On May 25, 2023, a Hallway Hangout was held to discuss ways to curate the Editor experience in WordPress, building block themes, and challenges you might encounter when building with blocks for clients. 40 community members attended, including facilitators @ndiego Continue reading Summary: Curating the Editor and building block themes for clients
Earlier this month, a post proposed an updated purpose and experimentation for WordCamps. The Community Team is eager to see what this creative community wants to see! In entering this very experimental phase, organizers are encouraged to propose new event Continue reading Idea generation: Next Gen WordCamps!
We are excited to invite the community members to attend our upcoming Zoom Discussion Session scheduled as follows: TitleNext Gent Generation of WordCampsDate25th May 2023Time & RSVP2023/05/25 12:00 UTC (1 Hour) Open toAll community membersLocationZoom Video ConferenceDiscussion Brief The updated purpose Continue reading WordPress Community Team Discussion #9: The Next Generation of WordCamps
Since 2006, WordCamps have been a staple way that WordPress enthusiasts meet. The Community team has long held that the purpose of all WordCamps, and WordPress events broadly, was to connect WordPressers, inspire them to do more with WordPress, and Continue reading The Next Generation of WordCamps
WordPress Core always seeks to provide a stable foundation for folks to build upon directly and extend as they see fit. Even if a new technology is not actually included in Core, the project aims to enable innovation and progress Continue reading Let’s talk: WordPress Core & Artificial Intelligence
Contributor Days are usually single day events focused on all things related to contributing to WordPress. They often accompany larger WordCamps, but are sometimes planned along smaller ones or even as ad-hoc events with specific focuses. People at all experience Continue reading Cultivating More Effective Contributing on Contributor Days
Published on behalf of Amber Hinds (@amberhinds on Make Slack) The purpose of this post is to discuss proposed changes to the Events API that displays upcoming events from Meetup.com meetup groups in the WordPress admin dashboard widget. Background ShareTweetSharePostSharePin Continue reading Proposal: Modify the Events and News widget to show topic-based meetups worldwide
To better serve the community and the Community Team, @devinmaeztri and I are working to improve our current Mentor program. We believe this project will help get rid of gaps in our current roles and create a smoother functioning Community Continue reading Discussion: Refining the Mentor Program
It’s that time again! Time to decide what to work on for WC Asia’s contributor day. Taco and I will be leading the team this year and we want to represent all of you and our goals well. Your feedback Continue reading WC Asia Contributor Day: What should we work on?
This proposal is focused towards improving our project management and goal and progress tracking by using the same transparent tools that other Make Teams already utilise. Currently we have many spreadsheets, trello boards, slack groups and many other disparate ways Continue reading Proposal: Adopt Standardised Team-wide Project Management Tools – already utilised by other Make Teams.
When organising a WordCamp, the organisers have to handle a large number of emails. Large is actually an understatement. For the past years, WordCamp Europe has been using email addresses in the domain wp-europe.org, every team had their own mailbox: Continue reading Idea: Freescout for WordCamp organising teams
Objective: Clarify and optimize the current WordCamp application process to help the organizers and deputies. As we welcomed several new deputies since the beginning of 2022, some of us started noticing vague or outdated steps in the WordCamp application phases. Continue reading Deputy Feedback Wanted: Streamlining WordCamp Phases
Since 2017, the #WPDiversity team has been encouraging people from underrepresented and marginalized groups in WordPress to participate and speak at WordCamps and WP Meetups in their local community and the ever-expanding global WP community. The team has been growing Continue reading WPDiversity is Expanding to APAC!
As event restrictions begin to ease in various parts of the world, in-person events are becoming more of an option. A quick look around the WordPress community shows that planning is underway for in-person community events and several in-person WordCamps Continue reading Return to In-Person Events: Share Your Challenges
When we come together we step outside of our comfort zones and regular thinking and open ourselves to new, innovative ideas. When you’re gathered together, away from the distractions of regular life, your mind opens and creativity flows. While there Continue reading Return to In-Person Events: Blue Sky Thinking
The Community Team is seeing a renewed interest in in-person regional WordCamps in the light of a slow but steady return of in-person WordCamps. This post aims to take another look at our existing guidelines for regional WordCamps and to Continue reading Discussion: Revisiting In-person Regional WordCamps