Call for Organizers: Introduction to Open Source

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To further the 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.’s charter to educate the public about WordPress and related 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, the Foundation would like to sponsor a new series of workshops/training events introducing people to open source. There’s a Call for Organizers here, which includes an event scope and an application.

If you are a member of a WordPress group in Latin and South America, Africa, Oceania, or Asia, and you’re interested in trying out an event like this, please apply!

DeputiesDeputy Community Deputies are a team of people all over the world who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and generally keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about deputies in our Community Deputy Handbook. who love to vet applications, let me know if you would be willing to vet these applications as well. 🙂 I’m not sure how many we’ll get, so I can’t estimate the workload, but I’ll be looking for help on these between August 14-25.

remediosgraphic 12:21 am on August 8, 2017

i will love to help to vet or mentorMentor 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. this event, so count on me.
Carl Alberto 5:05 am on August 8, 2017

+1 in helping vet, mentorMentor 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. or possibly organizing one too! 🙂
Abul Khayer 10:16 pm on August 8, 2017

I would love to vet those applications.
Andrea Middleton 12:12 am on August 9, 2017

Thanks folks!!! I’ll probably collect the data into a shared google spreadsheet (not a public one, so we don’t expose email addresses, which you might need for vetting purposes) and then invite you to it, so you can make notes. Will 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.” you all when I have a document, and maybe we can keep the vetting rolling as we continue to receive applications. 🙂
- Abul Khayer 12:19 am on August 9, 2017
  
  @andreamiddleton can I contribute in vetting application and apply from our community for arranging alongside?
  - Andrea Middleton 12:21 am on August 9, 2017
    
    Yes, that should be fine. Just don’t vet yourself. 😉
    - Abul Khayer 12:26 am on August 9, 2017
      
      Gotcha! I wouldn’t make the mistake of vetting myself, LOL.
Aditya Kane 12:54 pm on August 9, 2017

DeputiesDeputy Community Deputies are a team of people all over the world who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and generally keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about deputies in our Community Deputy Handbook. who love to vet applications, let me know if you would be willing to vet *these* applications as well.

Count me in! I would love get involved here.
Saurabh Shukla 1:34 pm on August 9, 2017

I’m not a “deputyDeputy Community Deputies are a team of people all over the world who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and generally keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about deputies in our Community Deputy Handbook.” but this is sooo good! 🙂 I’d love to help in any way possible.
Hardeep Asrani 1:35 pm on August 9, 2017

I’ve applied as an organizer, but would love to get more details on what’s the vision, like format for the event. Would love to help in any way possible. 🙂
Andrea Middleton 2:52 pm on August 9, 2017

Yay, it’s great to see so much enthusiasm!

The reason this particular call for organizers has an application form is because there’s an offer of financial support for two events. If you don’t need financial support to organize an event of this kind — and all the content referenced in the event scope on that post could be covered in a longer 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.-style event, which usually doesn’t need financial support — then there’s no reason that everyone on this thread couldn’t organize an “Intro to 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.” workshop in their own town! 🙂

So if you’re already super-interested in this kind of event, find yourself inspired to organize one, and don’t think you’ll need financial support, then I strongly encourage you not to wait around to hear back from an application — go out there and organize one! 🙂 (And then tell us how it went, and suggest improvements to the lesson plan, ok?) <3
- Carl Alberto 5:27 pm on August 14, 2017
  
  This sounds good. There will be a local event in our country called Software Freedom Day next month, we will try to collaborate with other local communities that supports FOSS. Will report back on how it went 🙂

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