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
- WordPress Organizer Meetup Roundtable
- WordPress 5.3 Bug Scrub
- Reminders
WordCamp US – Community Track
This year WordCamp US is holding its first ever community track. This track will feature workshops and interactive presentations designed to include the audience.
Here is what is being covered on the WCUS community track:
“Creating A Welcoming And Diverse Space”
A workshop to create WordPress events in person or online; on how to create a welcoming and diverse space.
The group are running a pre WordCamp US workshop on 6th October 2019, online. You can participate in it by looking up more details here.
This workshop will cover some popular ideas around marketing tactics, meetup formats and ideas along with WordCamps to grow your meetup.
“Running A Successful Contributor Day”
This workshop will cover how to go about running a contributor day for WordCamp that has never done it before. It might also be useful for Contributor meetups.
“Organizing A WordCamp While Staying Sane”
This workshop will explore tools, software and techniques to remove barriers and make running a WordPress meetup easier.
WordPress Organizer Meetup Roundtable
Sometimes Meetup organizers can find themselves stuck and are looking for inspiration to improve their events.
The WordPress Organizer Meetup Roundtable are great discussions by some very experienced organizers and would be a great resource for meetup organizers.
WordPress 5.3 Bug Scrub
WordPress 5.3 is slated to release in November. That means bug scrubs will happen weekly all the way up to the final release. You could share this schedule with your meetups to get them involved in participating and contributing to core.
Here is the link to the WordPress 5.3 Bug Scrub Schedule.
Reminders
- There is an ongoing discussion on revising the annnual meetup survey questions. Leave your feedback as a comment.
- 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 with you next time!
Your friends on the Community Team