Throughout 2022, the Community Team has been focused on a wide range of goals. These goals encompassed improvements to our programs and projects, creating new educational content, and improved outreach and coordination across the various sub-groups of the team.

1. Support the return of in-person events
2. Check-in and reactivate WordPress 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. Chapters worldwide
3. Increase training and support for 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. and 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.
4. Work on efforts to improve diversity and inclusion within our community
5. Create more opportunities for community members to interact with each other

Return of In-Person Events

Throughout 2022, the Community Team has been discussing how to safely return to in-person events. In January, the team published updated guidelines for in-person events. The WordCamp Handbook and Meetup Handbook are up-to-date with the decisions from the ongoing discussion.

We are also supporting event organizers by having open discussions about the challenges and hopes for the future with returning to in-person events.

In 2022, we had 22 in-person WordCamps, along with 3 which were online. At the moment, we have 12 WordCamps on the schedule, plus our in-person Community Summit. 16 more WordCamps are in pre-planning stages and 7 are pending review from the Community 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.. ✨ Kudos to @peiraisotta for gathering these stats!

Meetup Chapter Reactivations

The Meetup Reactivation project has been underway since July. At the start of the reactivation project, 416 of the chapters were identified as dormant. Thanks to the help of 41 contributors:

• 126 Meetup chapters have been reactivated
• 15 additional 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. have plans to reactivate
• 16 dormant Meetup chapters were removed

Need help to reengage your community, or assistance in finding new ideas for your Meetup events?

Reach out to the Meetup Support team at meetup-support@wordcamp.org!

Check out the latest Meetup Reactivation update shared by @juliarosia!

Community Team Training

We have had 5 Community Team Training sessions over Zoom, covering the Deputy program, Meetup/WordCamp application vetting, WordPress events organizing, WordCamp processes, and active listening.

Kudos to @samsuresh for kicking off and coordinating/facilitating the Community Team Training series (previously known as DeputyProgram 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. and Organizer Training). 💥

WP Diversity

Program 1: Underrepresented Voices Speaker Workshops: Increase in public speaking confidence: 54%

Program 2: How to Organize Inclusive and Welcoming WordPress Events: Increase in feeling prepared to run an inclusive event: 40%

Program 3: Speaker support and speaking opportunities (#diverse-speaker-support 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/. channel): over 225 speakers, speaker mentors, event organizers, and allies in the Slack channel.

Held 15 workshops, which reached: 248 participants from 117 cities, across 32 countries.

Increased number of contributors to the team

• 2020-2021: 5 contributors
• 2021-2022: 32 contributors

Speaker workshop materials are in English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

Community Engagement

Community Summit

The 2023 WordPress Community Summit was announced for August 22-23 in National Harbor, DC, UAS. This event will bring together WordPress contributors, team leads, and diverse community voices to discuss the challenges and clarify the vision for WordPress in the years ahead.

Suggest a Community Summit topic by January 16, 2023! 📝

Other Activities

Another goal mentioned in our 2022 goals announcement post was to implement a revised Camera Kit program in Europe, which will be available beginning in January 2023! Shout out to @sippis for the hard work on this. 💪

With a new Contributor Handbook, a new Community Code of Conduct was introduced in 2022! In support of the new code of conductCode of Conduct “A code of conduct is a set of rules outlining the norms, rules, and responsibilities or proper practices of an individual party.” - Wikipedia, incident response training was made available to anyone interested in learning more. Additionally, a new cohort led by @angelasjin and @juliarosia was announced and run, creating the WordPress community’s first Incident Response team. 

Looking Towards 2023

There were so many great ideas submitted for 2022 which I’d like to highlight for us to keep in mind when we move into the new year:

• Organize regular Deputy and 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. roundtables on a monthly basis with a focus on learning.
• Finalize and launch the Code of Conduct (CoCCode of Conduct “A code of conduct is a set of rules outlining the norms, rules, and responsibilities or proper practices of an individual party.” - Wikipedia) Training for Deputies.
• Identify gaps and start working on revamping our existing contributor training, with a goal of eventually moving them to Learn.WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/
• Formalize the contributor path for the Community Team and make community members aware of leadership and growth opportunities.
• Plan regular Community Organizer check-ins.

The following goals are ongoing and should be continued:

• Encourage community organizers in different locales to apply as Mentors or Deputies.
• Find ways to make sure that community organizers stay updated.
• Explore new event formats.

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