Welcome

Welcome to the Community DeputyDeputy Community Deputies are a team of people all over the world who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and generally keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about deputies in our Community Deputy Handbook. Handbook!

This page will introduce you to what it is to be a Community Deputy. If you have any questions along the way you can ask for help in the #community-team channel in Slack.

About Community Deputies

Community DeputiesDeputy Community Deputies are a team of people all over the world who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and generally keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about deputies in our Community Deputy Handbook. are a team of people from all over the world who support WordCamps and MeetupsMeetup 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..

They review applications, interview lead organizers, and generally keep events moving forward. The goal is to keep new and returning organizers from overworking themselves and assure the code of conductCode of Conduct “A code of conduct is a set of rules outlining the norms, rules, and responsibilities or proper practices of an individual party.” - Wikipedia is being followed, all while making positive contributions to the open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project.

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Why the Program was Started

The DeputyDeputy Community Deputies are a team of people all over the world who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and generally keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about deputies in our Community Deputy Handbook. program was started in an effort to both decentralize management of the overall Community program and help with the large volume of daily emails. It started with a small pilot program in October of 2014 and has grown from there.

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Learn More

First, read this in-depth Tuesday Trainings article on Community Deputies!

Then, if you’d like to discuss becoming a Community Deputy, you can join us in the monthly Community Chat on Slack or ask to join the next Deputy Training Session. You can also find out more about the role on the Deputy Program page of this handbook.

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