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Recap of the Diversity Outreach Speaker Training Zoom kick-off call on Jan 19, 2019
To kick off the new year with new goals, we had a great video chat this last weekend.
We talked about where we’ve been, what items we want to maintain, where we want to improve, how we want to grow.
What We Covered and Discussed
Last Year
Ran 15 trainings
Trained 45 meetupsMeetupMeetup 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.
16 ran our workshop (as far as we know)
In the first year of running it (last year or previously) there were incredible results: Typically from 10% to 50% women speakers at their next WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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.
We tracked speaking by email or in person with 55 meetups in 26 countries
It was fulfilling: “I’ve really enjoyed the work we do in this working group, and can see its impact. It is super inspirational!” -Angela Jin Community Organizer at Automattic
We Are Here
We have the workshop
We have a message and a form
The Train The Trainers team runs 1-2 trainings a month
We have a (good enough for now) training video
Most of our interest comes from:
The monthly Meetups newsletter
Talking with folks at WordCamps
Motivated team members who run them in different cities
Where We Are Headed
In 2018: 16 meetups* (* plus non-meetups
By end of 2020: 100+ meetups a year (There are 700+ meetups (800+?))
2019 Goals
Maintaining what we have
Improving what we have
Scaling up to reach more
2019 Maintaining
Bi-weekly Wednesday meetings
Maintain our tracking spreadsheet
Answer MeetupMeetupMeetup 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. requests in Helpscout
Improving our offering based on the email questionnaires (and the ideas already in Jill’s head)
Create better training content and record a better video
Project management system
Promote and reach many more meetups!
More frequent trainings
Trainings in different time zones
Translating the workshop and materials
Trainings in different languages
Before Who Is Doing What: Your First Steps
Fill out the new welcome questionnaire https://jill249.typeform.com/to/Ye0NIe
Take our training
Run it for your meetup
Roles, Leaders, Subgroups
Larry content strategy
crafting top level messaging
expanding messaging to more than women
audio, video, canva, etc.
train the trainer
Sheila translations
organize translations
organize office hoursOffice HoursDefined times when the Global Community Team are in the #community-events Slack channel. If there is anything you would like to discuss – you do not need to inform them in advance.You are very welcome to drop into any of the Community Team Slack channels at any time.?
I’m working with a project manager classmate at my business school to work out how to improve our communication and results. These are the mock-ups we came up with for a future project management system:
Our First Steps
Putting the workshop into the materials for WordCamp Speaker wranglers
Putting the workshop into Meetups info
Changing our name, hashtag, and how we refer to our pieces (Jamie!)
Train the Trainers work on our processes
Reaching out to dormants and those who ran it last year
@JillBinder is putting out a doodle poll for a Train The Trainers zoom call
@MiriamGoldman is creating a Trainers onboarding meeting
@MiriamGoldman is writing up her journey and a testimonial tomorrow
@JillBinder is putting together who volunteered with which roles @Simo70 when you volunteered to do trainings in Italian, was that the main workshop or the Train The Trainers?
@SheilaGomes and I talk about translating newsletters, before I submit the next one around February 10
Everyone new & returning please fill out the welcome form: https://jill249.typeform.com/to/Ye0NIe (edited)