Meetup Organizer Newsletter: September 2022
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In July and August 2023, the #WPDiversity group held several DEI workshops and knowledge-sharing events. July 2023 July 2, 2023: “How to Own Your Expertise & Start Speaking at WordPress Events APAC” We held a 2-hour interactive watch party to help boost speaking confidence, which included exercises for speaking topics and real-time feedback. The attendees…
Attending: @jillbinder @evarlese @onealtr @katiejrichards @ekpo Start: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1627491665326200 Summary and next actions: We talked about: The new #WPDiversity programs that we launched this week Having everyone on the team join our 2 channels on the WordPress Slack for our 2 new programs: – Diverse Speaker Support program: #diverse-speaker-support– Allyship program: #community-events Our two workshops coming up: –…
Hello Mentors!If you are currently mentoring a WordCamp, please share how the organizing team is doing and any other insights, interesting ideas, or innovations that they’re planning. Comment on this post to share your update. You are welcome to share updates here throughout the month. Thanks! #mentors, #wordcamp
The WordCamp Birmingham Organizing Team has unanimously decided to postpone WP Y’all until a future date in April or May when we can safely hold the event for our attendees. See our full announcement on our site.
Throughout 2022, the Community Team has been focused on a wide range of goals. These goals encompassed improvements to our programs and projects, creating new educational content, and improved outreach and coordination across the various sub-groups of the team. Support the return of in-person events Check-in and reactivate WordPress Meetup Chapters worldwide Increase training and…
Growing up, my family didn’t have much. Yet, a quote always resonated with me: “If you’re born poor, it’s not your fault. But if you die poor, it’s your fault.” My humble beginnings never deterred my aspirations. As a child, my exposure to technology was limited. In our village, neither schools nor homes had computers…