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/.. See the current times from the make.wordpress.org/community sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. or welcome box. These meetings usually run for about an hour.
Community Team Monthly Meeting
We host two sessions:
- Asia-Pacific / EMEA friendly meeting: at 12:00 PM UTC
- Americas friendly meeting: at 9:00 PM UTC
This meeting is meant for all contributors on the team and everyone who is interested in taking part in some of the projects our team contributes to, and for all those who want to learn more, even if they are not currently active in the team!
To organize and run the monthly meetings, we need:
- One person who drafts and publishes the agenda (usually a team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts.)
- Two hosts who facilitate one session each
- One note taker who drafts and publishes the meeting recap
Resources:
- Templates
- Examples
Process
- The Monday before the meeting, an automated reminder is sent to the community team Slack channel to remind the team about the upcoming meeting
- The team representative should create a GitHub issue for the monthly meeting using the “Community Team Monthly Meeting” template. ※See 1 and 2 in the image below this listing.
- Sub-issues will be created automatically. Assign them to volunteer participants.
- [Meeting Task] Create and publish the team meeting agenda
- [Meeting Task] Create the meeting script
- [Meeting Task] Host the meeting (1st session)
- [Meeting Task] Host the meeting (2nd session)
- [Meeting Task] Write the meeting recap
- Sub-issues will be created automatically. Assign them to volunteer participants.
- One hour and 15 minutes before the meeting sessions, an automated reminder is sent to the community team Slack channel to remind the team about the upcoming meeting
- Hosts facilitate the sessions
- After facilitating, each host marks their GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue as resolved and close it
- One or two days after the meetings, the note taker duplicates the recap template, drafts it with the relevant information, and shares it with the hosts for review. Once reviewed, the note take publishes the recap by creating a new post on the community team blog.
- After posting the recap, the note taker marks the GitHub issue as resolved and closes it.
- Once everyone has resolved their issues, the team rep resolved their Monthly Meeting GitHub issue.
GitHub
Publish an issue:
https://github.com/WordPress/Community-Team/issues
Meeting progress management:
[Community Team] Team Meetings Administration
Meeting Script
You are welcome to use the below script for Community Team chats if you’d like!
@program-supporters It’s Community Team Meeting time!!!! :community: :wave:
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We are kicking off the Community Team Meeting now. Feel free to join us, even if you are not currently active in the team!
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. Most contributors on this team are volunteers, but we do have a handful of people who are sponsored to do this work.
For anyone who is joining for the first time (whether active or observing), this is a meeting where community contributors discuss:
- Issues that have come up.
- WordCamps/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 are working on.
- What is going on in this corner of the WordPress project.
Ask questions as you have them, but remember we are family-friendly around here.
Today’s preliminary agenda is here: {link to agenda post}
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Okay, let’s get going!
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:heart: First on the agenda is the usual Supporter, Manager, and Contributor check-in.
Answer any that apply:
- What have you been doing and how is it going?
- Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
- Are there any blockers?
- Can other team members help you in some way?
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As we move through today’s meeting please indicate with a thumbs up on any link I share when you feel ready to move on to the next item.
This way we can stay on-track but also move at a pace with which people feel comfortable. I’ll do my best to gauge when when it seems the majority have reacted based on how many are here.
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:rotating_light: Next, some highlighted things everyone should be aware of.
{links and descriptions of highlighted items}
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:bulb: Moving forward: new and ongoing discussions needing review, feedback, thoughts and comments. Even commenting +1 or something short to these posts is really valuable and helpful!
{links and descriptions of discussion items}
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:speech_balloon: Last but not least, it’s time to open the floor!
Is there anything you’d like to say or talk about? Did we miss something on our agenda today?
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Thank you all for being here today! This meeting will be held with the same agenda later today at 21:00 UTC to cover an Americas friendly timezone.
Needless to say, if anyone has questions or feedback, do not hesitate to comment, someone will always respond. Couldn’t make today’s meeting times? No problem!! Add your information anytime. :community:
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