Monthly Archives: March 2016

Andrea Middleton 6:55 pm on March 31, 2016
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Last day for WordPress Foundation to accept payments for WordCamps

One more reminder: today is the last day that WordPress FoundationWordPress Foundation The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software. Find more on wordpressfoundation.org. accounts will accept 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. sponsorship payments. As of tomorrow, April 1 (no joke), checks sent to the Foundation will be returned to sender and wire transfers will also be returned.

Any WordCamp with sponsorship invoices that are unpaid should send updated payment instructions to their sponsors:

For payments via electronic wire transfers:
Bank Name: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Bank Address: 270 Park Ave, New York, NY 10017
Company name: WordPress Community SupportWordPress Community Support WordPress Community Support PBC is a Public Benefit Corporation, created specifically to be the financial and legal support for WordCamps, WordPress Meetup groups, and any additional “official” events organized within the WordPress Community Events program., PBC

For US domestic ACH transfers: ACH Routing Number: 322271627, Account Number: 801658696
For international wire transfers: SWIFT/BIC: CHASUS33, Account Number: 801658696

If sponsors need to send money by credit card, they can send it to us via sponsor@wordcamp.org. Please ask sponsors who choose to pay via PayPal to add 3% to their sponsorship total to cover PayPal fees, and also to send tell you the transaction number of the PayPal transfer.

If a sponsor chooses to pay via check, they must make the check out to WordPress Community Support, PBC and mail it to: WordPress Community Support, PBC, P.O. Box 101768, Pasadena, CA 91189-1768

#community-management, #sponsorship

Rocio Valdivia 5:58 pm on March 31, 2016
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WordCamp Status Weekly Report (From March 23th to March 31rd)

Hi Community team, it’s time for the weekly 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. report! 🙂
Here are the current statuses of those WordCamps we saw movement from during the past week (from March 23th to March 31rd).
Have a great week!

1) NEEDS VETTING
Bucharest, Romania
Lagos State, Nigeria
Baltimore, Maryland
Raleigh, NC US
Hyderabad, India
Honiara, Solomon Islands
Bhubaneswar, India

2) REJECTED

3) NEEDS ORIENTATION/INTERVIEW (deputyProgram 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. scheduling orientation in parenthesis)
Bhopal, India (Andrea)
Orlando, FL, US (Cami)
Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Andrea)
Dallas, TX, US (Cami)
Žilina, Slovakia (Rocío)
Johannesburg, South Africa (Andrea)

4) ORIENTED AND APPROVED FOR PRE-PLANNING (sent agreement and signed, site created, templates, etc.)
Nashik, India
Pune, India
Winnipeg, US
Vancouver, Canada

5) CENTRAL HAS REACHED OUT TO THESE TEAMS FOR AN UPDATE/CHECK-IN/BANNER
Torino, Jacksonville, Vernon, Albuquerque, Buffalo, St Louis, Porto, Minneapolis, Denmark, Calgary, Asheville, Belgrade, Northeast Ohio, Boston, Lehigh Valley, Montreal, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Tampa, Sydney, Rhode Island

6) NEEDS BUDGET REVIEW (deputy scheduling orientation in parenthesis)
Ottawa, Canada (Cami today)
Ann Harbor, US (Cami today)

7) BUDGET APPROVED. WAITING FOR CONTRACT.
New York, US

8) NEEDS CONTRACT TO BE SIGNED
Bilbao, Spain
Orange County, US

9) WAITING FOR ORGANIZERS TO FILL OUT LISTING ON CENTRAL BEFORE PUBLISHING TO SCHEDULE
Frankfurt, Germany

10) PUBLISHED ON CENTRAL THIS WEEK
Aarhus, Denmark
Kansai, Japan
St. Louis, US
Nashville, US
Montreal, Canada
Seattle, US

11) NEEDS DEBRIEF
Atlanta, US
Jerusalem, Israel
Mumbai, India

#community-management, #report, #status, #wordcamps

Andrea Middleton 3:48 pm on March 31, 2016
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Reminder: Community Team Chat is next Thursday!

Just a reminder that our monthly Community Team Chat will be held next Thursday at 19:00 UTC in the #outreach channel of 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/ 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/.. Mark your calendars and double-check the time in your zone, because Daylight Saving Time is a thing!

#agenda, #community-management, #meeting, #team-chat

WordCamp.org 4:00 am on March 31, 2016  

Thursday #daily updates

Thursday #daily-updates

Andrea Middleton 9:04 pm on March 30, 2016
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WordCamps in 2015: the community team edition

To save you some time, this post is nearly identical to the WordCamps in 2015 report that I just published on WordCamp Central — the only difference is that this “community team edition” includes some analysis of possible trends, and an invitation for community team members to weigh in with their observations. 🙂

In 2015, over 21,000 WordPress enthusiasts came together at 89 different events to spend a day or three talking about WordPress, the free and 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. software that now powers 25% of the internet.

WordCamps were held in 34 different countries in 2015, with events in 6 continents: Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe, North America, and South America.

We saw a huge jump in WordCamps held in Europe this year — from 17 in 2014 to 29 in 2015, wow! And a whopping 18 WordPress communities organized their very first 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. last year.

As you can see in the chart below, the number of WordCamps has been steadily increasing over the past five years. In 2015, we had more numerous, smaller events, as is evident by the increase in the number of overall events but the numbers of unique speakers and sessions holding steady.

2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Total number of WordCamps
Year-over-year growth		 89
11%		 80
13%		 71
6%		 67
29%		 52
n/a
WordCamps in the US
Year-over-year growth		 42
-2%		 43
39%		 31
-9%		 34
36%		 25
n/a
WordCamps outside the US
Year-over-year growth		 47
27%		 37
-8%		 40
21%		 33
22%		 27
n/a
Total number of unique speakers
Year-over-year growth		 1,677
0%		 1,676
43%		 1,176
34%		 877
95%		 450
n/a
Total number of unique sessions
Year-over-year growth		 2,135
-9%		 2,355
50%		 1,565
62%		 967
125%		 429
n/a
Total number of unique sponsors
Year-over-year growth		 891
-1%		 896
72%		 522
5%		 498
59%		 313
n/a
Total number of WordCamp tickets sold
(rounded to the nearest 500)
Year-over-year growth		 over 21,000
5%		 over 20,000
8%		 over 19,000
8%		 over 17,000
29%		 over 13,000
n/a

Read on for more data than you can shake a stick at. Continue reading →

#community-management, #wordcamps

Ian Dunn 6:19 pm on March 30, 2016
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Development Update – 13th week of 2016

@kovshenin and I have spent most of our time the past week working on the 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. application-tracking tool.

I’ve been focused on integrating the existing Polldaddy application into our codebase, and a new automated public report of all applications and active camps. Konstantin has been updating all of our existing tools to handle the new flow of applications/camps as they progress through their lifecycle, which affects a lot of different parts of the system.

#development-update, #official-websites

WordCamp.org 4:00 am on March 30, 2016  

Wednesday #daily updates

Wednesday #daily-updates

WordCamp.org 4:00 am on March 29, 2016  

Tuesday #daily updates

Tuesday #daily-updates

Cami Kaos 12:00 pm on March 28, 2016
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Swag Report: 3/21/16 – 3/27/16

Lanyard 100 packs sent: 2

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. Buffalo: 2

Button & sticker 200 packs sent: 1

WordCamp Buffalo: 1

Button & sticker 100 packs sent: 1

Udaipur 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.: 1
Kuala Lumpur Meetup: 1
West Palm Beach Meetup: 1

#community-management, #meetups-2, #swag, #wordcamps

WordCamp.org 4:00 am on March 28, 2016  

Monday #daily updates

Monday #daily-updates