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Did you know that the almost 800 WordPress Meetup groups and (in the pre-pandemic world) a few hundred WordCamps are all organised on a fully voluntary basis? That means organisers are committing to use their own time to make the events happen. That’s a huge amount of hours contributed to our WordPress Community and project…
The Community Team chat takes place the first Thursday of every month. This meeting is meant for all contributors on the team and everyone who is interested in taking part in some of the things our team does. Feel free to join us, even if you are not currently active in the team! Asia-Pacific /…
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 are on the schedule. That said, applications for events are still coming in slowly. We…
In December 2022 and January 2023, the #WPDiversity group held diverse speaker workshops in AMER/EMEA and APAC time zones, respectively. Also Italy held a speaker workshop. Diverse Speaker Workshops We held two interactive watch parties that included speaking topic exercises and real-time feedback. The attendees were supported by several speaker mentors who helped support them…
This month we launched our inaugural Allyship workshop from the new Allyship program, and we offered our monthly-ish Diverse Speaker workshop. August 2021 Allyship for WordPress event organizers AMER/EMEA, August 19, 2021 Facilitator: @jillbinder We are running the new Allyship program in quarterly cohorts. This was the first workshop for the first cohort. It was…
Here is Samantha reading her own story aloud. The first time I put my hands on a computer was in kindergarten. Once a week we’d go up to the top floor where no other regular classes were held. Inside, there were dozens of giant computers (a bit later, shiny new Macintosh Classics) in three long…