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Mayo Moriyama 3:07 pm on September 27, 2026  

Who is “anyone” who can organize meetup?

Hi everyone! 👋 I’m one of co-organizers of Tokyo 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..

I’ve run into what looks like a contradiction across three handbook pages about who can organize a Meetup event, and I’d like to ask for clarification and raise it for discussion.

First, to be clear about where I stand: I think the “any member can organize an event” setting in Group Tools should be on. I’m not arguing against it.

Three pages where describes “who organize meetup”

  • Five Good Faith Rules, rule 4: Meetup groups allow events to be organized by any reliable/trusted member of the community.
  • Any Member Can Organize an Event (handbook page, published Sept 2023): any member of the group may organize events, without gatekeepers.
  • Existing Meetup Group Script (2015): “trusted” mostly means nice people who are active in the community, “reliable” means they show up when they say they will.

This split is recent — though I may be reading the history wrong

In the December 2016 version of the old 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. page, the Five Good Faith Rules and the “any member can organize” paragraph sat on the same page, and that paragraph said plainly that it was about a Group Tools setting.

My guess is that when this content was split into separate handbook pages in 2023, the text carried over but the surrounding context didn’t, and the new page title ended up reading as a statement of principle rather than a request about a checkbox. But that’s just my reading from the outside — if anyone was involved in that restructure and it was a deliberate change rather than a side effect, I’d genuinely like to know. It would change what I’m asking for below.

Why this became concrete for me

Someone who had never attended any of our meetups asked to organize one. I asked them to come along to an existing meetup first, and offered a video call to talk it through.

I don’t think that was gatekeeping. But “Any Member Can Organize an Event” is a page title that travels well on its own, and set against it, what I did is hard to explain. When a member asked me “anyone can organize an event, right? Or not?”, I couldn’t give a proper answer.

So I asked @nukaga, and she checked with the Community Team. The answer: any community member can run an event without being a co-organizer, but should coordinate with the co-organizers, who are expected to confirm they’re trustworthy and following the Five Good Faith Rules.

That reconciles all three pages, and it matches how I think most of us already work. But it reached me through private DMs. None of it is written down.

What I’m asking

  1. Is that interpretation correct?
  2. If so, I’d suggest retiring the “Any Member Can Organize an Event” page and putting its content back where it belongs: the Group Tools setting into the group management docs, and the operational expectation alongside the Five Good Faith Rules. The rules text itself should stay exactly as it is — it has been stable for a decade and that’s worth protecting. The page mostly restates things that live elsewhere, which is what made them look contradictory in the first place.
  3. Can this be logged as a known inconsistency in the handbooks audit?

One more thing, honestly: I hadn’t been following @adityakane‘s handbook restructure work, and I should have found it before writing this. Sorry. 🙏 If the working group still has room, I’d like to join and take the Meetup Organizer Handbook audit.

Karen Alma Arnold 2:24 am on September 26, 2026  

Update on the WordPress community groups on events.wordpress.org

In July, it was announced that 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. groups will be moving off Meetup.com and onto events.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/, built on GatherPress. And since August 28, the team working on the project has had an open call for testing which brought in a lot of useful feedback.

As the team moves the project forward for the roughly 700 groups and the people in them, I wanted to give an update on where things stand. First of all, @unintended8, @harmonyromo, and I are still talking to Meetup.com, making them aware of improvements they can make and exploring how they can better support us for as long as the WordPress community meets there. Read on!

What’s happening

  1. Now: The call for testing has gone out and work on the feedback is underway.
  2. Next: Real groups run real events on it to find what works and what breaks, including using a migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. tool that pulls from meetup.com. If you are interested in helping test this, please comment below as it’s important to have a handful of folks try it.
  3. Later: Everyone else moves, once the platform and the migration path have held up through real use.

What we know

The team will build a migration tool which will import upcoming events and venues as drafts for the organizer to review and publish. It does not copy the member list. The plan is for someone on the team to run the import rather than the group organizer. Past events are not part of the first round. The migration will first be done manually in order to shape the tool itself and increasingly become more automated based on feedback.

Members join the new group themselves. They follow a link from your Meetup group, sign in with a WordPress.org account, join, and RSVP. So anyone who wants to stay with your group will need a WordPress.org account. Requiring WordPress.org accounts is an important change, so please start preparing now.

If something your group relies on is not there yet, say so. The team is tracking everything on the migration milestone on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/.

What we don’t know yet

One thing that is unknown is whether members can be moved in bulk. The tool could later match Meetup members to existing WordPress.org accounts and add them to a group, or invite people by email. Whether we can do that depends on a decision about member data that has not been made yet. Until it is, joining by hand is the plan.

What happens to a group’s Meetup.com page in the end is also an open question. During a pilot it stays up, and its event listings point at the new platform instead of holding a second RSVP list. Whether it eventually closes, stays as a signpost, or something else is still open, and we are working through it with Meetup.com.

Some groups have not held an event in a while. We have to decide what to do with those dormant groups. My preference is that we reach out to them and ask whether they want help to get going again, and if so help them start on the new platform.

How you can help

Pilot! If you organize a group and would run one or two events on the new platform, volunteer in #gatherpress-migration on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ or in the comments here. We especially want groups outside Europe and North America and groups that don’t run in English.

Start on WordPress.org accounts now. If your members already have a WordPress.org account when your group moves, there is nothing for them to do on the day. Mention it at your next event. 

Try it! The test group is at events.wordpress.org/group/internal-testing-group. Feedback goes on the call for testing post or in the GitHub repository.

Kudos to @annezazu, @bor0, @patricia70, @mauteri, and the @GatherPress contributor community.

JuanMa Garrido 5:09 pm on September 25, 2026
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Jonathan Desrosiers 6:51 pm on September 18, 2026  

Proposal: Indentifying WPCC Participants through WordPress.org Profiles

One of the most important aspects of any 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. community is mentorship. In many ways, WordPress is what it is today due in large part to the many established contributors who have been willing to help others find their place within the project.

The WordPress Campus Connect and WordPress Credits Programs are important variables in the equation for WordPress to remain strong for another 20+ years. This is an explicit and organized mentorship program 

While we should be welcoming to everyone who shows up in our community spaces, it’s critically important that the participants of these programs are celebrated, recognized, and most importantly, adequately supported by experienced contributors when they show up to participate. Novice contributors often need a bit of extra guidance as they learn to participate while following the expectations of the community. 

However, it can be hard to know who is participating in these programs without asking directly.

Proposal 1: Indicate Participation on Profile

To help everyone in the WordPress community better support, welcome, and embrace the participants of these programs, I’m proposing that a designation be added to their wordpress.org profiles. It could be a badge, but I also envision something more obvious than that. This is a very quick mock up of a possible option I came up with.

Proposal 2: Display Individual MentorsEvent Supporter Event Supporter (formerly Mentor) is someone who has already organised a WordCamp and has time to meet with their assigned mentee every 2 weeks, they talk over where they should be in their timeline, help them to identify their issues, and also identify solutions for their issues.

I’d also like to propose that each participant’s mentorEvent Supporter Event Supporter (formerly Mentor) is someone who has already organised a WordCamp and has time to meet with their assigned mentee every 2 weeks, they talk over where they should be in their timeline, help them to identify their issues, and also identify solutions for their issues. or program facilitator be listed on their profiles. This is something the Drupal project has done for over a decade that I think we should borrow.

It’s a great way not only to recognize the amazing mentors within the project, but it also shines a light on each person’s unique contributor journey. It can also provide a path for other contributors to share feedback indirectly with someone’s mentor to discuss with them during their time through the educational programs.

For now, I think it makes sense to limit this to only participants of these programs. But in the future it could be opened to all WordPress.org users provided there is a standardized way to approve or confirm these relationships, and an established minimum threshold for what is considered a mentorship (reviewing someone’s patch twice is not necessarily active mentorship).

Joen Asmussen 7:49 am on September 18, 2026
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Muhibul Haque 5:55 am on September 18, 2026  

Proposal: Rethinking how Student Clubs actually run

Right now, the Student Clubs pages on this handbook are mostly an agreement: what a club is, and what’s expected of it. They don’t say how a club should actually run week to week, who’s watching whether it’s healthy, or what happens when it isn’t.

Defining the full onboarding -> active process has been a top priority for our team this cycle, and we want to close that gap through the following proposal.

Why this matters

  • Students deserve a better experience for the students actually running these clubs
  • We need honest and easy way to tell which clubs are active or inactive (and why)
  • Institutions need to be better prepared and guided to set up and launch a club
  • We strive to have clubs that actually succeed and sustain themselves past their founding leadership.

Everything below is in service of one of those four.

What’s missing today

The current pages don’t define a mentorEvent Supporter Event Supporter (formerly Mentor) is someone who has already organised a WordCamp and has time to meet with their assigned mentee every 2 weeks, they talk over where they should be in their timeline, help them to identify their issues, and also identify solutions for their issues. role, a lifecycle from application to offboarding, any activity or health monitoring, a leadership succession path, a readiness checklist for the institution applying, or a way for the public page to show off active clubs (no logos linked to club sites, no showcase). Below is what we’re proposing to fix that, and what we’re holding off on until we have real data.

The proposed flow

School Applies
↓
Institute Readiness Confirmed
(Faculty Advisor + institutional support + minimum founding members identified)
↓
Onboarding + Mentor Assigned
↓
Resources Provisioned + Site Launched
↓
30/60-day Goals Set Against Shared Program Guidelines
↓
Monthly Engagement + Health Check
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At-risk Support
↓
Off Boarding If It Doesn’t Recover.

Here’s the proposed workflow to support the above:

  • Institutions know what they’re signing up for before they apply. Right now the application page is just a form. We want a short checklist alongside it: who’s needed (a Faculty Advisor + 2–3 founding students), that the Faculty Advisor’s real commitment kicks in after setup, once they become the club’s ongoing mentor, and what’s explicitly not required (no curriculum changes, no budget).
  • No club-authored playbook, no commitment agreement. Instead, we publish one shared guidelines doc with success metrics, and clubs set their own 30/60-day goals against it. Lighter to start, easier to keep current.
  • MentorsEvent Supporter Event Supporter (formerly Mentor) is someone who has already organised a WordCamp and has time to meet with their assigned mentee every 2 weeks, they talk over where they should be in their timeline, help them to identify their issues, and also identify solutions for their issues. focus on setup, not indefinite check-ins. A community mentor gets a new club launched (roughly the first 60 days), then hands ongoing mentorship to the Faculty Advisor, who has the continuity a rotating volunteer pool doesn’t. It’s also the only way mentor time scales past a handful of clubs.
  • A real plan for graduating students. Today a club leader graduates and we lose touch by default. We’re proposing three paths: mentor their own club, mentor a different, newly onboarding club, or stay connected as an independent contributor. The middle option is also where new setup-phase mentors can come from.
  • An achievable health score, not a binary label. Eight indicators (meetings, events, member growth, documentation, website updates, contribution count, engagement, reporting) replace a vague Active/Inactive tag. We dropped “organized a WPCC event” and “WP Credits participation” from the score: not every club can pull those off, and the baseline shouldn’t penalize clubs for stretch goals. Both stay valuable as things we track separately (more below).
  • Planned institutional breaks. We also want to account for periods when clubs naturally need to pause because of institutional vacations, examination periods, semester breaks, or other major academic commitments. We’re considering allowing each club one or two planned breaks per year, during which the club would not be expected to maintain its normal activity cadence or be penalized by the health-check process. The exact duration, approval process, and how breaks affect monthly scoring are still open for feedback.

Baseline first, then changes

We don’t currently know which clubs are active, which aren’t, or why: that data just doesn’t exist yet. Before any of the above changes status for a real club, we want to run the health score against every currently recognized club and publish that roster as our starting point. That’s the first thing we’d do, not an afterthought.

Shipping now vs. later

In the next 30 days: run that baseline audit; publish the mentor, lifecycle, and shared-guidelines content to the handbook; publish the institution-readiness checklist and the graduating-student pathway; and link club logos to their sites on the hub page.

After that: an Active Clubs showcase on the hub page (needs the audit first), a real mentor-matching process sized to the new setup-only model, an offboarding workflow, and a lighter monthly reporting flow.

One more thing: Student Clubs as a WP Credits pathway

Curriculum change is slow and outside our control, so not every institution can integrate WordPress into formal coursework. A club can adopt a contribution activity (a translation sprint, a documentation day) as easily as a workshop, with none of that friction, and several activities already in the Guide (translation sprints, pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. testing, documentation review, contributor orientation) already count as real contribution work. We think clubs are an underused on-ramp into WP Credits specifically where curriculum integration is hardest, and wanted to flag that for the broader program leads rather than sit on it.

We’d love your input

  • Does the mentor → Faculty Advisor handoff make sense, or does it lose something?
  • Anything missing from the institution-readiness checklist that’s bitten a club or school before?
  • Any concerns with dropping the club-authored playbook and commitment agreement?
  • Is 60 days the right setup window for community mentors, or should it flex by club?
  • For program leads: does the WP Credits framing above match what you’re seeing, and is per-club tracking (without scoring it) useful to you?

If you can, weigh in by 30th September. We’d like to start the baseline audit in October.

Please comment with any questions below, and if you’d like to help bring this plan to life please reach out in the post or to me directly at @Muhibul Haque in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.

Destiny Kanno 12:31 am on September 18, 2026
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clk87 12:44 am on September 17, 2026  

Help test mini contributor sessions at WordPress Meetups

I’ve been chatting with @karenalma and @supernovia about how we could make it easier for 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 to introduce people to contributing to WordPress.

The idea is: create a practical guide that organizers can use to run a 30 or 60 minute mini contributor session at their Meetup. We want the guide to cover the setup, requirements, and instructions so organizers don’t have to figure everything out from scratch.

We’ve put together an early draft here:

View the Host a Mini Contributor Session draft

The draft currently includes:

  • Steps to take before the event
  • Suggested formats for 30 and 60 minute sessions
  • Information about the accounts and tools attendees will need
  • Instructions and expected outcomes for each activity
  • Tips for supporting attendees during the session
  • Suggestions for following up and sharing a recap
  • Information about how contributions and badges may appear on WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ profiles

We’ve started with four activities:

  • Suggest a translation
  • Submit a photo to the WordPress Photo Directory
  • Test WordPress with Playground
  • Report a documentation issue

These are just a few ideas to get us started. Organizers are welcome to run a session focused on another contribution activity or Make WordPress team.

We’d love your feedback

Does this feel like something you could use at your Meetup? Is anything unclear or missing? Are these activities realistic within 30 to 60 minutes? Are there other beginner-friendly contributions we should include?

We’d also love to hear from Meetup organizers who would be willing to try the guide at an upcoming event. If you test it, please let us know what activity you chose, how many people took part, what they completed, and what we could improve.

Please share your thoughts in the comments, or let us know if you’d like to try running a mini contributor session.

The goal is to give organizers an easy way to help people make their first WordPress contribution without needing to run a full 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/.

Destiny Kanno 4:02 am on September 15, 2026  

Keeping WordPress Campus Connect true to its purpose

Back in May 2025, when WordPress Campus Connect (WPCC) launched as an official event series, we intentionally left room for organizers to experiment with format. That exploration was the point: we needed to see what actually worked on campus before locking anything in. I shared a Slack update on this in August, and now that the series has matured, it’s a good moment to revisit what we learned and make sure these events are still serving the purpose they started with.

What we’re seeing is a shift worth naming: some WPCC events have started operating more like mini WordCamps on campus, heavy on seminars and presentations, than like the hands-on, “here’s WordPress in your hands” experience the program was built around. Both formats have value, but they’re not the same thing, and WPCC needs to stay the latter.

So here’s the ask: when you’re organizing a WordPress Campus Connect event, build it around tangible outcomes for students, not just talks about WordPress. That could look like:

  • Creating their WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ account (the entry point into the community)
  • Creating their first WordPress website (hands-on, not hypothetical)
  • Making a contribution (their first taste of being part of something bigger than the classroom)

This isn’t an exhaustive list, but it’s the bar: students should leave having done something, not just heard about it.

We’ve updated the Event Formats & Standards and Program Content & Delivery handbook pages to make this guidance more clear, so those are the best place to check as you plan.

And if your event concept genuinely can’t meet these requirements, that’s okay. It just probably means WPCC isn’t the right container for it, and we’d love to help you think through a different type of WordPress education event that fits what you’re going for.

What’s next: we’ll be keeping an eye on how new event proposals line up with this guidance, and leaning on the Event Supporters’ day-to-day vetting to catch mismatches early. The goal isn’t to make organizing harder, it’s to protect what makes WordPress Campus Connect valuable in the first place: putting WordPress directly into students’ hands.

Please feel free to comment with any questions below!

Karen Alma Arnold 1:10 am on September 15, 2026
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Events in the US and Canada: the plan through 2027

I have been thinking a lot lately about the state of the WordPress community in the United States and Canada. If you have been looking at the data, we still have a lot of 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. happening, and that is genuinely good news. What we are not seeing much of is any other kind of event.

There has not been a 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. in the US this year outside the flagship. A few got started and were postponed, for reasons that are all understandable: a venue fell through, ticket sales were not there yet, an organizing team got stretched. Nobody did anything wrong. The format weighs the same whether eighty people come or eight hundred, and that is a lot to carry for a room you are not sure you can fill.

There is appetite, though. In the last two weeks I have talked to organizers in Santa Clarita, Chicago, Houston, New England and Florida, and every one of them wants to do something. What none of them wants is to carry a WordCamp the way they used to, and I do not blame them.

So I did some thinking about what I would like to see, and how I would like the community in the US and Canada to look by the end of 2027. Three stages, and a menu instead of a mandate.

Stage one: get meetups back on track

Underway now, through the end of the year.

People make WordPress, and when those people meet monthly in their local communities, something amazing happens.

I have been talking to 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 and potential speakers across the country to see where we can support them, and looking at the data to find where groups have quietly gone silent. My focus is removing whatever is blocking the people who want to run something, whether that is a tool, a permission, a venue, or a room that is not filling.

What people keep telling me is that they want to do something, not watch something. They are not asking for talks. They want to contribute (to docs, testing, translations, small fixes, and more). They want AMAs where they can ask the person who built the thing. They want coworking, where the point is being in a room with other people doing the work. They want to learn by doing rather than by listening. The groups that are growing right now are the ones that figured this out, and it is the format we are encouraging everywhere.

So, in the final months of the year of the meetup, let us see what ground we can cover. If you are in an area where there was a meetup, or is one, here is what helps. Join the group and turn up. Introduce us to someone who used to organize. Help promote the next event. Find a venue. Help the organizer who is already there. Run one of the ready-to-use activities. Bring a few people together. Or take on something bigger if you want to. Sometimes the most useful first step is just showing up, and if you tell us where you are, we will help you find the people.

Stage two: more events

Late 2026 through 2027, from the interest I have seen so far, I’m confident we can have twenty or more events across the US and Canada, in whatever shape fits each place.

We have a lot of options. Want to do a WordCamp? Good. A one-day event? Good. A half day, a hackathon, a do_actiondo_action do_action hackathons are community-organised events that are focussed on using WordPress to give deserving charitable organisations their own online presence. Learn more on doaction.org.? All good. The question is what fits your local community, and the same thing people are telling me about meetups applies here: the formats that fill are the ones where you do something.

Format What it is Where it fits
Local WordCamp One or two days, multiple tracks. A city with organizers and the appetite for it.
Half-day contributor day A morning or afternoon on real tasks, beginner-friendly. Anywhere with students to bring in, or a meetup group ready to do more.
do_action One day building sites for local nonprofits. A city with a strong contributor coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and nonprofits who need help. Students too!
Developer day A single-track day for people who build with WordPress. Houston is running one in December!
Campus Connect A student-run event at a school. Any city!
A one-day event Brings agencies and businesses together with the community. A city where those groups have never been in the same room.

Some of these can be combined. A half-day contributor session in the morning and a hackathon after lunch. A Campus Connect that feeds into a one-day event the following month. What matters is that people can shape the event to fit their local community, and I will support that.

Support looks the same whichever you pick. Help with the venue conversation, help reaching the agencies and businesses nearby, help with planning the budget, finding sponsors, and other logistics.

I have been talking to some people about a local community supported event which brings agencies and businesses together, and I am personally looking for ten to fifteen communities willing to try it, or something that resembles it.

Capped at about 150 people, one track, and a mixed room: students, freelancers and developers, local businesses that spend money on their websites, and the agencies who want to hire the first group and meet the third. The morning would be contributors working on real tasks with guides on hand. The afternoon is three to four talks worth sitting down for, opening with where the web is going and what AI is doing in the ecosystem. Potentially there could be a hiring corner, sponsor tables, and a space where people can connect, find partnerships, make connections. No recording or livestream so you have to be there to get the value. With a donated venue to keep costs low, supporter tickets for local businesses who want their name on it, and one or two sponsors.

Stage three: keep what works

Does this energy catch on? Do meetups keep meeting? Do events follow? Do we see new organizers popping up? Which formats fill and which do not? If do_action works everywhere and the one-day format works nowhere, we lean into do_action.

Where we are

The first ask is small. You do not have to commit to organizing anything. If you want something in your city, send me a message in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/, reach out in the #community-events channel, talk to your favorite community member. If you would come but not organize, that’s fine! If you know who we should be talking to locally and can connect me with them, that would be excellent too! If you live in the US and would like to help me with these initiatives please pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me in Slack, I’d love to chat.

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Let me know below.