 Okay, welcome everyone to today's workshop about contributing to the WordPress training team. My name is Courtney, and this is brought to you by Learn WordPress. We have learning resources found at learn.wordpress.org. So Learn WordPress is brought to you by the WordPress training team. We're a team of folks from all over the world. So globally, we volunteer to make these learning resources for the rest of the WordPress community. So this is basically like our mission. So the WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning, as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments via learn.wordpress.org. And so when we, I wanted to clarify the lesson plans for instructors part here instructors also include meetup organizers. So if you organize a meetup, you are considered an instructor and educator and you can use the resources on Learn WordPress for your local meetup for your local word camp. And yeah, that's what these resources are there for you to do with. So a quick, quick introduction to what Learn WordPress is if you weren't aware. So Learn WordPress is an educational website and initiative that seeks to be the definitive space for WordPressers across the globe to learn and teach about WordPress. The Learn WordPress website is where this content that the training team, that's where this content lives. So here's a screenshot here of the website, learn.wordpress.org. I'm sure I'm going to keep repeating that it's going to be like drilled into your heads after this. So next we're going to briefly go over the different types of content that you can find on the Learn WordPress website. So four main types of content on Learn. Oftentimes you will hear someone just shorten it to say learn so on the training team we often will just say learn when we're referring to learn WordPress. So here in Learn we have four types of content, lesson plans, tutorials, courses, and online workshops. And of course as I mentioned at the beginning of this, you are currently in an online workshop. So this is very, very meta right now we're talking about this. So the type of content that we have to share with you today are lesson plans. So these, as you see here, there's over 100 of these teaching guides for facilitators for educators, instructors meet up organizers. Each lesson plans are teaching guides for facilitators to use while presenting at events or leading educational environments. So yes, if you are an educator you could use this in the classroom. Each lesson plan enables the teacher to lead 30 to 60 minute learning sessions aimed at clearly defined learning objectives. So lesson plans will provide objectives, prerequisite skills, readiness questions, the materials that you need. There's even notes for the presenter sometimes there are slides. There'll be a lesson outline, exercises, assessments and any additional resources that might be required to run the lesson plan. I want to see all of those lesson plans. My keyboard with to sleep as I was talking just a second. There we go. So lesson plans live on learn under lesson plans at that link I just shared. And next we have tutorials tutorials are our next type of content that are hosted on learn tutorials are short standalone videos. Each around five to 10 minutes long. There might be some that are longer but we try to keep tutorials short. Each tutorial addresses a single topic and they're intended as how to guides for WordPress. Each tutorial includes a video a transcript of video learning outcomes comprehension questions and any additional resources that are needed. And if you'd like to check those out. There's the link there. I'll also be sharing this. These slides after the at the end here, or when we post the recording so you all these links will be included at the end. So our next type of content are courses. Now courses are a series of online self guided lessons that are created with the sense plug in each course consists of multiple lessons which build up to an overall objective. Course topics will vary between basic WordPress usage, technical WordPress customization and onboarding resources that are used for different WordPress teams. Contribute your teams when I refer to WordPress teams. Right. Still have folks joining this second. Right. And finally, the fourth type of content type we have unlearn WordPress, or the online workshops, which you're sitting in right now. So online workshops are almost daily live learning sessions so we try to also do these in all sorts of time zones to try to meet our contributors where they are. Our workshops are a safe zone where people can develop new ideas, explore issues, ask questions can network with other WordPress users over your shared interests, exchange theories collaborate on work, engage in uncertainty and yeah just come as you are. Definitely safe spaces for you to learn. They are free for everyone. They're free and open for everyone and as I mentioned at the beginning we also record everything for folks to have access to this content and anytime. So if you go to the link for online workshops you'll see this calendar that you see a screenshot of here. And like I said we try to do these workshops daily, if not multiple times a week in many different time zones. And we are always looking for new folks to do workshops 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 about contributing to WordPress, the WordPress open source project. Well, we don't have time to go over everything about contributing to WordPress. I also do have a previous workshop about contributing and I probably will do another one in the future. But I also know that we'll have some resources on learn about contributing in general so please check those out but if you're not familiar with the, the, all of the folks that contribute to WordPress. They're made by a global community of people. This open source project consists of a global community of folks that collaborate and contribute to the project. These volunteer contributors bring a variety of experience and skills, including development design support security training. Writing, localizing and translating event organizing and so many others there's there are over 20 teams that contribute to WordPress. And you can check out all those teams at make.wordpress.org. And you can find a team that is suited to to your interests and your skills, but I'm assuming that folks are here today because they're curious about the training team and maybe want to contribute to the training team. And yeah, that's why we're here today. But if you want to learn some basics about open source and WordPress I also have a previous workshop on that. And I'm going to share a link 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 love to see you there if you're interested in learning some more about open source and WordPress. Oh, something else I wanted to add about the contributor community. So the, oh, I have already mentioned this, that the community is organized into over 20 contributor teams. And of course the training team is one of them. So next we're going to talk about how you can contribute to the training team and in turn you'll be contributing to the wider WordPress open source project. But we lost sound. Is that true are folks hearing me. Okay. Okay. I'm sorry for that glitch. But yes, thank you for letting me know when something happens. I appreciate that. Okay, a little bit about the WordPress training team. So this here's a screenshot of the, the training team blog, and that's found at make.wordpress.org slash training. There you go. And that's where we, you know, we post about like all our projects that are going on. You can find the training team handbook there, and a lot about what's going on in the team. We have three training team representatives, Pooja, Destiny and Ben. So that our team reps represents the training team to the rest of the WordPress project. They also ensure issues are raised and addressed as needed and they coordinate cross team efforts. So you can just contact them in the making WordPress slack with any questions, but you can also post a message to, to everyone in the training channel, if you so desire, because the team is always 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 to the training team and learn WordPress. We have five main areas of contribution. And I'll just briefly go over all of these. So starting on the upper left here. Content creators are folks that focus on creating excellent content to host on learn WordPress. So that covers workshops, lesson plans, tutorials, excuse me, and courses so content creators work on all types of content. As a matter of fact, we all work on all types of content, whatever we, you know, we feel like we would be best exercising our skills. Content translators, content translators take the published English content and translate that into different locales. We do have Margarita with us here today and who is one of our content translators. So thank you for the work that you do. Next we have administrators. Those are folks that work behind the scenes to make sure that the training team works smoothly. They focus on providing the other roles with the tools that they need to be successful and effective towards the training team goals. So I do a lot of administrator work. And yeah, I help folks come on board. Next we have subject matter experts. These folks vet the topic ideas before content is created. So they'll also work alongside the content creators acting as sounding boards for their ideas, and helps them get the most recent and updated information in their content. And finally editors. These are the teammates that review content before it is published. They also review published content and make updates as needed. Yeah, I would say I do quite a bit of editing as well. So, so my circles kind of overlap administrator editor content creator are probably the main areas that I contribute to on the team. So this next table is our contributor ladder. Every single cell here but this can give you an idea of where, where the, how, excuse me, the contributor ladder looks for the training team and you can see all of the different roles on the top there. And the stages of volunteering that you'll see all over the open source project so you're starting with connecting engaging performing than leading. And these are all the types of tasks that each of these roles do that fall under the contributor ladder. I'll be sharing these slides later. So you can take your time and view this and see if there's any particular tasks that that interest you, or that you feel like you would like to contribute to any questions so far. I know I've been just talking. Nope, I didn't see anything in the chat. Alright. In the next slide. All right, how you can contribute to WordPress. For a good way to get started is just come use the content. If you find any content that needs updating. Let us know by reporting content errors. So we have a form you can fill out if you find any errors. If you find anything that's inaccurate outdated, or if you'd like to add some more insight to any of the content on learn, you can go to this link and submit a content error report. Additionally, if you have content topic ideas, you can submit them. If you're familiar with GitHub, we have a place on GitHub where you can submit. Here's a template here where you can submit ideas on GitHub. These are the links that are on the slides to mention that's a good way to get started if you want to contribute to learn. But if you want to contribute to the training team. You can take. So first you join, join the training channel in the the make WordPress slack. So if you're not aware of the slack, you can join at chat dot WordPress.org. So this requires you to have a WordPress dot org account to sign in. So the question in the chat can check what topics are actually and not repeat future proposed. So when folks submit ideas for for content. That's the part of the, the vetting process that subject matter experts do they'll check if does this exist already is someone already working on this. There won't be up to date information for it. So yeah, there won't be with this process there won't be any overlap there won't be any conflicts. And it's okay to repeat content because sometimes well especially for online workshops because we want to do them in different languages we want to do them for different time zones, when we do them live. For the other types of contact that contents that are more static. Yeah, there there should not be any repeats in that unless it's being majorly updated. Thanks for that question. And so back to how you can contribute to the training team, joining the WordPress slack and joining the training channel is a good way to just kind of peek in and see what the team is up to. You can have weekly meetings, and you can catch up on those asynchronously, and even post about each meeting on the team blog that I shared earlier. Oh, I wanted to have this next slide up when I was talking about slack so if you haven't used slack before it's a chat program, you can run it in your web browser. You can find standalone apps for it. And, yeah, you can just visit the training channel and just participate in the conversations there. This is where we work on do like the day to day work and share like our challenges where we need help. We can celebrate our wins. So, yeah, get involved with the community by just peeking in on on team meetings. And yeah, like I said, this is just what it looks like. I tend to use dark mode to I know a lot of folks will see like a white screen so if this looks different to you it's because I chose this dark theme. So after joining the slack, you can complete the training teams onboarding program. So this is something that we launched earlier this year. And excuse me, I think I lost my link for that but let's open that really quick. Here we go. Put that link in the chat for you. So that's the onboarding program, you can do that asynchronously at your own pace. We are working on a kind of like a mentorship program we're calling it the guide program that we're going to do for new contributors, where we will that your guide will go through the onboarding program with you and check in with you regularly to help you with your first contributions to the training team so we're hoping to launch that maybe by the end of this month or early next month. And yeah you can also keep an eye out for these sessions that we have on the meetup group. They're always called come join the WordPress training team so this is the next one that's coming up is late in the evening for me but we will we will try to run these onboarding live onboarding sessions in different time zones so this one is more suited to a pack time zones. I'm excited to be here because I took the screenshot from my browser is at 9pm for me but I know it works. It'll work for a lot of other folks. I think I do have the link here. Now we have some folks here with us today they're in the APAC time zone so here's the link to that session if you'd like to join that on the 16th. We'll try to hold these onboarding sessions frequently so if you or anyone else you know are interested in doing a live onboarding session just keep an eye out for these sessions titled come join the WordPress training team. And finally we have a page in the training team handbook that includes some quick contributions that you can make now. It includes like some some contributions 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 and share in the chat. So once you've joined the Slack and gone through the onboarding program you can go to quick contributions you can make now and make your first contribution. And another way you can contribute to the training team is applying to facilitate or present content. So if you want to facilitate or co host an online workshop, you can apply to do that today. So here's the link to that application. So this would be applying to present an online workshop, and you, you could also apply to just be a co host so oftentimes we'll have folks that are co hosting our online workshop so so for example, I don't have a co host here with me today, but a co host would be there to monitor the chat or help answer questions, or collect the questions to ask the host. And just generally support the host during their online workshop so this is being a co host for an online workshop is actually really great way to get started contributing to the online workshops because you can see how the process goes. So I would encourage you to get started there if you're interested in eventually becoming a presenter. And then we have this other application if you're interested in presenting tutorials so the quick five to 10 minute videos on a specific topic, you can apply to present on any topic that interests you. And yeah, after you've been done a few contributions maybe you really enjoy contributing to the training team and you want to step it up a bit. So we have the faculty program on the training team which is a team of dedicated volunteers who work to achieve the goals of the training team and learn WordPress. Faculty members oversee five the five areas of responsibility in the faculty program. So that includes the administrators the content creators editors subject matter experts and translation coordinators. The faculty members are folks that are dedicated members of the team to their their areas of contribution. We have over 30 members in the faculty program. We started this program last year. So it's been great to see that program grow. If you're an experienced training team contributor you can apply to join the faculty. And again I have a link here for you. So I would love to help guide you all through your contribution journey for the training team so if you ever have any questions at all, get in touch on the slack. Enjoy the training channel and you can find me in the slack. And I think my screen name there's Courtney PK, of course. So, I also am on some social media platforms here, masted on in Twitter. So if you want to get in touch there. Please reach out. As I mentioned already, please get in touch. If you're interested in contributing to the training team. We would love to have you on board and guide you through your contribution journey. And yeah it looks like we motored right through that content. Thank you all for for learning along with us. If you want to learn more. Go to learn about WordPress.org. And yeah, I just want to check if we have any questions. See we have a content or a comment. Here, here's an example. So, yes, you can have these slides, you can adjust them to your needs. You can use these resources that we provide on learn WordPress to present to your local meetup so yes I'll share, I'll share that with you. And after this, and, you know, I'll be making a recording of this and posting that to WordPress dot TV. Hopefully within the next day or two. So, yeah, thank you everyone for being here. We have any more questions I'll just hang out a bit. I think I'll stop the recording.