The Community Team meets twice a month, first and third Thursday, at two different times to cover different timezones.

Agenda and Slack logs from June 7th: 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC

Deputy check-in

All systems go. The team is always busy and trying their best to help our global community to move forward! We need as much help as possible from deputies with meetup vettings since we have a backlog in HelpScout. This seem to be a permanent situation more or less and we have to find ways to get more deputies onboard.

Proposals/Discussions/Help needed

Discussion: Changes to WordCamp attendee life-threatening allergy and special accommodations notifications

Few weeks ago we added some mandatory fields in CampTix, the plugin we use to sell WordCamp tickets. They come with a workflow of notifications and the discussion is around the number of emails we send and how they are sent. This is an ongoing project, since other proposed changes have also came up in the comments.

Discussion: Best Practices with Community Data

Following the changes to the WordPress.org privacy policy, our organizer handbooks should also be updated with best practices and recommendations. We are collecting feedback about:

1. What challenges have you faced in keeping the community’s personal data safe?
2. What concerns you about your role as someone who safeguards/handles the community’s personal data?

I am sure some of this blog readers are also WordCamp organisers, so please comment even if you see it’s past the deadline 😉

Meetup Organizers Roundtables Part II: Conclusions And The Next steps

Following the previous recap of the experiment, this post mostly addresses the question: how to move forward with the roundtables. We need more people involved in this initiative and we will do more recruitment efforts in Belgrade, during WCEU.

Feedback requested: Additional changes to WordCamp tickets and registration

The post addresses two ideas:

• Make the Attendees Page Opt-In: when you purchase a WordCamp ticket, you are listed in the the /attendees page. Should we make this opt-in? Opt-out? No changes?
• Add a Special Ticket Type for Live Stream: more events offer Live Stream tickets and some CampTix fields are not relevant for this kinf of tickets.

We are collecting ideas and then the team will work on patches.

Open Floor

Open floor brought up an interesting discussion about localising some of the material we have for deputies to run orientations and replies in HelpScout. The consensus is that we encourage local communities to communicate in their own language to get more people involved for whom English could be a barrier.

We are also happy to announce that the WordPress Spanish Community has won a national prize of the Open Awards to the best FOSS community

#community, #community-team

The Community Team meets twice a month, first and third Thursday, at two different times to cover different timezones.

Agenda and Slack logs from May 17th: 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC

Deputy check-in

All systems go. The team is always busy and trying their best to help our global community to move forward! We need as much help as possible from deputies with meetup vettings since we have a backlog in HelpScout. This seem to be a permanent situation more or less and we have to find ways to get more deputies onboard.

Proposals/Discussions/Help needed

We had quite a light agenda this time, we mainly highlighted posts so team members could take the time to check out the blog.

We have one project that needs help to continue thriving:

Meetup Organisers Roundtable

In March a group of team members ran a series of online events: roundtables with meetup organisers that discussed topics that come up regularly in the community-events channel and in person meetings.

The organisers need some help to make the videos even more useful:

• Edit the audio-transcription
• Add captions to WordPressTV.
• Summarize the video chats for blog posts

We are looking for volunteers to work on this, if you can help it will be greatly appreciated.

Open Floor

Open floor brought the proposal to put together a list of resources for Community events about Gutenberg so people can be informed about it. So far no action has been taken in this direction but it’s something that we will keep in mind for the near future.

#community, #community-team

The Community Team meets twice a month, first and third Thursday, at two different times to cover different timezones.

Agenda and Slack logs from May 3rd: 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC

Deputy check-in

All good with the team, there are quite few applications for WordCamps and Meetups and everyone is invited to spend some time in HelpScout to help with triaging, vetting, orienting, replying to different requests.

Proposals/Discussions/Help needed

WordCamp Europe 2018 – Community Team Plans

What should we work on while we are in Belgrade? Time to brainstorm!

Call for Moderators: WP15 needs your help!

In order to keep the WP15 social media stream family friendly, we need the help of some moderators. A lot of people came through, so thank you everyone!

Discussion: should Community Self-Training be mandatory?

The Community team worked on a series of self-training modules and quizzes. We ask new Community organisers to go through those more and more, but right now we don’t have the resources to grade all of them if they are made mandatory. Some people proposed to turn the quizzes in multiples choice questions instead of open questions to save time in the grading, but that would require a complete re-write of the modules.

The evening chat especially expanded on the initial topic and discussed the fact we could work more “mission & values” content into orientations, so people will be aware and aligned with those.

We haven’t reached a conclusion, but some good ideas came out of the discussions and they will be recapped in the post itself.

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