Hugh Lashbrooke 10:13 am on June 1, 2017
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Updating the Community Team Glossary

If you’ve never had a look at the Community Team Glossary, you can have a look at it here. It’s not what one would call…complete. By way of example, here is the Glossary of the Core team.

In our team meeting today, we spoke about improving our glossary and making it more relevant, practical and useful. I’m sure everyone would agree that this would be a valuable thing to do. The questions are then when we do this and what we include in the glossary – both of which I’m happy to answer here 🙂

What words/terms should we include in the glossary?

We need your input for this. Please comment on here with any words that you feel would be valuable in a glossary for the Community Team. You don’t need to provide definitions, so list any words or terms that you think we should define or that you are confused about.

When will we define these terms?

We will be making this a project for 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. Europe 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/., which is taking place on 15 June. So if you could submit as many words and terms as you can before that date, then the Community Team at the Contributor Day can get to work on defining those terms and adding them to the glossary.

As always, a document like this will always be evolving, so work won’t stop on it after the Contributor Day, but it will be a huge head start in getting it together and complete.

#documentation #docs

Josepha 2:32 pm on June 1, 2017

I didn’t realize we already had one (or had forgotten). The current content made me smile. 🙂

Some things that spring to mind are: wranglerWrangler Someone, usually a person part of event organizing team, who looks after certain things like budget or sponsors., 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., p2, 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/., and CoCCode of Conduct “A code of conduct is a set of rules outlining the norms, rules, and responsibilities or proper practices of an individual party.” - Wikipedia.
- Birgit Pauli-Haack 8:24 pm on June 1, 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., community team, central
Hugh Lashbrooke 6:47 am on June 2, 2017

A few terms that would be useful (that haven’t been suggested yet):

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., 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., global community sponsorGlobal Community Sponsor Company that sponsors the WordPress community events through the global sponsorship program., super deputyProgram Manager Program Managers (formerly Super Deputies) are Program Supporters who can perform extra tasks on WordCamp.org like creating new sites and publishing WordCamps to the schedule., do_actiondo_action do_action hackathons are community-organised events that are focussed on using WordPress to give deserving charitable organisations their own online presence. Learn more on doaction.org..

I’m sure we’ll think of plenty more 🙂
Rocio Valdivia 8:44 am on June 2, 2017
Great initiative! 🙂

1) What words/terms should we include in the glossary?
I’ve done a recap of all terms suggested so far in the comments above [I’ve added clarifications/notes on brakets] and I’ve added some new suggestions:

About the wp.org team, its organization and program:
- 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/.
- P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. [and O2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. on make.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//community ]
- Community team [Global Community TeamGlobal Community Team A group of community organizers and contributors who collaborate on local events about WordPress — monthly WordPress meetups and/or annual conferences called WordCamps.]
- Central [WordCamp CentralWordCamp Central Website for all WordCamp activities globally. https://central.wordcamp.org includes a list of upcoming and past camp with links to each.]
- Super deputyProgram Manager Program Managers (formerly Super Deputies) are Program Supporters who can perform extra tasks on WordCamp.org like creating new sites and publishing WordCamps to the schedule.
- 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.
- 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.
- WPCS PBCWordPress 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.
- WPFWordPress 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.
- FauxoFauxo Any logo which is not the offical WordPress logo.
- GPLGPL 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. violation
- OH (Office HoursOffice Hours Defined times when the Global Community Team are in the #community-events Slack channel. If there is anything you would like to discuss – you do not need to inform them in advance.You are very welcome to drop into any of the Community Team Slack channels at any time.)
- Red flag
- Nearby WP events pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party [ https://wordpress.org/plugins/nearby-wp-events/ ]
About WordCamps (WordPress conferences)
- 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. [and WC]
- WranglerWrangler Someone, usually a person part of event organizing team, who looks after certain things like budget or sponsors. [like Sponsor’s Wrangler, etc.]
- Global community sponsorGlobal Community Sponsor Company that sponsors the WordPress community events through the global sponsorship program.
- Global community sponsorship grant
- CoCCode of Conduct “A code of conduct is a set of rules outlining the norms, rules, and responsibilities or proper practices of an individual party.” - Wikipedia
- CD [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/.]
- WC Central schedule
- Camptix
- Local wordcamp.org sandbox
- A/V agreement
- Swag
- Badges
- Lanyards
- Camera kits
- WCEUWCEU WordCamp Europe. The European flagship WordCamp event.
- WCUSWCUS WordCamp US. The US flagship WordCamp event.
About WordPress 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.
- 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.
- Do_actiondo_action do_action hackathons are community-organised events that are focussed on using WordPress to give deserving charitable organisations their own online presence. Learn more on doaction.org.
- CD [Contributor Day]
- Chapter program
- Meetup pro [ https://www.meetup.com/pro/wordpress/ ]
Do you have more suggestions? copy/paste this list and add yours 😉

2) When will we define these terms?
A good start would be to work on them during the WCEU CD and to iterate that one after it

P.S.- It’d be so nice to create a new plugin for o2 sites where we could just mark a comment like the “one with the solution/answer/conclusion”, so this comment would be shown at the top of the list of comments and with a green background. All the rest of comments would be toggled off by default