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Care about diversity in WordPress and wish we were doing more? Good news: We are! In our Diverse Speaker Training group (#WPDiversity) meeting tomorrow, we will be announcing two new programs that we are launching soon. These programs will help you: Build a more diverse speaker lineup at your WordPress events Help you foster safer,…
Last week (the last part of March 2021, if you’re reading this later), the container ship Ever Given got stuck in the Suez Canal. (Cue Billy Joe’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” line: trouble in the Suez!) Today it occurred to me that my brain is a lot like that ship. Stuck in a canal….
I am planning for our next quarterly #WPDiversity’s “Organizing an Inclusive and Diverse WordPress event” workshop. This is a 2.5-hour workshop to learn how to create a welcoming and diverse WordPress meetup or WordCamp. Do you want to attend? By Sunday, September 25, 2022 please vote on the time that would work best for you…
It’s time for the next Mentorship chat of the WordPress Contributor Working Group. We’re meeting this Thursday (August 17th) to continue our work on improving the contribution experience of WordPress – in light of the graduation (and success) of our Mentorship Program Pilot. For more information on the working group and its plans, check out…
This year we’ve changed the format of Tuesday Trainings to better get directly at the issues that seem to be on the minds of folks in our community. How are we doing that? Great question. We’re either seeking to answer commonly asked questions or address commonly heard complaints, concerns, and confusions. If there’s a question…
Michelle Frechette has been incredibly generous in the ways she’s given to Big Orange Heart. And now she’s taking it to another level! Setting a target to raise $1,000 for BOH and if she hits this, she will have the Big Orange Heart icon tattooed on her wrist around her GiveWP logo. There are a couple of ways we…