Welcome to the official blog of the community/outreach team for the WordPress open sourceOpen SourceOpen 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!
This team oversees official events, mentorship programs, diversity initiatives, contributor outreach, and other ways of growing our community.
If you love WordPress and want to help us do these things, join in!
Getting Involved
We use this blog for policy debates, project announcements, and status reports. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to comment on posts and join the discussion.
You can learn about our current activities on the Team Projects page. These projects are suitable for everyone from newcomers to WordPress community elders.
You can use our contact form to volunteer for one of our projects.
We also have regular Community Team meetings on the first and third Thursdays of every month at 12:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC in #community-team on Slack (same agenda).
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, WordPress events are online. Please refer to our online events handbook.
For communities COVID-19 has been more effectively contained, returning to hosting an in-person meetupMeetupAll local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. event is possible, with caution, using the resources provided. If you plan to move forward with an in-person meetup, you must use the provided checklist.
Contributor days are events where the we encourage, support and work on the WordPress project.
The event can be run as stand-alone events, or as part of a WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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..
If they are part of a WordCamp, they can be ran
as an event or track during the WordCamp
as an event before or after the WordCamp
The Global Community Team thinks contributor days are great and would love to see more contributor days.
Contributor days are for everyone, on every experience level. Even someone who knows very little about WordPress can contribute by answering support questions or testing features.
The exception is, perhaps, focused WordCamps (i.e. Development focused WordCamps) where attendees are expected to know a bit about development, and thus the accompanying contributor day can be mostly developer-focused. Even then, it is useful to have a plan in case new contributors arrive who are not developers.
Make sure you emphasize this point in all your communication with potential attendees.
The rest of this handbook will go through how contributor days are organised. Please treat the information as a guide and tailor the event to the local WordPress community.
The contributor day structure is not fixed. It grows, transforms, and evolves as we change and evolve as a community. If you have any resources or want to share how you have organised a contributor day, we would love to hear from you! Come and say hi in the #community-team Slack channel.