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All right, so once again, hello everyone and welcome to today's online workshop. So today, this session is the training themes contributed day online session.
So at the moment there is an event called Word Camp. Asia happening in Taiwan. In Taipei and they have a contributor day events happening in Taipei right now.
And so this online session is the training team. Hosting an online session for people who couldn't go to Taipei and it still gives them a chance to understand what's going on and hopefully contribute to WordPress a little as well.
So we'll start off by first of all explaining what WordPress is. What the different events are, what a contributor day is.
And then, after about 1015 min, we will go into spending some more time actually contributing to the training team in one way or another.
So Sonia, I think your This is your very first time interacting with WordPress.
If there are any questions along the way. Do let me know. I will say we won't be talking specifically about how to use WordPress today.
It's more about what the WordPress project is and how the WordPress community works. And how we can get involved.
So, yep, thank you for the thumbs up. We have Koban who's also here.
And Lucky B is also a frequent contributor to the training team. Thank you for joining, and in a few minutes we should also have someone join us from Type A and they're gonna connect their computer and turn their camera on and they're gonna connect their computer and turn their camera on and show us what they're gonna connect their computer and turn their camera on and show us what contributed that actually looks like there.
So. While we can you ready? First of all, The WordPress WordPress is a software created by volunteers all around the world.
There are thousands of volunteers. To dedicate their time every day. For no money no Like, they just.
They just volunteers.
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Sorry, I just, I just muted you to time just for a moment. So, WordPress is a software created by volunteers.
And the WordPress so you can download WordPress from wordpress.org.
And you'll see there's a big banner at the top about work campaign. We'll talk about that in a moment.
We can. Org, sorry, WordPress. Org is the You download WordPress from.
And at the top here we have a button to community. And you can click on make WordPress.
This talks about the community that makes WordPress. So make dotwork best of all. Talks about the community, the volunteers that make WordPress software.
And you'll see here if we scroll down these are all the different teams that create WordPress.
So we have a core team that work on. Updating the core software and if you run a WordPress site you'll see every every month or so you might get a small patch update and then every 3 months or so there's a major release.
That is all managed by the courting then you have like a design team that works on the design of the WordPress software.
We have a mobile team. And that makes sure WordPress is responsive and works on different computers and mobile.
Devices, etc. And we have a whole bunch more we have like instability, we have polygons who look after translations.
We have a support team that answer question in the forums. All up there are 22 teams that work together to make WordPress and they're all run by volunteers.
And one of those teams is the training team. So that's what, that's the team I am a representative for and the training team is helping with online workshop today.
We'll get into the details of the training team in a bit more. The other team I'm gonna to point out was the community thing.
So WordPress is made by volunteers all around the world. And the community team helps the different communities get together and host local events that people can actually meet in person, share information and help each other out as we all work with WordPress.
So, the, there are different size events run by the community team. The smallest are called meet-ups.
So Meetups is 2 or more people who get together and book about WordPress. And this happens in different cities.
All over the world. So. It could be 2 people meeting in the bar after work talking about WordPress that is a or it could be more scheduled event where like 20 people get together on the weekend, they rent out an office space.
And I all like work on their websites together. That is also a so. You. For those who are new to WordPress.
You will want to find your local meetup and connect with them. And understand when they are having events.
And you'll be able to connect with them and get the answers questions answered in that day.
Alright, so the smaller scripts are made tabs and then the biggest events are called word caps.
Now word camps are regional events. So, Meetups are local in your own local city. What camps could be a whole state getting together, whole country getting together.
Or in the case of Word Camp Asia, it's where WordPress is from all around Asia get together in one place.
Usually for 3 or 4 days and we just. Talk about WordPress. All day every day.
And so right now we have Word Camp Asia happening in Taipei, Taiwan. Let me drop the link to this in the zoom chat.
And so this year, work campaigns is a 3 day event, March 7 8 9 and the seventh is called a contributor day.
So this is where everybody gets together. Usually we volunteer our time and contribute to WordPress and our own homes in our own places, but contributor day is where we all get together in the same room and stood at the same table and all contribute to WordPress all in one go.
At the same time. And this helps us because we can ask each other questions and answer each other's questions.
And you can also meet other contributors in real life, get to know them. And it's just a fun day where you can contribute to WordPress to meet new people and get involved.
So. I might sort of pass it off to Chatan, so Chatan is in Taipei at the moment.
He's skipping at the contributor day table. How many people at the at the table today, what does it look like over there?
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Is this your first time at the contributor day?
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Yeah, that's my first time. That's why I read the contribute guy before but I haven't hands on.
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So for people watching online, Jamie is one of our table lead, in Taipei today.
We have 2 table leaves. Leading the team. We have Jamie and then we also have W.
But because there are like dozens of people in the same room using the same Wi-Fi.
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Looks like a Wi-Fi might be a bit. A bit spotty.
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Let's see if they come back. Are there any questions? People want to ask folks at Taipei.
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Is waste there? Can we quickly say hello to Wes?
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Okay. Okay. Okay.
West is our other table leap, so we'll see if we can get him on the call as well.
Hi, W.
But I'll check you now. Hi everybody. Good to see you.
Okay. We have 6 people on the call with us.
And I hate.
Wonderful. Welcome everyone. I hope you will be. Contributes to the contributor day today and I'm thank you Pain for hosting.
Yeah, it seems like you have a lot of local people. Who joined the table.
Yeah, there's Yeah, and you've got some new people, so I'm setting them up.
On Slack and all those things to get them started out. So yeah, a lot of newbies, which is good.
Yeah, maybe we can get some Chinese translation done. Today.
Okay, yep. Cool. Alright, thank you.
Alright, so we'll switch to our online contributor session very soon. Are there any final questions people want to ask Chethan before he leaves the call?
Oh good. Laura, you're all good.
Okay. So yes, there is there is possibly one or 2 people doing that today. Okay, Bye, Yeah.
Anything?
By the way, Japan was a training team rip. I found 3 years ago. 4 years ago?
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4 or 5 years now, okay. So yeah, Japan has been done.
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2 and a half years ago. Okay. Yes, so Chatan has been a long time contributor to the training team as well.
All right, well, thank you, Chatan. I know you might want to go in. Talk to the other people over there and we'll continue our online teaching now.
Thank you.
Okay, so coming back to us, that was contributing today at Word Camp Asia. And so they are going to spend 6 or 7 h now.
They'll probably have a lunch break soon. And everybody is just working on making WordPress better.
So, let's. Talk about the training team. So you've all come to the training teams, contributed day session.
What is the training team about and how can you contribute as well? So I've come back to make. Dot.
WordPress. The log and the website that talks about the teams that make WordPress. You scroll down a bit you'll find the training team.
And by clicking on the training team, that will take you to the training team's handbook.
Oh sorry, the training keeps blocked. I'll drop that link in the Zoom chat here and at the top of the blog it says welcome the WordPress training team helps people learn to use extend and contribute to WordPress through learn. WordPress.
Org. Are you new to the team? Then come to the getting started, our onboarding program.
This is a self guide onboarding program. And if you're already onboarded and ready to get involved, then you can jump directly to our GitHub project board and start on being to contribute to.
You Today, because it's contributor day, we have a special post. On the training team blog.
Which I am just going to get the link. Cool.
But there are there we go.
So for people in this call who are familiar with the training team and contributing you can click on the link I've just sent in the zoom chat and that will give you a list of things we are working on today.
So you can just jump right into that. And I'm going to continue to explain what the training team is to our new contributors.
So you can have to listen to me explain or you can start contributing to different things. Let's see we have money here.
Manu, are you new to the training team or do you have experience with the training team?
I have not started contributing it. I attended your meeting, one week back.
One or 2 weeks back, I guess.
Okay, cool. So you're sort of new. Yep. Great.
Yeah, sort of.
So the training team. We look after the website learned. WordPress the log. So we call this website L Moo Press.
So learn.org. This is the official education website. For the WordPress project.
And our goal is that whoever you are in whatever stage of learning you are in if you have a question about woodpress, you will come to learn WordPress and you'll be able to find your answers here.
So that is what we're working towards. The loan WordPress website was only launched in 2020 during the COVID pandemic.
So it's only 2 or 3 years old. So We still have. I don't know, it's still sort of in the growing stage.
We are actually doing a site redesign right now and we're going to relaunch the loan WordPress website in July this year.
So what you see now, is all going to change in July this year. But the overview is going to stay the same.
Lone low press is going to be a place where people come to learn about WordPress. So at the moment we have, 4 different types of content on the website.
We have tutorials. We have online workshops. We have courses and we have lesson plans. So online workshops are sessions like this that you've attended right now.
So every week we have a few sessions. Sometimes we talk about how to use WordPress, how to get started with the block editor, how to edit your pages and posts.
So we talk about like being a use of WordPress. Sometimes we talk about developer related content.
So for example, how can you program your plugin for WordPress. How can you program? How can you be able a theme for WordPress or how can you customize your WordPress site code base?
And then we also have topics about like, contributing to WordPress. And that's what we're doing today.
How you can contribute to the training team. So we have lots of topics. In our online workshops.
And, so if you click on that, you'll see we have a calendar. Well, March is looking a bit, a bit empty at the moment, but we are always looking for more speakers, facilitators, and co-hosts.
After our online workshops. So if you're interested in talking about WordPress then that is something you can definitely contribute to.
And then looking at that other content types, we have tutorials. These are about 5 min videos, about specific topics.
So for example, let's see. Testing your products or PHP version compatibility. That's a very developer focus tutorial.
I'm that one's a bit longer, it's 12 min. But then we have like a tutorial exploring WordPress 6.4 So at the end of last year the WordPress 6.4 version was released.
And so we have a tutorial that sort of walks you through all that. And then we have some more practical ones like how to create a menu with the navigation walk.
Or introducing the 2024 theme. So if you're getting standard with WordPress, these tutorials will help you with your first steps to understand what you might need to do.
You can also search for them. I think we have something like 270 tutorial videos at the moment.
So we have quite a lot. So definitely check those out. And then over here we have online courses.
So courses. Self-guided learning so you read some things sometimes you watch a video there might be a quiz at the end of the lesson.
And then once you've completed a few lessons, you get a certificate email to that says you've completed the course.
We have, I think, somewhere around 20 or 30 courses right now. Again, we have topics about developing with WordPress introductions to WordPress.
Using the site editor and contributing to WordPress. So it's the introduction to World Trade, if you come down here.
Talks about getting started with WordPress. Get set up or getting started with WordPress get familiar.
Creating a four-page business website. So Tony, you mentioned before your brand new to WordPress and these courses might be a good place for you to start to just get sort of a feel and an understanding of how WordPress works.
Courses on, let me drop this, the link to these courses here in the Zoom chat as well.
All right, and then the final content type is less in plan. So, and plans are aimed at in Kissonia.
There's some plans that aimed at teachers of WordPress. So if a teacher wants to go to a meetup event and teach about WordPress or maybe you're a teacher at the school and you want to teach about WordPress.
And these lesson plans are guides for the teacher. And they sort of give out a step by step instruction.
On how they can run a class and teach about different topics. So I think we have. I think it's around a hundred 20 or so.
Lesson plans, we have different languages if we just go to English. Let's see. So you have left and point about locking blocks in the full site.
Create a basic child theme for block themes. Webp images and WordPress so all these different topics that talk about WordPress.
But lesson plans are AGA features. And courses and tutorials are aimed at learners.
So the training team, we look after this website. And we look after the content on the website.
So the training team. Come, I've come back to the training team blog now. Make the work at the log slash training.
At the TUBLE BUG log, you'll see there's a welcome box here.
This takes up a bit of space. But above that, in the blue bar, we have 3 important leaks.
So the first one is getting started. If you click on this, this will take you to the training teams onboarding program.
So this is a self-guided onboarding programs. Take, you'll take somewhere between 30 and 60 min.
And for you to start contributing to the training team. And we'll talk a bit more about that in a moment.
So. If you want to learn about WordPress, you go to learn.com. And if you want to contribute to the loan worker's website then you can join the training team and are getting started onboarding program.
It's the best place to start. The second way he is to the team hangbook.
So I mentioned before the WordPress project is made up of 22 teams. Every team has their own handbook.
And the handbook lists the different processes. For that team. So the training teams handle. Talks about how to, for example, make an online course, so how to make a tutorial.
How to contribute to the training team. So if you open the handbook, you'll see we have a table of contents down the left here.
We have about which talks about the training team. We have getting started which takes it to our own body program.
And then we have how 2 guides. And you don't need to read through all of this.
If you open the house, you're going to see there's a ton of how to guides here.
Basically these guys are here for once you've joined the team, you want to start contributing.
And you want to do a specific task, go to the handbook and if you search for the hat inside the handbook you'll find the resources to get you started.
There.
So coming back to our blog, you'll see we talked about getting started. We talked about the handbook.
And finally, faculty members. So the training team is made up of volunteers. And we have 2 or 3 doesn't volunteers who are actively contributing to content and reviews, translations every week.
But the faculty program is a group of volunteers out of that. Who have dedicated a specific amount of time to the training team.
To help the training team achieve their goals. So anyone you can contribute to the training team, you can just.
Come and contribute 2 h and go on and continue your journey. And that's totally fine. But the faculty program of people who have said they will stick with the training team for a while and help the training team get.
To achieve their goals. So it's a bit more dedication from volunteers. But it also means these faculty members are familiar with the training team and their processes and the faculty members know the loan WordPress website a bit better as well.
So as a new contributor, If you have questions, then you can reach out to the faculty members and they will be the best people to answer these questions for you.
So there's a list of different names and different languages. They speak what, SAY, some areas they're really good at.
Those are the faculty members. Alright, so getting started on boarding to training team and then the handbook.
And then faculty members. Let me pause for a moment. Are there any questions so far? Anything, maybe I was a bit too fast and you want me to explain again.
Anything I can clarify for people.
Oh yeah, you said all good. Thank you very much.
Alright, so
For the rest of this time, let's continue through the getting standard onboarding program. So.
Sonia Manu, you said you were new. So let me just give you an overview of what onboarding would look like.
If you decide to start contributing to the team. So I'm here at I'm Getting Started page.
And it says welcome to the training team. You scroll down a bit more. You'll see a familiar face, that's me, with a 3 min video, so I'm just welcome you welcoming you to the team.
And then we talk about where we communicate. So the training team. We're a bunch of volunteers all around the world working in different time zones.
There are 3 places we communicate. So the first place is on our team blog. And, we, I, showed this to you before as well.
So this is the training team. Blog here. And you'll see that's a post published recently training team meeting recap.
Scroll down a bit more you'll see we have a contributor spotlight pulse that was published so you'll see the training team publishes a few posts every week.
And then people can comment on the post and interact there as well.
If you're interested in following the training team's blog, and at the very top there's an email address from here so you can subscribe.
To the post we have 483 subscribers at the moment And you can subscribe to that and get notified of new posts when they're published on the training team blog.
We use the team blog. As our place for discussions and decisions. So the training team blog is public.
It is indexed on search engines. So if you're searching Google. The training blog will come up.
So this is where the training team discusses in public and makes decisions in public. And the whole workers project we try to make decisions in the public as much as possible.
Because it is a community. Building WordPress together. So the training team blog is the, I guess the most public and most important place where we have discussion.
Then the second tool we use is called slack. So Slack is a like a chat tool. And when when you join the WordPress program you are given access to the WordPress projects slack channels.
So the WordPress project has hundreds of slack tunnels for different discussions, but in that we have a channel specifically for the training team.
It's called trainee. And this is where we have real-time interactions with each other.
So for example, if you're new to the training team and you're going through the onboarding program and you might have a question.
Then you can ping in slack and ask people for help and whoever is logged in at that time, and will be able to answer your questions and help you with that.
We have team meetings in slack every week. But this got the decisions aren't made in flag.
They're always made on the public blog because like you need an account to view. So rather than making decision there, we take those meeting discussions, create a public post about it, and then we can discuss and make decisions out in the open.
So slack is really a place for real-time communication to help to give each other help with something.
And then finally, we use a tool called GitHub. And GitHub traditionally has been used, by developers for organizing code.
But the training team doesn't use it for that. The training team uses it as a project management system.
So. We have hundreds of content on the loan locus website. We have dozens of content being made.
At the same time, we need a way to manage all that and just. Keep track of where things are at.
And so we use GitHub for this. So if you open the training, at the training team's GitHub repository, it looks like this.
There's a ton of text there. Which we can ignore. The most important thing to look at.
Is the projects tab at the top here. So the training team has 7 projects. The first one is called Learn WordPress Content Development.
So this is where. Content created to make content track their progress in this in this GitHub project.
And then we have learn WordPress content localization. So the translators in the team track their progress here.
And then we have Learn Wopets website development. So the web developers of the team look after the website code here.
And then we have learning pathways project, which is the relaunch. Site relaunch project of the training team this year.
We have a project board specifically for training to administration. And we have a few others as well. So.
These are the different project boards the training team works with.
So coming back to the onboarding program, where do we communicate? We communicate on the team. Log, we communicate in Slack.
And we communicate in GitHub.
So if you're interested in getting involved, then We invite you to create these 3 accounts. So first of all, create a WordPress dog org account and this allows you to then comment on the different training team blog posts and discussions.
The step after that is creating a WordPress slack account. So then you can log in to the Slack community and ask questions in real time and get help from people who are online at that moment.
And finally, create a GitHub account. So you can participate in the different project boards.
In the training team.
And one more thing, I want to talk about and then we'll, actually like work on things together.
That is, the training team has and many different ways you can contribute. And we've broken these down into 5 areas.
Of contribution. So for example, if you're interested in creating new content, then we have an onboarding program for content creator.
So content creators make if you're interested in translating content, then we have an onboarding program for our content translators.
So they take the content that's been created and translate that into different languages. Every piece of content before this published, gets reviewed.
And we, and it gets reviewed by at least 3 people. And before it is published and this helps us make sure the content is accurate and up to date.
For people who are going to view it. And these reviews are done by editors in the team.
So you might not be a content creator, you might not be a content translator, but you can become an editor and review content for the team.
We also have a role or area of contribution. Called subject matter experts. So content creators, they don't have to be an expert about the content they're creating.
They just have to be good at creating material. The subject matter experts are the people who are experts and so they will bring the information to the content creator.
And then the content creator will turn that into a tutorial or an online course. Or an online workshop.
So these subject matter experts work with. Content creators to get content published. And then finally we have administrators.
So the team web role is a like administrative role to make sure the team works smoothly. But there are lots of other administrative tasks that different volunteers can work on.
So we also have an onboarding program for administrators specifically. So what we would do now is I would, We would, oh, first of all, I'll open up for questions, see if there's anything people want clarified.
And then, if we're interested in getting you involved, we can start by first of all making the 3 accounts, the WordPress.
Dot org accounts. The slack account and the GitHub account. And then once we had these accounts created, You can then move on to the different onboarding programs, whichever one you'll find most interesting and we'll use the rest of today working on that onboarding program.
So that's what I had planned. How is this all self thought to everyone? Are there any questions?
Is there anything you wanted to? Sort of ask get me clarified or any things you wanted to point out.
Let me open it up to the floor.
Alright, Sonya, you said amazing. Thanks. Let me stop the recording. So this is like the official online workshop.
Up to here. And then we can sort of chat with each person to figure out what we might. Do for the rest of the time.
So let me stop the recording