Meeting Agenda September 29, 2026 #3681

Training Team meetings start at 07:00 UTC weekly on Tuesdays. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the meeting by commenting in Slack threads during the meeting and throughout the following days. Meeting notes will be published by the following Tuesday to also incorporate these asynchronous conversations.

This week’s meeting will be hosted by @sumitsinghwp

1. News

1. Meeting Note Takers

• Sep 29th - @pravin1996
• Oct 6th - @karan241296
• Oct 13th - @miyanialkesh7
• Oct 20th - Looking..

2. Looking for feedback

• Making team homepages could be more visually engaging and make it easier for newcomers to contribute, so I created a block-based prototype for the Training Team homepage: https://playground.wordpress.net/?import-site=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chekle/Make-Homepage/main/wordpress-playground-training.zip , We’d love your feedback on the overall idea - Thank yopu so much for sharing this new things@clk87. here are github for share feedabck - Proposal: Improve the top section of the Make WordPress Training Team homepage #3674
• The next Office Hours will take place on a weekday as a trial; Monday and Friday will be avoided. open the session will take place on a weekday as a trial, avoiding Monday and Friday. Because of Navratri and Dussehra in India (October 11 to 20), it will take place in the last week of October: Tuesday, October 27, Wednesday, October 28, or Thursday, October 29, 2026. @sumit will set the date and time after the proposal at the Tuesday meeting
• We had a great conversation around exploring text-to-speech / read-aloud for course lesson content, and @softglaze has built some prototypes for us. It would be great to get more feedback from Training Team members before we move to working with meta for implementation
• We are also planning an Office Hours session on Saturday, September 26, 2026:
  • Topic: Run and document Office Hours on September 26, 2026 #3641
• We have discussed starting a regular GitHub triage meeting, and we will start from this week.
  • Proposed schedule: Triage Squad GitHub triage – biweekly on Thursdays at 07:00 UTC.
  • Please let us know if you would be interested in joining this Slack meeting.
• We’re actively updating the Training Team handbooks, and there’s still time to contribute. If you have any suggestions, improvements, or ideas, please share them – we’d greatly appreciate your input: Update Handbook : "Handbook" #3447.
• Our colleague, @melbos, revived the Learning Pathway Course: Intermediate Plugin Developer Course – Learning Pathway Course: Intermediate Plugin Developer #2044. She started working on course modules and lessons, and you can help her by suggesting and giving your opinion on newly created content – Rendering plugin data #2182 (comment)

3. Looking for volunteers

• We need your help in finding all the content that could be updated and consolidated. We would love to have two groups of volunteers – one that will go through all the handbook content, and one that will check the courses. Please state your interest, and we will help you organize and start working on these important issues.
• Also, we started working on creating thumbnails for all lessons that need them. You’re very welcome to join us and contribute to this important and creative project. Here’s the issue with details on how to work on the remaining thumbnails:
  Create Thumbnails for Learn WordPress Lessons #3428
• We currently have many open issues. It would be most effective to divide them into smaller categories and work through them one by one.
  • We can start with a label that is suitable for everyone to review. We suggest this simple workflow:
    • Going through issues one by one
    • Identifying outdated or irrelevant issues
    • Suggesting fixes or next steps
    • Adding comments where needed (before closing or updating)
  • We labeled some of the issues as Good First Issues – if you want to start contributing, this is your starting point. Just go and find issues labeled as Good First Issue, particularly those that have Feedback in the issue title – help us verify them, and you will earn the Training Team Contributor badge in no time. Just follow this handbook article – https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/training-team-how-to-guides/how-we-use-github/validating-and-applying-content-feedback/#validating-content-feedback-issues
  • For the upcoming sessions, we should divide the open issues into smaller groups and work through one category at a time. This should make the process more organised and easier for everyone to participate in.
    • We could begin with: [Content] Needs Translation Reviewer – https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22%5BContent%5D%20Needs%20Translation%20Reviewer%22 – Based on feedback from our last meeting, @rfluethi suggested starting with issues in the Bug category, as these are both the highest priority and likely the easiest to address. Please review the open tickets and share any feedback or suggestions you may have.
    • However, we would appreciate your suggestions on which category would be the easiest and most useful for everyone to start with. Other available categories include:
      • Issues without a label
      • Awaiting Triage
      • [Content] Feedback
      • [Type] Bug
    • Please share which category you think we should review first. Once selected, we can divide the issues and work through them together, one by one.
  • Let’s work together to clean up and keep the repository well-organized

4. Updates from last week's Triage Squad session

• No triage squad meetings last week

5. Other news

• • Writing a short description of the Office Hours format, review it together, and publish it - @sumitsinghwp (draft: @rfluethi )
• Office Hours Meeting published - Office Hours Meeting Recap, September 26, 2026
• Training Team Monthly update for August is published – Training Team Update – September 7th, 2026
• The Learn WordPress DACH team finished its first German-language course cohort, “Starten mit WordPress” - seven weeks, seven live sessions, always two facilitators, a prepared curriculum for every single session, and answers in Slack in between. In the final session, every participant presented a website they had built themselves. Wonderful commitment, and a great model from which all of us can learn. Thank you!
• How to Bring Your Community to Make WordPress Slack?
  https://make.wordpress.org/community/2026/06/09/how-to-bring-your-community-to-make-wordpress-slack/
  Call for testing: WordPress community groups on events.WordPress.org - https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2026/08/28/call-for-testing-wordpress-community-groups-on-events-wordpress-org/

2. Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

• See Guidelines for reviewing content when reviewing content.
• We have 9 issues ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

• See Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on validating feedback.
• We have 38 issues that require validation

Topics awaiting vetting

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

Validated feedback awaiting fix

• Contributors, see Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on applying feedback that has been validated.
• We have 25 issues awaiting a fix

3. Contribution Acknowledgement

• Badges awarded:
  • No badges awarded this week

4. Project updates

• Thanks to our colleague @Piyopiyo-Kitsune, the course AI Literacy through WordPress is now live on Learn WordPress!
• Building on the momentum of our last learning cohort (Block Theme Development Course cohort), we are excited to launch our next cohort focused on Plugin Development this month. We look forward to helping more students expand their WordPress skills and explore new opportunities within the open-source ecosystem.

5. Upcoming Online Workshops

• No workshop scheduled

6. Contributor Updates

• What have you been working on and how has it been going?
• Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
• Do you have any blockers?
• Can other contributors or Training Team members help you in some way?

7. Open Discussions

If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this issue.

You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.