This month, we held two “Organizing Diverse & Inclusive WordPress Events” discussions.
May 2022
Organizing Diverse & Inclusive WordPress Events – Discussions
Facilitator: @jillbinder
To accommodate the WCUS organizers, we held short discussions on two different dates (May 10 and 14, 2022) about the videos on Learn WordPress. Also invited: All event organizers, contributors, and the mentors in the #diverse-speaker-support channel.
Total number who attended both: 21
From number of cities: 23 (one person represented Meetups in 3 cities/countries)
From number of countries: 8 (Bolivia, India, Nigeria, Philippines, The Netherlands, Portugal, Cabo Verde, United States)
Self-reported increase in preparedness to help create more inclusive WordPress event after taking the workshop: 23%
Testimonials
“I grew from the experience of attending the #WPDiversity workshop. What I took away is that we are stronger together when creating diverse spaces. We see each other’s blind spots and through collaboration we can ensure everyone feels included.” – Winstina Hughes, Community Contributor, US
“This session offered new methods to make events even more inclusive. We absolutely loved discovering that simply changing a few phrases may make meetups & wordcamps even more open to more people.” – WP Swings
“I found the Inclusion training for WordCamp organizers inspiring and helpful. If you’re involved in events in any way, I recommend it.” – Jonathan Wold
“Five minutes in, I felt inspired to start trying some of these ideas as we restart in person meetups. No matter your goal, there are so many applicable basics for community building in this workshop that anyone attending can take something away that they can use immediately in their community.” – Cate DeRosia, WCUS 2022 Lead Trio, Grand Rapids, MI
“I have a better understanding of real inclusion resources.” – Mike Straw, WordPress Code Wrangler, Athens, Ohio
“Every bit of training helps!” – Anon
diverse-speaker-support channel
We have a Slack channel #diverse-speaker-support in the Make WordPress Slack for:
- workshopping talks with each other and with mentors
- finding out about WordPress speaking opportunities from WordPress Meetups and WordCamps
- getting to know other WordPress speakers and organizers
Number of past #WPDiversity Workshop participants who joined in May 2022: 2
Wins this month: 2
- One speaker got accepted to speak
- One speaker got feedback on her presentation
Thank you
A lot of people contribute to making these workshops successful. Thank you to each and every one!
Upcoming
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Watch https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/wpdiversityworkshops/ for our next workshop announcement.