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.
If you love WordPress and want to help us do these things, join in!
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.
You can use our contact form to volunteer for one of our projects.
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.
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most WordPress events are online. Please refer to our
online events handbook.
For communities where COVID-19 has been more effectively contained or have easy access to COVID-19 vaccination and/or testing,
returning to hosting an in-person 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. event is possible, with caution, using
the resources provided.
If you plan to move forward with an in-person meetup, you must use
the provided checklist
.
From every Community Team bi-weekly meeting, there will be recap written and posted to make/updatesP2P2P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. for other WordPress project teams to get information about what’s happening in our team.
Updates should contain short chat recap about what has been discussed, links to relevant P2 posts which were in agenda, if some decisions has been made after last recap and also some informational numbers as well the change compared to numbers posted last time.
Below is a markdown boilerplate for writing the update.
The Community Team meets twice a month, first and third Thursday, at two different times to cover different timezones.
Agenda (link to agenda post) and Slack logs from July 18: 11:00 UTC (link to Slack) and 20:00 UTC (link to Slack)
## Deputy updates
As usual, Community Team members are busy doing Meetup and WordCamp application vetting, having organiser orientations, mentoring, organising events, replying to Help Scout tickets and helping organisers in general. Team and it's members have no blockers with their work,
## Ongoing discussions
_Links to relevant P2 posts, short description, and action points that come up during the meeting._
**[WordCamp PWA Retrospective](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2019/07/12/wordcamp-pwa-retrospective/)**
Leading up to WordCamp Europe, the organising team enchanted the wordpress.org to be progressive web application (PWA). The PWA was deployed right before WordCamp Europe 2019 and was tweaked during the event. Key feature of this version was offline mode and custom "Day of event" frontpage that showed real-time schedule to visitors. We are now gathering feedback how PWA development process went.
## Additional posts worth highlighting
_List of links to relevant posts_
- [WordPress meetup organizer newsletter: June 2019](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2019/06/21/wordpress-meetup-organizer-newsletter-june-2019/)
## Numbers
*Get fresh numbers and count the change.*
- **General**
- **Active deputies**: *get from [Deputies list](https://make.wordpress.org/community/community-deputies/)*
- **Active WordCamp mentors**: *get from [Deputies list](https://make.wordpress.org/community/community-deputies/)*
- **HelpScout total conversations**: *get from [HS reports](https://secure.helpscout.net/reports/email/?tab=responseTime&officeHours=true&channelType=email&range=0&startDate=2019-07-04&endDate=2019-07-18&cmpRange=1&cmpStartDate=2019-06-19&cmpEndDate=2019-07-03)*
- **HelpScout messages received**: *get from [HS reports](https://secure.helpscout.net/reports/email/?tab=responseTime&officeHours=true&channelType=email&range=0&startDate=2019-07-04&endDate=2019-07-18&cmpRange=1&cmpStartDate=2019-06-19&cmpEndDate=2019-07-03)*
- **Meetups**
- **Meetups needing vetting**: *get from [WordCamp Reports](https://central.wordcamp.org/wp-admin/index.php?page=wordcamp-reports&report=meetup-status), (select correct dates and Status: Needs vetting)*
- **Meetups in chapter program**: *get from [WordCamp Reports](https://central.wordcamp.org/wp-admin/index.php?page=wordcamp-reports&report=meetup-groups)*
- **Members in meetup groups**: *get from [WordCamp Reports](https://central.wordcamp.org/wp-admin/index.php?page=wordcamp-reports&report=meetup-groups)*
- **New Meetups groups in chapter**: *get from [WordCamp Reports](https://central.wordcamp.org/wp-admin/index.php?page=wordcamp-reports&report=meetup-status) (select correct dates and Status: active in chapter), list all the meetup names and link to group on meetup.com.*
- **WordCamps**
- **WordCamps needing vetting**: *get from [WordCamp Reports](https://central.wordcamp.org/wp-admin/index.php?page=wordcamp-reports&report=wordcamp-status) (select correct dates and Status: Needs vetting)*
- **WordCamps in the schedule**: *get from [WordCamp Tracker](https://central.wordcamp.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=wcpt-scheduled&post_type=wordcamp)*
- **WordCamp tickets sold**: *get from [WordCamp Tracker](https://central.wordcamp.org/wp-admin/index.php?page=wordcamp-reports&report=ticket-revenue), (select correct dates and look for first "Tickets sold" number)*
- **New scheduled WordCamps**: *get from [WordCamp Reports](https://central.wordcamp.org/wp-admin/index.php?page=wordcamp-reports&report=wordcamp-status) (select correct dates and Status: Scheuled), list all the WordCamp names and link to their site.*