarded:

Props: @zoonini and @fcoveram for creating the video best practices handbook page, and together both are creating the video for our new thumbnails and handbook page.
Props: @sumitsingh for his hard work on publishing the 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 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/. Post.
Props: @zeelthakkar and @jagirbahesh for actively working on meeting recap posts.
Props: @amitpatelmd for reviewing and helping me with the Intermediate SEO script.
Props: @ironnysh (script writing) and @ervanyuffrizal (video editing) for the great work on the Domains video lesson.
Props: @devmuhib and @sumitsingh for sharing their experiences with the Training team’s Guide program in this week’s online workshop!

Project Updates

Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress
May 27th update: Thumbnail generator work is complete, and development progresses with the landing page receiving its first update with the new design.

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.

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