Welcome to the official blog of the community/outreach team for the WordPress open sourceOpen SourceOpen Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project!
This team oversees official events, mentorship programs, diversity initiatives, contributor outreach, and other ways of growing our community.
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Getting Involved
We use this blog for policy debates, project announcements, and status reports. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to comment on posts and join the discussion.
You can learn about our current activities on the Team Projects page. These projects are suitable for everyone from newcomers to WordPress community elders.
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Communication
We have Office HoursOffice HoursDefined times when the Global Community Team are in the #community-events Slack channel. If there is anything you would like to discuss – you do not need to inform them in advance.You are very welcome to drop into any of the Community Team Slack channels at any time. four times a week in the #community-events channel on Slack: Mondays & Wednesdays 22:00 UTC, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00 UTC.
We also have regular Community Team meetings on the first and third Thursdays of every month at 12:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC in #community-team on Slack (same agenda).
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Tuesday Trainings: What are profile badges, and how do I get one?
If there’s a question you’d like to see answered, or a topic you’d like to see discussed, please share it in the comments or email [email protected] with the subject line “Tuesday Trainings”. Now onto this week’s topic!
What is a profile badge?
If you look at any contributor’s profile page on WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/, you’ll notice that they have colorful badges on their profile, as seen in the image below. These badges represent their contributions to WordPress.
I’m glad you asked. 🙂 The Community Team has many ways to contribute, and there are badges to indicate those contributions.
The Community Team badge will be manually assigned to all Community DeputiesDeputyCommunity Deputies are a team of people all over the world who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and generally keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about deputies in our Community Deputy Handbook. who have been active for at least 6 months (active deputiesDeputyCommunity Deputies are a team of people all over the world who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and generally keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about deputies in our Community Deputy Handbook. are listed on this page). You can find out more about the DeputyDeputyCommunity Deputies are a team of people all over the world who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and generally keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about deputies in our Community Deputy Handbook. program (and how to get involved) in the Community Deputy handbook.
The Community Contributor badge will be manually assigned to all WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more.MentorsMentorSomeone who has already organised a WordCamp and has time to meet with their assigned mentee every 2 weeks, they talk over where they should be in their timeline, help them to identify their issues, and also identify solutions for their issues., as well as those who provide valuable contributions to the Community Team. Mentors are all listed as “MentorMentorSomeone who has already organised a WordCamp and has time to meet with their assigned mentee every 2 weeks, they talk over where they should be in their timeline, help them to identify their issues, and also identify solutions for their issues.” on the Community Deputies list. In the future, mentors will be auto-assigned this badge when they begin mentoring their first WordCamp (removing the manual administration side of things). You can find out more about the WordCamp Mentorship program in this previous Tuesday Trainings post, or in the Deputy handbook.
The MeetupMeetupMeetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. Organizer badge is auto-assigned to all members of Meetup organizing teams for meetup groups in the official chapter program. The list of WordPress.org usernames for each meetup group is manually updated by Community Deputies.
The WordCamp Organizer badge is auto-assigned to all members of WordCamp organizing teams, provided their WordPress.org username is added to their ‘Organizer’ post on any WordCamp.org website.
The WordCamp Speaker badge is auto-assigned to all WordCamp speakers, provided their WordPress.org username is added to their ‘Speaker’ post on any WordCamp.org website.
What about badges for other teams?
All the other contributor teams have badges specific to them, and there are two types of badges: Contributor and Team. What’s the difference between the two?
I think my profile is missing a Community badge, what do I do?
Community Team or Community Contributor badges are manually assigned to contributors and usually need to be requested, as the system doesn’t allow us to add the badge to your profile until a request is submitted. To make a request, please go to the Community Team or Community Contributor pages and request membership for the group. Community Deputies will then review/approve the request. Since this process is manual, the change may take a short time to complete.
WordCamp Organizer, WordCamp Speaker, and Meetup Organizer badges are automatically assigned based on contributor status. As long as you have your WordPress.org username in your WordCamp Organizer or Speaker profile, or the Meetup Tracker, the badge should appear automatically.
Note that there is a known bug that has caused WordCamp Organizer and Speaker badges to mysteriously disappear from profiles (this bug can be tracked on Meta). If this has happened to you, try the following if you have the ability to edit the Speaker (or Organizer) profile on the WordCamp’s site:
Remove your WordPress.org username from the Speaker (or Organizer) profile, then save.
Add your username back in and save again.
Refresh your profile page—your badge should re-appear like magic!
If you do not have the ability to try the above steps for WordCamp Speaker and Organizer badges, or they did not work, please contact the Community Team so a deputy can assist you further. Please be sure to include your WordPress.org username, as well as the WordCamp city and year that you organized for.
If you are listed as Meetup organizer on your chapter meetup group, and your profile page does not have the Meetup Organizer badge, contact the Community Team. Please include the URLURLA specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org of your meetup group and your WordPress.org username.
For both of these cases, Community Team deputies can be reached at [email protected], and please include “Profile badges” in the subject line.
Display your profile badges with pride, and thank you for all your great contributions!