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Mary Job 9:45 am on January 7, 2021
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Community Team Chat Agenda | January 7, 2021

Hello Team!

Our bi-monthly Community Team chat is happening this Thursday, 07 January 2021. Meeting times are detailed below. We use the same agenda for both meetings in order to include all time zones.

Asia-Pacific / EMEA friendly: Thursday, January 7, 2021, 11:00 UTC

Americas friendly: Thursday, January 7, 2021, 20:00 UTC

Deputy/Mentor check-in

What have you been doing and how is it going?

P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. posts needing review/feedback

  • Global Sponsorship Update – Courtney P.K. – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/12/18/global-sponsorship-update/
  • Recap of Contributor Working Group on Dec. 16, 2020 – Christina Workman – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/12/20/recap-of-contributor-working-group-on-dec-16-2020/
  • Diverse Speaker Training Group (#wpdiversity) 2020 Year-End Report – Jillbinder – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/12/21/diverse-speaker-training-group-wpdiversity-2020-year-end-report/
  • Tuesday Trainings: Diverse Speaker Training Workshop Part 4 – Cami Kaos – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/12/22/tuesday-trainings-diverse-speaker-training-workshop-part-4/
  • Contributor Working Group Agenda | January 6 2021 – Christina Workman – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2021/01/05/contributor-working-group-agenda-january-6-2021/

Highlighted P2 posts

  • https://make.wordpress.org/community/2021/01/04/community-team-goals-2021-open-discussion-sessions/ – Angela
  • https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/12/01/program-wide-payment-and-contract-intermission-december-19-2020-january-3-2021/ – Cami
  • Community Team Reps for 2021 announced – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2021/01/07/community-team-reps-for-2021/ – Mary

Please add any additional items to this agenda by commenting on this post as needed.

#community-team, #deputy-chat, #team-chat

Angela Jin 10:59 am on December 17, 2020
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Community Team Chat Agenda | December 17, 2020

Hello Team!

Our bi-monthly Community Team chat is happening this Thursday, 17 December 2020. Meeting times are detailed below. We use the same agenda for both meetings in order to include all time zones.

Asia-Pacific / EMEA friendly: 17 December 2020, 11:00 AM UTC

Americas friendly: 17 December 2020, 20:00 UTC

Deputy/Mentor check-in

What have you been doing and how is it going?

Announcements

P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. posts needing review/feedback

Highlighted P2 posts

Please add any additional items to this agenda by commenting on this post as needed.

#community-team, #meeting-agenda, #team-chat

Timi Wahalahti 9:06 am on December 17, 2020
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Community Deputy check-in results and sum-up

In recent weeks, all Community Team Deputies were contacted personally through 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/., and asked to provide feedback on contributions to the Community Team in 2020. Deputies were also asked about their plans for contribution in 2021, and how team reps and fellow deputies could provide better support.

The check-in was done with three things in mind: to know how many active Community deputies will continue in 2021, if and where there is need for more training, and to get feedback on how to improve the deputy experience. The number side of results is also meant for tracking deputy engagement long term, as the Community Team expressed interest in regular check-ins.

In this post, I’ll be sharing a summary of results and general conclusions.

Response rate and deputy balance

All 35 active deputies were contacted, and 25 (71%) of them answered in a given time (one week). From those 25 deputies, 24% (6) are fully sponsored, 32% (8) are partially sponsored and 44% (11) are contributing on a  voluntary basis.

Time contributed

It’s worth noticing that deputies are very active contributors on the wider WordPress project. From all who responded, 60% (15) answered that they contribute to other teams. Over half of deputies contributing to other teams also contribute to more than one team outside of Community.

The year 2020

Deputies estimated that during the year 2020 they have contributed a total of 1051 hours monthly to the Community Team.

Number of deputiesTotal hours estimatedOn average per deputy
Fully sponsored6650108
Partially sponsored816421
Fully volunteer1123722
All25105142

The year 2021

Deputies were also asked to estimate how much time they plan on contributing to the Community Team per month in 2021.

They estimated that they would contribute 906 hours per month in total, around 36 hours on average per deputy. The estimates predict an approximately 14% decrease in contributed time when compared to this year. 

Total hoursOn average per deputyDifference in hours from 2020(% change)
Fully sponsored600100-50 (-7%)
Partially sponsored164210 (+/-0%)
Fully volunteer14213-95 (-40%)
All90636-145 (-14%)

Ways to contribute

Deputies were asked to tell how they have contributed to the Community team during 2020 and in which way they would like to contribute during next year. Deputies had a pre-formed list of options to choose from and a free field to list other ways that were missing from the list. Options were the same for both years and deputies were allowed to select as many options as they liked.

20202021
MeetupMeetup All 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. application vetting1816
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. application vetting1318
WordCamp mentoring1218
Local community mentoring1619
Financial aspects (Sponsorship wrangling, WPCS, payments)913
Triaging HelpScout1013
Developing Community Team (Writing proposals or comments on the P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/., etc)1614
Participation on a working group1013

The following observations were made from the answers:

  • 56% of deputies wish to contribute in more ways than they had this year
  • 16% of deputies want to contribute in fewer ways than they have this year
  • Routine, administrative tasks, like triaging HelpScout, are not popular ways to contribute amongst fully volunteer deputies. Instead, they prefer to contribute to local communities.
  • More deputies wish to work with local communities and events during 2021
  • Partially volunteered deputies expressed interest in routine, administrative tasks during 2021

Estimates on tools

Deputies were asked to estimate when they last participated in a discussion or used tools that are specific to deputy work. This part of the results is for historical analysis, rather than measuring how the team or individuals did in 2020.

This monthLast monthIn the last 3 monthsIn the last 6 monthsThis yearNot this year
Attended a Community Team bi-weekly meeting1432123
Posted or commented on the Community Team blog1432312
Logged in to HelpScout1350232
Logged in to 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.1712320

Observations from open questions

Deputies were asked to answer a few open questions: where they feel their contribution is most impactful, what team reps could do to better support deputy work, and if there are any blockers in contributions to the team.

Some observations can be made from responses to these questions:

  • Almost all of the deputies feel that their contribution is most impactful when mentoring event organisers and local communities.
  • Only a handful and mostly experienced deputies mentioned things related to Community Team management (proposals, team development, mentoring others, documentation etc.) as contributions that they feel are impactful.
  • Nearly half of the deputies felt that they had received enough support from team reps and fellow deputies.
  • Some deputies felt that the Community Team should do more outreach, frequent updates on what the team is doing, and highlight project-wide updates with the team more often.
  • Some things in the team are moving too fast or too much information is put out in a short period, making it challenging to follow with everything happening, especially for fully volunteer deputies.
  • There were suggestions for how tools and work procedures could be improved. For example, having shifts could help deputies maintain a regular cadence for routine tasks.
  • Deputies that found writing proposals most impactful wished for more active engagement from other deputies on Community Team blog posts, and help in getting more voices heard from the wider community.
  • Almost all full volunteer deputies have had time allocation challenges, because of COVID-19 implications or other things happening in their personal life.

Any follow up thoughts?

Did these results raise some questions, thoughts, additional observations or interpretations? Was there anything that came up in these results that you think we need to discuss in greater detail? Please share your mind freely on the comments! Please share your thoughts before 2021-01-07.

Big thanks to @angelasjin and @courtneypk who did the deputy check-ins with me and helped with this post!

I’d also like to use this opportunity to thank a few fellow deputies that are going to take a break from deputy duties. @francina and @bph have been long-term deputies developing the team, a great inspiration to others and really valued members of the team. Thank you for all your contributions! Luckily we still get to collaborate on other aspects of the Community Team and wider WordPress project.

#deputies, #community-deputies, #community-team, #deputy-check-in

Christina Workman 6:09 pm on December 15, 2020
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Contributor Working Group Agenda | December 16 2020

Here is the Agenda for our meeting on Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 20:00 UTC in the #community-team channel in 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/.. As always, you can add comments to the meeting afterwards, and/or add comments to the recap post.

Agenda

  1. Team check-in: How is everyone?
  2. Meet the Leads
  3. Review TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. and Google Drive
  4. Questions for me?
  5. Next steps: Relax, Refresh, Recharge

#WPContributors

Hari Shanker R 10:04 am on December 8, 2020
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Tuesday Trainings: How to organize a successful discussion group

WordPress contributor teams announced the Learn WordPress initiative in August 2020, which offers recorded workshops paired with live online discussion groups to help participants learn different features of WordPress. Learn WordPress is gearing up for a full launch, and during the past few months, we have had several workshops followed by successful discussion groups. Discussion groups are, in fact, an essential part of Learn WordPress workshops. In August, @angelasjin published an excellent Tuesday Training post on being a successful discussion group leader. This post serves as a follow-up to explore ideas on how to organize a successful discussion group. 

What is a discussion group? 

A discussion group is an event where participants of Learn WordPress workshops can discuss the workshop topic amongst themselves, solidify their learnings, and find answers to their questions, in a live discussion. These discussions can take place over video calls on Zoom or text based meetings in WordPress 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/.. Discussion groups are facilitated and moderated by discussion group leaders who have watched the workshop and know its contents. 

How can I organize a discussion group?

Just like a WordPress meetupMeetup All 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., anyone can organize a discussion group! There are two ways to organize discussion groups:

  1. You can apply to be a discussion group leader, which will allow you to organize an official discussion group event for a Learn WordPress workshop.
    Once you are approved, you can organize a discussion event on the Learn WordPress Meetup group, just the way you would schedule a WordPress Meetup on a meetup group. Approved discussion group leaders will be promoted as event organizers for the Learn WordPress group. 
  2. You can directly organize a Learn WordPress workshop for a local WordPress meetup.
    Anyone can organize a discussion group for their local WordPress meetup. All you need is to watch the workshop of your choice and schedule a discussion group event for your local WordPress meetup group. If you are not the organizer of your group, you can reach out to members of the meetup organizing team to schedule the event for you. 

Discussion group leaders can organize the discussion event based on any available Learn WordPress workshop. They will need to watch the workshop in advance and should have a good understanding of the topics covered. Each workshop has comprehension questions and learning objectives, which will help discussion group leaders prepare well in advance for a discussion group.

Discussion group leaders for Learn WordPress can then go to the Learn WordPress Meetup group and schedule an event, just the way you would organize a meetup event. Make sure that you mention the name of the workshop and a link to it in the description. Past discussion group leaders have observed that asking a confirmation question to attendees in the meetup options ensures that participants have watched the workshop before attending. 

Preparation before the event

One of the first things you need to keep in mind is the discussion group format. Most discussion groups are organized on video over a video hosting tool such as Zoom (you can reserve a community zoom room, if available). Alternatively, you can also organize a text-based discussion group in the #community-events channel on the WordPress Slack. 

Make sure that you have watched and understood the workshop before the event. Based on the Learning objectives and comprehension questions on each workshop, it might help to prepare some notes. Based on these, prepare a list of discussion points that you can introduce to the audience. Sometimes, many participants in a discussion group may not have seen the Learn WordPress workshop before, so it might help prepare a recap of sorts using slides. Some discussion group leaders have had success organizing quizzes as part of discussion groups. If you are interested, you can create a short, fun quiz with a tool like Kahoot! and use it for your discussion group. 

Ensure that you have scheduled the discussion group at least one week in advance; this will help you get the most participants. Send your group participants reminder emails to watch the workshop along with a reminder about the upcoming discussion group itself. It might be helpful to send a reminder email 24 hours before the workshop and another one shortly before the event.

Tips for a successful discussion group event

Join the discussion group call five minutes early – this will help you stay prepared. Start the discussion group by welcoming everyone. Introduce yourself, briefly talk about the Learn WordPress initiative, and explain what discussion groups are. If you do not have many participants (less than 5), it might help to start with self-introductions – that can be an excellent way to break the ice. Then, ask the members if they have seen the workshop. If at least 20-30% of attendees have not seen the workshop, you might want to start by sharing the gist of the workshop in a capsule form. Do not take more than 10 minutes for the recap. Once the recap is done, you can officially start the discussion group!

Here are some tips: 

  • You can ask open-ended questions based on the workshop and ask participants to answer them. If no one answers, reach out to folks individually and ask questions. 
  • Another way to start the discussion is by reaching out to individual participants in the call by asking them to share their learnings from the workshop.
  • Based on your notes, find a couple of tricky points and try to initiate a conversation. If your group does not seem to be active, you might want to intervene and lead the discussion. You can slowly pass the ball on to other members. Within the span of a few minutes, you should see the discussion gaining momentum.
  • Ask your group members to share any questions that they may have. When they ask questions, even though you may know the answer, ask other group members to answer them. 
  • Some people may not be comfortable talking on a video call. They can always share their thoughts in chat. In fact, you can encourage folks to share their questions in the Zoom chat.

In the meantime, keep a note of the time. Discussion groups are typically one hour long you do not want your group to go past the time limit!

Get creative with discussion groups

Just like how you have the chance to experiment with online WordPress meetups, you can also get creative with discussion groups. Here are some ideas that you can try out:

  • Do a quiz: You can use free tools like Kahoot! for quizzes. The quiz works best towards the end of the discussion group. It need not be long – all you need to have is about 5-8 questions. The questions can be simple yet fun and playful. Add trick questions if you want to! We’ve found that activities like quizzes help spice up discussion groups!
  • Group activities: For discussion groups on practical topics such as the Introduction to publishing with the block editor workshop, it might help organize activities (either individually or in groups), depending on the number of participants. For example, you can ask participants to create a quick blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. layout by giving them some instructions. The task should be fairly straightforward, and participants should complete it in less than 30 minutes. You can then review the work and share instructions on how to get it done. If you are using Zoom for your call, you can use breakout rooms to divide people into groups (this would work if your event has 10 or more participants). 
  • Play games: Several fun games can be used to make online events more effective. Like quizzes, making them the focus of your discussion group might not precisely be effective. But having a short game somewhere towards the end of the workshop might be sufficient. 

Concluding the discussion

Start wrapping up the workshop five minutes before the time is up. You can share a summary of what was discussed and allow for one or two closing remarks. Once the workshop wraps up, it might help send all attendees a personalized message thanking them for the participation. Please don’t forget to share any additional information shared in the workshop (any discussion points, links, slides, etc.). 

Do you have any ideas for organizing a Learn WordPress discussion group? What can we do to make sure that the discussion group is engaging for our participants? Please share your thoughts in the comments! 

#tuesdaytrainings

#community-team #learn-wordpress

Christina Workman 2:53 am on December 7, 2020
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Recap for Contributor Working Group Meeting on Dec. 2, 2020

In attendance: @amethystanswers, @angelasjin, @annezazu, @daisyo, @paaljoachim, @tacoverdo, @matthewfarlymn, @chaion07

Agenda: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/10/15/contributor-working-group-wpcontributors-agenda-for-wednesday-october-21-2020-1900utc/
Meeting beginning in Slack: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1606939257416300

Checking In

We haven’t had meeting for a few weeks, but happily, people are general doing well, which is great to hear!

Meeting Time

Our meeting time is shifting an hour later in to 20:00UTC, which will remain consistent for areas participating in Daylight Saving Time. For others this will mean the meeting is an hour later and also is at the same time as Dev Chat. We’ll see how this goes for the next little while and revisit if it’s not working out.

As always, if you aren’t able to make the meeting, you are welcome to add comments in the #community-team channel afterwards or post comments to recaps like this one.

Goals

2020

  • populate and organize TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. board
  • communicate with and support one another more
  • publish team structure

2021

  • scale down to smaller, more digestible tasks (using Trello board)
  • create testing environments
  • start working with a few teams on onboarding information, perhaps establishing a baseline standard where possible
  • continue expanding this list

Recognizing Contributions

Anyone who has actively contributed to the Contributor Working Group for at least a month, can now apply for the Community Contributor Badge! I will be reaching out with the link to apply, and if you think I have missed you please do reach out to me. This will be ongoing.

Next Steps

Original next steps from the Agenda were put on hold in favour of getting more organized, which includes working on our 2020 goals (as there are only a few weeks left in 2020).

Christina will get everyone access to the Trello board. If you don’t have access, please DM @amethysanswers in 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/..

Christina will also finalize our group Leads and meet with them.

Everyone else, please keep talking amongst yourselves in group DMs, even if it’s just getting to know one another better.

Our next meeting (and last one in 2020) will be December 16 at 20:00 UTC.

#WPContributor

Mary Job 9:52 am on December 1, 2020
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Community Team Chat Agenda | December 3 2020

Hello Team!

Our bi-monthly Community Team chat is happening this Thursday, 03 December 2020. Meeting times are detailed below. We use the same agenda for both meetings in order to include all time zones.

Asia-Pacific / EMEA friendly: Thursday, December 03, 2020, 11:00 UTC

Americas friendly: Thursday, December 03, 2020, 20:00 UTC

Deputy/Mentor check-in

What have you been doing and how is it going?

P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. posts needing review/feedback

  • Standards for Learn WordPress workshop content – Hari Shanker R – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/11/18/standards-for-learn-wordpress-workshop-content/
  • Quizzes are now live on Learn WordPress – Hugh Lashbrooke – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/11/18/quizzes-are-now-live-on-learn-wordpress/
  • Tuesday Trainings: Diverse Speaker Training Workshop Part 2 – Cami Kaos – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/11/24/tuesday-trainings-diverse-speaker-training-workshop-part-2/
  • Report: Diverse Speaker Workshops November 2020 – Jill Binder – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/12/01/report-diverse-speaker-workshops-november-2020/
  • Proposal: Giving recognition after completing Contributor Training – Timi Wahalahti – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/12/01/proposal-giving-recognition-after-completing-contributor-training/
  • Community Team Reps for 2021 Voting has commenced, posted by Mary Job – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/12/01/community-team-reps-submit-your-votes-2/

Highlighted P2 posts

  • Learn WordPress course planning – High Lashbrooke – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/10/23/learn-wordpress-course-planning/
  • Community Team goals for 2021: share your suggestions! – Cami Kaos – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/11/16/community-team-goals-for-2021-share-your-suggestions/

Please add any additional items to this agenda by commenting on this post as needed.

#community-team, #meeting-agenda, #team-chat

Mary Job 9:37 am on December 1, 2020
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Community Team Reps: Submit your Votes

In November, the Community team opened up nominations for new Community team reps for 2021. The poll is now open and ready for your vote!

What are team reps?

In 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, each team has one or two (or more!) representatives, abbreviated as “reps”. On the Community team, we ask reps to commit to the role for a full calendar year.

Team reps are responsible for communicating on behalf of the group to the other contributor groups via weekly updates, as well as occasional chats. 

As a reminder, it is not called “team lead” for a reason. While the people elected as team reps will generally come from the pool of folks that people think of as experienced leaders, the team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. role is designed to change hands regularly.

This role does have a time commitment attached to it, at least one hour a week. The main tasks include:

  • Writing the agenda for the biweekly chat (example)
  • Run the chat (example)
  • Write the recap and post it in Updates
  • Keep an eye on the moving parts of the team and provide reports for quarterly updates (example).

Over the year, the team can decide to add one or two people to help, depending on how much work there is. For now, the Community team would like to elect two team reps for 2021. 

Where can I vote?

You can vote in the public poll here. You can vote for up to two people at the same time, but once you have submitted your vote you won’t be able to vote again.

This poll will remain open until Tuesday, December 22, after which team reps will be selected based on the votes received.

#community-team, #highlight, #team-reps

Mary Job 8:53 pm on November 18, 2020
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Community Team Chat Agenda | November 19 2020

Hello Team!

Our bi-monthly Community Team chat is happening this Thursday, 19 November 2020. Meeting times are detailed below. We use the same agenda for both meetings in order to include all time zones.

Asia-Pacific / EMEA friendly: Thursday, November 19, 2020, 11:00 UTC

Americas friendly: Thursday, November 19, 2020, 20:00 UTC

Deputy/Mentor check-in

What have you been doing and how is it going?

P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. posts needing review/feedback

  • Setting a launch date for Learn WordPress – Hugh Lashbrooke – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/11/06/setting-a-launch-date-for-learn-wordpress/
  • Report: Diverse Speaker Workshops and Train the Trainers October 2020 – Jill Binder – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/11/06/report-diverse-speaker-workshops-and-train-the-trainers-october-2020/
  • WordCamp and Meetup application vetting sprint, November 2020 – Erica Varlese – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/11/09/wordcamp-and-meetup-application-vetting-sprint-november-2020/
  • Community Team Rep Nominations for 2021 – Mary Job – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/11/10/community-team-rep-nominations-for-2021/
  • Tuesday Trainings: Identifying and avoiding burnout – Cami Kaos – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/11/10/tuesday-trainings-identifying-and-avoiding-burnout/
  • Recap of the Diverse Speaker Training group (#WPDiversity) on November 11, 2020 – Jill Binder – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/11/11/recap-of-the-diverse-speaker-training-group-wpdiversity-on-november-11-2020/
  • [Input Requested] Re-imagining the work of the Diverse Speaker Training group (#WPDiversity) – Jill Binder – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/11/12/input-requested-re-imagining-the-work-of-the-diverse-speaker-training-group-wpdiversity/
  • Meetup Organizer Newsletter: November 2020 – Hari Shanker R – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/11/13/meetup-organizer-newsletter-november-2020/
  • Tuesday Trainings: Diverse Speaker Training Workshop Part 1 – Cami Kaos – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/11/17/tuesday-trainings-diverse-speaker-training-workshop-part-1/
  • Standards for Learn WordPress workshop content posted by Hari Shanker R – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/11/18/standards-for-learn-wordpress-workshop-content/
  • Quizzes are now live on Learn WordPress, posted by Hugh Lashbrooke – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/11/18/quizzes-are-now-live-on-learn-wordpress/
  • High Priority items before learn.wordpress.org launch, posted by Erica Varlese – https://make.wordpress.org/training/2020/11/18/high-priority-items-before-learn-wordpress-org-launch

Highlighted P2 posts

  • Learn WordPress course planning – High Lashbrooke – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/10/23/learn-wordpress-course-planning/
  • Community Team goals for 2021: share your suggestions! – Cami Kaos – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/11/16/community-team-goals-for-2021-share-your-suggestions/

Please add any additional items to this agenda by commenting on this post as needed.

#community-team, #deputy-chat, #meeting-agenda

Mary Job 7:17 pm on November 10, 2020
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Community Team Rep Nominations for 2021

At the end of last year, @camikaos and myself (@mariaojob) were voted in as reps for 2020. It has been an insightful & fulfilling experience, and we are happy to pass the baton on to the next team reps for 2021 💯.

This post kicks off the election process with nominations to replace @camikaos and myself (@mariaojob) as Community Team Reps.

The Role

In 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, each team has one or two (or more!) representatives, abbreviated as “reps”. On the Community team, we ask reps to commit to the role for a full calendar year.

Team reps are responsible for communicating on behalf of the group to the other contributor groups via weekly updates, as well as occasional chats. 

As a reminder, it is not called “team lead” for a reason. While the people elected as team reps will generally come from the pool of folks that people think of as experienced leaders, the team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. role is designed to change hands regularly.

This role does have a time commitment attached to it, at least one hour a week. The main tasks include:

  • Writing the agenda for the biweekly chat (example)
  • Run the chat (example)
  • Write the recap and post it in Updates
  • Keep an eye on the moving parts of the team and provide reports for quarterly updates (example).

Over the year, the team can decide to add one or two people to help, depending on how much work there is. For now, let’s get us two new reps!

How Community Team Rep elections work

Following our election process last year, the Community team is planning on these key steps: 

  1. Call for Nominations: Anyone can nominate a Community team rep! The deadline is Wednesday, November 25.
  2. Voting for Team Reps: We will open a poll for voting on Tuesday, December 1. The poll will stay open for three weeks, and close on Tuesday, December 22. We will then be able to announce our new team reps before the end of 2020! 

Call for Community Team Rep nominations!

Please nominate people for Community team rep in the comments of this post by Wednesday, November 25. Self-nominations are welcome. 

If you would like to nominate someone in private, please reach out to @mariaojob, @camikaos, or @angelasjin. 

If you get nominated, you do not have to say yes! We will only add people who respond positively to a nomination to the poll, so feel free to decline a nomination if you don’t feel like this is the right fit for any reason.

Finally, if you have any questions, please also feel free to ask in the comments.

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