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Andrea Middleton 12:22 am on January 23, 2013
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Call for Volunteers for Existing Projects

We’re a couple of months into our first round 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.-related projects, and some volunteers found themselves with less time than they thought they would have to work on Events group initiatives. We’re looking forward to those folks coming back when they have more bandwidth, but in the meantime there are groups that could use some additional volunteers. Each group needs 2-3 more people.

Event Planning Training Materials: If you have great writing and editorial skills, plus expertise in organizing WordCamps and other WP events, you’d be a real asset to this group. Also, if you’re a WordCamp organizer with some documentation to share, reach out to me, Luke, or Sara.

The WordPress.tv Event Video Management team needs a few more intrepid WordCamp video reviewers. If you love video as much as they do and have the subject matter competency to review video content, please consider volunteering for this ongoing project.

Finally, WordCamp Base Theme Page Templates could use a few more awesome devs and designers who have experience with the WordCamp Base theme and with organizing sanctioned WordCamps. They have come up with some great ideas for improving the WordCamp Base theme, and could use help with the design and development.

If you’re interested, qualified, and have the time to give, please comment on this post with the project you’d like to volunteer for.

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jerrysarcastic 5:12 am on January 18, 2013
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WordPress.tv Moderator Update Week 3

OK, the holidays are behind us (well, way behind us now) and it’s been a while since you’ve had an update from 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. TV moderator team. That is not to say we have not been busy; here is what we’ve done to date:

  • Since forming our moderator group on Nov 20th, we have published 58 videos. That’s a new WordCamp video every day, and that’s just with us getting our feet wet; we’d like to improve that to 3 videos a day.
  • Those videos represent great presentations from the following major 2012 WordCamps: Las Vegas, Toronto, Sydney, Raleigh, Nashville, and Chicago.
  • To increase the usefulness of the content we publish, we now include full text descriptions as well as links to relavent content, such as source code and presentation slides, with every video we publish.  Sometimes this is easy, and sometimes a little sleuthing is required.
  • At times we have also (sadly) had to make the call to not publish videos.  This does not happen often, but we want to put the quality of the videos we publish first and foremost, which makes for some tough decisions.   It’s never a good feeling to hold back great information due to technical problems such as weak audio, poor video, etc.  More on that in a second…

What’s next

Up to this point we have primarily been focused on working with a publication systems that already exists.  Now that we’ve had some time to settle in, we have some definite thoughts for how we can do even more to improve the videos you see on WordPress.tv as we move forward.

  • We have started creating (and need to finish) a set of  guidelines/approval standards for videos that we can pass on to WordCamp organizers; hopefully this will reduce the number of submissions we reject due to technical problems and lead to a higher quality experience overall.
  • Create process documents for the day-to-day stuff we do; an instruction manual on how to be a mod, if you will.  As WordCamps grow worldwide, the need for moderators can only increase, and we want to be sure we’ve got good materials ready for that eventuality.

We’re also planning on having a real-time meeting in the next few weeks (tough, due to our global makeup) to discuss these major directives, plus consider other ideas as we move forward.  Our plan is to have this 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. on IRC using the new #wordcamp channel.  When that date is set, we’ll share it here and you are welcome to attend.

Also, if you are interested in becoming a mod, why not let us know in the comments here or on our team’s P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. blog; we’d love to grow our team, and as a reward you can watch as many WordCamp videos as you want!

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jerrysarcastic 6:16 am on December 7, 2012
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Week 1: WordPress.tv Event Video Management Recap

Hi, I’m Jerry, and I’m our weekly reporter for WordPress.tv Event Video management. As a team, we met up over Skype to get to know one another and kick things off. Owing to differing schedules (definitely a global team here!) we are primarily “meeting” and communicating via a P2 blog we’ve set up, and that has been working very well for us.  And we’ve also been publishing 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. videos and learning the ropes over at wordpress.tv and the system that has been put in place over there, which is new to us all.

WordPress.tv Event Video Management Update 12/06/12

This Week:

  • Initially we have a queue of pending videos to publish, with lots of great speakers from WordCamp Chicago and WordCamp Raleigh.
  • We’ve published over 20 videos to date, with more to come!
  • Begun documenting the approval standards and best-practices for videos published to the site.
  • Been fooled a few times by spammers.  ::shakes fist::
  • Learned a lot by watching others teach.  🙂

Coming Week

  1. Continue to build documentation around our processes.
  2. ???
  3. Profit.

OK, joking about that last part. For now the feeling in the room is that we are learning by doing, and our action plan is informed by the things we are learning as we publish content. In other words, watch this space for more news…

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Andrea Middleton 4:21 am on November 17, 2012
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The First Round of Subcommittees

OK, so maybe posting the membership of eleven subcommittees in a period of three days was not 100% realistic. I may have been slightly swept away with my excitement – it’s been known to happen. 🙂

I’m going to post three groups today and more in the coming weeks. If you’re added to a group that, in retrospect, you’d rather not take part in, just comment on this post so we can make changes.Once the groups are settled, I’ll ask each group to appoint/elect a notetaker to act as a point of contact and be responsible for posting weekly updates.

The first order of business will be to make a plan, set a project schedule, and assign roles/tasks. Your group might want to meet weekly or a couple times a week to brainstorm or discuss your progress. You can do this via IRC, Skype, Google hangout, or whatever works best for everyone. Once a week, your group will be asked to post an update here on your progress. If a group fails to post two weeks in a row, I’ll reach out and see how I can help the group get back on track.

WordPress.tv event video management

Remkus DeVries
Eric Mann
Jerry Bates
Chandra Maharzan
Phil Erb

Multi-event Sponsorship Program 

(I bumped the membership of this group up to 6 so that we could include a number of representatives from companies who are frequent 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. sponsors.)

Shayda Torabi
Kevin Cristiano
Al Davis
Jared Smith
Marissa Rosen
Garth Koyle

Event planning training materials

Sara Rosso
Andy McIlwain
Luke Gedeon

I’ll email each group so you’ll know how to reach each other. 🙂 Please include your roadmap and assigned roles/tasks as your first weekly update. Each following update should highlight what has happened in the past week — what progress has been made, what challenges have been faced, if there are new or departing contributors — as well as what’s planned for the week ahead.

Here’s a sample weekly subcommittee update (Thanks, Jane!):

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. Galore Subcommittee Update

Past Week:

  • Rolled 4 existing 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 onto meetup.com central account: DC, Savannah, Atlanta, and Portland.
  • Sent 6 new meetup starter packs to new meetups: Syracuse, Augusta (GA), Napa, Limerick, Jacksonville, Renton (WA).
  • Arranged for Andrew Nacin to give a talk on APIs via google hangout to 9 meetups simultaneously.
  • Reached out to 10 meetup groups to see if they would join central account.
  • Sent projectors to meetups in Atlanta and Raleigh.

Coming Week:

  • Post video of Nacin’s APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. hangout to wordpress.tv, and ask people to help transcribe it.
  • Keep up with incoming meetup group creation requests.
  • Reach out to 10 more existing groups about joining central account.
  • Reach out to Mika Epstein, Jane Wells, Lisa Sabin-Wilson, Daryl Koopersmith and Mark Jaquith about doing a meetup hangout talk in the coming months.
  • Send new meetup starter packs as needed.
  • Send out W buttons and stickers to meetups on central account.

#event-training-materials, #multi-event-sponsorship, #wordpress-tv-event-video-management

Andrea Middleton 9:21 pm on November 13, 2012
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WordPress.tv event video management

Description: So many people around the globe are organizing events with amazing WP content, and we want to get it ALL on WordPress.tv! Review the content uploaded by 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 to make sure it’s accurate and appropriate, and publish it for all the world to enjoy. This group will also manage comments on WordPress.tv.

Length of Project: Ongoing for a team of 2-4 people.

Experience Required: Subject matter competency for content review. Delight and passion for all things video.

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