Review WordCamp 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. Guidelines Committee Update #3
Our preliminary list of WordCamp Guidelines pain points was compiled and emailed to recipients on February 5th.
At this point, we’re waiting for the replies to our survey to come in. Once we get them all, we’ll move to putting together the next survey based on the responses we’ve received.
If any WordCamp organizer did *not* get the invitation to fill out the survey, please post a comment here we can send it to you again.
Here is the content of the form we sent:
When did you organize your WordCamp? *
(The current WordCamp guidelines were introduced in May 2011.)
- Before May 2011
- In or after May 2011
- I’ve organized camps both before and after May 2011
How do you feel about the guidelines?* *
- I think they’re perfect
- I think they need to be explained better
- I think they are ok but need some changes
- I think they are pretty flawed and need a lot of changes
- I think they need to be totally scrapped
- I think there should be not be any guidelines for WordCamps
Please identify which (if any) of the following were ‘pain points’ for you in the course of organizing your WordCamp *
- The existence of the WordCamp guidelines at all. Period (Full stop).
- Dealing with leftover funds
- Having to organise a not for profit event
- Requiring speakers/sponsors/organizers/volunteers to be 100% GPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL is a ‘copyleft’ license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html. This means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms. This is in distinction to permissive free software licenses, of which the BSD license and the MIT License are widely used examples.
- Requiring speakers/sponsors/organizers/volunteers to respect the trademark
- Having to apply to organize
- Not being able to organize all by myself (being asked to have a team)
- Being asked to work with/within the local meetup 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 applicable) Having to run the money through the Foundation
- Getting our venue approved by WordCamp Central Website for all WordCamp activities globally. https://central.wordcamp.org includes a list of upcoming and past camp with links to each.
- Getting our Budget approved by WordCamp Central
- Getting our date approved by WordCamp Central
- Sharing a budget with WordCamp Central
- Having to limit the ticket price to $20 USD (or equivalent) per person, per day
- Having to host the site on WordCamp.org
- Using WordCamp Base theme
- Using the wordcamp.org email address
- Getting our sponsorship packages approved by WordCamp Central
- Limiting the commercialization of the WordCamp
- Keeping speakers local
- Getting a diverse speaker list (including women and people of colour)
- Not allowing logos on shirts
- Being asked to Video record the event
- Only allowing giveaways from sponsors
- Having to return lanyards
- Sending swag to Central
- Having Central vet sponsors
- Other:
- Have you anything you’d like to add to the conversation?
All responses in the survey will be kept confidential and won’t be shared. You are welcome to file this survey anonymously if you wish, but if you would be willing to continue getting deeper this conversation with us, please leave us your email address so we may follow up with you. Our intention is for this to be the first step in a series of progressively more focused inquiries about the effect of the WordCamp guidelines on WordCamps and WordCamp organizers.
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