This is the start of regular series that highlight updates and changes made in WordCamp.org during last quarter by the #meta-wordcamp team and community contributors. The plan is to publish a similar post at the end of each quarter.
As this is the first update, it might be worth clarifying what is WordCamp.org and #meta-wordcamp.
WordCamp.org is a WordPress multisite network that contains all WordCamp sites, WordCamp and Meetup application tools, most of the budget tools and other miscellaneous tools needed to community management. Most of the source code is public in the Github repository, only some special plugins aren’t included because of security reasons.
#meta-wordcamp is a Slack channel but used often when referring the sponsored team of developers who are responsible for maintaining existing tools, developing new ones (mostly) based on Community Team requests and help with community contributions. Currently, the team consists of @iandunn, @coreymckrill and @ryelle. More widely, #meta-wordcamp is the right channel for event organizers to reach out when they encounter technical problem, bug or want to get started on contributing towards developing WordCamp.org.
Updates and changes made in WordCamp.org in Q1 and Q2 2020:
New features:
- Multiple changes in preparations to migrate WordCamp site URLs to city.wordcamp.org/year format (discussion). Some sites have been already migrated if the event is over or organisers have requested the migration.
- New Schedule Block is available on WordCamp sites (announcement)
- New Speaker Feedback tool is available on WordCamp sites (announcement)
- Day of event page added to new sites as default (60b500c)
- Better formatting on event application notes and links clickable (5c3ea7f)
- WordCamps in pre-planning was added to API (311914d)
- WordCamp attendee status can be now changed easily (73c9aaf)
- Sponsor invoices support new refunded status (dfdbbd5)
- WordPress.org login is required to send WordCamp or Meetup application (fc5cbe0)
- WordPress.org username is validated when applications are saved (92c0c72)
- Automatic contact form spam deletion disabled until WordCamp is over (34d4bed)
- Multiple updates to support organizing online events
Feature changes and improvements:
- The default theme for new sites changed to Twenty Twenty (75f4a2e)
- Camptix invoices plugin can be now activated by organisers (267dc13)
- WordCamp Central receives CC from all email confirmations after event application has been sent (b8e6074)
- Meetup application questions were updated per Community Team’s request (4a4ad19)
- Tickets sold out the message was slightly tweaked to nicer one (5f3c274)
- Multiple payment management related changes
- Multiple minor PWA tweaks
- Multiple Favorite Sessions tool updates
Bug fixes:
- Sessions Custom Post Type now uses correct timezone for session times (043587c)
- Speaker application form WordPress.org login requirement was fixed (59c8193)
- Improvements on Camptix ticket form accessibility (bdacdcc)
- Fix to invalidate Attendees page cache when an attendee is set to be private (4a1deba)
- Tens of minor miscellaneous updates to keep tools working