I’m only one person, and I’m swamped

Hey everyone. If you’ve sent me an email or a 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/. 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.” and have been waiting to hear back, apologies. I am super swamped. Volunteers haven’t been as consistent as expected, the spring 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. season is swinging into high gear, and I’m all alone as paid staff for a few more weeks, so I really need your support right now. If anyone can pitch in to help with administrative tasks, please let me know. If any deputiesProgram Supporter Community Program Supporters (formerly Deputies) are a team of people worldwide who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about program supporters in our Program Supporter Handbook. can take a little more responsibility and/or help me train more deputies, let me know. And to anyone waiting for a ping back in slack or via email, I will get to them all, it just might take a bit because I am prioritizing emergency-level stuff first. Thanks for your understanding.

#tag-it

WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“I believe that WordPress allows us to satisfy people’s hopes and dreams, if you let it.”
– Chris Lema

Great information, ideas and teaching comes out of WordCamps and 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., we need to have more of that available for everyone on WPTV.

We had videos to mod from 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. Grand Rapids and WordCamp Milwaukee this week.

We are starting to get videos from WordCamp Mumbai and some more from WordCamp Europe.

No Mod Chat this week due to scheduling conflicts.

Updated list of WordCamp video submissions.

In The Last 7 Days

We published 11 videos from 5 WordCamps and meetups around the world.

The Top Three Most Viewed WordCamp Videos Last Week

Kyle Maurer: Theme Customization Best Practices

Ross Johnson: Designing For The First Five Seconds

Sara Cannon: Smart Design

#moderator-update, #wordpress-tv

Community Chat today

Come one come all to Community Chat! Bring your updates! See you in #outreach

#agenda, #meeting, #tag-it

Toolkit Recap | January 28, 2015

Slack log (Requires 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/. login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account)

Project Status

  • We’ve collected basic email content from most team leads for each of the major 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. committees (budget, volunteer wranglerWrangler Someone, usually a person part of event organizing team, who looks after certain things like budget or sponsors., speaker wrangler, sponsor wrangler, lead org).
  • Morgan and Brandon compiled a list of posts we have versus posts that we need to create.
  • Draft posts have started coming in for the 6-month time frame

Today!

  • @dimensionmedia and @kcristiano shared their draft posts on Exploring Venue Options and Updating the Budget Template. The drafts currently reside in the shared Toolkit folder on Google Drive.

Next?

  • We need editors to read through the drafts and start crafting the more finished posts
  • @brandondove to follow up with @camikaos to get proper credentials for @dimensionmedia on plan.wordcamp.org
  • @kcristiano will continue to write budget related draft posts throughout the timeline
  • @paolal will write a draft post for the application process and approval
  • @brandondove to write draft posts for Design/Branding and Speaker Topic discussions
  • @chanthaboune to write a draft post on team building
  • Publish regular meeting time to sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. of make/community

Thanks for everyone who attended. We’ll talk to you all next week!

 

 

#community-management, #wordcamps

A reminder that the weekly Toolkit meeting will…

A reminder that the weekly Toolkit meeting will happen in the #outreach channel 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/. at 19:00 UTC.

For those who don’t know, the Toolkit refers to a set of posts and documents that are being created to use as a sort of handbook for new 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. organizers. The purpose is to lower the barrier to entry as well as make sure that all of the knowledge of our current, wonderful organizers is preserved.

Join us as a first-timer or a repeat visitor and find out what it’s all about!

#toolkit

I shared this idea with a few people…

I shared this idea with a few people last year but I thought I’d share it here so we can see if there’s any interest / traction to the idea or not.

Big idea: Make WordPress’ birthday an action-oriented day: a combo “Awareness” / “Contributor” “Community” day, for the future and all time, aka WordPress Day / WPDay.

Updated to make it clearer I don’t want to replace or supersede individual contributor days – more about contributing vs. a 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://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. 🙂

For the 10th year we had a huge celebration, and I think it would be cool to build on the awareness of WP’s birthday as a significant date by having the community continue to come together year after year on that date in a worldwide effort.

For those communities who don’t have normal Contributor Days (or WordCamps, or 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. for that matter) this could be the day they get together to celebrate WP & do some documentation / video tutorials / screen casts / feature requests / bug patches / translations / transcribe videos for WordPress.tv, etc. Code + Cake! Local Meetups could be encouraged/suggested to have a 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. which falls on or around WP’s birthday that month, etc. [which for our reference is May 27th]

For individuals and/or people who already have a Contributor Day locally they go to (or perhaps there’s no community near them at all), there’s plenty they can do on their own & don’t need an organized event to do it. Maybe it’s a push to introduce at least one person to WordPress – using the mobile app, have them take a spin on your .org site, or set up a WordPress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ site. Or maybe it’s a day to help that friend who needs to fix their sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme., to understand the difference between a page and a post, to update their GravatarGravatar Is an acronym for Globally Recognized Avatar. It is the avatar system managed by WordPress.com, and used within the WordPress software. https://gravatar.com/., or who should set up sharing buttons on their content. Maybe it’s the day you answer a 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/ Support forumSupport Forum WordPress Support Forums is a place to go for help and conversations around using WordPress. Also the place to go to report issues that are caused by errors with the WordPress code and implementations. thread for the first or thousandth time, or create a screencast of how to do something and publish it to YouTube, etc., or your own site.

It doesn’t need to be technically-focused (as I know Contributor Days can be a little frustrating if there’s no coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. devs/committers around to bring commits/tickets to a close), actually, it would be great if there’s a bit of a sliding scale of how people can get involved (above), from content creators to developers to just about anyone. It would be nice if activity that day was service/community-oriented, but for content creators / bloggers who are just users of the product, we could even encourage them to blog about why they love WP / top 5 reasons, etc., on that day.

Also, let it be clear that Contributor Days should happen as they already are / attached to WCs, and this day wouldn’t supersede or replace those in any way! This would be a way for people in the remotest corners of the world to contribute / celebrate.

How could we get the word out?

  • Post on wordpress.org/news with some information about the “event”, suggestions for individuals and local communities to get started, and links to helpful resources (the handbooks, the support forums), and plenty of sample activities/contributions for people to do that day (like I listed above).
  • Have some sort of hashtag so people can share that they’re getting together – giving back / we can track it ala WP Birthday site (but it doesn’t need an ad hoc site per se, could just rely on Twitter / Facebook searches). The focus wouldn’t be on publicizing what’s being done, but rather just doing it. Badges for those who want to use those.
  • To avoid confusion with WP Contributor Days we could brand it WP Day / WordPress Day and use the hashtag #WPDay ? 🙂

WordPress.tv Moderator Squad Update

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
 Lao Tzu

We had videos from 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. Grand Rapids submitted this week with a few remaining in the Pending queue for moderation.

EitFlow was added to the WPTV site this week, making easier communication between mods.

The updated list of WordCamps and video submissions.

The Last 7 Days

We published 10 videos from 3 WordCamps and 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. around the world.

The Top Three Most Viewed WordCamp Videos This Week

Sean Yo: Fixing Inaccessible Content

Sara Cannon: Smart Design

Kevin Fodness: Object-Oriented Theme Development

In Process

The post edit doc for cutting slides in WordCamp videos is ready for testing.

#moderator-update, #wordpress-tv

Community Team Meeting Reminder | January 22, 2015

Today at 19:00 UTC the community team meeting will be held 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/. #outreach. Bring your updates!

#community, #community-management, #team-chat

Toolkit Recap | January 21, 2015

Slack log (Requires 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/. login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account)

Project Status

  • We’ve collected basic email content from most team leads for each of the major 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. committees (budget, volunteer wranglerWrangler Someone, usually a person part of event organizing team, who looks after certain things like budget or sponsors., speaker wrangler, sponsor wrangler, lead org).
  • Morgan and Brandon compiled a list of posts we have versus posts that we need to create.

Today!

  • We discussed whether we wanted to start with broad-stroke overview posts or minute-detail task based posts.
  • Decided broad-stroke overview posts were most important.
  • Each person attending chose a post from the 6-month time frame to write outlines for.

Next?

  • Outlines will be shared next Wednesday, Jan 28th.

Thanks for everyone who attended. We’ll talk to you all next week!

WordCamp Toolkit Reminder/Agenda

In a little over four hours (19:00 UTC), the first Toolkit meeting of the year will happen in the #outreach channel 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/..

Below is our agenda:

  • Quick reminder of what content we have.
  • Needs: Post Draft Assignments
  • Next: Post Draft Review

For those who don’t know, the Toolkit refers to a set of posts and documents that are being created to use as a sort of handbook for new 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. organizers. The purpose is to lower the barrier to entry as well as make sure that all of the knowledge of our current, wonderful organizers is preserved.

Join us as a first-timer or a repeat visitor and find out what it’s all about!

#community-management, #wordcamps