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Training Team Meeting Recap – 17 December 2024

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3062

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Attendees: @psykro @nazmul111 @shivashankerbhatta @dparthj @sonaliprajapati @dilip2615 @pooja-n @devmuhib @rraventos @rfluethi @dapobabarinde @multanisadik @saif2002 @satishprajapati @freewebmentor @rithika3 @vanpariyar (async) @sumitsingh (async) @nishitajoshi (async) @ironnysh (async) @west7 (async) @digitalchild (async) @jagirbahesh (async) @zeelthakkar (async) @noruzzaman (async) @narenin (async) @huzaifaalmesbah (async) @chauhanraj754 (async)

Newcomers@rajeshkumarpadhy

News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current note taker roster:

Note that this is the last meeting for this year, and we will meet again on Jan 7.
Thank you to @rithika3 for taking notes for this week’s meeting.

Looking for feedback

Looking for volunteers

  • The Tutorial → Lessons migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. is almost complete and we need some volunteers to finish it uhttps://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1733292076649269 If anyone can help with migrating tutorials to lessons, please comment on that thread.
  • Thumbnails for Learn – Help us make the final 70.
    There are 70 pieces of content on Learn.WordPress.org that still need thumbnails. Thank you to everyone who has helped so far. If anyone else as time to help create the final thumbnails, all the details are in that post. 
  • The Training Team is working towards updating the welcome modal in the 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 to include a link to Learn material. Discussions are happening in this GitHub thread. If you can help, please comment there.

Updates from last week’s Triage Squad session

  • As there was no one available to host the meeting last week, the triage-squad session has been moved to this Thursday at 07:00 UTC in the #meta-learn channel. This will be the last triage-squad session of 2024. It has also been suggested that triage-squad sessions move from bi-weekly for half an hour to once a month for one hour. I’d like to propose we kick this off in January, and have triage-squad sessions on the 4th Thursday of every month, for one hour.

Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • We have 2 issues that require vetting

Good first issues for developers

  • See Developing Learn WordPress for instructions on contributing to the Learn WordPress code.
  • We do not have any issues requiring development

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Contribution Acknowledgement

  • Let’s give props! Do you have someone from the team you want to celebrate? 

Project updates

  1. The third Learn WordPress Course Cohort: The cohort had it’s final call on Wednesday 11 December, 2024. I will be publishing the results of the feedback survey on on Monday, 23 December 2024
  2. Intermediate Plugin Developer course: content update: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2044#issuecomment-2547702130
  3. Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1
  4. Proposal: Segmenting Learning Pathway courses for better engagement

If anyone has any other updates for the above projects, please comment in a thread on the relevant message above. If there are any other project updates, please leave them in the comments on this thread.

Upcoming Online Workshops

Contributor Updates

Contributors, please leave any individual updates you’d like to share with the team in a :thread: on the relevant message:

  • 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 contributor or Training Team members help you in some way?

Open Discussions

  • If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please feel free to share them with us now.
  • I’d like to note that the we are planning two Training Team 2025 Goals Setting sessions for early 2025. You can read more about this process in the post on the Training Team blog

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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Training Team 2025 Goals Setting

2025 is just around the corner, and it’s once again time to set our team goals for the year! In a similar fashion to previous years, we’ll be hosting two synchronous sessions to brainstorm ideas. Anyone is welcome to join either of these sessions.

Before attending, please take some time to review the Training Team’s Team Values. These are our shared values that form the foundation of all we set out to achieve.
The Zoom link for each session will be shared in the #training Slack channel 5 minutes before each session starts. The video recording and outcomes from each session will also be posted below for asynchronous conversation.

Timelines

  • First synchronous session: Tuesday, 7 January 2025 at 07:00 GMT+2 (during the regular weekly team meeting time)
  • Second synchronous session: Thursday, 9 January 2025 at 15:00 GMT+2
  • Asynchronous discussion until 24 January 2025
  • Publish team goals by 31 January 2025

Training Team Meeting Recap – 10th December 2024

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3055

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Attendees: @sumitsingh @freewebmentor @kaitohm @devmuhib @dparthj @multanisadik @pooja-n @dilip2615 @rfluethi @zeelthakkar @jagirbahesh @digitalchild @rithika3 @nishitajoshi @rinkuiihglobal @west7 @ironnysh (async) @chauhanraj754 (async) @quitevisible (async) @noruzzaman (async) @cnormandigital (async) @mebo (async)

Newcomers: @sandoba @maharshikush @parinpanjari @dinapal

Note taker: @sumitsingh

News

Meeting Note Takers

  • Dec 10 – @quitevisible , but due to not availability this post created by @sumitsingh
  • Dec 17 – @rithika3
  • Dec 24 – No meeting this week
  • Dec 31 – No meeting this week
  • Jan 7 – Volunteer Needed
  • Jan 14 – Volunteer Needed
  • Thanks for taking this week’s notes @sumitsingh

Looking for feedback

Looking for volunteers

No projects looking for volunteers this week.

Triage Squad Updates

  • The next triage-squad session is scheduled for Thursday, 12 December, at 07:00 UTC.
    Due to a scheduling conflict, I won’t be available at that time. I’d like to find out if anyone else is available to host.
    Alternatively, we can reschedule this for next week, Thursday the 19th.
    I also suggest that this be the last triage session for the year, and we’ll pick it up again in 2025

Other news

Come and Contribute

We have various ways that you can contribute to the Training team. Including development, content creation, editing and more. We have various open issues available for you to get started.

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • We have 2 issues that require vetting

Good first issues for developers

  • See Developing Learn WordPress for instructions on contributing to the Learn WordPress code.
  • We do not have any issues requiring development

Validated feedback awaiting fix

As you can see both our validation and awaiting fixes have plenty of issues that need help. A great place to start

If you are interested in contributing in any of these areas, but you need help getting started, please feel free to ask questions here in the #training channel.

Contribution Acknowledgement

Let’s give props! Do you have someone from the team you want to celebrate? 

@dparthj writes first recap notes post after completing #training-guide-program in 1 week only.

@devmuhib This is my first meeting as a Team RepTeam 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., and I’m grateful for the opportunity! A big thanks to @kaitohm and @digitalchild for helping in today’s meeting — it’s always a pleasure to contribute.

@22halomedia received the Training Team Contributor badge this week. Congratulations Joey!

Open Discussions

Looks like we don’t have anything at the moment. If anyone has anything async, please reply in this thread and we can keep the discussion going.


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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Thumbnails for Learn – Help us make the final 70

In June this year, the Training Team worked on creating thumbnails for content on Learn in preparation for the new site design that launched in August. Now, the site has just 70 more that need to be created to complete the content migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies.. Anyone can help!

Please follow the steps below to help the team make the final thumbnails. You can leave a comment on the post once you have made some thumbnails, and a Training Team administrator will upload them to the site.

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 Slack bookmarks as shown below.)
  • Select the Tutorials sheet (tab) and choose a tutorial for which you’ll create a thumbnail. (Ignore anything with a “Deprecated” status.)
  • Put your name in the Thumbnail by column (column H) to claim it.
  • For those who speak a language other than English, see if there are any tutorials in your 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. 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 tutorial title into the text area of the thumbnail generator, from the column that says Tutorial Title – for copying (use for thumbnails). It’s not obligatory to use the title in your graphic; if you find a great image to represent the 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
    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 the Courses Tutorials folder. (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 above.)
  • 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.

This post is an updated version of the post Thumbnail Creation Project. If you’d prefer a video walkthrough of the process, check out this Online Workshop recording where @zoonini walked participants through the process outlined above.

Brainstorm & Table Lead – WordCamp Asia 2025 Contributor Day

The WordCamp Asia Contributor Day will be taking place on the 20th February, 2025! In preparation for the day, we’d like you to share ideas of what contributors at the Training Team table can get involved with that day.

You can read our Preparing for a Flagship WordCamp Contributor Day handbook page to learn more about how the Training Team prepares for Flagship 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. Contributor Days.

Table Leads

We are looking for 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/. table co-leads for WordCamp Asia 2025 — do we have any volunteers?

In general, Table leads represent the Training Team through the preparation, execution, and wrap-up of the event. You can read more about Table Lead responsibilities in this handbook page.

Brainstorm

Below are some ideas to kick-start discussions. Feel free to comment on this post with your ideas, too!

This brainstorming is open until January 20th (Monday).

Team reps and table leads will consider all ideas and publish a post with a final plan by February 6th.

Experienced Contributors

  • Review Ready for Review content
  • Write a script for a learning pathway lesson or other lessons under Ready to Create
  • Assist with Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress
  • Join a session discussing practical insights into lesson creation
  • Create content
  • Work on Content Localization
  • Vet Topic Ideas
  • Cross-team collaboration opportunities  

New Contributors

  • Contributors walk through the Onboarding Paths
  • Review online courses and submit feedback
  • Write a script for a learning pathway lesson or other lessons under Ready to Create 
  • Review published content and submit an error report
    • Spelling mistakes
    • Outdated content
    • Something is not clear and needs improvement
    • Screenshot/images missing.

Training Team Meeting Recap – 3rd December 2024

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3047

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Attendees: @sumitsingh @digitalchild @dilip2615 @noruzzaman @devmuhib @dapobabarinde @dparthj @rithika3 @kaitohm @psykro @multanisadik @freewebmentor @jagirbahesh @nishitajoshi @zeelthakkar @rfluethi @ironnysh (async) @west7 (async) @pooja-n (async)

Newcomers: @kurotch321 @dparthj @hectorfg @pooja-n @umeshsinghin
@harshsrivasta10 @pratapvashi123 @asdxemedia @arsh999cg @gaurav3006
@sukhpreetuiux @shivamkumar1n2 @fabesoftservices @kiranchaudhary @deepprakashgoyal @abhishekchaurasiya @bhavinmandaliya @shivanshub

Note taker: @dparthj

News

Meeting Note Takers

Looking for feedback

Looking for volunteers

No projects looking for volunteers this week.

Triage Squad Updates

Other news

  • @digitalchild : I have been speaking to the lead team repTeam 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. for 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 about how we can get learn more into the program. Ivelina has asked for us to create a workshop proposal. There is also discussions about doing more advanced developer workshops as well. I think this is news and looking for volunteers at the same itme.

Come and Contribute

We have various ways that you can contribute to the Training team. Including development, content creation, editing and more. We have various open issues available for you to get started.

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • We have 2 issues that require vetting

Validated feedback awaiting fix

As you can see both our validation and awaiting fixes have plenty of issues that need help. A great place to start

If you are interested in contributing in any of these areas, but you need help getting started, please feel free to ask questions here in the #training channel.

Contribution Acknowledgement

@kaitohm: @adamwood went through and triaged development issues in the Training Team’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/ repository this week, clearing out anything that was no longer relevant after the site relaunch. Thanks so much, Adam:clap::skin-tone-3:

@west7: Props to @flickimp and @benjamin_zekavica for completing voiceovers for following lessons :raised_hands:
Imran: The technical side of picking the right font
Benjamin: Einführung in WordPress (Introduction to WordPress)

Project updates

Upcoming Online Workshops

Open Discussions

We don’t have anything at the moment.


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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Proposal: Segmenting Learning Pathway courses for better engagement

Summary: This post proposes resegmenting the current Learning Pathways content into shorter courses. This is expected to improve the learner experience and increase course completions. Please share your thoughts below. 


On the 2nd of August, the new Learn WordPress site was launched, with a new type of content called Learning Pathways. Learning Pathways are a series of courses that guide learners from beginner to advanced skill levels in a specific field or discipline. 

The WordPress Foundation recently emphasized the importance of increasing the number of course completions on Learn. It was highlighted that value lies not in the number of people who register for courses but in those who complete them. This prompted an investigation into the structure of Learning Pathways and the insights revealed by the data.

Current Learning Pathway courses are lengthy, with the number of lessons in each course ranging from 20 to 59. Course statistics show that the number of learners who progress through a course diminishes from lesson to lesson, with some courses seeing two-thirds of learners dropping out by the 10th lesson. 

Lesson completion rates are stable throughout a course, though, and even show an increase in some courses. This indicates lessons in the later parts of a course are as relevant and engaging to users as those in earlier parts of a course.

 Beginner WordPress User course learner progression graphBeginner WordPress User course learner progression graph

Benefits of shorter courses

Long learning pathway courses can be daunting, leading to learner fatigue and decreased motivation. By breaking these courses into shorter courses, we can enhance the learning experience.

Shorter courses allow learners to concentrate on one topic or section at a time. This focused approach prevents the feeling of being overwhelmed by too much content, making it mentally easier to commit to the learning path. Shorter courses will help learners experience a sense of achievement more often and progress at a manageable pace.

Completed courses are already included in learners’ .org profile, which is expected to encourage the completion of shorter courses.

Feedback request

We would appreciate feedback from the Training Team on whether you support restructuring our content into a more digestible format. This shift could make the material easier to consume and potentially improve learner engagement.

Please provide feedback by 19 December 2024.

Training Team Meeting Recap – 26th November 2024

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3030

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Attendees: @dapobabarinde @kaitohm @dilip2615 @noruzzaman @jagirbahesh @zeelthakkar @devmuhib @hardikgohil @psykro @digitalchild @ironnysh (async) @rfluethi (async) @sumitsingh (async) @chauhanraj754 (async) @rinkuiihglobal (async) @dparthj (async0 @west7 (async) @rithika3 (async) @nishitajoshi (async) @mebo (async) @pooja-n (async) @quitevisible (async)

Newcomers: @im3dabasia1 @rayhanuddin2020 @theumair07 @mrredflannel @ykbeili @rdhawladar @nithiyam @zeetechfairy @musabin @hardikgohil

Note taker: @dapobabarinde

News

Meeting Note Takers

Looking for feedback

We don’t have any new items looking for feedback this week

Looking for volunteers

  • Write a guest post on Do the Woo promoting Learn WordPress. @bobdunn-trainer invited the team to publish a guest post on Do the Woo to promote the new Learn WordPress website.  I think it might be great to have a couple of people work on this together. Who would like to volunteer?

Triage Squad Updates

No Triage squad Update this week

Other News

  • @sumitsingh and @kaitohm submitted issues to TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. (coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.) and 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/ (GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/) for the Training Team Last week, @sumitsingh and I took the ideas from Brainstorm: Introducing Learning Pathways to users during onboarding and turned them into Trac/GitHub issues for developers to consider. Come follow these tickets as we aim to raise awareness of Learn WordPress in every WordPress install around the world 

Come and Contribute

We have various ways that you can contribute to the Training team. Including development, content creation, editing and more. We have various open issues available for you to get started.

Contribution Acknowledgement

This week, the Training Contributor badge was awarded to @22halomedia. Thank you for reviewing content for the team.

@psykro – I would like to give props to @agiljulio, @coquardcyr, @michelleblanchette and @erichmond for their continued commitment to working on the 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 developer learning pathway.

I would also like to give props to @lakshmananphp for doing such a great job facilitating the current course cohort.

@kaitohm – I want to give props to @digitalchild for noticing Project Thread: Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1 has been stagnant for a while, and offering to continue that.

@lakshmananphp – Props to @psykro for the new lessons and co-hosting the cohort.

@west7 – Props to @quitevisible and @digitalchild for reviewing content.

Props to @kel-dc and @ervanyuffrizal for their fantastic work creating and publishing the Troubleshooting lesson!”

@devmuhib – I want to give props to @jagirbahesh and @zeelthakkar for helping me writing beginner contributor learning pathway.

Project updates

We have a few projects underway at the moment. I invite the leader of each project to share an update below.

Upcoming Online Workshops

We don’t have a lot of workshops scheduled for December, yet. Is anyone interested in facilitating any sessions?

Open discussions

@psykro – I’d like to share some (very recent) news

It looks like we’ve been given the go-ahead to have PolyLang installed on Learn.WordPress.org for translated content: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2284#issuecomment-2499828845

This conversation literally just happened today. I’ll be creating the PR to have the code merged this week. I’d therefore suggest that we start trailing this sometime next week, to iron out the process of translation

once I create the PR to have the plugin code merged, I’ll share it here so folks can follow along.

It will be great if we can enter 2025 with a defined process for creating and reviewing translated content.

@kaitohm –  I keep looking at all the ideas the team came up with in Drawing new learners to the new Learn.WordPress.org. There are so many great ideas there!

There’s one idea: Connect with community colleges and schools that could benefit from incorporating Learn WordPress into their programs.

I’m curious, does anyone in the team already have connections with any schools in their local communities?

@psykro – I have two young boys currently at school, so theoretically I have a connection to at least 1 school in my community. However, what I don’t have are the tools for how to connect with these schools, and what is required from each of them, their school board, the educational bodies, to figure out how to find out about implementing Learn WordPress into their programs.

And schools are different in different parts of the world. So while I have an option, I have no idea how to get started.

@psykro – So I recently met with a friend who’s the program mananger for an online coding school: https://codeyourfuture.io/. I feel like these are the types of places we need to be reaching, folks who are doing online learning, for high schoolers, folks who want a career change, army veterans etc.

@22halomedia – I’m an officer at a Metropolitan Community College programming club and will bring up in our next meeting the possibility of doing the learn.wordpress.org curriculum as part of our club activities.

@quitevisible – We homeschool our 2 youngest girls (13/14). This year, I created a WP site using an LMS to run my lessons. I teach 2 of the classes (Chemistry/Language Arts), but also added a beginner WP class to run alongside the Language Arts/Writing class.

Each of my girls have their own self-hosted WP website where they are learning to design and post their work. I embed the Learn WP videos in my lessons. They’ve mentioned that the videos really help – @westnz  seems to be their fave so far. So the material is also introducing WP to the next generation.

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Training Team Meeting Recap – 19th November 2024

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3028

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Attendees: @dapobabrinde @digitalchild @dilip2615 @im3dabasia1 @rithika3 @nishitajoshi @noruzzaman @lakshmananphp @devmuhib @rfluethi @sumitsingh @west7 @kaitohm (async) @zeelthakkar @jagirbahesh @ironnysh (async)

Newcomers: @_dorsvenabili @sainathpoojary @alexreintech914 @degordons 

Note taker: @dapobabarinde

News

Meeting Note Takers

  • Nov 19 – @Dapo
  • Nov 26 – @Dapo
  • Dec 2 – Looking for volunteer
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Come and Contribute

We have various ways that you can contribute to the Training team. Including development, content creation, editing and more. We have various open issues available for you to get started.

As you can see, we’ve got a number of open issues available. If you are interested in contributing in any of these areas, but you need help getting started, please feel free to ask questions here in the #training channel.

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@psykro – I wanted to congratulate @Joey Brinkman for completing the training guide program. Joey has already started by completing a bunch of reviews of existing content, and reporting bugs to be fixed.

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Contributor Spotlight: Jonathan Bossenger

Welcome to another edition of the Training Team’s Contributor Spotlight!
In this series, we introduce one of our many valued contributors and invite you to learn more about their journey.

Jonathan Bossenger, WordPress Contributor

Meet Jonathan!

This month’s featured contributor is Jonathan Bossenger from South Africa. As a developer educator sponsored by Automattic, he creates many super helpful videos on WordPress.tv, ensuring everybody from various ranges of expertise can learn WordPress easily.

Join us as we chat with Jonathan about his experience in the WordPress community!

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Hi Jonathan! Can you briefly introduce yourself and share a bit about your background?

Sure, so as you know, my name is Jonathan. I live in Cape Town, which is in South Africa, a country right at the tip of Africa. For most of my youth, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life until I found my way to programming/software development. 2024 marks my 20th year writing code.

Outside of WordPress–professionally or in your spare time–what do you usually like to do?

I’m a husband and father of two growing boys, aged 9 and 12, so much of my spare time involves family activities.

When I do have time to myself, I spend it either staying fit and moderately healthy at the gym or working through my Steam gaming backlog, which built up over the years when the boys were very little, and I had no free time 😀

One of my other interests is martial arts, and I’ve been actively involved in Brazilian jiu-jitsu for the better part of the last 17 years.

How did you first discover WordPress, and when did you decide to use it for your projects?

When I first started web development in 2009, I was teaching myself PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php. from a book (you know, the way we learned before online learning was a thing!), and I wanted somewhere to document what I had learned. So I bought a domain and, after a Google search, installed Drupal on that domain. I went looking for alternative content management systems, and found WordPress.

Here’s the original blog post I published about the PHP script I wrote to migrate all my blog posts over to WordPress.

What motivated you to start contributing to the open-source project?

In 2015, I went to my first 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. in Cape Town. One of the talks, by Jenny Wong, was about how and why to contribute. This was something I’d been thinking about for a while, and so I was lucky to be able to chat with Jenny afterward, and she guided me further. After that WordCamp, I went home, found the Make WordPress site, and started looking for my first contributions.

Jonathan Bossenger with fellow WordPress contributors, including Birgit Pauli-Haack

I’m a volunteer by nature, and I’m a big believer that if I get something for free from an open-source project, I need to give something back. So, contributing to one of the Make teams made sense.

What drew you to the Training Team?

My journey to the Training team is a bit of a long story, so I’ll try to keep it short.

In 2020, when Learn WordPress launched in the format we know it today, I was learning to build WordPress blocks. One of my WordPress friends, Hugh Lashbrooke, was part of the team working on launching Learn WordPress with the newer tutorial videos (we called them workshops back then).

Hugh and I had spoken at a few local WordCamps together, so he knew that I liked presenting WordPress development topics. He asked me if I could create a developer tutorial, and so I did, on building your first block. I enjoyed creating that tutorial, but I never got another chance to create more.

About a year later, I moved to another company as a developer educator, creating online content for WordPress developers. However, that content was very specific to our WordPress products. I wanted to make more general WordPress development videos, so I joined the Training team channel, and the rest is history.

Jonathan Bossenger during Contributor Day in a WordCamp

What was your first contribution? How did you feel seeing your work reach so many people?

My first contribution was helping to copy pages from the Codex to the new user documentation pages that now exist at Documentation team’s website (also known as HelpHub). I’ll be honest: I never really thought about the impact, it was just very cool to be contributing in this way.

Could you share any challenges or obstacles you faced when starting to contribute to the open-source project and how you overcame them?

My biggest challenge when I first started contributing was finding information. I hope the folks in the Docs team didn’t find all my questions annoying, but if I’m lost, I ask questions.😊

Were there any specific resources that helped you along your journey as a contributor?

That’s also my biggest piece of advice to new contributors: if you’re stuck, or you’re not sure, ask. Someone will reach out and help. Each of the WordPress Make teams has a team repTeam 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. or two, and they’re usually the right folks to reach out to.

Can you share any memorable moments or achievements while contributing to WordPress?

Jonathan Bossenger and fellow WordPress enthusiasts

There have certainly been a few.

Speaking at my first WordCamps, first in Cape Town and then in Johannesburg.

Getting to present a workshop at WCEU is also a pretty big highlight.

Oh, and recently someone shared with me that I have the highest number of contributions on WordPress.tv videos, at 179.

What advice would you give to someone interested in contributing to WordPress?

I’ll share the same advice Jenny shared with me: Go to the Make WordPress website, read about all the different teams there, such as the Training team, and pick a few that interest you.Then join the Make WordPress’s Slack, and poke around in a few of those teams’ channels. Ask questions, and you’ll soon find the right place for you.

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(In)Frequently Asked Questions

What’s the one thing you would like people to know about you?

While I love talking to people, I also need to recharge my batteries quite regularly. So, at large events, I often won’t stay in one conversation long. Please don’t think I’m being rude, it’s a defense mechanism.  

What’s your favorite WordPress feature (can also be a 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. or 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)?

I really like the Site Editor. I recently had the opportunity to use it to make some changes to a WordCamp site, and it’s come so far in such a short space of time.

Name three things you must pack for WordCamp.

Lip balm, headache tablets, power bank.


Thank you, Jonathan, for all your dedication and contributions to the Training Team and the WordPress Open-Source Project!


Are you interested in contributing to the Training Team?
Check out our Getting Started guide or join the Guide Program for mentorship with an experienced contributor. We’d be happy to have you join us!

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