The WordCamp base theme and post types plugin have shifted from code.svn.wordpress.org to http://meta.svn.wordpress.org/sites/trunk/wordcamp.org/public_html/.
If you have a local working copy, you can do an svn relocate or just check out the new location.
I know there’s a group working on a proposal for an organizer mentorship program, which is cool. In the meantime, we need to get some hands on deck now rather than later to help with incoming organizer applications and orienting newly approved organizers. These people would learn the process from @andreamiddleton, and hopefully volunteer a couple of hours a week doing this. Interested? For the sake of expediency, let’s stick to folks who are experienced with WC organizing, and who don’t have any beef with the guidelines. Not saying there’s no room for dissent, but since this is a start-now thing, removing the need for guidelines arguments/debates will be the easiest, fastest way to get a handful of people up to speed.
Who wants to help? Leave your name in the comments, and Andrea will pick up to 4 people completely subjectively and without any group voting. Sometimes we need to just get things done. 
Mentorship program team, still looking forward to seeing that move forward.
We’ve actually submitted a Proposal to Andrea for submission to the team reps, so I’m not sure what the hold up is there. In the mean time, I’m totally game for helping out with this.
I’d be glad to lend Andrea a hand – just dorp me a line!
Would love to help out and be involved here where I can. Let me know
Would love to know more about this. Put me on the list
Would love to lend a hand here, add me to the list as well.
Count me in.
No group voting? Oh noes!
Does that mean you’re interested in helping or not?
i’d love to, for sure!
Sign me up!
I’m in!
I’m game for helping out.
Count me in!
This week has been rather slow for us. We’ve only published 6 videos! 2 Videos were “How-to” and 4 were from WordCamp Atlanta. We’ve encountered some issues with audio so, it’s slow going to get WordCamp Atlanta out.
I’m making a personal goal of watching 3 today. Until next week folks!
I have an idea that will save everyone a lot of time. Sessions can be recorded via Google Hangout “On Air” and published directly to YouTube live. Then, if you want to, you can download the videos and reupload them to your wp.tv server or just embed them into the site.
This would save hundreds of hours a year.
Good in theory. The problem isn’t recordings, it’s more viewing the content, checking to make sure it meets the standards of WordCamp Video sessions, http://wptvmods.wordpress.com/wordcamp-video-submission-standards/, grabbing slides, etc. That just takes time to do.
+1 on the Hangouts. And now (writing this May 21) Hangouts aren’t published automatically afterwards – they are created as drafts in Youtube, even though they can be streamed live as they happen. I’d really like to hear more discussion about this and if there’s a reason why we can’t use this method going forward.
First off, I failed at posting this last week. So I apologize for not sending out an update last week. We didn’t have much last week though, so holding off till this week made sense.
This week we’ve published 14 videos!! Most if not all of them are from WordCamp Atlanta. Our new process of letting moderators schedule videos to be published is working wonderfully and we’re able to publish videos out now as we view them and add the appropriate information, slides, description, etc.
And that’s pretty much it! Until next week, I’m signing out!
thanks for all you’ve done!
Not much has been happening in terms of videos being uploaded the past couple of weeks. With Miami, San Diego, and Atlanta just having finished, we expect to start seeing those videos get uploaded and published.
Since launching “Get Involved” a few weeks ago, we’ve had a couple of videos that didn’t meet the guidelines. It might be helpful to review those again before creating or submitting your videos. We’d love to see more meetups and screencasts. A few moderators are working on a list of what they are going to create. They’ll be posting on our P2, if you’d like to check it out.
This Week:
- Since our last update we’ve published 8 videos (5 How-To, 1 WordCamp, 1 Meetup)
- We discussed publishing policy amongst moderators
- Started creating a list of possible How-To videos moderators can help create
Started creating a list of possible How-To videos moderators can help create
Really interested in following this – seeing some pretty decent ones get uploaded and I think a good idea would be to tag which version they are being recorded in; 1) so we can have a cool page like /version-3-6/ for new features and/or related to the latest version, and 2) it will be super easy to identify which videos are outdated (i.e., media manager before 3.5, etc.)
I like this idea a lot! One thing that this has me thinking about is a way to flag anything that is deprecated as well.
As good as a current version tag is, for new users that is not as helpful as only seeing videos that are relavent. Having a way to flag or hide videos that are out-of-date or use a feature that is no longer in WordPress would be helpful here.
For example, say we’re all on 3.6 now: A video that shows how to manage comments in 3.3 may still be perfectly valid and helpful information, but a video that shows how to create an image gallery in 3.3 should not be coming up in search, or showing on the site in an obvious way.
@rosso99 That’s a very good point. I don’t think we’ve talked about tagging based on version. Something we really should consider. I’ll mention it to the mods right now.
We’re putting it all IN, and going for a full-speed documentation sprint for the month of April. Goal: Have a draft of ALL our materials ready to share by May 1st.
Why not join us???
If being on a committee long-term gives you hives, what about a documentation sprint just for a month? We want to have a complete draft of all our templates by the end of this month. If you want to help us for the month, or even contribute just a few documents, we want you!
Comment below to let us know you’re interested; we’ll assign you a document to draft up and submit for review (within a week is a good rule of thumb)…and so on!
Furthermore, we went through our long list of planning training materials and x-referenced it with the Word Camp documentation already online. We marked some just as to be reviewed (& perhaps to sit on until after the Guidelines committee starts implementing any changes), and further identified which could be templates & reusable drafts we can create vs. just tips or guidelines which are pretty largely addressed with the current documentation.
If it can be personalized for a WC, printed off and used like a checklist or something organizers can easily download / forward / make their own, that’s what we’re focusing on!
If love to help
Russell will be working on the Post-event email to attendees template – Thanks!
I would love to help if I could.
Karl will be working on the Speaker Application template – Thanks!
I would like to help out too.
Aditya will be working on the Call for Volunteers post template – Thanks!
Am not sure I can help, but would like to try.
Excellent! Thanks for replying! I’ll email each of you with a choice of docs and will post here what you’re working on…
All volunteers have been contacted (please check your email!) I’ll update with their docs as soon as they’ve chosen them.
For everyone else, we still have a *TON* of docs to create to I’ll accept new volunteers at any time!
Andrea, Karen, Dustin, Tony and I met as usual on Wednesday/Thursday and the outcome of that meeting is as follows;
We have identified the most hotly contested pain points from our survey and in the coming days will be personally emailing those respondents who had indicated a desire to talk further about those guidelines to get more feedback and to deepen the discussion about the issues. It is the goal of these discussions to start getting together some thoughts as to recommendations for improvements, be they to the guidelines themselves, or to the communication about the existence and application of the guidelines.
There first stand outs in the list of ’pain points’ was the keeping of ticket price to $20US per day so this week we will be emailing those people who identified with that point strongly in the survey to get further input from them.
It feels like we’re doing a lot of data gathering. The goal of this committee, is to be able to present recommendations as to how we can best move forward with WordCamp organising under a set of guidelines that works for the community as a whole and for WordPress in general. So, all of this talking is helping us take the pulse of the community with a view to a diagnosis of the issues and hopefully, a remedy.
We look forward to chatting further to those of you who have invited discussion.
Looking forward to hearing from you – I made a number of comments on behalf of http://wpuk.org/
Tony do you mind outlining what your concerns were/are here, as I know you have had some strong views on the Foundation and so would be useful for others to learn more.
Hi Ben – give me some time to dig it out and I’ll try and post our concerns tomorrow.
Hey, Tony. I just happened to notice that your next reply to this is in moderation, probably due to the number of links in it. Here’s the post without links:
Ben – here’s the response to the survey – please note this reflects the view of the WPUK Core Group collectively and does not necessarily reflect my personal view (although in this case there’s nothing in the response I disagree with).
When did you organize your WordCamp? I’ve organized camps both before and after May 2011
How do you feel about the guidelines? I think they are ok but need some changes
Please identify which (if any) of the following were ‘pain points’ for you in the course of organizing your WordCamp
Having to host the site on WordCamp.org
Using WordCamp Base theme
Have you anything you’d like to add to the conversation? This response is written on behalf of the WPUK organising Core Group. As detailed by Andrea not all the points in the ‘pain points’ question have been applicable to all WordCamps and/or not on the current guidelines. If the following where in any revised guidelines, they would cause us a problem: getting our venue approved by WordCamp Central, getting our budget approved by WordCamp Central, getting our date approved by WordCamp Central, sharing a budget with WordCamp Central, getting our sponsorship packages approved by WordCamp Central, having Central vet sponsors. In broad terms our overall issues with the current guidelines is that the ‘rules’ need to seperated out from guidance and advice – at the moment they are both unclear and vague in many areas, leading to (mis)interpretation, and voluminous at the same time. Additionally the application process is too repetitive for previous organisers. We’ve plenty more to say, but that would be better later in the process.
Interesting. I’m frequently broke (the joys of a freelancer’s cash flow), but this wasn’t particularly an issue for me. At $50/day I might start to argue, but I’ve paid more for less valuable events.
Myself, and many I’ve talked to, feel similarly.
The issue as on organizer is that the cost to run a WordCamp can vary dramatically depending on location and while it’s awesome so many organizers can get venues for free or cheap for many locations that’s impossible.
It’s also a matter of providing some flexibility to organizers to invent and experiment rather than just following the same bare bones WC format everywhere.
It has been a bit of a slow week in terms of videos, but we expect that to change soon as the high season for WordCamps gets in full swing. Spring is in the air, and big camps in San Diego, Miami, and Nashville are not far behind!
Since “Get Involved” was launched last week, we have already started receiving our first public video submissions! It’s great to see more variety in the videos we publish, and we can’t wait for this to really take off! Uptake so far has been measured, and has sparked quite a bit of discussion on our P2 and during our weekly office hours on IRC. Here’s what’s been going on:
This Week
- Published 11 videos (7 WordCamp, 1 Meetup, 3 How-to)
- For “how-to” videos, we discussed how to format video descriptions, and looking into ways to give proper attribution to uploaders.
- Discussed duplicate content – For now we allow duplicate videos if they come from different sources. We’ll let visitors determine which is best. We will revisit if it looks like things are getting out of hand.
- Along with that, discussed the need to improve the discoverability of up-voted content on the site. Currently star ratings and likes are possible on video pages, but there is no way to effectively promote this content to new visitors, and it is not a ranking factor in site searches.
Next Week
- Finalize how we want to handle “how-to” video descriptions/attributions.
- Continue making improvements to process documentation to improve process of on-boarding new mods.
- Mod the heck out of whatever videos come our way.
Naturally, as you can see from the post preceding this one, the biggest news for the mod squad is the same as it is for you: Now anyone can “Get Involved” in WordPress.tv! We’ve already had a few submissions coming in, and expect that number to grow steadily! In our IRC office hours and posts on our P2 site, we have been busy getting ready:
Last Week:
- Welcomed our newest Moderator, Karim! He will be a huge help in getting our recent videos from WordCamp Netherlands published!
- Discussed how to approach and classify WordPress “meetup” submissions, which we think will vary a little a bit, compared to WordCamp presentation videos we’ve seen.
- Published 30 videos.
Next Week:
- Getting ready for some awesome submissions.
- Looking to plan a docs sprint soon, to build out the rest of our documentation on how to become a moderator.
- Publish great WordCamp videos.
WordPress.tv is now open for video submissions from the WordPress community.
Do you record your WordPress meetup? Submit it to WordPress.tv! Do you record WordPress screencast tutorials? Submit them to WordPress.tv! Do you create some other form of WP video awesomesauce that would benefit the community? WordPress.tv might be just the place for it.
Fair warning: Our intrepid group of WordPress.tv event video moderators already works hard to review and publish WordCamp videos, and if WordPress.tv is suddenly flooded with video submissions, they may take a while to get around to reviewing and publishing your video. Please be patient as we iterate toward success… and if you’re interested in donating your time toward becoming a WordPress.tv moderator, please apply here. If this takes off like we think it might, we will definitely need some extra eyes!
Thanks in advance for helping to make WordPress.tv an even more fantastic resource. If you have questions about this, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Woot!
Woot! ::gulp::
Awesome! I was only talking about this very issue a few hours ago in the hope that this would someday be implemented
What exactly would the role of new moderators be? And how much time per week would you be looking for?
Ryan, the current group of WordPress.tv volunteers usually put in 2-4 hours a week, reviewing WordCamp videos for content accuracy and video quality. Some people put in more time, but when there are videos in the queue, about 2-4 hours a week is what we ask people to contribute.
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Scott Offord are discussing. 
RGerhart, and 3 others are discussing. 
Tony Zeoli 3:55 pm on May 10, 2013 Permalink |
A Post Types plugin? Cool. What does it do? I guess I’ll DL it and check it out.
Konstantin Kovshenin 4:04 pm on May 10, 2013 Permalink |
It’s the plugin we use on WordCamp.org to work with speakers, sessions, etc.