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Jonathan Bossenger 7:52 am on April 9, 2019

Meetup organizer newsletter suggestions for April 2019

Time to start drafting the April 2019 edition of the meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. organizers newsletter — if there are any topics you’d recommend we include, or any interesting meetup event formats you think are worth highlighting, please comment leave your ideas/suggestions in the comments on this post?

We’ll gather comments here for one week until the 16th of April 2018.

The newsletter typically spotlights:

an interesting event format that organizers might want to try out
news about global community team projects
news about the WordPress open sourceOpen Source Open 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

Thanks!

Hugh Lashbrooke 8:39 am on April 9, 2019

We’ll need to highlight the formalised logo guidelines for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps 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. slides and videos: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2019/04/08/logos-in-slide-decks-and-wordcamp-videos/
Hugh Lashbrooke 8:41 am on April 9, 2019

It would be good to have a section on the BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Directory and Single Block PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party proposal: https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2019/03/08/the-block-directory-and-a-new-type-of-plugin/ – with a special focus on motivating meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. organisers to run training for their communities on building JavascriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. blocks as that is a large concern for many people.

The Month in WordPress for last month has some content on this that can be copy/pasted if needed: https://wordpress.org/news/2019/04/the-month-in-wordpress-march-2019/
Birgit Pauli-Haack 7:14 pm on April 9, 2019

You might want to point out that the Support Team put BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. editor user documentation is now available:
How does the Block Editor work?
Info on the core block types

Seems people still think there is not documentation available. It’s certainly not all but it’s a start for those starting out:-)
Andrea Middleton 5:44 pm on April 11, 2019

I’d like to share the Organizers Best Practices post in the newsletter, with a invitation to participate in the discussion.
Courtney P.K. 4:43 pm on April 12, 2019

MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. Survey results are in the process of being sent to organizers, but I am also intending on publishing a high-level summary of the results early next week. I can update here with a link once that’s ready!
- Courtney P.K. 12:25 am on April 18, 2019
  
  Here’s a link to the aforementioned post:
  https://make.wordpress.org/community/2019/04/18/2018-meetup-survey/
Courtney P.K. 11:33 pm on April 15, 2019

During a recent orientation, an organizer asked about tips and/or best practices for preventing and dealing with spammers in their meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. groups (this is one of the reasons why organizers have made membership by approval in the past). This is something worth having a handbook page about eventually, but this could at least start the discussion.

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