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This team helps the community with official events like:

As well as,

Deputy and Mentor development
Diversity initiatives
Growing the WordPress community

If you love WordPress and want to help us do these things, join in!

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Join: Find your local Meetup

Discuss: Here we have policy debates, project announcements and status reports. Everyone is welcome to comment on posts and join the discussion.

Plan: Want to organize 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. in your community? Excited to host a WordCampWordCamp 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.? Check out one of our handbooks to get started.

Assist: Participate in the Meetup Reactivation project, apply to be a 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., or help out as a WordCamp MentorMentor 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..

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Office HoursOffice Hours Defined times when the Global Community Team are in the #community-events Slack channel. If there is anything you would like to discuss – you do not need to inform them in advance.You are very welcome to drop into any of the Community Team Slack channels at any time. are held on Slack in #community-events

Mondays & Wednesdays 22:00 UTC,
Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00 UTC.

Team Meetings are held the first Thursday of every month at 12:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC on Slack in #community-team (same agenda).

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Community Deputy Handbook

Home / Community Deputy Handbook / Other Event Formats / Assigning Zoom accounts for online events

Assigning Zoom accounts for online events

Check out our latest guidelines for in-person events!

When 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. would like to host an online event, they can fill out this form to request a Zoom account. 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. can help assign Zoom accounts, but we need to make sure that we have an account available and that it is not scheduled to be used for another event!

At the moment, we have five Zoom accounts available for event organizers to share.

When reviewing requests for Zoom accounts, please take the following steps:

Check if the request is for a special event, as they take priority over regular meetup events. Special events could include a diverse speaker training workshop, a do_actiondo_action do_action hackathons are community-organised events that are focussed on using WordPress to give deserving charitable organisations their own online presence. Learn more on doaction.org. event, or a contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.. If you are not sure, ask another 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.!
Check to see if their event is already scheduled. If not, ask them to do so before confirming a Zoom account.

If the event meets these expectations, awesome! Please take the following steps to book the Zoom account:

1. Check the WP Community Virtual Tools Reservations calendar! If you need edit access, please pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” a deputy. This calendar shows reservations for all online tool reservations, including WordCamps.

2. Check to see if the dates requested by the event organizer are available for the Zoom account, including three days before and the day after.

3. If the Zoom account is already booked, there will be a banner following this formula: Zoom account: Meetup and event, date of event. For example: Zoom 1: Narnia Diverse Speaker Training Workshop, June 20.

4. If an account is available for the event, great! Select a Zoom account, then add a banner to the calendar following that same formula to reserve the account.

5. Send an email to the meetup organizer who originally requested access to the Zoom account, using the saved reply Confirmed Zoom account for your event.

6. Add a note in the Help Scout ticket with the information of the assigned Zoom account number and first reservation date.

Deputies with access to the Zoom Pro credentials will be responsible for sharing account access on the day that accounts are scheduled to be shared according to the WP Community Online Tools calendar.

After the event:

Deputies with access to the Zoom Pro credentials will revoke access to the account by changing the password after the event (the day after at the latest).

Thanks for helping event organizers book their Zoom accounts! 🙂

Last updated: April 22, 2022