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Here is where we have policy debates, project announcements, and assist community members in organizing events.
Everyone is welcome to comment on posts and join the discussion regardless of skill level or experience.
If you love WordPress and want to help us do these things, join in!
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If you love WordPress and want to help us do these things, join in!
Like all great communities, the strength of the WordPress community is the incredible people who participate and also bring their unique perspectives and ideas to the project.
As the NextGen Event Project rolls along, we have put together some creative concepts and ideas powered by your fellow WordPress enthusiasts. These concepts are all ready for implementation, and we hope that these are brought to life over the next months and years to come.
Community and Identity-Based Groups:
College Campus-Based Groups
Self-Learning Clubs
Events for Identity-Based Groups
Peer-to-Peer Matching
Expert to Beginner Matching
Event for Underrepresented Groups
Educational and Informative Events:
WordPress “Shark Tank” (Ideas Pitch)
WordPress LearnUp
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Intro to Contributing
Second Half of the Day
Sponsor Networking Day
WordPress Debate on Hot Topics
Events on Specific Topics: Hosting, Security, Performance, Sustainability, Optimization
Online Event: WordCast
Happiness Bar
Online Clinic
Show and Tell Night
Curated Talks
Web Pitching Competition
WordPress Career Day
WordPress for Rural Communities
WordPress Showcase for Students
Networking and Professional Development:
Job Fairs
Fireside Chats/Show and Tell
Lunch Clubs
Networking Circles
Group Speed Networking for Business Owners (Finance, Insurance, Tech)
Networking for WordPress Businesses
Networking for Jobseekers and Recruiters
Networking for Bloggers
Events for Podcasters
Events for Publishers
Education and Skill Building:
Community Building Event
1:1 Learning
Event with Non-WordPress Tech Groups
DevCamp with Non-WordPress Dev Communities
Edutainment
Study Group Learning WP on Different Topics (Learning by Doing)
WordPress for Enterprise Training
Specialized Events:
Event for Enterprise Users and Media Companies Using MultisiteMultisiteMultisite is a WordPress feature which allows users to create a network of sites on a single WordPress installation. Available since WordPress version 3.0, Multisite is a continuation of WPMU or WordPress Multiuser project. WordPress MultiUser project was discontinued and its features were included into WordPress core.https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network.
Event for Web Agencies
WordPress Youth Summit
Scary Stories or Horror WordPress in October – Learning from Mistakes
WordPress for Publishers
Low-cost or Eco Event
WordPress Retreat
Event about Digital Marketing
These ideas have been collected from community members like you. The exciting part is, if you are an event organizer, we truly encourage you to experiment actively by creating more vibrant, inclusive and exciting events for the future.
This is where we get to participate and shape the future of WordPress events.
As the WordPress.org new design is taking shape, I’d like to open a call for ideas with this post to find the most useful and desirable features for a future homepage that would host a list of all Next Gen WordPress events, have a centralized place to find the next WP events, all open calls for speakers, sponsors, volunteers, ticket sales,… and to be able to filterFilterFilters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. them by continent, country, language, type of event, etc.
You can search events by name, topic, categories, country…
Every event in the list has a direct link to its registration page, schedule, call for speakers (if currently open), call for sponsors (if currently open), etc.
I visualize this new homepage as a place where people can find any kind of WP event: meetupsMeetupMeetup 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., WordCamps, NexGen events, WP workshops,…
Ideas are welcome!
It’s our opportunity to create something that improves our current “Upcoming Events” and WordCamp Central Schedule pages and to create a more modern and usable site that can be useful to newcomers, attendees, sponsors, etc., and to promote it publicly more.
Please comment with your feedback and please add any more features that you’d like to see in this new site, thanks!