In February, #WPDiversity held a speaker workshop for Switzerland and a Slack conversation in the Allyship for WP Event organizers program.
February 2022
Switzerland – Underrepresented Voices: Confidence and Topics for Speaking at WordCamps, February 10, 2022
Facilitator: @jillbinder
A workshop for underrepresented people in Switzerland on February 10, 2022
Number who attended: 6
From number of cities: 6
From number of countries: 3 (Germany, Switzerland, and United States)
Self-report increase in public speaking confidence after taking the workshops: 52%
Two people from the workshop volunteered to translate the videos into French.
Allyship Program
Allyship for WordPress event organizers AMER/EMEA accountability Slack chat, February 16, 2022
Facilitator: @jillbinder
In our 3-month Allyship program, we hold support chats in the WordPress Slack #community-events channel in months 2 and 3. This was our month 3 chat.
We invite the current and previous cohorts to attend (cohorts 1 and 2).
Number who attended: 11
From number of cities: 10
From number of countries: 5 (Canada, England, Luxembourg, Philippines, and United States)
diverse-speaker-support channel
We have set up a brand-new Slack channel in the Make WordPress Slack for:
- networking
- workshopping talks with each other and with mentors
- finding out about WordPress speaking opportunities from WordPress Meetups and WordCamps
Number of past #WPDiversity Workshop participants who joined in February: 5
Thank you
A lot of people contribute to making these workshops successful. Thank you to each and every one!
Upcoming:
Love this? Come attend a workshop!
Watch https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/wpdiversityworkshops/ for our next workshop announcement for April soon.If you are holding WordPress Meetups or are holding a WordCamp this year, we would like to help you be welcoming diversity stewards. Please get in touch with @jillbinder on the WordPress Slack and we will arrange #WPDiversity workshops for you.