Sorry for the late posting, I have had issues with w.org proxy which has prevented me from pulling some numbers.
The Community Team meets twice a month, first and third Thursday, at two different times to cover different timezones:
- October 17 agenda, 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 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC
- November 7 agenda, Slack logs 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC
Deputy updates
As usual, Community Team members are busy doing their job. No blockers, but a lot for things to do. Even small contributions from existing deputies are much appreciated and we warmly welcome all new contributors interested in becoming deputy!
Ongoing discussions
Discussion: How do we improve how we collect feedback from Meetup groups?
Every year, we distribute a survey to members of official WordPress 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. groups to gather statistics about the program as well as individual groups, in order to help improve the program. Since we’ve started distributing the Meetup annual survey in 2014, we haven’t seen a very high response rate. We could do much more than improve the questions on the survey.
Update: Contributor Orientation Tool
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 2019 organising team presented new tool that we’ve been developing to help new contributors select the make team they wish to contribute to – Contributor Orientation Tool. The tool was built as a prototype. As WordCamp Europe 2020 organising team is back to work, we are continuing our work on Contributor Orientation Tool as well.
Proposal Update: Speaker Feedback Tool
We recently posted a proposal for a speaker feedback tool to be baked into WordCamp sites. The proposal included some ideas and mockups, with a call for feedback, suggestions and questions. Based on the feedback from that post, we have some more refined mockups to share. In addition to that, we are looking for input on the data storage method.
Additional posts worth highlighting
- How to contribute to the Global Community Team
- New handbook pages about incident response
- Announcing the 2020 Global Sponsorship Working Group
- WordPress meetup organizer newsletter: October 2019
Numbers
- General
- Active deputies: 28 (+/- 0%)
- Active WordCamp mentors: 44 (+2%)
- HelpScout total conversations: 2 581 (-2%)
- HelpScout messages received: 2 823 (-2%)
- Meetups
- WordCamps
- WordCamps needing vetting: 39 (+71%)
- WordCamps in the schedule: 37 (-34%)
- WordCamp tickets sold: 5 948 (+3,2%)
- New scheduled WordCamps: Phoenix 2020, Nairobi 2019, Europe 2020, Atlanta 2020, Mombasa 2019, Kampala 2019, Zaragoza 2020, Miami 2020, Islamabad 2019, Kent 2020, Bucharest 2020, San Antonio 2020 and Vienna 2020