Tag Archives: wordcamp

Josepha 4:02 pm on February 13, 2017
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CampTix sales through PayPal Weekend Outage

On Saturday we got two separate reports that ticket sales were not working:

https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/community-events/p1486832335002688
https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/meta-wordcamp/p1486836749002279

Sales were disrupted from (roughly) 0100 UTC on Saturday, Feb 11 until 2200 UTC on the same day. If any 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. organizer received complaints during that time, sales are back up and you can ask attendees to try their purchases again.
#wordcamp

Cami Kaos 7:41 pm on May 23, 2016
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Swag report 5/16/16- 5/22/16

Lanyard 100 packs sent: 7

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. OC: 4
WordCamp NEO: 3

Button & sticker 200 packs sent: 2

WordCamp OC: 1
WordCamp NEO: 1

Button & sticker 100 packs sent: 1

Hanoi 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.: 1

#community-management, #meetup, #swag, #wordcamp

Cami Kaos 10:42 pm on May 10, 2016
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Swag report 5/2/16 – 5/8/16

Lanyard 100 packs sent: 8

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. Kansas City: 3
WordCamp Bhopal: 5

Button & sticker 200 packs sent: 2

WordCamp Kansas City: 1
WordCamp Bhopal: 1

Button & sticker 100 packs sent: 1

Bhopal 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.: 1

#community-management, #meetup, #swag, #wordcamp

Cami Kaos 7:43 pm on May 2, 2016
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Swag Report 4/25/16 – 5/1/16

Lanyard 100 packs sent: 3

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. Asheville: 3

Button & sticker 200 packs sent: 1

WordCamp Asheville: 1

Button & sticker 100 packs sent: 0

#community-management, #meetups-2, #swag, #wordcamp

Cami Kaos 5:01 pm on April 25, 2016
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Swag Report 4/18/16 – 4/24/16

Lanyard 100 packs sent: 21
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: 21

Button & sticker 200 packs sent: 5
WordCamp Europe: 5

Button & sticker 100 packs sent: 4
Kailua-Kona 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.: 1
La Plata Meetup: 1
Cordoba Meetup: 1
Buenos Aires Meetup: 1

#community-management, #meetups-2, #swag, #wordcamp

Andrea Middleton 8:58 pm on March 1, 2016
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Switching PayPal accounts for CampTix

Heads up! Today we’re changing the PayPal account that’s connected to CampTix from the account owned by the WordPress FoundationWordPress Foundation The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software. Find more on wordpressfoundation.org. to an account owned by the Foundation’s subsidiary, WordPress Community SupportWordPress Community Support WordPress Community Support PBC is a Public Benefit Corporation, created specifically to be the financial and legal support for WordCamps, WordPress Meetup groups, and any additional “official” events organized within the WordPress Community Events program., PBC.

Since we have already talked to PayPal about making this switch, they know to expect high volume on this new account, and we don’t anticipate any issues with payment processing 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. tickets. If you notice issues with ticket purchasing, please notify us in wordpress.slack.com in the #meta-wordcamp channel, and we’ll investigate.

This change will, unfortunately, break self-serve refunds for folks who have purchased tickets in the past 2 months. We’re going to handle those refunds manually. This will be inconvenient, but we think the hassle is worth the benefit of creating a clean financial break with the Foundation for ticket revenue.

As of today, if you are contacted by an attendee requesting a refund for a ticket purchased between 1/1/2016 and 3/1/2016, please email support@wordcamp.org with the following info:

Purchaser’s name:
Purchaser’s email address:
PayPal Transaction ID for the ticket purchase:
Date of the ticket purchase:
Date of the event:

As long as the ticket purchase happened between between 1/1/2016 and 3/1/2016 and the refund request came in before the event, we will refund the ticket within a week of receiving the email to support@wordcamp.org. We’ll probably do refunds in batches on a weekly basis, I’m guessing on Fridays. 🙂

Got a question? Ask in the comments!

#camptix, #paypal, #wordcamp, #wordcamps

Cami Kaos 9:51 pm on February 11, 2016
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WordCamp and Meetup Status Doc

For a while now 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. have been using 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. Status Doc to track the status of WordCamps from application to completion, but it’s not used only for tracking the status of WordCamps. It’s also used to track the status of 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.. I’ve changed the document title to make its contents clearer and to remind us all that it’s the place we should record (and find) statuses for both WordCamps and 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. groups. It’s the same document with the same information it had before, but now with a more explanatory title.

#deputies, #community-management, #meetup, #wordcamp

Cami Kaos 10:30 pm on January 21, 2016
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Threaded WordCamp Applications

There are some ongoing quirks that can present challenges when using SupportPress, but as a team the 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. have done an excellent job of making it work and giving 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. and WordCamps the support they need and deserve. But no matter how hard-working and vigilant we are things sometimes fall through the cracks.

Today while reviewing the queue I stumbled down a path which led me to open a closed 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 ticket. The application immediately shown upon opening the thread had been vetted, responded to, and a note had been left that the applicant wasn’t a good fit at this time. Everything was handled properly and none of that presents a problem.

But there was still a problem.

That thread contained a separate completely unrelated WordCamp application from an unrelated community submitted a day prior. I’ll vet that application and get back to the organizer today, but finding that raised a red flag. It’s not the first time we’ve seen applications come in nested in the same thread. We’re not sure why it happens aside from applications coming in from the no-reply@polldaddy account. And, aside from added vigilance, there is no fix for it at this time.

So dearest wonderful 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., please take a moment before closing threads to ensure that we’re not closing the door on important communication. It may take a few extra moments of our time but it could mean new events, new volunteers, and new ideas in our amazing community.

#deputies, #community-management, #wordcamp

Jenny Wong 3:50 pm on July 14, 2015
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After a conversation with @emanuelblagonic in which the…

After a conversation with @emanuelblagonic in which the question was how to create invoices for ticket sales, I have created a generic ticket invoice template that can be used for all WordCamps based on the one that we used 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. London.

I have added in comments down the side with the details that you will want to update.

As WordCamp organisers, we would update the file with the correct details and then download it as a PDF. We ( WordCamp London) had a dropbox folder where we kept all created invoices for our paper trail and then attached a copy of the PDF to an email that was then sent to the recieptant.

Hope you all find this useful.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eguq0pnKvZVNDq4vfRiwPcbW45ESs6xANN75vY8smjk/edit?usp=sharing

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Andrea Middleton 4:45 pm on December 16, 2014
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Last week Morgan Kay an experienced WordCamp organizer…

Last week Morgan Kay, an experienced 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. organizer whom I vetted and approved to be lead organizer of WordCamp Seattle 2015, notified 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. that she planned to start distributing a WordPress pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party that would not be released under the GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL is a ‘copyleft’ license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html. This means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms. This is in distinction to permissive free software licenses, of which the BSD license and the MIT License are widely used examples..

Morgan agreed that this action would mean that she no longer met the WordCamp organizer expectations, so she should remove herself from the WordCamp Seattle organizing team. Brooke Dukes, another member of the Seattle organizing team, was willing to take on the lead organizer role, so the transition was smooth. Planning of WordCamp Seattle continues, and WordCamp Central will make an extra effort to support the Seattle organizing team as their planning cycle continues.

#gpl, #wordcamp, #wordcamps