Meeting Agenda July 4, 2023

[ghost]

This week’s meeting will be held in EMEA timezone on Tuesday, July 4, 2023, at 16:00 UTC, and @lada7042  will be hosting.

1. Intro/Welcome

Welcome to all new teammates who joined the Training Team this week!

2. News

1. Meeting Note Takers

• July 4 –  @Sumit Singh
• July 11 – @nahidsharifkomol
• July 18 – @rajkothari
• July 25– @fahimmurshed
• August 1- @sancastiza

2. Looking for feedback

• Brainstorm & Table Lead – WordCamp US 2023 Contributor Day
  - WCUS Contributor Day in-person co-host is selected Jul 5, 2023
  - We also need an online host!
  - any comments welcome
• Proposal: New Contributor Guide Program - feedback by July 5th- last day!
• Proposal: Let’s actively promote the Learn WordPress platform in Learn WordPress content - the handbook has a new section added, and feedback is welcome at any time
• Project Proposal: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress - Please provide your feedback by Today July 4th on how we can improve the Learn WordPress website by creating Learning Pathways.

3. Looking for volunteers

• Creating guiding documents / advising on accessibility - Looking for a volunteer, who can work on a handbook page that has an accessibility checklist that can be used by content creators, editors, and meetup note-takers.
  • Ann N drafted Ideas towards an accessibility checklist for junior WordPress developers.
• Join the dev-squad triage sessions held every Thursday at 07:00 UTC in the #meta-learn channel.

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

• PRs triaged
  Breadcrumbs: Try to add a single space to avoid screen reader run-on sentences #1641 - PR needs some help testing, especially in Windows.
  Adding the interactive code block plugin #1652 - currently being tested by @sumitsinghwp and @alexstine

Win! All current open PRs have been triaged.

• Issues triaged
  [Bug report] UI issue in submit button and pagination in the Course Category page #889 - Needs testing, the issue is quite old, so it needs to be verified as still relevant.
  Feature request: Consider adding a date field to tutorial and course content #1207 - Updated from bug to feature request, might be helpful to chat about in future team meeting
  In 768-pixel screen size, the header menu design breaks. In 768-pixel screen size, the header menu design breaks.  #1365 - Awaiting a related PR to be refreshed, only updated labels accordingly.

5. Other news

• How to create a Meeting Agenda handbook page published!
• Expertise needed: Learn how to vet content topic ideas for the Training Team
• Are you eligible for a Contributor badge? Learn how to request one!
• Team reps will be auditing users on the team blog and Learn WordPress every 6 months. Access will remain for those who have shown activity within the last 6 months.
• High priority content to translate - Content listed here will be updated regularly as needs change.
• Faculty members ready to create content on Learn are welcome to get started right away as vetted members of the team.
• We will be switching the Training Team meetings to: 1 Coffee hour for EMEA, 1 Coffee hour for APAC, 1 Global meeting each week. The time for the new meeting will be announced this week.
• The Learn WordPress July 2023 Newsletter has been published.
• The What’s new on Learn WordPress in June 2023 monthly update has been published.

3. Open requests for review

See our Guidelines for reviewing content to review the following content.

• Tutorials

  • Tutorial - Debugging in WordPress #1574
  • Lesson - Using caching to improve website performance - W3 Cache Total plugin #1579
  • Tutorial - Embedding media and third-party content on your website #1616
  • Tutorial - Installing Node.js and npm for local WordPress development #1639

• Lesson Plans

  • WordPress Action Hooks - Lesson Plan #806*

4. Project updates

• Contributor Guide Program - by @courtney-pk
  • A proposal has been published. Please leave feedback by July 5th.

5. Open Discussions

• How can we make Training Team meetings more engaging and less about reporting?
  - What topics/conversations would you like to share in each weekly meeting?

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

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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.

[jonathanbossenger]

Dev-squad triage update/notes - 2023-06-29

PRs triaged

1. Breadcrumbs: Try to add a single space to avoid screen reader run-on sentences #1641 - PR needs some help testing, especially in Windows.
2. Adding the interactive code block plugin #1652 - currently being tested by @sumitsinghwp and @alexstine

Win! All current open PRs have been triaged.

Issues triaged

1. [Bug report] UI issue in submit button and pagination in the Course Category page #889 - Needs testing, the issue is quite old, so it needs to be verified as still relevant.
2. Feature request: Consider adding a date field to tutorial and course content #1207 - Updated from bug to feature request, might be helpful to chat about in future team meeting
3. In 768-pixel screen size, the header menu design breaks.  #1365 - Awaiting a related PR to be refreshed, only updated labels accordingly.

Please let me know if any other context is needed from this update.

[kaitohm]

Please also mention this post under News. Thanks!
Expertise needed: Learn how to vet content topic ideas for the Training Team

[webtechpooja]

Here is the recap notes - https://make.wordpress.org/training/2023/07/06/training-team-meeting-recap-4th-july-2023/