Okay, welcome everyone totoday's workshop about
contributing to the WordPresstraining team. My name is
Courtney, and this is brought toyou by Learn WordPress. We have
learning resources foundlearn.WordPress.org. So Learn
WordPress is brought to you bythe WordPress training team.
We're a team of folks from allover the world. So globally, we
volunteer to make these learningresources for the rest of the
WordPress community. So...
This is basically our mission.So the WordPress training team
helps people learn to use,extend, and contribute to
WordPress, through synchronousand asynchronous learning, as
well as downloadable lessonplans for instructors to use in
live environments vialearn.WordPress.org. And so when
— I wanted to clarify the“lesson plans for instructors”
part here, instructors alsoinclude Meetup organizers. So if
you organize a Meetup, you areconsidered an instructor or an
educator, and you can use theresources on Learn WordPress for
your local Meetup, for yourlocal WordCamp. And, yeah,
that's what these resources arethere for you to do with.
So a quick introduction to whatLearn WordPress is, if you
aren't aware. So Learn WordPressis an educational website and
initiative that seeks to be thedefinitive space for
WordPressers across the globe tolearn and teach about WordPress.
So the Learn WordPress websiteis where this content that the
training team — that's wherethis content lives. So here's a
screenshot here of the websitelearn.WordPress.org. And I'm
sure I'm gonna keep repeatingthat, it's gonna be drilled into
your heads after this.
So next, we're going to brieflygo over the different types of
content that you can find on theLearn WordPress website. So we
have four main types of contenton Learn. Oftentimes, you will
hear someone just shorten it tosay “Learn”. So the training
team, we often will just say“Learn” when we're referring to
“Learn WordPress”. So on Learn,we have four types of content,
lesson plans, tutorials,courses, and online workshops.
And of course, as I mentioned atthe beginning of this, you're
currently in an online workshop.So this is very, very meta right
now, we're talking about this.
So the first type of contentthat we have to share with you
today are lesson plans. Sothese, as you see here, there's
over 100 of these teachingguides for facilitators, for
educators, instructors, Meetuporganizers. So these lesson
plans are teaching guides forfacilitators to use while
presenting at events, or leadingeducational environments. So
yes, if you are an educator, youcould use this in the classroom.
Each lesson plan enables theteacher to lead 30 to 60 minute
learning sessions aimed atclearly defined learning
objectives. So lesson plans willprovide objectives prerequisite
skills, readiness questions, thematerials that you need. There's
even notes for the presenter.Sometimes there are slides will
be a lesson outline, exercises,assessments, and any additional
resources that might be requiredto run the lesson plan. If you
want to see all of those lessonplans... oops, my keyboard went
to sleep as I was talking, justa second. Here we go. So lesson
plans live Learn under lessonplans at that link I just
shared.
Next we have tutorials.Tutorials are our next type of
content that are hosted onLearn. Tutorials are short
standalone videos, and eacharound 5 to 10 minutes long.
There might be some that arelonger, but we try to keep
tutorials short. Each tutorialaddresses a single topic and
they're intended as how-toguides for WordPress. Each
tutorial includes a video, atranscript of video learning
outcomes, comprehensionquestions, and any additional
resources that are needed. Andif you'd like to check those
out, there's the link there.I'll also be sharing these
slides after the at the endhere, er, when we post the
recording. So you all theselinks will be included at the
end.
All right. So our next type ofcontent are courses. Courses are
a series of online self guidedlessons that are created with
the Sensei plugin. Each courseconsists of multiple lessons
which build up to an overallobjective. Course topics will
vary between basic WordPressusage, technical WordPress
customization, and onboardingresources that are used for
different WordPress teams —Contributor teams, when I refer
to WordPress teams. All right.
More folks joining, just asecond. Alright.
And finally, the fourth type ofcontent type we have on Learn
WordPress are the onlineworkshops, which you're sitting
in right now. So onlineworkshops are almost daily live
learning sessions. So we try toalso do these in all sorts of
time zones, to try to meet ourcontributors where they are. So
online workshops are a safezone, where people can develop
new ideas, explore issues, askquestions, you can network with
other WordPress users over yourshared interests, exchange
theories, collaborate on work,engage in uncertainty. And yeah,
just come as you are. They aredefinitely safe spaces for you
to learn. They are free foreveryone — they're free and open
for everyone. And as I mentionedat the beginning, we also record
everything for folks to haveaccess to this content at any
time. So if you go to the linkfor online workshops, you'll see
this calendar that you see ascreenshot of here. And like I
said, we try to do theseworkshops daily, if not multiple
times a week, in many differenttime zones. And we are always
looking for new folks to doworkshops. So if you have a
topic you're interested in,well, I'll go over this shortly
of how you can contribute.Because that's our next slide
actually.
All right, so all aboutcontributing to WordPress, the
WordPress open source project.Well, we don't have time to go
over everything aboutcontributing to WordPress, I
also do have a previous workshopabout contributing and I
probably will do another one inthe future. But I also know that
we have some resources on Learnabout contributing in general.
So please check those out. Butif you're not familiar with the,
all of the folks that contributeto WordPress. So WordPress is
made by a global community ofpeople. This open source project
consists of a global communityof folks that collaborate and
contribute to the project. Thesevolunteer contributors bring a
variety of experience andskills, including development,
design, support, security,training, writing, localizing
and translating, eventorganizing, and so many others.
There's there are over 20 teamsthat contribute to WordPress.
And you can check out all thoseteams at make.WordPress.org. And
you can find a team that issuited to to your interests and
your skills. But I'm assumingthat folks are here today,
because they're curious aboutthe training team and maybe want
to contribute to the trainingteam. And yeah, that's why we're
here today. But if you want tolearn some basics about open
source and WordPress, I alsohave a previous workshop on
that. And I'm going to share alink here. I'm also going to do
a live version of this workshop,either, I think at the end of
this month, as well. So I'd loveto see you there if you're
interested in learning some moreabout open source and WordPress.
Oh, something else I wanted toadd about the contributor
community. So the — oh, I havealready mentioned this, that the
community is organized into over20 contributor teams, and of
course, the training team is oneof them. So next we're going to
talk about how you cancontribute to the training team
and in turn you'll becontributing to the wider
WordPress open source project.
Oh, we lost sound? Is that true,are folks hearing me okay? Okay.
Hmm, interesting. Okay. Sorryfor that glitch. But yes, thank
you for letting me know whensomething happens. I appreciate
that.
Okay, a little bit about theWordPress training team. So this
here's a screenshot of thetraining team blog, and that's
found atmake.WordPress.org/training.
There you go. And that's wherewe, you know, we post about like
all our projects that are goingon, you can find the training
team handbook there, and a lotabout what's going on in the
team. We have three trainingteam representatives, Pooja,
Destiny, and Ben. So our teamreps represents the training
team to the rest of theWordPress project. They also
ensure issues are raised andaddressed as needed, and they
coordinate cross team efforts.You can of course, contact them
in the Making WordPress Slackwith any questions, You can also
post a message to to everyone inthe training channel if you so
desire, because the team isalways there to help. And I'll —
if you are not aware of slack,I'll share some tips on how you
can join that in just a bit.
And so how can you contribute tothe training team and Learn
WordPress? We have five mainareas of contribution, and I'll
just briefly go over all ofthese. So starting on the upper
left here, content creators arefolks that focus on creating
excellent content to host onLearn WordPress. So that covers
workshops, lesson plans,tutorials, excuse me, and
courses. So content creatorswork on all types of content. As
a matter of fact, we all work onall types of content, wherever
we, you know, we feel like wewould be best exercising our
skills. And next we have contenttranslators. Content translators
take the published Englishcontent and translate that into
different locales. We do haveMargherita with us here today,
and who is one of our contenttranslators. So thank you for
the work that you do. Next, wehave administrators, those are
folks that work behind thescenes to make sure that the
trading team works smoothly.Administrators focus on
providing the other roles withthe tools that they need to be
successful and effective towardsthe training team goals. So I do
a lot of administrator work. Andyeah, I help folks come on
board. Next, we have subjectmatter experts, these folks vet
the topic ideas before contentis created. So they'll also work
alongside the content creatorsacting as sounding boards for
their ideas, and helps them getthe most recent and updated
information in their content.And finally, editors. These are
the teammates that reviewcontent before it is published.
They also review publishedcontent and make updates as
needed. Yeah, I would say I doquite a bit of editing as well.
So my circles kind of overlap.Administrator, editor, content
creator, are probably the themain areas that I contribute to
on the team.
So this next table is ourcontributor ladder. I'm not
going to read every single cellhere, but this can give you an
idea of where the, how — excuseme — the contributor ladder
looks for the training team. Andyou can see all of the different
roles on the top there, and thestages of volunteering that
you'll see all over the opensource project. So starting with
connecting, engaging,performing, than leading, and
these are all the types of tasksthat each of these roles do that
fall under the contributorladder. Again, I'll be sharing
these slides later, so you cantake your time and review this
and see if there's anyparticular tasks that that
interest you or that you feellike you would like to
contribute to.
Any questions so far? I knowI've been just talking... Nope,
didn't see anything in the chat.Alright.
In the next slide. All right,how you can contribute to
WordPress. For good way to getstarted, just come use the
content. And if you find anycontent that needs updating, let
us know by reporting contenterrors. So we have a form you
can fill out if you find anyerrors, if there's anything
that's inaccurate or outdated.Or if you'd like to add some
more insight to any of thecontent on Learn, you can go to
this link and submit a contenterror report.
Additionally, if you havecontent topic ideas, you can
submit them. If you're familiarwith GitHub, we have a place on
GitHub where you can submit.There's a template here where
you can submit ideas on GitHub.These are the links that are on
the slides too. As mentioned,that's a good way to get started
if you want to contribute toLearn. But if you want to
contribute to the training team,there are few steps you can
take. So first you join thetraining channel in the Make
WordPress Slack. So if you'renot aware of the sSack, you can
join chat.WordPress.org. So thisrequires you to have a
WordPress.org account to signin.
I see a question in the chat.Can check what topics are
actually not repeat futureproposed? So when folks submit
ideas for content, that's thepart of the vetting process that
subject matter experts do.They'll check if, does this
exist already? Is someonealready working on this? And do
we have the up to dateinformation for it? So yeah,
there won't be, with thisprocess, there won't be any
overlap, there won't be anyconflicts. And it's okay to
repeat content. Becausesometimes, well, especially for
online workshops, because wewant to do them in different
languages, we want to do themfor different time zones, when
we do them live. But for theother types of content that are
more static. Yeah, there, thereshould not be any repeats in
that unless it's being majorlyupdated. Thanks for that
question.
And so back to how you cancontribute to the training team,
joining the WordPress Slack Andjoining the Training channel is
a good way to just kind of peekin and see what the team is up
to. They have weekly meetings,and you can catch up on those
asynchronously. We even postabout each meeting on the team
blog that I shared earlier. Oh,I wanted to have this next slide
up when I was talking aboutSlack. So if you haven't used
Slack before, it's a chatprogram, you can run it in your
web browser. They also havestandalone apps for it. And then
you can just visit the Trainingchannel and just participate in
the conversations there. This iswhere we work on, do like the
day to day work and share ourchallenges, where we need help,
and even celebrate our wins. Soyeah, get involved with the
community by just peeking in onteam meetings. And yeah, like I
said, this is just what it lookslike. I tend to use dark mode
too, I know if a lot of folkswill see like a white theme. So
if this looks different to you,it's because I chose this dark
theme.
And next, after joining theSlack, you can complete the
training team's onboardingprogram. So this is something
that we launched earlier thisyear. And — excuse me, I think I
lost my link for that. But let'sopen that really quick. There we
go. Put that link in the chatfor you. So that's the
onboarding program, you can dothat asynchronously at your own
pace. We are working on a, kindof like a mentorship program,
we're calling it the Guideprogram, that we're going to do
for new contributors, where wewill, that your Guide will go
through the onboarding programwith you and check in with you
regularly to help you with yourfirst contributions to the
training team. So we're hopingto launch that maybe by the end
of this month or early nextmonth. And you can also keep an
eye out for these sessions thatwe have on the Meetup group.
They're always called “Come jointhe WordPress Training team”. So
this is the next one that'scoming up. It is late in the
evening for me, but we will wewill try to run these
onboarding, live onboardingsessions in different timezones.
So this one is more suited toAPAC time zones. As you can see
here, because I took thescreenshot from my browser, it's
at 9pm for me, but I know itworks, it'll work for a lot of
other folks. I think, Oh, I dohave the link here. I know we
have some folks here with ustoday that are in the APAC
timezone. So here's the link tothat session, if you'd like to
join that on the 16th. Here wego. Now, we'll try to hold these
onboarding sessions frequently.So if you or anyone else you
know, are interested in doing alive onboarding session, just
keep an eye out for thesesessions titled “Come join the
WordPress Training team”.
And finally, we have a page inthe training team handbook that
includes some quickcontributions that you can make
now. So that includes somecontributions, that will just
take a few minutes of your time.So again, I'm missing that link
here. So I'll pull it up now andshare it in the chat. So once
you've joined the Slack, andgone through the onboarding
program, you can go to “quickcontributions you can make now”
and make your firstcontribution.
And another way you cancontribute to the training team
is applying to facilitate orpresent content. So if you want
to facilitate or co-host anonline workshop, you can apply
to do that today. So here's thelink to that application. So
this would be applying topresent an online workshop. And
you can also apply to just be aco-host. So oftentimes, we will
have folks that are co-hostingour online workshops. So for
example, oh, I don't have aco-host here with me today. But
a co-host would be there tomonitor the chat, to answer —
help answer questions or collectthe questions to ask the host.
And just generally support thehost during their online
workshops. So this, being aco-host for an online workshop,
it's actually a really great wayto get started contributing to
the online workshops, becauseyou can see how the process
goes. So I would encourage youto get started there if you're
interested in eventuallybecoming a presenter. And then
we have this other applicationif you're interested in
presenting tutorials, so thequick 5 to 10 minute videos on a
specific topic, you can apply topresent on any topic that
interests you.
And yeah, after you've done afew contributions, maybe you
really enjoy contributing to thetraining team and you want to
step it up a bit. So we have theFaculty Program on the training
team, which is a team ofdedicated volunteers who work to
achieve the goals of thetraining team and Learn
WordPress. So faculty membersoversee the five areas of
So I would love to help guideyou all through your
contribution journey for thetraining team. So if you ever
responsibility in the FacultyProgram. So that includes the
have any questions at all, getin touch on the Slack. Join the
training channel, you can findme in the Slack. I think my
screenname there is “CourtneyP.K.”, of course. So I also am
administrators, the contentcreators, editors, subject
on some social media platformshere, Mastodon and Twitter. So
if you want to get in touchthere, please reach out. Yeah,
matter experts, and translationcoordinators. The faculty
and as I mentioned, already,please get in touch if you're
interested in contributing tothe training team. We would love
members are folks that arededicated members of the team to
to have you on board and guideyou through your contribution journey.
And, yeah, it looks like wemotored right through that
content. So in the thank you allfor learning along with us. If
their their areas ofcontribution. We have over 30
you want to learn more, go tolearn.WordPress.org. And, yeah,
I just want to check if we haveany questions. I see we have a
members in the Faculty Program.We started this program last
content, er a comment. Yes, seehere's an example. So yes, you
can have these slides. You canadjust them to your to your
year, so it's been great to seethat program grow. If you're an
needs. You can use theseresources that we provide on
Learn WordPress, to present toyour local Meetup. So yes, I'll
share, I'll share that with youafter this and yeah, well, I'll
experienced training teamcontributor, you can apply to
be making a recording of thisand posting that to
WordPress.tv, hopefully withinthe next day or two. So yeah,
join the faculty. And, again, Ihave a link here for you.
thank you everyone for beinghere. Do we have any more
questions? I'll just hang out abit. But also, I think I'll stop
the recording.