Creating a Shared Drive for WordCamp

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Creating a Shared Drive

Log in to the WordPress FoundationWordPress Foundation The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software. Find more on wordpressfoundation.org. Google Workspace account. Credentials are on a shared password vault.

Navigate to drive.google.com and from the 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. select “Shared Drives”

Click “New” on top of the sidebar

Name the Shared Drive with 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.’s location and a year, eg. “WordCamp Narnia 2022”

Open the new Shared Drive and from the right top corner select “Manage members”

Enter the lead organisers’ email address that has a Google account and change their role to “Manager” so they can share the drive with the rest of the team by themselves

Questions? Problems? Reach out to @sippis.

Last updated: May 11, 2022