Let’s Do This!

We’ve finally posted all of the projects for the Events Contributor Group. Exciting! Please look them all over and carefully consider which ONE you’d like to work on this time around. Please volunteer for onlyone project for now; we’ve found that when people have multiple areas of focus, one or more of them suffer. Don’t worry, there will be plenty more opportunities to get involved past this initial call for volunteers.

A few projects were not posted. It seemed best to push back the Event Organizers’ Handbook project until the Events Inventory had been completed. The meet.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//events is tabled for now, as well, pending some other work with 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.. If those were intriguing you, just keep an eye on this site, as I’m confident they’ll get started in the coming months.

The Meetup.com transition and administration project will make a call for contributors via an email to the 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 who applied to have their group become part of the WordPress Meetup.com account.

My goal is to publish proposed subgroups for each project no later than Friday, November 16. If people don’t like the composition of a particular group, we’ll try to hash it out in comments on that Friday post. Once the groups are settled, I’ll ask each group to appoint/elect a notetaker to act as a point of contact and be responsible for posting weekly updates.

We’re getting this started just as we’re going into the holidays, so it’s understandable if the project schedules slip a little bit. That being said, wouldn’t it be great to start 2013 with a lot of these projects well underway?

I can’t thank all of you enough for your eagerness to contribute and help make WordPress events better for the whole community. It’s your can-do, collaborative spirit that makes the WordPress community so amazing.