Hello Team!
Our bi-monthly Community Team chat is happening this Thursday, 16 April 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: Thursday, April 16, 2020, 11:00 UTC
Americas friendly: Thursday, April 16, 2020, 20:00 UTC
Deputy/Mentor check-in
What have you been doing and how is it going?
P2 posts needing review/feedback
- Andrea talks about the accessibility concerns that have been raised concerning the use of Crowdcast as an online conferencing tool, she thanks all those who have helped with documentation surrounding its use and apologizes for not making sure it was a fully accessible tool before recommending it. Other platforms are currently been vetted and collated in this spreadsheet. If you know any good accessible tool out there that can be recommended to community organizers to use for online meetups, conferences and events, please add your voice to the conversation here: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/04/03/online-conference-platform-concerns/
- Ryan has suggested that the Diverse Speaker Workshops could be promoted by showing the online events in the Events widget Section. He is asking if this should be considered, and if so to whom, and in what language or timezone this should be shown, please add your thoughts to this conversation here: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/04/03/showing-online-workshops-in-the-events-widget/
- Timi is taking feedbacks till the 5th of May 2020 on improving the trackers used by community team deputies for meetup and WordCamp applications. To help out or share your thoughts, please do so here: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/04/04/request-for-feedback-revising-application-tracker-back-end/
- The Youth Event working group are talking about an online Kids / Youth Camp for Kids and have set their meeting hours to happen weekly on Thursdays at 2100UTC/5pm EST. If you want to get resources for your own family or just talk about things kids can do safely online, do join in the conversation with Sandy. See their full post here: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/04/08/youth-event-working-group-chat-office-hours-april-9-2020/. A recap of their meeting on the 9th of April can be found here: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/04/14/youth-event-working-group-chat-office-hours-recap-from-april-9-2020/, where they had conversations surrounding age limit for a kids camp, creating videos and content, having a mini series over the course of a month, etc. For parents looking for wholesome creative things for their kiddos to do, kindly leave your thoughts and suggestions in the comments please.
- The Diverse Speaker Working Group posted a recap of their meeting on April 8th here: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/04/10/recap-of-the-diverse-speaker-training-group-wpdiversity-zoom-call-on-april-8-2020/ – they talked about their ongoing workshops this week and the potential new direction the team wants to take. Read their full recaps to get the full lowdown. On the 28th and 30th of April, they are also running a group coaching to train speakers who are members of a marginalized or underrepresented group in terms of gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, age, etc. only. Share this post with friends and register for the training here: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/04/14/diverse-speaker-group-coaching-april-28-30/
- The WPCS (WordPress Community Support, PBC) is beginning a Pilot Program to pay the production costs of online WordCamps hosted in 2020 with the hope that this will result in more online WordCamps during this time of uncertainty and in-person disconnection. If you have suggestions for making this pilot program more successful, or questions about its details, kindly share your ideas, concerns, or questions in a comment on this post: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/04/13/pilot-program-production-vendors-for-online-wordcamps/
- Timi has posted an update for WCEU 2020 contributor day due to the WordCamp taking place online this year. This will be the first Contributor Day of this scale to take place online. To create a welcoming and positive experience for new contributors, she has jotted suggestions on the post and welcomes any ideas about making the online Contributor Day a more valuable and comfortable experience for contributors in the comments here: https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2020/04/15/wordcamp-europe-2020-contributor-day-update/
- Angela has posted the online events edition of the meetup organizer newsletter, to catch the news and resources on and for upcoming events, please see her full post here: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/04/15/meetup-organizer-newsletter-online-events-edition/
Highlighted P2 posts
- This is still monitoring and curating changes to WordCamps previously scheduled to happen this year – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/03/12/latest-updates-on-changes-to-wordcamps/
- While this highlights recommendations for community event organizers in light of the current state of the world – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/03/11/new-recommendations-for-event-organizers-in-light-of-covid-19/
Please add any additional items to this agenda by commenting on this post as needed.