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jillbinder 8:42 pm on August 22, 2018
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Recap of the Diversity Outreach Speaker Training meeting on Aug 22, 2018

Attending: @jillbinder @angelasjin @andreamiddleton @dianewallace @meher @webrite @cguntur

Start: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1534957241000100

Agenda:

  • Reports on what folks are working on
  • Our Trainings coming up
  • 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. newsletter
  • Email follow-ups after workshops
  • Status of our Build a Diverse Speaker Roster doc
  • Workshop timeline
  • And! A new Diversity group is being formed. What that’s about and how we may be coordinating with them.
  • Running our workshop

Reports:

@angelasjin
Seattle held a diversity speaker training 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. about two weeks ago, and we’re planning on making them a more regular occurrence. Next Wednesday, I’ll be doing a train the trainers session with Jill.

@webrite
I’ll be joining you to @angelasjin

@jillbinder
Yay @angelasjin and @webrite! I’m looking forward to that. We have one Meetup signed up so far for that, and I’m expecting more to come in. That is the “Train The Trainers” training for Meetups to run our workshop.

@miriamgoldman
Spoke about our group in her talk at 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. Montreal. It was really well received. People were surprised and pleased to learn about all the different ways they could get involved. Nobody asked about our group specifically, but Miriam did highlight it in the talk.

@cguntur
In addition to replying to our HelpScout queue every workday, Chandrika is also now reaching out to the Meetups who would like the training and is coordinating who is taking which training.

@jillbinder: It looks like we have 2 sign ups so far, I think. One for each — Sat the 25th and Wed the 29th.

@dianewallace
I still mean to go through the speaker training – then hopefully be able to help out.

@jillbinder
That would be wonderful, @dianewallace. Let us know if we can support you with that.

@dianewallace and @miriamgoldman
Are on hold on following up with groups after they have run the workshop, waiting for @jillbinder to finalize the goals and questions for that. I will talk about where that project is at in a bit.

Meetup newsletter

We are announcing our two August trainings in the newsletter, in addition to our regular “hey come get training with us” call-out.

@andreamiddleton is hoping to get it out this week, which would be great as it’ll be before our Saturday training.

@larryswanson and @miriamgoldman scheduled running a Sept training later in the month so that we’ll be able to be in the September newsletter for that as well.

Follow ups after Meetups have run our workshop

Currently it feels like we give them a lot of support up until they run it, and then no support after to check in how it went, giving them the chance to give us feedback, etc. Also there are some stats we’d like to collect for a report at the end of the year.

@dianewallace created a great draft, and when I showed it to @andreamiddleton I realized we need to put a lot more thought into the goals of what we are doing with this data.
After the initial convo with Andrea I have been giving it a lot of thought, and now together we are creating the next version of it.

I think it /might/ be close to done, and we’ll be able to start sending it out soon. Possibly! Depends a bit on my client schedule too, as I have been quite swamped this summer and that has delayed some things. It does look like I have some time opening up, so I hope to finish it.

I will keep everyone posted on the status of that.

Building A Diverse Speaker Roster

@tinat started working on a great draft for our “Building A Diverse Speaker Roster” document for the WordPress community at WCEUWCEU WordCamp Europe. The European flagship WordCamp event..
I have done the next draft of it recently, and now @andreamiddleton and I are working on the next version of that.

I think after a bit more work it’ll be ready for feedback from our team.

Workshop timeline

@anchen, one of our Train the Trainers participants, has taken the timeline that Vancouver used to run all 5 modules in 4 hours and has written it up in a format that anyone can use. I need to talk to the #training team to see where would be appropriate to put it in our training.

This timeline is ready for our team’s feedback. Please take a look and let me know any changes you think there should be:

https://slack-files.com/T024MFP4J-FCCJX90AC-50c40a4163

Big Announcement: Global Diversity Working Group

@Laura from Germany is creating and leading a new Global Diversity Working Group.

It’s very exciting stuff!

The concept and how our group will connect with it are still in discussion… But this is what they and I are thinking so far:

Their group is going to be to connect people around the world to work together on getting the WordPress events like the Meetups and WordCamp to be more diverse and inclusive. <3 <3

It’ll likely be an umbrella working group that all the Diversity groups and projects will fall under, such as the Community 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 and our Diversity Outreach Speaker Training team.

If it goes the way we are envisioning, there will likely be cross-over opportunities for people to work on the diversity topics they are currently passionate about at any time. That means that we’ll have access to more people to work on ours, and you’ll have more opportunity to contribute to the diversity of WordPress in many areas, if you wish!

And of course to continue to help further the diversity of speakers, always. 😉

I think this is going to really help forward our team as well as put a spotlight and solutions on some much needed issues.

It is still in discussion if this is the right way to get more people involved. There are a lot of diversity projects that are possible and we would love to see as many folks passionate about this topic, as we all are, working on them.

@andreamiddleton
It will be great to expand the resources available to community organizers as they work toward the goal the community team sets for all our people: to create welcoming, inclusive, and participatory events

@jillbinder

Currently they are working on their mission statement and self concept. There is no action to take yet and no changes to our group yet.

However if anyone would like to help them with these initial parts, reach out to @Laura.
Currently their meetings are at 6:30am PT / 9:30am ET / 14:30pm UTC on the same days as ours. I believe that will be changing.

Running Our Workshop

Last official item for today is to chat about folks in our group running the workshop in their own cities and/or online, and then for those who feel inspired, run more trainings for the Train The Trainers.

How are folks doing with setting them up in their own cities? I know a handful were thinking of doing one this Fall…

@angelasjin
With respect to setting up trainings in Seattle, we’ve talked about hosting more regular workshops, but summer is definitely keeping everyone busy. I’m hoping that we’ll have a more defined plan over the next couple of months.

@jillbinder
Yes, excellent. I know you just ran one, and it’ll be great to start having more throughout the year.

Ok, wrapping up for today. If anything else comes up, you can reach out here or reach out to me after.

Thanks again everyone for all the group work you’re doing and that we are going to keep doing.

End: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1534960030000100

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jillbinder 7:20 pm on August 8, 2018
Tags: training, ,   

Recap of the Diversity Outreach Speaker Training meeting on Aug 8, 2018

Attending: @jillbinder @miriamgoldman @angelasjin @webrite @lswanson @dianewallace @cguntur @ncsumarit

Start: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1533747634000032

Agenda:

  • I have some quick recaps
  • Check in who else has recaps
  • Running our next train the trainers

Jill’s Recaps:

Summer has been slow. I don’t think any more groups have run it since our last meeting, though I know that Seattle is running our training this evening. Hooray!

We’ve had a trickle of a few more folks being interested in running it coming in through our HelpScout queue
(via our form here: http://tiny.cc/wpwomenspeak )

A lady in Germany is very interested in promoting our work. One of her questions for me is if anyone in our team attends WordCamps in Europe, particularly 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. nijmegen at start of september coming up.

@sheilagomes and @simo70 have been our most active Europe members so far, so I’m pinging them.

Though of course anyone in our group out in that area is welcome to respond.

Thanks to @kelliwise for promoting our group — we’ve had an influx of new members.

Miriam’s Recap:

Status quo here. Main thing is prepping for WordCamp Montreal this weekend. Our group is being featured in my talk.

I’ll be at WCLAX September 21-23 so will do outreach there as well.

@jillbinder: Wonderful! They are a hub of Women of WordPress out that way, so we might be able to leverage that to getting some to participate in the WordPress community along those same lines further and/or run these trainings themselves.

Melanie’s Recap:

I will be attending the September WordPress Toronto meeting where I will talk attendees about our group.

I will run the training for our group likely late September or early October.

Larry’s Recap:

I submitted our Train the Trainers lesson plan last week to the #training team. They haven’t accepted the pull request yet. If folks want to see the current draft, let me know.

I’ll be speaking at WC NYC Sept 15-16. Planning to do outreach there.

Chandrika’s Recap:

I have been working on the HelpScout.

Will have more time after the 15th. So, probably can do a bit more then.

Next Train The Trainers

@jillbinder: I’d like to talk about running our next Train the Trainers for the 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.. We have gotten through a lot of our queue of meetups waiting to be trained and now we’re down to only around 10.

However, quite a few of those would like to run it this Fall, so I would like to see if we can get a training in in August.

I will be starting a school program in September, so I have a vested interest in getting more trainers on our team ready to be training. 😉

I propose:

  • Either folks watch Larry or I
  • Maybe even co-facilitate
  • If anyone wishes, they can even be the main facilitator and Larry or I can jump in as needed

A reminder that our current version is mostly hitting play on a recording, but there is a bit of speaking before, during, and after. We have that all scripted out!

The only “winging it” parts are the Q&A. But there you just answer what you can and let them know you’ll get back to them on anything you don’t know. If Larry or I are there, we can answer those ones.

@lswanson: I could do one Sat. 8/25.

+1 for co-facilitation – and for letting new folks lead with me or Jill as back-up.

@webrite: i would like to sit in on one, how do i make that happen

@jillbinder: @webrite That would be wonderful. We run them on Zoom, so you would be another “participant” on the Zoom call.

@webrite: I will be happy to join in and see this in action

@miriamgoldman: If you have it scripted out, I can do:

  • Labour Day weekend (September 1-2)
  • September 7-9
  • September 14-16
  • September 28-30

In terms of actually running the workshop, once I confirm my WordCamps for October, I’ll figure out when I can run it that month in Ottawa.

@angelasjin: I could do one during the last week of August
(although not on Monday the 27th)
I can do the weekend of September 8th as well.

@cguntur: How long is the training? 1hr? If it is 1 hr, then I can maybe do it on the 30th

@jillbinder: We leave up to 2 hours for it. The recording is 1h 20m, and there is time for talking before and after.

It is a good timeframe, and also we will probably look at shortening it in the future. @tinat found someone to shorten our video (I’m guessing it would shave 5-10 min), which I’m looking forward to finding out how that is going.

@jillbinder: I’ll be available to participate (and/or run) one of them. Looks like @lswanson will be able to do one as well. These all work for me except for Labour Day weekend. I’ll touch base with everyone else on their desired level of participation and work the trainings around that.

@ncsumarit: I’m hoping to run one with my colleagues in the Raleigh Meet-up in the fall and spring. I’m available to help run one in the future but should at least co-facilitate or attend one before then.

@jillbinder: Wonderful @ncsumarit! I forget if we have your info in our form yet so that we can follow up with you about this? http://tiny.cc/wpwomenspeak. Just to make sure we’re talking about the same thing, the ones that we are running right now are for training others in how to run it. Which is slightly different from just running it for a group. Though it would still be valuable to attend this if you wish.

@lswanson: To what @jillbinder just said about us all being on same page – if anyone has ideas about how to label our three activities – 1) local folks running the workshops, 2) community team folks training local organizers, 3) more experienced community folks training those trainers to run the trainings – I, for one, am all ears

@jillbinder: So far I am calling them Training and Train the Trainers. Other titles welcome.

@jillbinder: We will be using the calendar that @angelasjin set up for us last time to share with each other when the trainings are occurring.

@webrite: Where do I find the calendar.

@angelasjin: If you DM me your email address, I’ll add you to the calendar! Everyone who has access to the calendar should be able to add other folks to it as well.

@jillbinder: Thanks all for helping to move us all forward. I’m looking forward to the Fall when Meetups are in action and we are helping them diversify their speakers.

End: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1533750137000481

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jillbinder 6:00 pm on June 27, 2018
Tags: training,   

Recap of the Diversity Outreach Speaker Training meeting on June 27, 2018

Start time stamp in Community-Team Slack https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1530118826000247

Attending: @jillbinder @miriamgoldman @dianewallace

 

Agenda:

Reports on what folks in the team are working on

 

Meeting:

@jillbinder

A theme for today: People in our team have been doing great things and some of the items are stalled because I have been in heavy client deadline land for the last few weeks.

 

@jillbinder‘s report:

@lswanson and @jillbinder have been focusing on getting our team trained up so that we can start running the workshop, training others to run the workshop, and make group decisions.

I thiiiiink everyone in our team who wanted training has gotten it? Let me know. Plus we always get new members and we’ll want to train them too. We’ll keep running them of course. For internal to our team and external to our team.

 

@lswanson‘s report:

@larryswanson ran a Train the Trainers session for our team on Saturday. He thinks it went well and says that @miriamgoldman @angelasjin and @Kelli Wise can let us know.

One of the things he’s working on is getting our Train the Trainers workshop up in the new #training Team’s GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ system. “I hit a glitch in my GitHub learning experience so the train-the-trainer training lesson plan isn’t up there yet. Hope to get to that by the end of the week.”

 

@miriamgoldman‘s report:

@miriamgoldman: I can confirm @larryswanson’s report. It was fantastic. I have my notes at home.
I participated in the Train the Trainers workshop. Very good. My next step is to review the initial training video, and get myself comfortable with the curriculum.

@jillbinder: Awesome. We also have a recording of the first module fully played out (and with additional teacher notes) so that is available for anyone who wants to understand further.

@miriamgoldman: After that, I will set my availability to train others – being on the east coast it will help to have options. I will also be running the workshop MYSELF, upon determination of 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. Ottawa’s dates.

I will be working with @dianewallace on following up with those who have held the workshop. We just have a few logistics to clear up before before that can commence.

The obvious, I’ve been doing the reminders for the meetings. And organically promoting our team where I go.
I will be at WordCamp Montreal, and will be promoting our group there.

I’ve applied to WCLAX and WCPhilly so hopefully I will get in and promote there too. Also applied to WCUSWCUS WordCamp US. The US flagship WordCamp event. too.

That’s it for our team. Since it’s a long weekend here, I plan to continue my community 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. training as well.

@jillbinder: Hey, a favour — while you’re going through 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. training, could you tell me if anything is relevant to our group? That is an item that @andreamiddleton thought might be helpful for me in our team but it’s a long training and it went to the bottom of my to do list…

Our group is sort of in a no person’s land in between ready-made WordPress group structures, so she and I have been pulling and guessing here and there as to what is useful.

@miriamgoldman: Of course!

 

What @dianewallace and @miriamgoldman are up to:

@dianewallace and @miriamgoldman are starting up the follow-ups with 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. who have run it. Diane has written a first draft of an email to send to them in HelpScout (and some are not in our HelpScout). I need to go through and do a second draft.

 

What @cguntur, @mariaojob, and @dianewallace are up to:

@cguntur has been doing a great job continuing to do our HelpScout queue every workday, even while she’s in India right now! She also wrote up some instructions to help folks write our Recap posts. (Which I still need to review.)

Next week Chandrika is traveling and wasn’t sure what her internet situation will be, so @mariaojob and @dianewallace will fill in her for her again like they did recently.

 

What @tinat has been doing:

@tinat was our representative at WCEUWCEU WordCamp Europe. The European flagship WordCamp event. Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. and in WCEU in general. She did a lot of promoting for our group and new Meetups and groups out there are interesting in our work.
On Contrib day she wrote a first draft for a “So you’re a WordCamp and you’re not getting diverse speakers applying, what can you do” (<– my unofficial name for it 😉 ) “Improving your diversity speaker roster” post. It’s waiting for me to do up a second draft.

She also got someone on the WordPress TV team to agree to edit our current train the trainers video down to tighten it up.

She might have done more, but that’s what I remember right now!

 

What @simo70 has been doing:

@simo70 has been continuing to run the workshop for WordPress and non-WordPress meetups in Italy. She ran one at a non-WordPress (I think?) in Milan recently. It went really well and she has very positive feedback from it!

 

@sheilagomes‘ report:

“One piece of news I have is that I discussed with our local group in our last 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. about starting a new meetup called Women in WordPress (Mulheres no WordPress, in portuguese, as we are a brazilian group), which would address topics on diversity and anything related to women’s issues and work related to WP. I’d appreciate it if you or others could point me to other similar initiatives.”

@jillbinder: Yes! You’ll want to talk to:

  • @bridgetwillard and @jenblogs4u have started up a Women Who WordPress group in OC and have been working to spread chapters globally. (https://womenwhowp.org/) (Best logo: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/847511324963684353/M1CQyl7K_400x400.jpg)
  • @morgankay started up a WordPress Women series in Seattle. She’s a good resource too.
  • @cguntur attended that and may also be able to help from an attendee’s perspective?
  • @zoonini has done a lot of work for women in tech in general. I’m not sure if she has a specific women’s group but I do know she has collected a number of resources.

@miriamgoldman: That’s another of my lengthy to-dos. I’m considering launching a chapter here in Ottawa for our area, and obviously those from Montreal and Toronto who wish to join us can, if they are in town.

@jillbinder: That would be amazing, @miriamgoldman! Mayyyybe partnering with someone to co-create that so that there is a bit less on your to do plate for it? 😉

@miriamgoldman: Haha, yes @jillbinder. I’m talking with Christie Witt soon here.

 

Question from @angelasjin

@angelasjin just did the training with Larry and made a request for today’s meeting:

Can we discuss where all the latest materials and resources are currently housed?

@jillbinder: Answer:

We have 2 workshops in the #training team space:

The main thing that we are promoting, which is our Speaker Training and Diversity Outreach workshops. It is 5 modules, and the latest version is always at:

http://diversespeakers.info/

I made a handy link so I could easily point people to it when I’m public speaking about it.

And also it’s easy to share here, online, tell people about it, spread the word, etc. 🙂

The other is our Train The Trainers workshop. This is for: How do we teach people how to run our main workshops. I have a non-public version written out. Larry is hoping to have it up in the #training team’s new system within about a week. Once we have that link we can share it.

 

Wrap-up

@jillbinder: Thanks @miriamgoldman, @dianewallace, and interested lurkers. 😉

Everything’s going great, I will be available to work on things again soon, and I will talk to you all again soon.

 

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Francesca Marano 8:00 am on April 30, 2018
Tags: , training   

Discussion: should Community Self-Training be mandatory?

Hello team!

In the past three years I have been part of different community events and lately I have found that some people involved aren’t very aware of the guidelines we set in our program.

This could happen in a number of cases

  1. 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. organisers who are not the lead, so they don’t go through the handbook, because they expect the lead to read it and provide answers
  2. 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. organisers that joined after the initial orientation, held only with the main organiser from a group
  3. In general, people that are doing awesome work in their local community (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., Contributor Days, Hackatons, etc…) without being aware of the Community team resources
  4. 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. that were inactive for a while

In the Meetup case (2) I think it might be enough for the team member that went through orientation to give the orientation to the new members every time someone else comes on board.

I wonder if the self-training should be made mandatory for the othe cases.

Pros

Everyone is on the same page

Cons

We don’t have many people grading the quizzes

What do you think?

Deadline to comment is May 18 so we can discuss this during the next two Community chats.

#deputies, #training

jillbinder 2:25 am on February 13, 2018
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Recap of the Diversity Outreach Speaker Training meeting on February 7th, 2018

Start time stamp in Community-Team 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/.

https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1518022893000581

Attending:
@jillbinder @dianewallace

 

Today’s Agenda

  • Update on coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. message and contact form
  • How to use HelpScout
  • HelpScout autoresponder
  • Our promotions spreadsheet
  • Looking for volunteers to start training 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.
  • Questions from testers
  • Hashtag
  • Summary

Update on Core Message and Contact Form

Our core message and form are ready to start sending out and promoting. They can be found here: https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/meetup-organizer/event-formats/diversity-speaker-training-workshop/

How to Use HelpScout

As of yesterday the HelpScout system is set up for us. This is so that we can have several people be in correspondence with meetups who are interested in running the workshop.

I’ll be looking for a few people to be on the HelpScout team. Preference will go to people who are interested in taking leadership positions in our group to replace me within the year, though that is not required.

The interface looks like this. It’s mostly fairly standard email-looking.

The part we’ll need to pay attention to is “Status” and “Assigned”.

By default the status is “Closed”, but we want to keep them “Active” until we are certain there is no more communication that we need to have with them. [Edit: Have since set this to Active by default.]

Initially we want to keep it assigned to “Anyone” so that any of us can jump in and reply next. There may be certain circumstances where there is something a particular person needs to be in action for, so that’s when we would assign it to someone.

 

HelpScout Autoresponder

I’ve had a couple of requests from the testers for autoresponders so that people know their message went through.
Edit since meeting: @iandunn and I set up the autoresponder.

 

Our Promotions Spreadsheet

When someone messages us, we will put it right away into our spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/195OBnYAOIvZNeoOSmginTtwzY8yegWCQWWm4Jf31gik/edit?usp=sharing

As well as messages we will keep track of our promoting in the spreadsheet on another tab. Mark down what you’re planning on doing and when you did it.

 

Looking for Volunteers to Start Training Meetups

I’m going to start looking for people to start being “train the trainers” so that when meetups ask for training, we can help them. Please tell me if you’d like to do this.

 

Questions from testers:

Q: Where can we find the materials for the pitch and description of the workshop to send out when you’re holding it for your local group?

A: It’s the “Description” at the top of each module. I wil try to make that more clear.

Q: Where can we find the handouts?

A: I haven’t put those up yet but I will very soon.

Also when I’ve trained people on this material lately they’ve been wanting slides, so I have talked with the #training team about how we can put up slides. We are going to use reveal.js, and soon the lessons will be moved over to githubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ and everything will be hosted there.

Seattle gave me their slides, so I will use those as a starting point. I may call out for volunteers to help with slides.

 

Hashtag

We have a tweet from the last recap to use and we have a hashtag: #WPWomenSpeak.

If you want to see all the recaps easily in one place, we’re using that same tag to mark them. So they’re all here: https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/wpwomenspeak/

 

In Summary:

  • Looking for volunteers for replying to meetups in HelpScout
  • Looking for volunteers to start training meetups on our workshop
  • It’s time to start promoting. Let me know how and by when you’re planning on sending it out and we’ll keep track in the spreadsheet.

 

End meeting Time Stamp

https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1518024447000774

#community-team, #wpdiversity

Hugh Lashbrooke 11:15 am on May 29, 2017
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Group Meetup Orientation at WCEU Contributor Day

Greetings potential 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. organisers!

At the Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. for 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. Europe this year (which will be taking place on 15 June), we will be holding a group meetup orientation at some point during the day. So, if you’re planning on starting a meetup group in your area and you will be attending the Contributor Day, then please get your meetup application in as soon as you can by filling in this form. That way we can process it before the day and you can join in the group meetup orientation along with the other new organisers who will be doing the same thing.

Even if you are attending the Contributor Day as part of a different contribution team, you can still attend the meetup orientation as it will not be longer than 1 hour. We will decide on the time of day for the orientation closer to the date, and will let those of you who are going to be a part of it know when it will be.

This will be a great way to kick start your meetup group as you will immediately have a friendly network of other organisers who you have chatted to in person 🙂

#meetups #training #deputies

Cami Kaos 9:44 pm on April 19, 2017
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Call for Deputy Training Group Leaders

We’re excited to open up the second call for experienced 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. to lead study groups for new and experienced community deputies using the self training program. Our first call for training was in February, and while we had some response, there were many 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 would-be-deputies that didn’t have availability to complete the program and meetings at that time.

All deputies — experienced, new, and those who have been wanting to get started — need to complete the training . To make it a more collaborative experience we’ll be recommending that each 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. join a study group. Ideally each group will have two meetings 1 week apart. This first an introductory meeting and the second a meeting to discuss what you’ve learned. We anticipate that these groups will work best with no more than 5 deputies taking part in the individual discussion groups.

Round 2 of these discussion groups should begin the first Week of May and wrap up prior to June 5, 2017.

If you’re an experienced deputy we’d like to invite you to lead a conversation group with other deputies. In the comments please indicate your interest and what days/ times will work best for your groups. We’ll announce a schedule and allow others to sign up for your groups by the end of next week.

#deputies #training

Cami Kaos 7:50 pm on February 23, 2017
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Deputy Training Feedback

Now that you’ve signed up for a Deputy Training study group you’ll likely have some feedback or notes you’d like to share with everyone. Let’s share them all here for ease of updating and discussion.

If you’re providing thoughts or feedback on a specific lesson in your comment please reference the lesson title so we can all be certain we’re on the same page.

Study group leads please post a recap here after your final meeting.

#deputies, #training

Josepha 9:09 pm on January 6, 2017
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Deputy Training Module Feedback

A team at WCUSWCUS WordCamp US. The US flagship WordCamp event. edited and tested the current 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. training materials. This post is for gathering the feedback we’ve received so we can integrate it and make it an amazing and useful tool.
#training #deputies

Jen 3:13 pm on June 12, 2015
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More on the Tuesday Training

Okay, so the first training coming up will be aimed at giving new helpers an overview of how we currently process 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. applications, walking through our vetting and setup processes, and seeing who’s up for pinching in. We’re starting with this because the backlog of email in the 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./Meetup SupportPress is really bad, so our greatest need right this minute is for incoming email triage and starting the vetting process for applications that have been waiting. As we get the queue under control, we’ll do more trainings around other aspects of the program and gradually spread everything out as much as possible.

As mentioned, the first training will be Tuesday June 16 at 6pm UTC. We will record the video of that session and post it so that the Australia side of the world can view it in the morning, and we’ll do a 2nd training Q&A at 11pm UTC the same day (that’s Wednesday morning for Australia, during the time 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. @andywashere suggested).

If you are up for being trained on 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., please say if you are planning to come at the 6pm UTC time or the 11pm UTC time, or if you want to get involved but can’t make either of those times. Thanks!

#community-management, #meetups-2, #training