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.

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

• We now share data in our monthly team updates

🚧 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

• The design phase is complete, and can be viewed in Figma here

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

• We have a shared Google Drive folder which includes resources like slides for volunteers and contributors to use to promote the Training Team and Learn WordPress

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

• We’ve made recent updates to our onboarding guide to address this

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

• The team had a great conversation around what Translation plugin to use4 for Learn, and we are currently testing out TranslatePress on the Learn WordPress staging site

🚧 Launch Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress

• See Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress for the most recent updates
• The design work is now complete
• Development work is now underway on our staging site

🚧 Migrate/Deprecate Learn content

• The team is currently discussing how we want to deprecate content and maintain content on Learn WordPress in Proposal: Learn WordPress Content Maintenance Process

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

• The The second Learn WordPress Course Cohort has launched and is due to end this week.
• Plans for the second course cohort of the year will be shared following the end of the abovementioned session

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

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