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This week’s community chat is cancelled due to that one US holiday falling on Thursday. 🙂 Catch you all in December! Login to Reply

I want to set up a couple of tranings over the next few weeks to train people to review meetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. applications and set up/transfer groups onto the…

Howdy Mod Squad, let’s have a meeting to discuss recent changes to the Moderator Handbook, and also do a bit of pre-planning for things we’d like to try and accomplish in 2015. Join us on 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/ at…

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” – Helen Keller In the last five months there have been 39 WordCamps held around the world. Of the 39 WordCamps, 25 were held in cities were video cameras are available…

One of the goals I had for the Community team working days after WCSF was to iterate on the Multi-Event Sponsorship program for 2015. Kevin Cristiano, Tina Kesova, and Karim Marucchi met with me for a couple of hours to discuss where we thought the program needed to go for next year, and below are…

Team Chat Agenda Feedback on the WC orgs term limits post General check-ins from various project teams If you want to suggest something for the agenda, leave it in the comments Heads up: I’m not feeling very well this morning, so have asked Andrea to lead the meeting if I am unable to attend because…

During the coworking days after 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 one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. SF, a group of community volunteers gathered to discuss how to help…

I’ve removed the Returning Organizer Application from http://plan.wordcamp.org/become-an-organizer/organizer-application/ for now. With many new volunteers learning to vet and review applications, we can’t rely on my memory anymore. Sorry returning organizers! We’re going to have to ask you to spend a little more time filling out the application every year, at least for a while. 🙂…

The Ada Initiative’s Ally Workshop curriculum is available online (scroll down to resources). This is something we’ve talked about wanting to be able to use for a longish time now, and I have to admit I’m a little bit bummed to be exiting just as it could be a new program for us. I have…

@andreamiddleton and I are going to be transitioning out of our WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ community roles over…