In attendance: @amethystanswers, @tacoverdo, @annezazu, @paaljoachim, @geektutor
Meeting start: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1613591439277500
Agenda: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2021/02/17/contributor-working-group-agenda-february-17-2021/
Daylight Saving Time
Our meeting time will switch to 19:00 UTC after March 14, 2021. Meetings will still be the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Calendar invites should show your correct local time. Please let Christina Workman (@amethystanswers) know if you aren’t on the calendar invite and want to be. Also, the Agenda will always have a time converter link.
General Updates
WordCamp India and Yoast had Contributor events where users were setting up local environments with Windows. @paaljoachim will be using notes from those experiences to improve documentation.
The PR around a welcome comment on GitHub to push people to slack/be friendly was merged (@annezazu)
@annezazu did an update to the outreach page that should ideally help new people get up to speed with more wide ranging resources (https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/handbook/outreach/)
@daisyo participated at WordCamp India and plans to connect with them about how their Contributor event was
Group Goals
Contributor Day Handbook
Goal: Look at how other OSS structure what they have for Contributor Events, compare it and use that to draw lessons and next goals. Start with Drupal, Joomla and TYPO3.
Target Date: April 1
Next Steps
Work towards goals
Next Meeting: Wednesday March 3, 2021 at 20:00 UTC