Hello WordPress Meetup organizers!
Welcome to another meetup organizer newsletter full of news, information and inspiration for your local meetup.
Newsletter contents:
- Organizer best practices: helping your local meetup
- Proposal for Central Block Directory
- Diversity Outreach Speaker Training Workshops
- Reminders
Organizer best practices: helping your local meetup
On the Make Community blog, there is a discussion that has been kickstarted about ways to help your local meetup and some best practices around them.
Here are 11 ways to contribute to your local WordPress meetup, which can also serve as a graceful path to community leadership:
- spread the word about the meetup (sharing photos on social media, word of mouth, flyers, blog posts, etc)
- greet & welcome new attendees
- take attendance (if your group keeps a record of who actually attended the event)
- deliver opening or closing remarks (easier if the points to cover are written down)
- facilitate a round-table discussion
- give a presentation
- help find a free venue
- record & post a presentation to WordPress.tv
- organize refreshments
- suggest or recruit speakers
- organize an event series
Proposal for Central Block Directory
With blocks becoming the new way to manage content in WordPress, more and more types of blocks are being developed to cater for different use cases and content types. In an effort to make it easier for content creators to find these block types, there is a proposal for a new type of plugin and a directory to handle it.
The proposal outlines a new type of WordPress plugin that provides blocks and nothing else, named Single Block Plugins. The primary benefit would be to provide content creators with individual pieces of functionality and new types of blocks without the need to search for and install new plugins.
The Single Block Plugins would be hosted in a separate Block Directory section of the Plugin Directory and they would initially be JavaScript-based. Each plugin will register a single block, and they will be searchable and installable from within the editor itself. This puts blocks at the publishers’ fingertips — you no longer have to leave the editor to find them.
Want to get involved in shaping this new type of plugin? Join in the conversation on the proposal post, follow the Meta team blog, and join the #meta channel in the Making WordPress Slack group.
Diversity Outreach Speaker Training Workshops
Have you ever had trouble getting women and people from other groups underrepresented in tech to speak at your meetups and WordCamps? Check out the Diversity Outreach Speaker Training workshop: https://make.wordpress.org/training/speaker-training
Write to us to sign up for this or find out about future training sessions here: http://tiny.cc/wpwomenspeakTo sign up and get more details, either fill out our form and comment with which date you’d would like to attend a training email the working group at [email protected]
Reminders
- Read about the 2018 Meetup Survey Statistics
- Support Team put Block editor user documentation is now available: Check out Block Editor and Core Block Types
- There is a proposal to improve this newsletter with additional organizer tips and training. You can leave your feedback on this post.
That’s it for now — chat to you next time!
Your friends on the Community Team
make.wordpress.org/community