Meeting Agenda for October 6th, 2026 #3685

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 @rjekic

1. News

1. Meeting Note Takers

• Oct 6th - @karan241296
• Oct 13th - @miyanialkesh7
• Oct 20th - @softglazee

2. Looking for feedback

• Team Homepage: @chekle has shared A block-based prototype for the Training Team homepage to make team pages more engaging and newcomer-friendly. Feedback is welcome via GitHub Issue #3674.
• Office Hours: The next Office Hours will be held on a weekday, avoiding Monday and Friday. The proposed dates are October 27, 28, or 29, 2026, you will be informed when the date is set and confirmed.
• Text-to-Speech: The team discussed exploring text-to-speech/read-aloud functionality for course lessons. @softglazee has created prototypes, and the team is encouraged to provide feedback before implementation discussions with Meta Team.
• Training Team Handbook: The handbook is currently being updated, and team members are encouraged to share suggestions, improvements, and ideas in GitHub Issue #3447.
• Intermediate Plugin Developer Course: @melbos has revived the Learning Pathway course and started working on modules and lessons. Team members are invited to review the new content and share feedback, including the “Rendering plugin data” lesson.

3. Looking for volunteers

• Content Review Volunteers: Volunteers are needed to review and identify content that should be updated or consolidated. Two groups are needed: one for the handbook and one for courses.
• Lesson Thumbnails: Work has started on creating thumbnails for lessons that need them. Team members are welcome to contribute to the remaining thumbnails through GitHub Issue #3428.
• Issue Cleanup: The team discussed organising the many open issues into smaller categories and reviewing them systematically.
  • Review Workflow: The proposed process is to review issues one by one, identify outdated or irrelevant items, suggest next steps, and add comments before closing or updating issues.
    • Good First Issues: Contributors can start with issues labeled Good First Issue, especially those related to content feedback, and follow the handbook guide for validating feedback.
    • Issue Categories: The team discussed starting with a specific category, with Bug issues suggested as a priority. Other options include Needs Translation Reviewer, Unlabeled, Awaiting Triage, and Content Feedback.
    • Next Steps: Team members are encouraged to suggest which category should be reviewed first, after which the issues can be divided among contributors.
  • Goal: Work together to clean up and keep the repository organised.

4. Updates from last week's Triage Squad session

• No triage squad meetings last week

5. Other news

• Office Hours Recap: The September 26, 2026 Office Hours session was successfully hosted, moderated by @vasantrajput, and the recap post has been published. Thanks to @rfluethi for preparing the draft.
• Monthly Update: The Training Team’s September 2026 monthly update has been published.
• Community & Slack: The team shared the guide on how to bring your community to Make WordPress Slack.

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 39 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 26 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.