Asia/Pacific – Make WordPress Community

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This is the home of the Make Community team for the WordPress open sourceOpen Source Open 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!

Here is where we have policy debates, project announcements, and assist community members in organizing events.

Everyone is welcome to comment on posts and participate in the discussions regardless of skill level or experience.

Following up the WordPress Meetup Reactivation Project in 2022, we aim to revive some 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. Groups in big cities that are inactive or help the local WordPress community that are not yet part of our Meetup Chapter Program to join our program.

We have selected 10 groups to be our focus for 2024.

	City	Country	Population	Meetup URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org	Meetup Members	Notes
1	Karachi	Pakistan	11,624,219	https://www.meetup.com/wordpress-karachi-meetup/	2683, last active in May 2023
2	Ho Chi Minh/Saigon	Vietnam	8,993,082	https://www.meetup.com/Saigon-WordPress	1511, last active in May 2020	2022 Reactivation Project
3	Singapore	Singapore	5,638,700	https://www.meetup.com/wordpress-singapore/	2662, last active in June 2023	Last 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. in 2019
4	Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	4,697,000	https://www.meetup.com/wordpress-jeddah/	2765, last active in October 2022
4	Chennai	India	4,681,087	https://www.meetup.com/Chennai-WordPress-Meetup	1427, last active in Jun 2020	Reactivated in 2023
6	Surabaya	Indonesia	2,874,314	https://www.meetup.com/Surabaya-WordPress-Meetup	1713, last active in Mar 2023	Reactivated in 2023
7	Sapporo	Japan	1,973,832	https://www.meetup.com/Sapporo-WordPress-Meetup	310, last active in Sep 2023	Reactivated in 2023
8	Davao	Philippines	1,776,949	https://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Davao-PH	336, last active in May 2023	Reactivated in 2023, last WordCamp in 2019
9	Seoul	South Korea	10,349,312	There is no official group.	There are 2 WordPress groups on Meetup.com.	There were two applications but declined.
10	Hanoi	Vietnam	8,053,663	https://www.meetup.com/hanoi-wordpress-meetup/	Removed from the Chapter in 2020 due to inactivity.	We just completed processing the recent application, and a new group has been created, as the previous group can’t be revived.

Please let us know by leaving your comment below if you are:

Organizers of one of the groups or part of the local WordPress community in the city listed above and interested in becoming WordPress Meetup Organizers.
Community organizers from the same country and region of the groups listed above.
Event and Program Supporters from Asia who are available to participate in the project.

We need your support to:

Closely support the inactive Meetup organizers to plan Meetup events.
Organize regular check-ins with the inactive Meetup organizers.
Share experiences and encourage the group if they are interested in organizing a WordCamp or other WordPress events.
Onboard new groups if you are a Community Team Supporter.

The outreach to all the groups can be done anytime soon. However, in the first quarter of 2024, we will focus on:

Karachi, supported by Yogesh (@yoga1103)
Saigon, supported by Devin (@devinmaeztri)
Singapore, supported by Pooja (@webtechpooja)
Hanoi, supported by Devin (@devinmaeztri)

Thank you to @devinmaeztri and @yoga1103 for contributing to this post!

#asiapacific, #meetup, #reactivation

Today we had a first community team chat for Asia/Pasific/everyone! 🌏🌎🌍🙌 @kenshino did great facilitator, Thanks a lot! Let me share the summary:

Monthly Stats

We checked WordCamp stats posted by @courtneypk

Frequency of meetings

Backgroud: @kenshino proposed. Currently we do monthly meeting. A lot of the deputiesProgram Supporter Community Program Supporters (formerly Deputies) are a team of people worldwide who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about program supporters in our Program Supporter Handbook. are volunteers who only can help a couple hours per week, so we won’t use much energy for frequent meeting.
On the other hand, Asia is a growing region and some people have always felt that missing monthly meetings meant not getting even eyes on issues that needed to be discussed.
Needs opinion: How often should we have meeting?
Please add comment on this post 📝
- once a week
- one every two weeks
- (I don’t see the opinion for keeping monthly)

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. naming

Background: @mayukojpn proposed this topic originally. Recently we saw a opinion about event name (city name vs country name) in Europe, but how in Asia? Do you have opinion or issue with event name? (at least we discussed in Japanese community sometimes)
Decision: nothing at that time.
note: This time we actually talked about URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org structure (2017.city.wordcamp.org) not event name. It happened because I didn’t explain what I expected when we start this topic (sorry!). So Mayo will propose this topic again at next meeting with preparing my question. About URL structure if anyone have better idea, let’s suggest!

Extra 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. manager

Background: @_dorsvenabili proposed as we’re getting bigger and more global, it would be good to have one extra super deputyProgram Manager Program Managers (formerly Super Deputies) are Program Supporters who can perform extra tasks on WordCamp.org like creating new sites and publishing WordCamps to the schedule. to assign/manage/train new mentorsEvent 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. the EU/Asian timezone.
Decision: @mayukojpn raised hands and was recommended during meeting (Thanks!) to become a mentor manager of EU / Asia time zone. If there are no objection Mayo will contact to @brandondove and start working for it.

Next meeting

Next meeting will be next week or two weeks later on Thursday, depends on the answer of “Frequency of meetings”.
Talk about skipped topic:
- Roles & Responsibilities and naming conventions of groups within Community Team – e.g. Who’s WordCamp CentralWordCamp Central Website for all WordCamp activities globally. https://central.wordcamp.org includes a list of upcoming and past camp with links to each.?
- Open discussion about event name (How define your event name/area?)

We saw these people during the meeting. If you want to add anything to this summary, please add comment 😉 @kenshino @_dorsvenabili @imnok @ibonazkoitia @mayukojpn @nielslange @thewebprincess @gounder @francina @ivankristianto @drebbitsweb @emanuelblagonic @mercib @miss_jwo @adityakane