This year, the WordPress Community has faced an unprecedented challenge. In response, we took big steps in moving WordCamps, Meetups, and other community events online, and together, we provided the community with some stability during this global crisis, by bringing the in-person WordCamp experience online.
Now that we’ve had a number of outstanding online WordCamps, including WordCamp Europe, we have the opportunity to think beyond simply recreating in-person events.
Instead, we can take this chance to get creative and take our online WordPress events to the next level, exploring how we can transform online events to better serve our community.
Let’s innovate and iterate!
Successful WordPress Community events help people learn to use and contribute to WordPress. Community organizers make this possible by connecting WordPress enthusiasts and inspiring people to do more with WordPress, making it easier for people to contribute to WordPress.
How can we best achieve these goals, advancing the growth and adoption of WordPress, through online events? As an attendee, what would inspire you to participate in an online event?
A few concepts that have been brainstormed by Community deputies include:
- WordCamp JavaScript
- WordCamp Portuguese Online
- Advanced Developer WordCamp Online, August Edition
- WordPress 101 Online, Hindi Edition
- Block Builders Bi-Weekly
- WordCamp “How It Works”**
- Documentation Contributor Workshop
- WordCamp for Non-Profits
- Content Creators Weekly Round-up
**Wins the prize for worst event title.
Other, broader ideas include:
- Decouple online events from geography
- Encourage events and workshops defined by topics, languages, etc.
- Explore shorter, “snack-sized” online events
- Experiment with the frequency of events
Share your ideas
What can online events make possible for WordPress? What do you think about these ideas, and what other ideas do you have? What online events have impressed you? What online events have been successful in your local community?
Please share as many ideas as you can, in comments to this post by 17 July, 2020. Community team deputies will then start working on how to support organizers in creating effective and powerful online WordPress events, to be discussed in a follow-up post.
Thanks to the following deputies for their feedback and contributions to this post: @andreamiddleton, @bph, @camikaos @courtneypk, @harishanker, @hlashbrooke, @kcristiano, @monchomad, @sippis