In September and October 2021, #WPDiversity held:
- a special train the trainers workshop for empowering WordPress women speakers in India
- the first two support 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/. chats for the new Allyship program
- a Diverse Speaker workshop for India
And we invited past workshop participants to join the new #diverse-speaker-support channel.
Train the Trainers
Empower Women Speakers For your WordPress Events in India, September 24 & 25, 2021
By special request, a training for empowering WordPress women in India.
Facilitator: @jillbinder
- Number who attended: 9
- From number of cities: 7
- From number of countries: 2 (Indonesia and India)
Testimonials
“I have attended many workshops, but I must say that this workshop was especially useful for me. I want to involve more women in the community and inspire them to speak at our events. Thank you so much for facilitating this workshop. I’m glad I could attend this and I definitely learned a lot.”
– Pooja Derashri, Contributor to WordPress Training, Polyglots, and TV Team, Ajmer, India
“This workshop was more than just empowering because now we are equipped with tools we can start using right away. We also got an immediate support system of people we can go to for consultation and brainstorming. It really helps to know that we are not alone, that there are people in different parts of the world doing the same thing.”
– Devin Maeztri, Contributor to WordPress Community and Polyglots, Jarkarta, Indonesia
“It’s really great to learn how to improve diversity for our conferences and 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..”
– Aris Setiawan, Web Developer, Indonesia
Allyship Program
In our new 3-month Allyship program, we hold support chats in the WordPress Slack #community-events channel in months 2 and 3:
Allyship for WordPress event organizers AMER/EMEA coaching and accountability Slack chat, September 16, 2021
Facilitators: @alliennimmons @jillbinder
- Number who attended: 10
- From number of cities: 9
- From number of countries: 5 (Philippines, UK, South Africa, Canada, and USA)
Allyship for WordPress event organizers AMER/EMEA accountability, October 28, 2021
Facilitator: @jillbinder
- Number who attended: 7
- From number of cities: 7
- From number of countries: 4 (Canada, USA, Nigeria, and South Africa)
Diverse Speaker Workshop
How to Own Your Expertise & Start Speaking at WordPress Events India, September 18, 2021
Facilitator: @onealtr
- Number who attended: 3
- From number of cities: 2
- From number of countries: 2 (India and USA)
- Increase in public speaking confidence after taking this workshop: 25%
Testimonial
“I have done a lot of public speaking before, but not about tech. I have many ideas of what I could talk about, and this workshop helped me zero in on the kinds of subjects I would like to talk about at WordCamps or Meetups. I’m looking forward to getting more tips from the other parts of the workshop series on Learn WordPress!”
– Duane, California
“The workshop is good. It’s great to think of a specific topic to speak about — one that is targeted to your audience!”
– Rahul Sarker, 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. and 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 Kolkata
diverse-speaker-support channel
We have set up a brand-new Slack channel in the Make WordPress Slack for:
- networking
- workshopping talks with each other and with mentors 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.
- finding out about WordPress speaking opportunities from WordPress Meetups and WordCamps
We started sending out invitations to past workshop attendees in mid October.
Number of past #WPDiversity Workshop participants who joined in October: 19
Thank you
A lot of people contribute to making these workshops successful. Thank you to each and every one!
Upcoming: November 2021
Love this? Come attend a workshop!
Allyship for WP Event Organizers AMER/EMEA
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
6pm-8pm UTC
How to Own Your Expertise & Start Speaking at WordPress Events Southeast to Southern Asia
November 27, 2021
7am-8:30am UTC
How to Own Your Expertise & Start Speaking at WordPress Events AMER/EMEA
To be held during first two weeks of December.
Date announced here soon: https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/wpdiversityworkshops/
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