In May of 2017 WordPress 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 opened a new bank account to receive sponsorship payments via international wire and US direct deposit. The change was made to address some fraudulent issues with the WPCS 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. bank account in use at that time.
By June of 2017 we had updated the WordCamp 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. handbook page that addresses sponsorship payments and also updated payment instructions on all outgoing invoices. Initially we committed to keeping the old account open until September of 2017 to allow for invoices with the deprecated account information to be paid. But time marched on, the account remained open, and a few sponsors continued to send sponsor payments to the old account as the information had been saved in their system.
As of March 15, 2018 we will be closing the old account. We will reach out to all existing sponsors who have continued to use that account to make them aware that their payment information must be updated and ensure they have up to date payment instructions.
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