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Learn WordPress Working Group: Call for Volunteers
Learn WordPress is live and work is gathering towards getting it ready for a full launch. In order to make this the best it can be, it would serve us well to have a few volunteers coming together in a working group to focus on making the platform the best it can be. So far…
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Weekly Updates
Hello to all our DeputiesProgram Supporter Community Program Supporters (formerly Deputies) are a team of people worldwide who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about program supporters in our Program Supporter Handbook., WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re…
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WordCamps in 2019
In 2019, over 36,000 WordPress enthusiasts came together at 142 different WordCamps to spend a day or three talking about WordPress, the free and open-source software that now powers 35% of the web! WordCamps were held in 49 different countries in 2019, with events in 6 continents: Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe, North America, and South…
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Achieving greater clarity when promoting Learn workshop discussion groups
Since the soft launch of the new Learn WordPress video series a handful of discussion groups have been hosted. After participating in two myself and getting information from a couple of other discussion group hosts, I’ve found that the groups all seem to have one important issue in common: very few of the attendees are…
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Collecting and Reporting Stats for Learn WordPress Discussion Groups
In the Americas friendly Community Team meeting today, a suggestion was made by @andreamiddleton: it would be cool to see this level of reporting for workshops/discussion groups on Learn This was inspired by the “transparency and clarity” of @jillbinder‘s reports on the Diversity Speakers Workshops. Based on the conversation that continued, it seems the following…
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Changes in WordCamp and Meetup Application tracker
WordCamp.org has a tool for Community DeputiesProgram Supporter Community Program Supporters (formerly Deputies) are a team of people worldwide who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about program supporters in our Program Supporter Handbook. to track WordCamps and MeetupsMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups…
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WordCamp.org improvements and changes made during Q1 and Q2 2020
This is the start of regular series that highlight updates and changes made in WordCamp.org during last quarter by the #meta-wordcamp team and community contributors. The plan is to publish a similar post at the end of each quarter. As this is the first update, it might be worth clarifying what is WordCamp.org and #meta-wordcamp.…
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Announcement: Enabling G Suite (Google Workspace) for WordCamp.org emails
Based on feedback from Community organizers, the WordPress Community team has decided to switch all [email protected] email accounts to G Suite (Google Workspace)*. We plan to implement the switch a week from now, on Wednesday, August 26. All new WordCamps, along with all existing camps that from 2019 and 2020 that had at least made…
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Community Team Chat Agenda | August 20 2020
Hello Team! Our bi-monthly Community Team chat is happening this Thursday, 20th August 2020. Meeting times are detailed below. We use the same agenda for both meetings in order to include all time zones. Asia-Pacific / EMEA friendly: Americas friendly: DeputyProgram Supporter Community Program Supporters (formerly Deputies) are a team of people worldwide who review…
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Tuesday Trainings: Get to know the contributor teams!
No matter how long one has been involved with a project, I find, there is always room to chat about the basics. So this week, inspired by a recent workshop on Learn.WordPress presented by @courtneypk and myself, I thought a project team map would be in order. The WordPress open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes…