Since 2017, the #WPDiversity team has been encouraging people from underrepresented and marginalized groups in WordPress to participate and speak at WordCamps and WP Meetups in their local community and the ever-expanding global WP community.
The team has been growing and with the different time zones, not everyone who is interested is able to attend our bi-weekly #WPDiversity meetings. Other teams in the Make WordPress project hold additional meetings in time zones that are more friendly to those working in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region to allow everyone’s voices to be heard.
Due to this, members of the #WPDiversity team are starting up a second meeting that will be more accessible to those in the APAC time zones.
The meeting will be held in parallel with the AMER/EMEA meetings on Thursday of the 2nd and 4th week of the month. The focus of the APAC meetings will be different, to start. Our aim will be to create a space to meet and talk about diversity and inclusion in WordPress, as well as make any announcements that are relevant to APAC from the AMER/EMEA meeting.
This is timely, as WordCamp Asia 2023 is fast approaching.
This is for you if:
- You are based in Asia-Pacific
- You care about diversity and inclusion in WordPress, particularly in Asia-Pacific
- You are able to join most of the meetings (2 hours a month – 1 hour each meeting)
Please comment on this post with your WordPress Slack name to indicate that you are interested in joining the meetings with us. If you don’t have a WordPress Slack account yet, here is how to get set up: https://bit.ly/setupwp2slack
Additionally, to help us find the time on Thursdays that will work for as many of you who are interested as possible, please indicate every time slot that can work for you in this doodle poll by end of day May 9, 2022:
POLL HERE: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/b68Yx6ne
We will begin holding meetings on Thursday, May 12, 2022.
Thank you to @onealtr @jillbinder and @juliarosia for contributing to this post!