WordCamp Sevilla 2021 in-person! Last Tickets!
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Hello to all our Deputies, WordCamp organizers, Meetup wranglers, and WordPress Community builders! You were probably hard at work this weekend. Tell us what you got accomplished in our #weekly-update! Have you run into a roadblock with the stuff you’re working on? Head over to #community-events or #community-team in Slack and ask for help!
Mandates related to COVID-19 are continuing to update around the world, and the Community Team’s COVID-19 requirements are updating with them. These new guidelines apply to all official WordPress events, meaning WordCamps, WordPress meetups in the chapter program, do_action events, and Open Source 101 workshops. For organizers Follow all local regulations. These continue to change,…
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…
#WPDiversity team 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. Most of the activities of the #WPDiversity team have been scheduled in the North American (AMER) time zones,…
For the last three and a half years, Yoast has offered a “diversity fund”, which funded WordCamp attendance for underrepresented people in tech. The goal was to increase the diversity at WordCamps. It worked very well. According to a recent blog post: During 2018, 2019, and 2020: We were able to sponsor 70 people, To…
Whew! What a year it has been, as was highlighted in the kick-off to the 2023 State of the Word. 77 WordCamps were held in 33 countries, a small part of the 3,300 WordPress gatherings worldwide. Our events have more than doubled since the pandemic, and as we all know, our meetups are at the…