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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andreamiddleton/) [Andrea Middleton](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andreamiddleton/)
11:54 am _on_ October 22, 2013     
Tags: introductions, [training ( 37 )](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/training/),
[wordpress.tv ( 337 )](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/wordpress-tv/)  

# 󠀁[Introducing wp tv mods in training Al Davis…](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2013/10/22/introducing-wp-tv-mods-in-training-al-davis/)󠁿

Introducing wp.tv mods-in-training Al Davis and Meagan Hanes. Both happen to hail
from the Ontario area. Both have also been added to this blog and to WordPress.tv
as editors.

Al Davis is a 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](https://central.wordcamp.org/about/). organizer
and speaker, and also helped create the WordCamp multi-event sponsorship program
that’s all the rage these days.

Meagan Hanes is a designer who’s used WordPress since 2005. She’s also a WordCamp
speaker.

[@philerb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/philerb/), I think Al could be a big help
to you and [@theadityajain](https://profiles.wordpress.org/theadityajain/) with 
the oh-so-gentle, post-your-content reminders to WordCamp organizers. Perhaps you
could be his trainer?

[@myroseapple](https://profiles.wordpress.org/myroseapple/), I am have some emails
out to possible additional helpers for post-production. Do not despair. Do you think
you could train Meagan, in the meantime?

[#introductions](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/introductions/), [#training](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/training/),
[#wordpress-tv](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/wordpress-tv/)

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/) [Jen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/)
5:51 pm _on_ November 16, 2012     
Tags: [ideas ( 6 )](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/ideas/),
introductions   

# 󠀁[Hello World!](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2012/11/16/hello-world/)󠁿

The [Community Summit](https://make.wordpress.org/summit/) we had last month made
it clear that there are dozens of people ready and willing to pitch in to make the
WordPress contributor community better: more welcoming, more informed, more empowered,
more diverse, more of everything good in the world. This new contributor group, 
the community builders, will focus on outreach, mentorship programs, and contributor
engagement to make us all the “more”s listed above and then some.

There are a number of ideas that are already being talked about or are in various
stages of planning or implementation. There are even more ideas that no one has 
verbalized yet, and some of those will be incredibly cool. To get this group kicked
off, people interested in getting involved should leave a comment introducing themselves,
identifying their greatest area of interest, and listing any good ideas for things
we could do in the mission of the “more”s.

A note on timing: starting a big initiative right as the Nov-Dec holidays are starting
is a recipe for disaster, so let’s plan to use the coming weeks for introductions,
research, brainstorming, and planning, with implementation starting with the new
year when people’s attention won’t be so divided. We can figure out which things
we want to jump on first and create subcommittees to focus on specific initiatives/
programs so that we can make the most progress. Since many if not most of our programs
will likely overlap with other contributor groups, we can also use these weeks to
help shore up those groups in their efforts to get more organized, better documented,
etc before we start bringing in more contributors for them to wrangle.

Sound like something you want to be part of? Hit the comments!

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