New Contributor Day Fields for WordCamps

Many WordCamps around the world run Contributor Days alongside their WordCamps, but aside from a general note alongside 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. listing we have never had a way of formally tracking Contributor Days and how often they’re held.

That’s all changing now as we have brand new fields in the WordCamp listing for 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/. info! As a lead organiser you will now see a new box in your WordCamp listing that looks like this:

After ticking the checkbox, the box opens up like this:

From there you can fill in all of the relevant and available information regarding your Contributor Day. Even if you are not running a full day for contributions, but rather holding it as a single session or separate track, please use these fields as well – the idea is that we can use it to track when WordCamps are holding Contributor Days and gather some useful data from that.

If you would like some more information about running a Contributor Day, you can read through the documentation about it.