If you have a local working copy, you can do an svn relocate or just check out the new location.

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.

I’m making a personal goal of watching 3 today. Until next week folks!

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!

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.