Hello WordPress Meetup organizers!
Welcome to another meetup organizer newsletter full of news, information, and inspiration for your local meetup.
Newsletter contents:
- Diverse Speaker Training Workshops
- Call for volunteers: Handbook Working Group
- WordCamp for Publishers: Viewing Party
- Reminders
Diverse Speaker Training Workshops
“I found the workshop incredibly helpful. I was feeling quite unsure about my upcoming WordPress meetup talk. I have honed in the topic and brainstormed a dozen other topics for the future!”
– Vancouver workshop participant
As organizers, have you ever had challenges getting women and people from other underrepresented groups in tech to speak at your meetups and WordCamps? Check out the Diversity Outreach Speaker Training workshop (#wpdiversity): https://make.wordpress.org/training/speaker-training
Sign up to run the workshop here: http://tiny.cc/wpdiversity
Upcoming training timings:
– Wednesday, July 24 at 9pm-11pm UTC
– Thursday, Aug 8 at 9am-11am UTC
– Wednesday, Aug 21 at 9pm-11pm UTC
Diverse Speaker Training Workshops
“I found the workshop incredibly helpful. I was feeling quite unsure about my upcoming WordPress meetup talk. I have honed in the topic and brainstormed a dozen other topics for the future!”
– Vancouver workshop participant
As organizers, have you ever had challenges getting women and people from other underrepresented groups in tech to speak at your meetups and WordCamps? Check out the Diversity Outreach Speaker Training workshop (#wpdiversity): https://make.wordpress.org/training/speaker-training
Sign up to run the workshop here: http://tiny.cc/wpdiversity
Upcoming training timings:
– Wednesday, July 24 at 9pm-11pm UTC
– Thursday, Aug 8 at 9am-11am UTC
– Wednesday, Aug 21 at 9pm-11pm UTC
Call for volunteers: Handbook Working Group
As a meetup organizer, you might be aware of our helpful handbooks which provide a lot of information about the meetup program. There is currently a call for volunteers for the handbook working group.
The goal of the group is to facilitate an audit and rework part of the content/information architecture to make them more useful than ever, and plan for future growth.
As meetup organizers if you are interested in volunteering for this project, go ahead and read up more info at this link.
WordCamp for Publishers: Viewing Party
Many WordCamps stream their content live all over the world, making it a great opportunity to get your local community together to watch it.
If you can’t travel to a WordCamp, then the live stream is a great way to share in the content of the event along with other local WordPress enthusiasts.
WordCamp for Publishers: Columbus is a community-organized event bringing together folks who use WordPress to manage publications, big or small.
This event will empower participants by coaching them on best practices, and encourage collaboration in building open source tools for publishers.
WordCamp for Publishers is working on a live stream for the day which will be available at https://2019-columbus.publishers.wordcamp.org/livestream/
Reminders
- The Community team published the results of their work at the WordCamp Europe contributor day.
- There is an ongoing discussion on how we can better reach out community organizers
- There is a proposal to improve this newsletter with additional organizer tips and training. You can leave your feedback on this post.
- To organize an “Introduction to Open Source” workshop at your meetup, please read this announcement and fill in the form.
That’s it for now — chat with you next time!
Your friends on the Community Team
make.wordpress.org/community