Source: Make WordPress: Community

The WordPress 15th anniversary will be on May 27, 2018 — let’s get ready to celebrate! Parties We invite all local communities to organize 15th anniversary celebrations for the weekend of May 27, just as we did for the 10th anniversary. We’ll be emailing all meetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for…

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…

Hey Team! Our bi-monthly Community Team chat is happening this Thursday, 15 March 2018 (today). Meeting times are 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC in #community-team on Slack – we use the same agenda for both meetings in order to include all time zones. Note the new time above for the earlier meeting! Agenda DeputyProgram Supporter…

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…

Start time stamp in Community-Team SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ – https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1520441905000866 Attending:  @jillbinder @cguntur @zoonini Today’s Agenda Co-leader! MeetupsMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more…

The Community Code of ConductCode of Conduct “A code of conduct is a set of rules outlining the norms, rules, and responsibilities or proper practices of an individual party.” – Wikipedia team is getting ready to send a survey out to community members about our current code of conduct and about what community spaces should…

In the comments on this post a point was raised that warrants further discussion: A person works for a marketplace that sells non-GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL is a ‘copyleft’ license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html. This means that derivative work…

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…

@andreamiddleton suggested a Fundraising Working group in her post.   In short, the scope will be: The scope of this project is to research the methods and practices of organizing teams that have been successful in their fundraising and then report back to the global community teamGlobal Community Team A group of community organizers and…

We’re often fond of saying that the primary benchmark for WordCamps is the quality of our content, and a large part of our content is our speakers. Even though speakers are WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach…