The Diverse Speaker Training group (#WPDiversity) normally trains 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 how to hold their own Diverse Speaker workshop in order to increase how many speaker applications they get from people from marginalized and underrepresented groups.
During the pandemic, the team is delivering the workshop to the global WordPress community online ourselves.
Each month, we are reporting at the tag #DiverseSpeakerWorkshopsReports how these workshops are going.
June’s events consisted of a three-part workshop, one hour each day, three days in a row, followed by two Zoom group coaching sessions the following week.
Number who attended: 6
From number of cities: 5
From number of countries: 4 (Canada, India, UK, US)
Number who attended all 3 sessions: 1
Number who attended 2 sessions: 2
Increase in public speaking confidence after taking a workshop: 20%
July workshops & group coaching
The dates and sign-up link for July will be announced soon. Please comment here or ping The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @jillbinder on Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. with your interest.
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