This post is similar to @iandunn‘s post, “Showing Online WordCamps in the Events Widget”, but in this case we are talking about Community workshops. The topic has come up because of the Diverse Speaker workshop on April 14-16. Other online global community workshops are likely to follow.
In the second Community Team chat Thursday, we were discussing how to promote this Speaker workshop. I suggested it could be possible to use the Events Widget. Some discussion occurred in #meta-wordcamp as well which parallel’s Ian’s post.
A few differences to note from online WordCamps:
- This workshop is being organized from Vancouver. I think the location of the organizers should be ignored since a typical radius would exclude potential interested participants.
- This workshop will be held April 14-16 for one hour each at 1800 UTC / 2pm EDT.
- This workshop will be offered in English.
I propose similar questions to Ian’s post, with a few modifications.
Questions
- Should Community Team online training workshops show up in the widget?
- If so, who should they be shown to? Here are a few potential criteria:
- Everyone within a timezone where the event would occur between 8am – 8pm in the user’s local timezone.
- Everyone who speaks the same language — or locale? — as the workshop.
- A combination of the above? Some other criteria entirely?
- Should the timezone and/or language of the event be displayed in the dashboard?
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