Jonathan Bossenger 9:00 am on February 6, 2019
Tags: meetups

Meetup organizer newsletter suggestions for February 2019

It’s that time again, we’re starting to draft the February 2019 edition of the meetup organizers newsletter — if there are any topics you’d recommend we include, or any interesting meetup event formats you think are worth highlighting, please comment leave your ideas/suggestions in the comments on this post?

I will leave the comments open for one week until the 13th of February 2018.

The newsletter typically spotlights:

an interesting event format that organizers might want to try out
news about global community team projects
news about the WordPress open source project

Thanks! #meetups #newsletter

meetups organized
attendees around the world
let us help them out

#meetups-2

Hugh Lashbrooke 9:17 am on September 6, 2018
Tags: afk ( 13 ), meetups, payments ( 5 ), WordCamps ( 205 )

Payment Intermission: 1-7 October 2018

The Automattic sponsored staff members of the Global Community Team, who routinely handle WPCS banking, will be at a company offsite meeting from 1-5 October 2018. During this time we’ll stop WordCamp and Meetup vendor payments, reimbursements, and sponsor payment attribution.

If you’ll need to pay for goods or services at the start of October, please submit all requests no later than Friday, 28 September 2018 at 16:00 UTC.

Payment requests submitted after that time will not likely be processed until Tuesday, 9 October 2018. Sponsor invoices paid during 1-7 October 2018 won’t be marked paid until 8 October 2018.

If you have an urgent payment request that must be handled that week, but did not submit your request prior to 28 September, please reach out to @kcristiano or @adityakane on Slack.

Deputies, mentors, and community members will still be available by email at support@wordcamp.org or on Slack in the #community-events channel as usual.

Normal vendor payment and sponsorship attributions scheduled will resume Tuesday, 9 October 2018, though it may take us a day or two to get fully caught up.

#payments #afk #wordcamps #meetups

Birgit Pauli-Haack 9:12 pm on February 23, 2018
Tags: meetups, roundtables

WordPress Meetup Roundtables scheduled for March

In an earlier post about how to assist dormant Meetup Groups, we kicked around some ideas on how to support meetup organizers in their essential community work, especially if they are struggling or suffer from burn-out.

As a test, experienced meetup organizers will host four Meetup Roundtables. Kathy Drewien, Roberto Remedios, Jim True and Ulrich Pogson have already agreed to be our hosts, and we are recruiting a couple more people right now!

The Meetup Roundtables are an opportunity for Meetup organizers to connect and discuss challenges and opportunities for their local Meetups. We’ll hold them via video chat, using Zoom.

Here are the dates and topics, all Wednesdays at 16:00 UTC

March 7th, 2018
What were the more popular topics in 2017 and 2018?
Your hosts:Karen Arnold (@karenalma) – Meetup Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
- Birgit Pauli-Haack (@bph) – Meetup Naples, Florida, USA
- Ulrich Pogson (@grapplerulrich) – Meetup Bern, Switzerland
- Jim True (@jimtrue) – Meetup Tampa & St Petersburg, USA
  Recording available on YouTube
March 14th, 2018
How did you find your venues and strategic partners?
Your hosts:
- Birgit Pauli-Haack (@bph) – Meetup Naples, Florida, USA
- Roberto Remedios @remediosgraphic – Meetup San Jose, Costa Rica
- Jim True (@jimtrue) – Meetup Tampa & St Petersburg, USA
- Karen Arnold (@karenalma) – Meetup Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
  Recording available on YouTube
March 21st, 2018
How do you promote and cross-post meetups in the local community?
Your hosts:
- Kathy Drewien (@kdrewien) – Meetup Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Dreb Bits (@drebbits) – Meetup Davao, Philippines
- Birgit Pauli-Haack (@bph) – Meetup Naples, Florida, USA
- Jim True (@jimtrue) – Meetup Tampa & St Petersburg, USA
- Recording available on YouTube
March 28th, 2018
How did you find your co-organizers?
Your hosts:
- Kathy Drewien (@kdrewien) – Meetup Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Birgit Pauli-Haack (@bph) – Meetup Naples, Florida, USA
- Jim True (@jimtrue) – Meetup Tampa & St Petersburg, USA
- Ulrich Pogson (@grapplerulrich) – Meetup Bern, Switzerland
- Recording available on YouTube

The format is quite informal. We’ll kick-off the meeting with introductions, name, and location. The hosts will talk about their experiences for this week’s topic for a few minutes, and then we open it up for general Q & A from participating organizers.

For this first round, we’ll plan for these video chat Meetup Roundtables to last one hour. We will record them and make them available for those that couldn’t make it.

We hope you can join the discussion! If you’re an experienced meetup organizer in the WordPress chapter program and would like to participate as a host, please comment below!

Interested in learning more about WordPress Meetups?

#meetups-2, #roundtables

Cami Kaos 7:39 pm on August 25, 2017
Tags: afk ( 13 ), community-events ( 6 ), meetups, payments ( 5 ), WordCamps ( 205 )

Payment Intermission September 11-18

The Automattic sponsored staff members of the Global Community Team, who routinely handle WPCS banking, will be at a company offsite September 11-18. During this time we’ll halt WordCamp and Meetup vendor payments, reimbursements, and sponsor payment attribution. If you’ll need to pay for goods or services in mid-September, please submit all requests no later than 9am Pacific Friday, September 8, 2017. Payment requests submitted after that time will not likely be processed until Tuesday, September 19, 2017. Sponsor invoices paid September 11-18 won’t be marked paid until September 19.

If you have an urgent payment request that must be handled that week, but did not submit your request prior to September 8, please reach out to @kcristiano. He can be found on slack “@kcristiano“.

Deputies, mentors, and community members will still be available by email at support@wordcamp.org or on Slack in the #community-events channel.

Normal vendor payment and sponsorship attributions scheduled will resume Tuesday, September 19, 2017 though it may take us a day or two to get fully caught up.

#payments #afk #wordcamps #meetups-2

Cami Kaos 6:10 pm on August 2, 2017
Tags: handbook ( 9 ), meetups, WordCamps ( 205 )

New Documentation: Presenter Best Practices

It seems odd that in our ever expanding documentation we don’t really have much content on the best practices for presenters in our program. Given that presenters are one of the cornerstones on which we build WordCamps and Meetups that’s something we’d like to change but we need everyone’s help.

We’re looking for a good general set of best practices for each of the following specific presenters/ presentations so please let us know what has worked best for you both at events at which you’ve presented and which you’ve organized.

Opening Remarks
Emcees
Speakers

Example questions we’re looking to answer: What should be covered during opening remarks? How much content should an emcee share? How do you deal with attendees who interrupt your presentation?

But please don’t let that limit your response. Anything that can be of help to organizers, presenters, and emcees at WordCamps and Meetups could be relevant. We’re looking to curate some truly helpful advice and best practices for the handbook so let us know what you know, or what you’d like to see.

#wordcamps #meetups-2 #handbook

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Meetup organizer newsletter suggestions for February 2019

Payment Intermission: 1-7 October 2018

WordPress Meetup Roundtables scheduled for March

Payment Intermission September 11-18

New Documentation: Presenter Best Practices