Organizing a WordPress Campus Connect event is an exciting opportunity to empower students with valuable WordPress skills. You can submit an application to organize through this link.
Here’s what you need to plan:
- An Event Email Address
Each event should have its own dedicated email address for communication with attendees, speakers, and sponsors.
Preferred option:
Organizers are encouraged to use an existing institutional or.eduemail address where possible (for example, an address provided by their university, college, or organization).
If that isn’t available:
Please ahre in #campus-connect channel, that you require an email address, and community team member can create a dedicated email address for the event in the@events.wordpress.orgdomain. To keep these addresses readable and practical, we’ll use one email address per event.
For events with long names, we may abbreviate the address while keeping it clear and recognizable. For example:
Instead of:campusconnect-rcc-institute-of-information-technology-kolkata@events.wordpress.org
We might use:campusconnect-rcciit-kolkata@events.wordpress.org
This approach helps ensure that event email addresses are easy to share, remember, and manage. - Venue: These events are typically held on campus. When verifying the venue, ensure that proper internet access, screen display, audio, and anything else needed to run the event are included.
- Audience: Focus on educating students, but teachers and faculty can also be included.
- Theme and Curriculum: The organizer can decide on their own curriculum for the event; for example, optional topics include WordPress Basics, themed workshops, or WordPress contributions.
- Presentation decks, logos, certificate,s and other helpful materials are available in the WordPress Campus Connect Organizer Resources folder. This folder also includes resources to pitch the event to your chosen campus.
- Learning materials can also be found on Learn WordPress.
- Duration: Events can be one-day or split into multiple days.
- Pricing: Events are free for all attendees.
- Branding: Use the unified global branding and logo for consistency. You can find WordPress brand resources on this page, and WordPress Campus Connect brand resources in this folder and the Figma file.
- Sponsor Support: Events are covered up to 300 USD by the 2025 Global Sponsorship program, and any further sponsorship funding will need to be raised locally.
- Note that in order to keep the focus of these events on student learning, sponsor booths are not allowed at this time.
- Ask for help: For questions (e.g. logistics, budgeting, local sponsors’ involvement, certificate, etc.), use the #campusconnect channel in the WordPress.org Slack. This is also where folks are ready to help mentorEvent Supporter Event Supporter (formerly Mentor) is 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. you for your planned events.
- Application: To organize an event, apply here: Apply to Organize a WordPress Campus Connect Event. Applications are processed according to the WordCamp process. Organizers are requested to use their edu email address. No previous organizing experience is required.
If you’d like additional training on how to organize WordPress 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., you can check out our WordPress meetup organizer training course on Learn WordPress.
