Title: Payment Intermission: 1-7 October 2018 Author: Hugh Lashbrooke Published: September 6, 2018 Last modified: October 8, 2018 --- [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hlashbrooke/) [Hugh Lashbrooke](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hlashbrooke/) 9:17 am _on_ September 6, 2018 Tags: [afk ( 15 )](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/afk/), [meetups ( 119 )](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/meetups-2/), [payments ( 8 )](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/payments/), [WordCamps ( 247 )](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/wordcamps/)    # Payment Intermission: 1-7 October 2018 The Automattic sponsored staff 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 WPCSWordPress 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. banking, will be at a company offsite meeting from 1-5 October 2018. During this time we’ll stop 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’ll need to pay for goods or services at the start of October, please submit all requests no later than [Friday, 28 September 2018 at 16:00 UTC](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180928T1600)**. Payment requests submitted after that time will not likely be processed until Tuesday, 9 October 2018. Sponsor invoices paid during 1-7 October 2018 won’t be marked paid until 8 October 2018. If you have an **urgent** payment request that _must_ be handled that week, but did not submit your request prior to 28 September, please reach out to [@kcristiano](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kcristiano/) or [@adityakane](https://profiles.wordpress.org/adityakane/) on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/). The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/). 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/)., 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](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/) in the #community-events channel as usual. Normal vendor payment and sponsorship attributions scheduled will resume Tuesday, 9 October 2018, though it may take us a day or two to get fully caught up. 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