Community Team Chats – July 19 2018

(Note: I will post the past four months of chats after a period of inactivity. Unfortunately we couldn’t find anyone in the team to do this task, so bear with me while I update everything!)

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 July 19: 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC

Deputy Check-in

Busy 🐝

While there are no major blockers for the deputies, we keep having quite a lot of work to do and not enough people to do it, but we all do our best!

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  1. Input for the July 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. organiser newsletter:
    Every month the community team sends out a newsletter to Meetup organisers. We discussed different kind of events so we can add them as examples for other groups.
  2. Proposal: existing documentation to be merged into the handbooks
    Merged

Announcements

Stripe is now available to all WordCamps – announcement and follow-up
Thanks to the team that made it happen!

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Community Team Chats – July 5 2018

(Note: I will post the past four months of chats after a period of inactivity. Unfortunately we couldn’t find anyone in the team to do this task, so bear with me while I update everything!)

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 July 5th: 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC

Deputy check-in

There is a lot of work on HelpScout, with many applications for Meetups: everyone who is active and have time is doing everything they can to keep up with the queue!

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As always we also highlighted some posts for our deputies to read to be informed fo what is happening in our corner of the project.

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Code of Conduct Team Update, September 4, 2018

After a summer hiatus, the Code of Conduct team met today. We will resume our regular meetings every other Tuesday at 15:30 UTC in #community-team.

Over the winter, we sent out a survey about the Code of Conduct to the community. We have anonymized the results from the survey. We discussed what format we should use to release those results. The results will be posted here soon. We also discussed our big take-aways from the survey. The short version is: there is a lot of community support for the CoC, but we need to make sure that we implement it correctly. We will discuss the results more when we release them to the public. After that, we will put together another post describing our next steps based on the results of the survey.

#ccoc

Community code of conduct next meeting: 4th September 15:30 UTC

The #ccoc summer hiatus is over!

The next meeting will be on the 4th September at 15:30 UTC in the #community-team 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/. channel.

To kick off after the post 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 break, I’ve started an agenda below. If you have anything to add to the agenda please comment on this post.

Agenda:

  • Results of the survey
  • Next steps

Thanks

#ccoc

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.

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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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Community Team Chats – June 7th 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 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 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. 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 pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party we use to sell 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. 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

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Community Team Chats – May 17th 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 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 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. 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 GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/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.

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Community Team Chats – May 3rd 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 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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Community Team Chats – April 19th 2018

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

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 April the 19th: 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC

Deputy check-in

Everyone is busy and there are no major roadblocks. We have a lot of requests coming in due to the 15th anniversary of WordPress and we are working through them.

WordPress 15th Anniversary

We’re heading towards the 15th anniversary of WordPress and plans are coming along well. Reminder about the announcement post and the central site is live at wp15.wordpress.net.

Lots of different events are being planned:

  • BBQs in the park
  • Quiz nights
  • Networking events

If the wp15 site is not yet translated in your own language, get in touch with your General Translation Editor (full list is on https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/) so we can have the content localised!

There will be some more promo about it: we decided against mailing again all the 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. organisers to remind them about asking for the swag, but we will use the WordPress Twitter account that will also generate a post in #announcements.

We also decided to extend the deadline for swag shipment to April 27th.

And there is a 15th anniversary shirt in the shop! https://mercantile.wordpress.org/product/wordpress-15th-anniversary-tshirt/

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We didn’t have a lot to discuss, but it’s always worth checking in and be reminded of all the things the Team does.

Call for WordCamp Mentors

we’re looking for more people to come on board as 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. mentors!
If you have experience organising WordCamps then you can be a WordCamp mentor, we have too few mentors compared to the number of new organisers who need one, so the more we have signing up the better!
Mentoring WordCamps is a fun, fruitful activity, you’ll find that you actually learn a lot more about how WordCamps work by doing it and you get some great ideas for your own local camp 😉

WordCamp Nordic Proposal

We’re looking for more feedback here from deputies, so please leave a comment.

After taking into consideration the previous discussion about Regional WordCamps and getting the answers we needed from the organisers, WordCamp Nordic is a go! Rocìo Valdivia will mentor them.

This sent us into a tangent about how we discuss things, in particular:

  • we discussed Regional WordCamps in the past, and although this is a WordCamp that fits perfectly into that description so it could have been approved without the public discussion, we feel that being 100% transparent is the best policy. Nevertheless we need to be careful not to become blockers when we discuss the same issue again and again. It’s a balancing act.
  • We encourage local communities to take ownership and if their processes and decisions can be useful for the global community, we would love them to post about them in the Community P2, so everyone can learn.
  • Please comment before decisions are taken! Every feedback is important and we’d love to hear from different point of views.

Meetup Organiser Newsletter: 16 April 2018

We’re going to be publishing these on the Community P2 going forward. You can read them to stay updated about all the things that happen in the Meetup world.

 

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Community Team Chats – April 5th 2018

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

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 April the 5th: 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC

Deputies check-in

No roadblocks, everyone is doing the best they can with the amount of time they can dedicate to the Community team.

We started reaching out to dormant 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 so we’re likely receiving an influx of meetup applications, as we had reached out to groups that appeared inactive, and we’ve invited interested members to apply to organize. We are calling all deputies to vet at least a couple of applications to help with the backlog!

Proposals/Discussions

WordPress 15th Anniversary Parties

The WordPress 15th anniversary will be on May 27, 2018 — let’s get ready to celebrate!

We have a new page in the handbook with all the information and a website. Meetups that are in the WordPress chapter can ask for special swag and help with a venue.

Community table at 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 2018 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.

Contributor Day at WCEU is always busy so we need people to lead the table. We have two people at the moment and it would be great to have also a third one. We will post in our blog ideas about projects we want to tackle on the day and will go on from that.

At WCEU this year there will be also a “Community Room”, a place during the conference for all the other attendees who are not familiar with contributing to get in touch with the different teams. We need more info on this from the WCEU community team, to include it in our plan.

New WordCamp ticket registration fields

Three new fields were added in the ticket registration questions, regarding life-threatening allergies, special accommodation needs and Code of Conduct.

The questions have different flows that were designed to minimise the amount of information with store and, in the CoC case, blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. the user to purchase a ticket if they don’t specifically agree with it.

Moving WordCamp Ticket Sales from PayPal to Stripe

We are discussing the feasibility of switching to Stripe as the default gateway while using PayPal as an optional alternative, with a view to eventually deprecating PayPal entirely and switching to Stripe as the only coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. gateway in use.

A decisions hasn’t been made right now.

Code of Conduct Survey

The survey went live after months of hard work done by the CCoC working group. It was open for ten days. After it was published there were a number of comments in the post, unfortunately we can’t change the survey after people have answered it because it will invalidate the results.

Want to Help Organize a WordCamp for Organizers?

WordCamp for WordCamp organisers is a go!

Call for WordCamp Mentors!

In 2017 there were 127 WordCamps, the number will likely grow in 2018. If:

  • You’ve been the lead organizer of a WordCamp from application through completion of the event in the last 5 years.
  • You have 2-3 hours available per month per event you’re actively mentoring

Please consider joining the group of WordCamp Mentors!

WordCamp Nordic Proposal

Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden put together a proposal for a regional WordCamp to be held in Helsinki in 2019. The deadline for this discussion is Friday, 27 April – at that stage we will summarise the comments and move forward with the best decision based on what we have discussed.

 

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