Community Team Chats – June 21 2018

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

Agenda and 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/. logs from June 21st: 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC

Deputy check-in

All good: deputies were either busy attending 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 or busy keeping the team running behind the scenes if they didn’t attend.

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/. posts needing feedback/action

Proposal: how to use this blog for discussions and task management

We had a discussione about to make our blog posts more effective so at a first glance people can know what is it about: announcements/needs feedback/ideas, etc…

Call for volunteers: Contributor Drives Document

Angela Jin is putting together some documentation for small scale contributor drive events for individual Make WordPress teams. We discussed the terminology but we still need someone to commit to move forward with this initiative.

Highlighted posts for all deputies

Call for volunteers: the Core team is looking for new release leads

The CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team asked all team reps to share the word, hopefully some Community team members will raise their hand to lead a release (the next one planned or in the future).

Recap of the community team efforts at WordCamp Europe Contributor day

Despite the lack of Wi-Fi we had some fruitful discussions amongst us. We posted a recap of what we did and if someone has additional documentation to post, please add it to the comments.

Announcement: Japanese Meetup Group Migration Roadmap

The Japanese community is closing down WordBench, the central hub they used for years. We expect a wave of 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. applications from Japan.

Open Floor

WCEU had a few new feature that were appreciated:

  • a print on-demand badge printer
  • sponsor had a scanner for attendees badges
  • attendees could opt-in for emails from sponsors during the ticket registration process

WCUS organisers will check out if some of them can be iterated in Nashville.

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