Monthly Reports – March 2017 – Make WordPress Community

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Our Monthly Community Chat is coming this week, so let’s post reports here so we can discuss them. Reports are needed for the following:

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. (@francina)
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. activity (@brandondove)
Finances (@camikaos)

We also need volunteers for the following reports (pinging @chanthaboune, @hlashbrooke, @_dorsvenabili):

WordCamps (@chanthaboune)
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Cami Kaos 10:24 pm on March 1, 2017

https://make.wordpress.org/community/2017/03/01/february-finance-report/
Josepha 4:44 pm on March 2, 2017
Monthly 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
WordCamps held in February: 3
WordCamp applications processed in February: 30
WordCamps between now and April 6: 10

Some quick, high level stats for your WordCamp viewing pleasure:
14 WordCamps in the application process
50 WordCamps in Pre-Planning
43 WordCamps on the schedule

WordCamps Happening this month
- WordCamp Alicante, Spain
- WordCamp Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- WordCamp Auckland, New Zealand
- WordCamp London, United Kingdom
- WordCamp Bordeaux, France
- WordCamp Atlanta, Georgia
- WordCamp St. Louis, Missouri
- WordCamp Miami, Florida
- WordCamp Mumbai, India
- WordCamp San Diego, California
Francesca Marano 6:36 pm on March 2, 2017

Awefully late with this! Hope to have it posted by our chat, but I had to change system due to switch to HelpScout. Sorry!
Brandon Dove 7:04 pm on March 2, 2017

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. Report

23 active 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.
49 camps being mentored
45 active camps without a mentor

Most of the mentors are maxed out. I’ll be reaching out to new mentors once they’ve gone through the 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. training that we’re testing out in the coming weeks.

@coreymckrill showed me a new prototype of the 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. tracking system that looks awesome. He’s still working out how it will work with translations, but he’s got some ideas. I’m hoping that we have this pushed out to mentors and organizers in the next month or so.
Josepha 7:55 pm on March 2, 2017
Notes for those who couldn’t make it:
- @courtneypk welcomed everyone and shared the monthly reports that you can read in these comments.
- Reminder that we’re doing 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. training. If you have feedback, it can be posted here: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2017/02/23/deputy-training-feedback/
  - If you did not make it into a group this time, we have more coming in the near future.
- There is still time to submit a request to join the community summit here: https://make.wordpress.org/summit/2017/02/20/community-summit-2017-sign-up-request/
  - Topic submissions are closed. Thanks for the clarification, @francina!
- This team chat timing has been a struggle for much of our community, so we’re adding an additional time.
  - The consensus is that two meetings at 20:00 & 8:00 UTC, on the first Thursday of every month, is preferred.
  - Those will start on April 6, 2017 – our next meeting date.
You can read the full chat here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/community-team/p1488481249526656
- Mayo Moriyama 4:27 pm on March 4, 2017
  
  I’m excited about additional time meeting! 🌍🌎🌏
  
  I’m expecting same style as Polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. which already succeed to handle 2 meetings a day. They post agenda before 1st meeting so that each meeting can cover same topic, then marge both summary and post it. Difference is they don’t have to prepare stats before meeting because it’s automatically prepared from GlotPress (translator tool).
  https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/category/weekly-chats/
Francesca Marano 10:07 am on April 3, 2017

Err, I am only late by a month…

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. Stats from February 02 – March 02
393 total meetup groups with 141,509 members and 1080 Organizers
7 applications received
16 new groups – big discrepancy here with last month numbers 🙁 I don’t know why it happens, I’ll try to figure it out or next month.
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Inside vs outside US
33.8% groups in the US (124)
66.2% groups are outside the US (262):

6.6% Spain (26)
5.6% Italy (22)
5.1% United Kingdom (20)
4.8% Germany (19)
4.3% Canada (17)
4.0% India (16)

There are 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. in 74 countries!

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