Hello friends,
Happy new year! Welcome to the January 2021 edition of our meetup organizer newsletter. We are off to a great start in 2021 and we have a lot of exciting news to share with you. Read on to find out more!
Newsletter contents:
- Learn WordPress is out
- Watch the State of the Word 2020 recording
- Online event updates
- News from the WordPress world
Learn WordPress is out!
Learn WordPress, a new, free, on-demand WordPress learning resource, launched officially on December 15. It offers workshops, lesson plans, quizzes, and courses for anyone interested in publishing with, building for, or contributing to WordPress. WordPress enthusiasts can also participate in discussion groups focused on specific topics to learn with and from each other. Want to help make Learn WordPress more successful? Here are four other ways to contribute to Learn WordPress!
How can meetup groups benefit from Learn WordPress?
Meetup organizers can ask participants to watch a Learn WordPress workshop and organize a discussion group based on it for their local meetup. Or you can simply schedule a watch party based on a workshop and arrange a quick discussion based on the same.
Watch the State of the Word 2020 recording
State of the Word 2020, the annual keynote address delivered by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, was streamed online for the first time on December 17. It was followed by a live Q&A from community members all across the world. You can find the stream recording on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. The State of the Word video and the Q&A session are also available on WordPress.tv.
Online event updates
Use the #OnlineWPMeetup hashtag to promote your online WordPress meetups! You can also find all the upcoming online meetups around the globe at: https://make.wordpress.org/community/events/online/.
Don’t forget to use this opportunity to find participants across the world for your meetups too. If you need help with promoting your meetup, reach out to the Marketing team in the #marketing Slack channel.
Online WordCamp updates
WordCamp Sevilla 2020 was held online from 26-29 December 2020. Check out the event website to catch up with the recorded live stream. Videos of the camp will soon be available on WordPress.tv. You can also participate in upcoming online WordCamps!
- WordCamp India 2021 (30-31 January, 6-7 February, and 14-15 February)
- WordCamp Prague 2021 (February 27, 2021)
do_action charity hackathons and Open-source workshops in 2021
Seeing the impact of online do_action charity hackathons and open-source workshops, the community team wants to help more organizers host even more of these events in 2021. The team has published some ideas on how they can better support these events. If you have any thoughts, please share them in the comments of the post by January 25. If your local community wants to organize a do_action event, please submit an application.
Checklist for safe, in-person WordPress events
The Community team has shared a proposal on creating a checklist that organizers can use to ensure safe, in-person WordPress meetups later in 2021. While in-person meetups are still on hold right now, the team plans to decide about the same based on feedback from community members. Please share your thoughts in the comments section of the post.
News from the WordPress world
- The Full Site Editing (FSE) outreach program has been launched to give feedback on the upcoming Full Site Editing feature. While the initial testing call has wrapped up, please join the #fse-outreach-experiment Slack channel to join upcoming testing calls.
- Want to contribute to the Community team goals for 2021? Join us in these open discussion sessions in the #community-team Slack channel. You can also asynchronously share your thoughts on each proposed goal in the Community team Trello board.
- Gutenberg Version 9.7 came out with features like block pattern drag and drop, matching block variations, and improvements to reusable blocks.
- Would you like to have a Slack channel for discussion online WordPress events? If you do, please share your thoughts in this proposal post.
If you have any questions, Community Team deputies are available to help. Please send an email to [email protected] or join the #community-events Slack channel. Thanks for everything you do to grow the WordPress community. Let’s keep sharing knowledge and inspiring each other with our contributions!
We will see you online soon!
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The following people contributed to this edition of the Meetup newsletter: @angelasjin @courtneypk