Community Team Meeting Agenda for 1 February 2024

The Community Team chat takes place the first Thursday of every month in the #community-team channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. 

This meeting is meant for all contributors on the team and everyone who is interested in taking part in some of the things our team does. Feel free to join us, even if you are not currently active in the team!

Asia-Pacific / EMEA friendly meeting: Thursday, 1 February 2024 at 12:00 PM UTC
Americas friendly meeting: Thursday, 1 February 2024 at 21:00 PM UTC

You will find a preliminary agenda for the meeting below. 

If you wish to add points to discuss, comment on this post or reach out to one of the team reps: @peiraisotta, @Shusei, @leo, or @nukaga. It does not need to be a blog post yet, the topic can be discussed during the meeting nevertheless. We use the same agenda for both meetings.

Call for meeting host
If anyone is available to host the second sessions of the Community Team monthly meeting at 9pm UTC, please reach out to one of the team reps, who are all based in APAC and EMEA countries: @peiraisotta, @Shusei, @leo, or @nukaga.

Check-ins: Program and Event Supporters / Contributors

• What have you been doing and how is it going? 
• What did you accomplish after the last meeting? 
• Are there any blockers? 
• Can other team members help you in some way?

Highlights to Note

Here are a few things everyone should be aware of.

• Don’t miss next week the Community Team Training #12: WordCamp Budgeting Tips. @unintended8, former WCEUWCEU WordCamp Europe. The European flagship WordCamp event. budget team lead, will answer the most recurrent questions about budgeting, and will explain to us how to make the best out of our budget tool.
• WordCamp Asia 2024 Contributor Day: Help Needed!
• A scholarship opportunity for the next mentorship program: LGBTQI+ folks are eligible to receive a grant of USD$500 to participate in the next program in a scholarship sponsored by the Queeromattic Employee Resource Group of Automattic.
• @chanthaboune posted the Big Picture Goals 2024.
• Jill Binder has decided to step away from her work with WordPress after a decade of leadership. Join the community to send her off with our best wishes for her next big adventure!
• Curious about the latest Contributor Working Group’s Mentorship Chat? Read the recap here.
• Proposal: Pilot program to test GatherPress on the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ network as a MeetupMeetup 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. alternative, published by @patricia70. 
• Check out the financial recap of Events of the Month for November & December.

Open Posts

Check out these new and ongoing discussions needing review, feedback, thoughts and comments.

• Call for Mentees & Mentors: Contributor Mentorship Program Cohort #2 (2024 Q1) – Application opened on Friday, January 12, 2024 and the deadline to apply is Wednesday, February 7, 2024. The Cohort Selection Announcement will happen in the Third week of February 2024, while the program duration will be from February 19 to March 29, 2024 (6 weeks). LGBTQI+ folks are eligible to receive a grant of USD$500 to participate in the next program!
• Share your feedback about the new WordPress Events Page!

Announcements / Newsletters

• Global Sponsors for 2024 have been announced. All upcoming events should display the new sponsors. 
• Meetup Organizer Newsletter: January 2024.

Open Floor

This is your chance to discuss things that weren’t on the meeting agenda. 

We invite you to use this opportunity to share anything that you want with the team. If you currently have a topic you’d like to discuss, add it to the comments of this post and we will try to update the agenda accordingly.

Hope to see you on Thursday, either in the Asia-Pacific / EMEA (12:00 UTC) or Americas-friendly version (21:00 UTC) of the meeting!

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