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. We are also starting to slowly reintroduce the original trainings for organizers as people’s bandwidth is slowly increasing.
Each month, we are reporting at the tag #DiverseSpeakerWorkshopsReports how these workshops and trainings are going.
Workshop series
In November, we ran our second “Intermediate” speaker three-part workshops series for individuals.
Number who attended: 8
From number of cities: 8
From number of countries: 3 (United States, Philippines, and Nigeria)
Number who attended all 3 workshops: 4
Increase in public speaking confidence after taking the workshops: 100% (!)
These are the stats for the events run by @jillbinder. Others have been facilitating discussion groups for our recordings up on Learn WordPress as well. (The stats for the others are not yet available at this time.)
Testimonial
“The workshops were surprisingly really helpful to improving my sense of confidence and ability in creating talks from scratch!”
– Time Darden, Software Developer, Brooklyn, NY
Thank you
A lot of people contribute to making these workshops successful. Thank you to each and every one!
Input Requested
We are re-imagining our group’s work for 2021 and we’d love to hear your thoughts:
[Input Requested] Re-imagining the work of the Diverse Speaker Training group (#WPDiversity)
#diversespeakerworkshopsreports, #wpdiversity
