 All right, so once again, hello everyone and welcome to today's online workshop. So today, this session is the training themes contributor day online session. So at the moment, there is an event called WordCamp Asia happening in Taiwan, in Taipei, and they have a contributor day event happening in Taipei right now. So this online session is the training team hosting an online session for people who couldn't go to Taipei. 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 10, 15 minutes, we will go into spending some more time actually contributing to the training team in one way or another. So Sonia, 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 Mojibol is also a frequent contributor to the training team. Thank you for joining Mojibol. And in a few minutes, we should also have someone join us from Taipei. They're going to connect their computer and turn their camera on and show us what contributed that actually looks like that. So while we're getting ready, first of all, WordPress. WordPress is a software created by volunteers all around the world. There are thousands of volunteers who dedicate their time every day for no money, no, like... They're just volunteers. They're just volunteers. Yeah, sorry. Expert. Sorry, if you go to... Sorry, I just muted you to turn just for a moment. So WordPress is a software created by volunteers. And the WordPress... You download WordPress from WordPress.org. And you'll see there's a big banner at the top about WordCamp Asia. We'll talk about that in a moment. WordCamp.org, sorry, WordPress.org is the site you download WordPress from. And at the top here, we have a button to community. And if you click on Make WordPress, this talks about the community that makes WordPress. So make.wordpress.org 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 month or so, you might get a small patch update. And then every three months or so, there's a major release. That is all managed by the core team. Then you have a design team that works on the design of the WordPress software. We have a mobile team that makes sure WordPress is responsive and works on desktop computers and mobile devices, et cetera. And we have a whole bunch more. We have accessibility. We have polygots who look after translations. We have a support team that answer questions 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 hosting this online workshop today. We'll get into detail of the training team in a bit more. The other team I wanted to point out was the community team. 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 there are different size events run by the community team. The smallest are called Meetups. So Meetups is two or more people who get together and talk about WordPress. And this happens in different cities all over the world. So it could be two people meeting in a bar after work, talking about WordPress. That is a Meetup. Or it could be more a scheduled event where like 20 people get together on a weekend, they rent out an office space, and they all like work on their websites together. That is also a Meetup. So 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 answers, questions answered and that there. All right, so the smallest groups are Meetups. And then the biggest events are called WordCamps. Now WordCamps are regional events. So Meetups are local in your own local city. WordCamps could be a whole state getting together, a whole country getting together. Or in the case of WordCamp Asia, it's where WordPressers from all around Asia get together in one place. Usually for three or four days, and we just talk about WordPress all day every day. And so right now we have WordCamp Asia happening in Taipei, Taiwan. Let me drop the link to this in the Zoom chat. And so this year WordCamp Asia is a three-day event, March 789, 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 around homes, in our own places. But Contributor Day is where we all get together in the same room and sit 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 Chetan. So Chetan is in Taipei at the moment. We have everything at the Contributor Day table. How many people at the table, Chetan? What does it look like over there? Hello. Hi. I'm excited to meet you, Archulia. So we have around 10 people who are just onboarding. And they are mostly the new to our training teams. So we have how to be onboarding. They signed up and now they are starting of the computing. We have a second stage. Hello. What's your name? My name is... Yeah. My name is Chetan. My name is Chetan. Hello. Hello. Hello. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Is this your first time at the Contributor Day? Sorry. Is this your first time at the Contributor Day? Yeah, this is my first time. Actually, I read the Contributor Day before, but I haven't had some. So I haven't had some yet. So let's be cool. I just can't review a video. I haven't sent a comment, but just see the video. Maybe you want some contributions today. Yeah. You're starting to... Yeah. Nice to see you. Yeah, good to see you too. Hello, some more members. Hi. Hello. Good to see you. Good to see you. Actually, we are only... People are working. They can speak during the Contributor Day. Oh, okay. So you can see the whole hall here. So people are contributing. So the whole is almost whole. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah, we have two tables this time. This is first. And another is this side. Okay. Hello. Yeah. Hello. Can we talk? Yeah, say hello to Jamie. Is that working? Yeah, it's working. Just slowly. Good. Hmm. Bye-bye. So for people watching online, Jamie is one of our table leads in Taipei today. We have two table leads leading the team. We have Jamie. And then we also have Wes. But because there are like dozens of people in the same room using the same Wi-Fi, it looks like their Wi-Fi might be a bit a bit spotty. Let's see if they come back. Are there any questions people want to ask folks at Taipei? Why? Why? So there are some internal issues. Can I say again? Yes, we can see you. Most of people are from Taipei. They're local. Okay. Is Wes there? Can we quickly say hello to Wes? Sorry? Yeah. Okay. Wes is our other table lead. So we'll see if we can get him on the call as well. I'll chat to you now. Hi, Wes. Hi, everybody. Good to see you. We have six people on the call with us. Wonderful. Welcome, everyone. I hope you will be able to contribute to the contributed aid today. Thank you, Ben, for hosting. Yeah. It seems like you have a lot of local people who have joined the table. Yeah, and we'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 translations done today. So, yes, there is there is possibly one or two people doing that today. Okay. Okay. All right. Thank you. Bye. Bye, Laura. Bye, everyone. All right. So we'll switch to our online contributor session very soon. Are there any final questions people want to ask Kit Ham before he leaves the call? Oh, good. Laura, you're all good. Yeah. By the way, Chit Ham was a training team rep about three years ago. Four or five years ago. Four or five years now. Okay. Two and a half years ago. Two and a half years ago. Okay. Yeah, so Chit Ham has been a long time contributed to the training team as well. All right. Well, thank you, Chit Ham. I know you might want to go and talk to the other people over there and we'll continue our online session now. Thank you. Okay. So coming back to us, that was contributed today at WordCamp Asia. And so they are going to spend six or seven hours now. They'll probably have a lunch break soon. Everybody's 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.wordpress.org, the website that talks about the teams that make WordPress. You scroll down a bit, you'll find the training team. If you're clicking on the training team, that will take you to the training team's handbook. Sorry, the training team's blog. Training team's blog. So 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, 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 things to contribute to. Today, because it's contributed day, we have a special post on the training team blog which I am just going to get the link for. 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 either listen to me explain or you can start contributing to different things. Manu, are you new to the training team or do you have experience with the training team? I have not started contributing yet. I ended up meeting one week back or two weeks back I guess. Okay, cool. So you're sort of new. Yeah, sort of new. Yep, great. So the training team we look after the website learn.workers.org So we call this website learn WordPress. So learn.wordpress.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 WordPress 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 learn WordPress website was only launched in 2020 during the COVID pandemic. So it's only two or three 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 learn 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. Learn WordPress is going to be a place where people come to learn about WordPress. So at the moment we have four 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 have 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 user 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 build 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 which is looking a bit empty at the moment but we are always looking for more speakers, facilitators and co-hosts for 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 other content types we have tutorials. These are about five minute videos about specific topics. So for example let's see testing your products or PHP version compatibility. That's a very developer focused tutorial. That one's a bit longer, it's 12 minutes 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 block or introducing the 2024 theme. So if you're getting started 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 a 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. Introduction to WordPress. Using the science editor and contributing to WordPress. So it's introduction to WordPress. If you come down here talks about getting started with WordPress. Get set up or getting started with WordPress. Get familiar with WordPress. Create a four page business website. So you mentioned before you're brand new to WordPress. These courses might be a good place for you to start to just get a feel and an understanding of how WordPress works. Courses Let me drop the link to these courses here in the Zoom chat as well. And then the final content type is lesson plan. So lesson plans are 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 a school and you want to teach about WordPress then 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 120 or so lesson plans. We have different languages so if we just go to English. Let's see. So you have lesson plans about locking blocks in the full site at the top. 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 aimed at teachers 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 I've come back to the training team blog now makethewordpress.org at the top of our blog you'll see there's a welcome box here this takes up a bit of space I'll close it up. Above that in the blue bar we have three important links for 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 minutes for you to start contributing to the training team and we'll talk a bit more about that in a moment. If you want to learn about WordPress you go to learn.wordpress.org and if you want to contribute to the WordPress website then you can join the training team and are getting started onboarding program with the best place to start. The second link here is to the team handbook 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 handbook talks about how to for example make an online course, 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 you to our onboarding program and then we have how to guides and you don't need to read through all of this if you open the how to guides you'll see there's a ton of how to guides here basically these guides are here for once you've joined the team and you want to start contributing and you want to do a specific task go to the handbook and if you search for the 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 handbook and finally faculty members. So the training team is made up of volunteers and we have two or three dozen 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 specific amounts of time to the training team to help the training team achieve their goals. So anybody can contribute to the training team you can just come and contribute two hours and go on and continue your journey and that's totally fine but the faculty program and 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 Loom 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 different languages they speak some areas they're really good at those are the faculty members. Alright, so getting started on boarding to the 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 is there anything I can clarify for people? You said all good thank you very much Alright, so for the rest of this time let's continue through the getting started onboarding program. So Sonia Manu you said you were new so let me just give you an overview of what the onboarding would look like if you decide to start contributing to the team. So I'm here at our getting started page and it says welcome to the training team if you scroll down a bit more you'll see a familiar face that's me with a three minute video 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 three places we communicate so the first place is on our team blog and 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 post 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 then at the very top there's an email address form 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 a 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 team blog will come up so this is where the training team discusses in public and makes decisions in public the whole WordPress 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 like a chat tool and when you join the WordPress program you are given access to the WordPress projects Slack channels so the WordPress project has hundreds of Slack channels for different discussions but in that we have a channel specifically for the training team it's called training 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 will be able to answer your questions and help you with that we have team meetings in Slack every week but decisions aren't made in Slack they're always made on the public blog because Slack you need an account to view so rather than making decisions 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 Worker's website we have dozens of content being made at the same time 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 the training team's GitHub repository looks like this there's a ton of text there which we can ignore the most important thing to look at is the projects at the top here so the training team has seven projects the first one is called Loan WordPress content development so this is where content creators can make content track their progress in this GitHub project and then we have Loan WordPress content localization so the translators in the team track their progress here and then we have Loan WordPress website development so the web developers of the team look after the website code here and then we have Loan Pathways project which is the site relaunch project of the training team this year we have a project board specifically for training team 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 blog we communicate in Slack and we communicate in GitHub so if you're interested in getting involved then we invite you to create these three accounts so first of all create a WordPress.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 many different ways you can contribute and we've broken these down into five 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 content if you're interested in translating content then we have an onboarding program for our content translator so they take the content that's been created and translate that into different languages every piece of content before it is published gets reviewed by at least three people 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 rep role is a 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 I'll open it up for questions see if there's anything people won't clarify and then if we're interested in getting involved we can start by first of all making the three accounts the wordpress.org accounts the Slack account and the GitHub account and then once we have 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 all I had planned how is this all so far 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 Sonia 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