Hello WordPress Meetup 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. organizers!
Welcome to another meetup organizer newsletter, packed full of news, information, and inspiration for your local meetup.
Newsletter contents:
- Diverse Speaker Training Workshops
- Discussion: standalone contributor meetings in France
- The WordPress Survey: Take it! Spread the word about it!
- Recap of Organizer Best Practices
As a meetup or 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. organizer, have you ever had challenges getting women and folks from other under-represented groups to speak at your events? So have we.
There is a workshop created by and for folks from under-represented groups to help us bust through Impostor Syndrome and other obstacles.
The Diverse Speaker Training workshop (#wpdiversity) run by the Community Team busts through this and other obstacles.
The full story of the workshop:
People of WordPress: Jill Binder
The story of how it changed one participant’s life:
A Feel-Good Diversity in PHP Story
Sign up to run the workshop in your local WordPress meetup chapter this coming year: http://tiny.cc/wpdiversity
Most contributor days are part of WordCamp, but a discussion has started on organizing standalone contributor meetings in France. These will be part of the meetup events and not part of WordCamps.
If you are planning to or have already organized contributor meetups 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. events, it might be a good idea to take part in the discussion.
It’s time for our annual user and developer survey! If you’re a WordPress user or professional, we want your feedback. You can take part in the survey at this link.
Please also promote this survey among the members of your meetup group! This document has helpful copy for encouraging your members of your group to take the survey.
Recap of Organizer Best Practices
This year we started publishing some blog posts on organizer best practices. As the year draws to a close, it would be a great idea to read through some of them again.
We hope to publish a lot more organizer best practices posts next year! Happy new year and see you in 2020!
That’s it for now — chat with you next time!
Your friends on the Community Team
make.wordpress.org/community
