Title: Winter Break AFK and Payment Intermission
Author: Courtney P.K.
Published: December 18, 2017

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/courtneypk/) [Courtney P.K.](https://profiles.wordpress.org/courtneypk/)
8:20 pm _on_ December 18, 2017     
Tags: [afk ( 15 )](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/afk/)

# Winter Break AFK and Payment Intermission

The members of the 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. who routinely handle
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.’s banking will be
on winter break from 23 December 2017 to 2 January 2018. During this time we’ll 
halt 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](https://central.wordcamp.org/about/). and 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](https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/meetup-organizer/).
vendor payments, reimbursements, and sponsor payment attribution.** If you need 
to pay for goods or services in December, please submit all requests no later than
[17:00 UTC on Friday, 22 December 2017](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20171222T17).**
Payment requests submitted after that time will not likely be processed until after
Wednesday, January 3, 2018. Sponsor invoices paid during this intermission won’t
be marked paid until 3 January.

Please note that many other 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](https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/community-deputy/).
are taking time off around the end of the year so there will also likely be delays
in application vetting, budget reviews, email responses, etc.

Some deputies, 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., and community
members will still be available by email at support@wordcamp.org or on [Slack in the #community-events channel](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/community-events).

**Our regular schedule will resume Wednesday, 3 January, 2018** although it may 
take us a day or two to get fully caught up.

Best wishes to everyone for 2018!

[#afk](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/afk/)

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