Community Team Details Expanded: August 2024

In addition to the primary dashboard, this page offers additional information and context on the information shared in the Community Team dashboard.

WordPress Events in 2024

Bar chart showing number of WordPress Events and WordCamps every month of the year for 2024.
Number of WordPress Events and WordCamps every month of the year for 2024 from January through August. The number is steady throughout the year.

MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. Events Over Time

Two line charts showing meetup events and meetup countries with one event since January 2022
Data from January 1, 2022 through July 1, 2024. The average number of meetup events has gone up over 50% since 2022, whereas the number of countries hosting active events is fairly steady with a slight increasing trend.

Meetup Groups and Events Over time

Line chart showing meetup groups and events over time since 2022.
Data from January 1, 2022 through July 1, 2024. Meetup group numbers have more or less remained steady since January 2022, with an increasing trend of meetup members.

New Meetup.com Members in 2024

Bar chart showing new meetup members in meetup groups every month in 2024 till date.
Data from January 2024 through September 12th, 2024. Our meetup groups are seeing a fair increase in meetup members through the year.

Meetup.com RSVPs in 2024

Meetup.com RSVPs for events in 2024 thus far.
Data from January 2024 through September 12th, 2024. There are clear spikes in RSVPs across January, April, and August, with lulls around February and May.

Event v/s Meetup Applications

Two line charts comparing new event (WordCamp/WP Event) applications and Meetup applications.
Data from January 2024 through September 12th, 2024. We have more or less had a balance of event v/s meetup applications, but we are seeing a spike in new meetup applications (possibly due to the Community Team’s recent Meetup Reactivation Project0

Community Team 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/ Statistics (January through August 2024)

Bar chart showing Community Team GitHub commits.
  • 115 Commits
  • 8 Authors
Bar chart showing Community Team GitHub Pull Requests.
  • 3 Pull Requests
  • 3 Authors
Bar chart showing Community Team GitHub Issues.
  • 359 Issues
  • 19 Submitters

Contributor Growth

The Community Team switched to GitHub for their processes only recently, hence their GitHub activity is minimal, still it shows a steady number of contributors running things.

33

Total Contributors since 2023

31

Total Contributors in 2024

Dashboard showing active contributors over time and growth analysis for the community team.
Contributions in the Community Team GitHub Repository for the past 5 years (since 2020 January 1).