Source: Make WordPress: Community

  • 2021 Financial Update for the WordPress Community

    The WordPress community gracefully weathered the storm that was 2020, and now faces yet another year of uncertainty as the world continues to adapt to COVID’s effects. In May of 2020, Kevin Cristiano published a post that provided the community with an overview of the program’s financial status. Now that the refunds and cancellation fees…

  • Meetup Organizer Newsletter: March 2021

    Hello friends, Wow, can’t believe it’s March already! We have some exciting updates and resources for your 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. groups this month. Read on to find out more!…

  • Meetup group resources: Talking points for WordPress 5.7

    We said hello to the latest major WordPress release – version 5.7 “Esperanza,” on March 9, 2021. 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. organizers can help promote the latest release by organizing…

  • Request for feedback: Review for the dedicated deputy communication channel

    After the discussion on my proposal about a dedicated communication place for deputies, we agreed to experiment with a private #community-deputies channel in 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/. In the discussion, we also agreed to do a public review after three…

  • Recap of the Diverse Speaker Training group (#WPDiversity) on March 10, 2021

    Start: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1615395625308300 Summary: Our March 4, 2021 workshop for the Great Lakes, held by @tantienhime, @volkswagenchick, and @sparklingrobots went well. We talked about how it went and lessons learned. For our upcoming March 18, 2021 workshop, @volkswagenchick and @oneal are going to be volunteers. We are also looking for help with reaching out to meetup…

  • Tuesday Training Announcement (March 16): Join us for a Live session on Learn WordPress

    I’m pleased to invite you to be a part of next week’s Tuesday Training on the topic: How can 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. groups benefit from Learn WordPress? Some of…

  • Tuesday Trainings: I just found out that my speaker/sponsor has a plugin that is not 100% GPL. What do I do?

    First step: don’t panic. This has happened before, it will happen again. This is a problem that can be solved. Next step: what choice do we (as organizers or 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…

  • 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…

  • X-post: Recap for Learn WordPress Working Group meeting – March 4, 2021

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  • Request for Feedback: Community Team Stats Dashboard

    A few days ago, @iandunn asked for feedback on the idea of Stats Dashboard from all the make teams. During today’s Asia/EMEA version of the Community Team Meeting, participants understood that the question is actually quite big as our team has so many areas, numbers and metrics that could be monitored in the dashboard. Instead…