Hello WordPress MeetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. 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
- WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. 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 meetupsMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. 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 sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. 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 dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-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