(Note: I am almost done posting 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 October 4th: 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC

Deputy Check-in

Even busier when the Automatticians are not around 🙂

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 review/feedback

This month was quite light in terms of discussion, so we focused again on two posts that were already brought on September 20th Chat

Proposal to Increase the Maximum Ticket Price for WordCamps
Note that we are not telling WordCamps to increase their ticket prices, but we are having a (long) conversation about the possibility to raise the maximum possible price that would be allowed to go for if they need to. 
All Camps are still encouraged to make their prices as affordable as possible.

Most of commenters are up for 5 $/€ increase and emphasize the importance of sponsors – which are bit hard to find for some camps. We maybe should focus and have some effort on how to help camps find sponsors easier.

Input Requested: “Building A Diverse Speaker Roster” Document
The Diversity Outreach Speaker Training group created a document for WordPress Meetups and WordCamps about Building A Diverse Speaker Roster and they need our input.

Highlighted P2 posts

• Meetup Organiser Badge Assignments
• WordPress Meetup Organiser newsletter: September 2018

Open Floor

The issue of branded content from sponsors in WordCamps website was brought up: there are some concerns about the marketing nature of the posts. A post will be published on the Community Team blog to discuss the matter.

#community, #community-team

(Note: I am almost done posting 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 September 20: 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC

Deputy Check-in

All good, busy with tons of applications and we are trying to catch up with those!

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 to Increase the Maximum Ticket Price for WordCamps
Note that we are not telling WordCamps to increase their ticket prices, but we are having a (long) conversation about the possibility to raise the maximum possible price that would be allowed to go for if they need to.
All Camps are still encouraged to make their prices as affordable as possible

Input Requested: “Building A Diverse Speaker Roster” Document
The Diversity Outreach Speaker Training group created a document for WordPress Meetups and WordCamps about Building A Diverse Speaker Roster and they need our input. 

Announcements/Updates/Highlighted posts

• New Meetup Tracker Tool – Amazing tool that will help us streamline the vetting and orienting process for Meetups and abandon the multiple spreadsheets we used 🙂
• Reminder: Payments offline for a week
• We have now a new badge, for Meetup Organisers. Thanks to all the people that run events worldwide.

(Note: I am almost done posting 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 September 6: 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC

Deputy Check-in

We have a large number 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, we asked all deputies to go look for threads in Help Scout that needs vetting to speed things along.

It was brought up that sometimes the pages on the handbook still needs some clarifications, which should be addressed in the orientation but organisers don’t always ask questions. A document has been started with some FAQs . It’s an ongoing project and you can see the progress here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zbYYEErMX9Qq-hS1i01eUSZej8tlTGxjOu43Kp-UcAg/edit

A metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. ticket was open to add a deadline field to Make blogs: this is something we do in the Community team when we have a time-sensitive discussion: you can see it on the Meta Trac

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

1. Office Hours and Team Chat for first week of October
   We are looking for volunteers to cover office hours and to run the first chat of October since our friends at Automattic will be at the Grand Meetup. Found them and all went well!

Announcements/Updates/Highlighted posts

1. Payments offline for a week
2. WordCamp Incubator 2018 Update Thread: August edition 

(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 August 16: 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC

Deputy Check-in

Beside the chronic lack of time, all good on the Deputies front 🙂

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

• Call for topic suggestions: monthly meetup organizer newsletter
  Every month the team sends out a mail to 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 and we need your input!
• Call for Volunteers: Global Diversity Working Group
  There is a new working group within the Community Team
• Discussion: What makes a sponsor incompatible with our program?
  Discussion has been somewhat heated, but there has been also very good points! 
  We’re still working on this, firming up the details of a solution that will work for everyone. 
• Documentation review: WordPress Events in Dashboard 
  Reviewed and merged
  

Announcements/Updates/Highlighted posts

A new system for managing 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. camera kits – Here’s the announcement and handbook page

(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 August 2: 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC

Deputy Check-in

Clearing the HelpScout queue, mentoring WordCamps, you know? The usual. No blockers.

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

• The Sponsor Wrangler’s Cheatsheet
  There are multiple places in the Handbook about Sponsors, but not a single place to look up all the pieces involved handling Sponsor matters at a 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.. We now have a cheatsheet and hopefully it will be the starting point for some content reorganisation!
• Discussion: Changes to WordCamp attendee life-threatening allergy and special accommodations notifications
  After some discussion we decided to leave the workflow as it is and to propose enhancements in MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. if we have some
• Documentation review: WordPress Events in Dashboard
  Documentation reviewed and merged into the Handbook
• Meetup organiser FAQ
  There is an open document that addresses things that aren’t necessarily answered as clearly as we’d like in the handbook and often come up in orientations. Everyone is invited to add ideas.

Announcements/Updates/Highlighted posts

1. EU camera kit management:
   We have a new manager for the EU camera kits from within the Community Team.
2. Deputies user group in Slack:
   We now have a @deputies user group in Slack that we can use to pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” all of our active deputies.
3. New 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/. Fields for WordCamps:
   WordCamps can now add info about their Contributor Days to their listing – this is great for tracking and adding public info for which WordCamps are hosting Contributor Days.
4. Call for Organizers: Introduction to Open Source Workshops for 2018
   The WP Foundation is looking for local organisers to apply to run open-source workshops here
   
5. Changes to access to WordCamp budgets
6. WordPress Meetup Organizer Newsletter: July 2018
7. Info For New Members To The Diversity Outreach Speaker Training Team
8. WordCamp Incubator 2018 Update Thread: July edition
9. New Gutenberg page created by the Meta Team! 

(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!

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

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!

(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!

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 are trying to give guidelines to become more effective in our posting, so people glancing at the blog can see if feedback is needed, if it’s a proposal, a discussion, etc…
• Call for volunteers: Contributor Drives Document – this is a work in progress for all Make Teams and we are trying to put together documentation for the Community team as well.
• Camptix Notify functionality – documentation review – Jonathan prepared the documentation after WCEU, team members reviewed it and it was merged into the handbooks
• Idea: Meetup Recap P2 – Pros and Cons of having a centralised place to post Meetups and WordCamps recaps. No decision has been made about this.
• Proposal: existing documentation to be merged into the handbooks – Merged

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.

• WordCamp Incubator Program 2018: locations announcement
• Announcement: Japanese Meetup Group Migration Roadmap

#community, #community-team

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.

#community, #community-team

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

#community, #community-team

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.

#community, #community-team