Organising an Online do_action Event

We strongly encourage in-person 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. events, but in the current time of crisis we are making allowances and suggestions for online events until things have returned to normal again.

If you are organising an online/virtual do_action event, you can do things a little differently to an in-person event. Here are some suggestions of things you can change if you wish to do so:

1. Organise a country-wide do_action event. Since these events are going to be virtual, it makes sense to bring in talents from the whole country, as well as reach more non-profit organisations that would otherwise be possible.
2. Spread the work out over a few days/weeks. In order to give people the time to work on the websites for the non-profit organisations, allow them to work over a longer time period than just one day. A format I quite like the idea of is giving each team 1 week to complete their work.
3. Provide virtual communication channels. Use your local WordPress community 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/. group (or create one if you don’t have one already) and set up separate channels for each team to communicate. You could also use some of the tools we suggest for meetups to expand on the communication options.

Want to learn more about how to organize an online do_action charity hackathon? Check out this live Tuesday Training video to learn more!

Last updated: April 15, 2021