Attendance: @nukaga, @_dorsvenabili, @zinanga, @matteoenna, @patricia70, @nilovelez, @harishanker, @ioanahasaquestion. @devinmaeztri, @sumitsingh, @enricosorcinelli, @juliarosia
Notes: This recap is a summary of the Community Team monthly meeting. It will cover the discussion points, ideas, and decisions that came up during the meeting. The aim of this recap is to provide a quick overview for those who were unable to attend as well as an overview for everyone. These meetings were based on the Agenda for September and are held in our #community-team Slack channel on Make WordPress.
You can find the meeting chat log here:
- APAC/EMEA: 12:00 PM UTC
- AMER: 21:00 PM UTC
Please leave your comments if you have any feedback.
Additionally, each agenda item discussed may have its own Make post related to its topic with more information and you can add to the discussion directly to that post.
Chat Summary
- What is your .org username? (Please always include it, so we don’t miss to mention you in the recap notes)
- What have you been doing and how is it going?
- Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
- Are there any blockers?
- Can other team members help you in some way?
@nukaga: I did the following in August – Organizer of WordCamp Asia – Mentor for WordCamp Kansai – A little vetting.
@_dorsvenabili: I’m back this week from some summer vacations and I’ve been catching up, handling HS tickets, Meetup applications and a bit of maintenance of the Meetup tracker, gave feedback to some drafts (GatherPress, etc.), supporting event organizers, attendeed the Supporters Office Hours and discussed next steps with inactive Supporters and how to simplify our Events’ applications processes (vetting, group orientations, etc.), had some check-ins with some Supporters, WC Madrid budget review, and more…
We need help vetting applications as the queue is long right now, if any Supporter is interested, please let me know, thanks! I’m mentoring the following events: WordPress Day for Developers Lisboa 2024, WordCamp Youth Hackathon Skopje,WordCamp Sevilla, Spain WordCamp Skopje, North
@zinanga: August was a bit about vacations and also community preparations for fall. Organizing final details for WC Griñón program. Opening new group in Spain Castilla La Mancha now in September. Continue with meetp reactivations And last, but not least, participating in WC Bogotá as attendee and witnessing an amazing reactivation there, not only for the country but also for others who also attended from Costa Rica, Guatemala, México, Nicaragua, Spain. Great leadership, #WCLatam support and lovely contributor day, just amazing 🙂
@matteoenna: He currently launching first do_action.
@patricia70: August: mentoring 4 upcoming WC (2 are in 2025). first venue visit for WCEU2025 in Basel with lead organisers + Local team work started lot of things with GatherPress. preparing the Contributor Mentorship Program (esp the BuddyPress/bbPress project)
September:WCEU teams selection started.preparing the Mentorship Program (most of the vetting have been done when I was away in Basel by amazing peeps @nilovelez @jdy68 @estelaris @harishanker etc :thank-you:) published the GatherPress project update. Blocker: I need another sponsor 🙂 (Themeisle sponsors 1/4 of my contribution time).
@harishanker: Working on facilitating the contributor mentorship program as well as a couple of other projects: Project dashboards and Five for the Future. All good, and no blockers! Excited to be here.
@nilovelez: Mentoring/organizing Trabajo remoto: transformando el futuro con WordPress. Mentoring WordPress Valencia Diversity day. Working on the vetting of the mentorship Program. And preparing for a lot of Spanish WordCamps.
@patricia70: @nilovelez Intrigued by the “preparing for a lot of Spanish WordCamps“, depending on money I would love to come back to Spain for a WordCamp! It was so great last year at WCMAD 
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@ioanahasaquestion: Activity: so far, just getting familiar with the channel / great work you’ve been doing.
@devinmaeztri: Tasks: WC/WP Events and do_action applications and tracker maintenance, events and supporters mentoring, WordCamp Central inbox triage. Projects: Meetup Reactivation, Supporters Offboarding & Onboarding. Events: WCAsia Organizer, WC Port Harcourt and WC Sydney Mentors. ID community: Polyglots LM & GTE, Meetup Organizer groups, following up on unapproved videos for WPTV from events in Indonesia with @kharisblank.
@zinanga: @patriciabt Regarding Spanish WordCamps we have until end of the year: 20-22 September WC Pontevedra, 26-27 October WC Granada, 23-24-Nov WC Griñón for ECommerce, 13-14 Dec WC Madrid (pending for final details I heard). So u cnan choose or come to all of them Additionaly in Spanish, there is alsoWC Costa Rica 11-12 October, WC Guatemala city 26 October.
@nilovelez: 28 September Valencia WordPress diversity day, 19 October Denia “Trabajo remoto: transformando el futuro con WordPress” (online), 9-10 November WordCamp Sevilla.
@sumitsingh: he working for Training and community team to write post/review meeting post.
@enricosorcinelli: I’m enricosorcinelli on WP org and I’m currently co-organizing Rome Core Days event.
@juliarosia: I’ve been working nonstop on WordCamp US organizing – and it’s now just 1.5 weeks away!
Highlights to Note
- Important Call to Action: Help Us Reactivate Inactive Meetup Groups by Sept 16
- Announcement: Sunsetting North American Camera Kit Rental Pro
Moving forward: new and ongoing discussions needing review, feedback, thoughts and comments. Even commenting +1 or something short to these posts is really valuable and helpful!
- Proposed Change to Advertising/Marketing Expense Guidelines
- Event Survey Update and Discussion
- Update about the GatherPress project
In case you missed them, here are the latest announcements and newsletters. Take your time to read them now, or save it for later. Make sure you catch up whenever you can!
- Contributor Working Group/Mentorship Chat Agenda | August 15th 07:00 UTC (APAC/EMEA) and 16:00 UTC (AMER)
- Meetup Organizer Newsletter: August 2024
Last but not least, it’s time to open the floor!
Is there anything you’d like to say or talk about? Did we miss something on our agenda today?
@_dorsvenabili I’d like to invite all Event and Program Supporters to help us with vetting Meetup applications, there is a long list right now and we need all the help as possible 
https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/176
@enricosorcinelli Feel free to add your feedback on the little ideas I proposed for the Five of the Future
@patricia70 is there any advancement or ideas about using a CRM (I’m not sure if I already mentioned during last month meeting) for the Community team, WordCamp organization? @Steve recommended one, that would allow easy follow up for everything related to emailing, and I believe was ready to help for implementation?
Call for volunteers
The Community Team Monthly Meetings happen on the first Thursday’s of every month. These meetings can be facilitated and run by any member of the community team, and is a great opportunity to engage with the rest of the community and team.
If you are interested in facilitating any of these meetings in the future, please feel free to comment or get in touch with any of the Community Team Reps.
If you wish to add points to discuss, comment on this post or reach out to one of the team reps:@lio, @st810amaze, @leogopal, or @nukaga.