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 Slack 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 23 attendees @piyopiyofox, @gmrafi, @west7, @soir7, @digitalchild, @huzaifaalmeabah, @sumitsingh, @voboghure (async), @dextorlobo (async), @rithika3 (async), @freewebmentor (async), @mebo (async), @baheshjagir (async), @zeelthakkar (async), @devmuhib (async), @zoonini (async), @cnormandigital (async), @ironnysh (async), @backpocketACE (async), @lada7042 (async), @quitevisible (async), @sierratr (async), @rfluethi (async)
Welcome all the new contributors who joined the Training Team’s Slack channel in the last week:
@mokona84, @cotorra42, @laurahartwigdesign, @vonconcepts, @stanfordgriffith, @nilovelez, @saeedja, @gorangagrawal, @chauhanraj754, @kel-dc, @hmbashar, @darshanprajapat09
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 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 in this handbook page.
Looking for feedback
- WordCamp Europe 2024 presentation recap — team rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. @bsanevans shared some ideas that folks at WCEU had with us. Let’s review the ideas and leave feedback on this post.
- @lada7042 set up a GatherPress test site and needs help testing! Please Click the RSVP button and create a login to test RSVPing to the event
- The Training Team 2024 Half Year Review is now up! Please share your feedback on the current progress of our goals. Just 6 more months to go!
Looking for volunteers
Other news
GitHub 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/ clean up updates – I have gone through our Content Development board and closed issues that are not Lessons, Learning Pathways content or Online Workshops. Some issues flagged as Tutorial remain as we determine whether or not they can be made into Lessons.
Come and Contribute
We’d like folks to focus on Feedback awaiting validation this week 
Find other ways to contribute:
Topics awaiting vetting
- See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
- We have 4 issues that require vetting
Content ready for review
Validated feedback awaiting fix
Contribution Acknowledgement
Badges awarded: Training Contributor Badge awarded to @shiponkarmakar
- @zoonini sends props to @lada7042 for co-hosting the Thumbnail-a-thon Online Workshop with me at the last minute!
- She also shared props with @laurahartwigdesign, @rfluethi, @Kel Santiago-Pilarski, @nilovelez and @hellosatya for helping create thumbnails
- @west7 for his great work on these advanced topics in website optimisation
- @ironnysh – Helping with the advanced learning pathway outline + writing scripts
- @digitalchild Reviewing content and providing helpful feedback
- @lada7042 Running a three-part Online Workshop series
- @psykro Publishing the Beginner developer learning pathway
- @zoonini – Managing the thumbnail creation project + site redesign
- @lada7042 for her patience and kindness and her encouragement in getting me started on this venture.
Project updates
- Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress – see the full latest update on the thread here and some snippets below:
- This week the dev team shipped a number of templates, a fallback featured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. (used in the card grids in all archives), and filters on taxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. archives. See screenshots in Slack.
- The community’s help will be needed when the site is ready for QA.
- Work is under way on a video walkthrough, News announcement, and Media Corps briefing – GitHub issue.
- We’ll plan an Online Workshop to go through the new site for week after launch so it can be included in News announcement.
- Thumbnail Creation Project
- An Online Workshop Thumbnail-a-thon was held yesterday to get community help in generating thumbnails. Help is still needed! Watch the recording and check out the resources in the comments, and ping The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” in the #training channel in Slack if you have any questions.
Contributor Updates
As noted in last week’s meeting, we are transforming the bi-weekly Faculty Updates into Contributor Updates , and invite everyone in the Training Team to share what they have been working on recently 
You can engage in sharing 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 Training Team members help you in some way?
- @sumitsingh
- I have 5 new contributors and I am starting soon guide program with all
- @digitalchild
- Content reviews including videos and scripts. Interim training rep duties. No blockers. We can always use more people reviewing content/tutorials for the new pathways.
- @west7
- Created 2 new lessons
- Created activities and quizzes for the Intermediate user learning pathway
- Blockers:
- Coordinating reviews and updates across different time zones with various participants
- Updating content can be time consuming
- @rfluethi
- I am still trying to find my way around the extensive information provided by the training team. (Sorry for my slowness.)
- Creating thumbnails
- Talking to the local team about the need for learning path translations
- Discussions with Meetup 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. organisers about the possibilities of forming supportive learning groups of participants in learning paths
- @zoonini
- Wrapping up the second course cohort and preparing recap post
- Helping coordinate the Learn remake, including wrangling thumbnail creation and hosting thumbnail-a-thon Online Workshop, and planning community QA/testing
- Ongoing admin for the Guide program
- Working on Faculty program retirement plan
- @cnormandigital
- LP lessons for theme development
- @lada7042
- onboarding 2 contributors
- team rep meeting
- GatherPress test site
- scheduling online workshops
- @piyopiyofox
- Working with a Guide Program
- Drafting a proposal for our content migration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. project
- Preparing Learn Newsletter and Monthly Update
I’m also preparing for some AFK next week 
Open Discussions
Does anyone have an open discussion topic to bring to the team?
@gusa I have a random question coming out the recent Contributor Working Group chat. In our discussion about potential mentorship projects for the next cohort, the idea of do_action for mentored contributions once again came up. This was also something we’ve on/off discussed with the training team in meetings and related issues (for example). Noticing that issue was closed (yesterday I think?), I was wondering if that means there’s been progress (or possibly because that particular issue hasn’t been active recently).
In addition to creating training materials for do_action, it seems like other potential mentorship projects along with the goal to launch “On Demand Mentorship” would benefit from resources provided by the Training Team.
Curious if there’s been recent cross team/working group discussions on any of the above.
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