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Suggested by: Juan Hernando and Taco Verdonschot

I’d love to see is a redesign of http://central.wordcamp.org . Not only visually and in terms of user experience. Also, at the content level. We have a great platform and people who know everything happening in every corner of the planet in the WordPress events world (often super inspiring stuff), but we don’t share it enough. Let’s use Central’s website also to share these stories, with some kind of editorial calendar, and then amplify the reach with our social media and monthly newsletter.

I really like @Unintended8‘s idea to improve http://central.wordcamp.org and want to support that. I’d also like to extend that idea to include improving the WordCamp pages in general, and the attendee pages in particular.

Suggested by: Ryan Boren

Here’s what our community of neurodivergent and disabled people suggests for improving accessibility of events.

• Create real venue access pages. https://stimpunks.org/fieldguide/events/access/
• Use interaction badges. https://stimpunks.org/2023/01/16/we-use-interaction-badges-at-our-events/
• Offer bodymind affirmations. https://stimpunks.org/glossary/bodymind-affirmation/
• Ensure there is quiet space and outdoor space that people can access at any time.
• Design around the accessibility and sustainability of virtual learning.

Summarized here:

https://stimpunks.org/2022/10/25/five-ways-to-welcome-all-bodyminds-to-your-learning-event/

Without these, we are not included.

We need to reach out to dormant groups and see if they would like to be involved. We can also provide resources for meetup groups to see if they need help.

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Suggested by: Juan Hernando

Create checklists for mentors and let them know they are following the WordCamp and have their own channel to ask safely common questions that many of them have.

Suggested by: Rocio Valdivia and Megan Rose

The idea: creating an engaging and clear contributor path for the Make Community Team, to reduce the barrier for first comers and to improve the experienced of our active and experienced organizers to move forward and to get more involved as mentors, deputies, mentors of mentors, etc.

In another member-led organization I’m a part of, we have made a “table of asks,” where we have a variety of tasks at different commitment levels, which we ask members to do. So, for example we would have an established member ask a newer member to commit to something like attending a meeting. Or an established member asking a semi-engaged member to take meeting notes. Etc.

This format of engaging members tends to work really well for us and I think could be applied to the WP community (going from new contributors to the team, all the way up through deputies and mentors). I think this would fit well with the Contributor Path documentation/improvements, if others are interested in working on this.

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Suggested by: Sam Suresh

• Gather all WordPress meetup / WordCamp organizers
• Share experience and talks
• Keynotes

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Suggested by: Naoko Takano

Suggested by: Juan Hernando and Devin Maeztri and Isotta

Keep up the effort of the meetup reactivation program and the fantastic work of the WPDiversity team, and try to reach even more people.

I think Meetup Reactivation is an ongoing process or a cycle which can still focus on helping the dormant groups, but also expand the scope to helping the reactivated group to stay active.

Bring the Meetup Reactivation to a next level and possibly merge it to some sort of a stable program of meetup mentorship. In 2022 we have focused on dormant Meetup, but I feel it’s time to give all Meetups the same support, also to those who never stopped organizing events

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Our discussion group wanted to save a space for this as an overarching goal of the Community Team in 2022. We want to ensure all our goals are looked at with a lens of improving diversity and inclusion in our community.

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Suggested by: Afshana Diya

Find more ways to assist the Meetup organizers to reactivate the chapters and assist with in-person events. I suppose, there will be many people in the community who haven’t been to in-person events before (considering the newcomers here who learned & joined the WordPress community within these 2 years of COVID).

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Suggested by: Isotta and Naoko Takano

Keep organizing the community team training and keep collaborating with training and other teams to provide new useful content. (For example, inviting someone from forums or photo to explain how to contribute to it, another session about budget reviews and Q&A from WordCamp organizers, another session explaining how to organize a do_action or a contributor day, etc)

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As the number of in-person WordCamps and Meetups increases, it’s important to make sure the team can support them. Providing more resources for mentors and organizers (documentation, checklist, video training sessions…) and increasing the number of trained mentors can help that effort.

Suggested by: Afshana Diya

Standalone training program for hybrid events to guide organizers as that could be super helpful to use for next meetup/WordCamp in 2022.

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Suggested by: Afshana Diya

We have previously discussed the growth and sustainability of official social media accounts. I would like to propose an Instagram account for WordCamp Central and WordPress.org along with a Facebook account for WordCamp Central. It won’t require too much extra bandwidth as we can curate the same content we are sharing on Twitter and use a scheduling tool to share on all platforms at the same time & reach a wider community audience. I’d be happy to write a detailed proposal for it.

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Suggested by: Taco Verdonschot

By Rocío Valdivia

General or by topic (like WP Translation Day), we could organize online contributor days focused on the community team and to inspire other teams to do the same 🙂

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Suggested by: Naoko Takano

Suggested by: jillbinder

Diverse Speaker Training Group (#WPDiversity):

5-Year Vision:

• By 2028, it will be the norm to have diverse speaker lineups and inclusive & diverse WP events. The contributor space will have a good mix of representation and be self-sustaining — a cycle that attracts and retains even more underrepresented contributors, speakers, organizers, leaders, audiences, etc.

3-year:

1. Our diversity workshops are easy for anyone in WordPress to pick up and run for their Meetup or WordCamp
2. Community members are empowered to make localizations and translations of the workshops
3. The Diverse Speaker Support channel continues to support speaker placement and speaker mentorship

1-year:

1. We are running both of our workshops (Diverse Speaker workshops and Organizing Welcoming and Inclusive Event workshops) quarterly, alternating times for AMER/EMEA and for APAC
2. We are training co-facilitators
3. We are testing and improving the Organizing Inclusive events workshop
4. We are answering community questions on how to run the speaker workshop
5. We are recruiting participants from the speaker workshops to join the Diverse Speaker Support Slack channel + helping speakers get placements at WordPress events + helping speakers get mentorship

Some of the stretch goals for which we need people to take the lead:

1. Organizers are required to take the self-paced lessons on creating welcoming and inclusive WordPress events
2. Our material is readily available in short, easily-digestible videos, articles, checklists, etc.
3. Recruit and guide a new Translations Coordinator
4. Coordinate, customize, and hold local workshops
5. Empower and guide people with new WPDiversity ideas, sometimes finding people to lead the initiatives
6. Guide and co-lead the APAC branch meetings with Oneal
7. Roles on the Diverse Speaker Support Slack channel: Community Engagement + Speaker Mentor Coordinator

Suggested by: Naoko Takano

I absolutely support any improvement to the onboarding process, as mentioned by Rocio and Megan – and would like to see best practices shared with all Make teams. It would be very interesting to know how many people look into contributing only to be overwhelmed and intimidated.

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Suggested by: Juan Hernando

Let’s encourage all our organisers to make more diverse, inclusive, accessible, and sustainable events. There is now a #sustainability channel in Slack with many people sharing their ideas. We can help a lot in spreading those ideas to many people.

Suggested by: Devin Maeztri

Community Deputy and WordCamp Mentor programs are very much related and can be incorporated into a connected contributor journey. Meetup Reactivation Supporter programs can also be a great addition to the journey.

Either a training course, or a Meetup for training.

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Suggested by Jill Binder

Between summer 2021 and summer 2022:

• Run at least 6 Diverse Speaker workshops
• Launch new Allyship program – Run program 3 times
• Create and launch Diverse Speaker Support program – Have at least 30 past and future workshop participants join the Slack channel
• Translate our speaker materials to more languages so that we can serve more parts of the world
• New volunteers outreach
• Rally more team participation and leadership

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Suggested by: Isotta

Have a clear path for self assign tasks and keep track of who is doing what, especially for deputies, super deputies, and mentors (I think that @leogopal‘s proposal for using GitHub would help a lot!)

Meetup City or Event Name

City, Country

Meetup Tracker Link

#tracker

Meetup HelpScout Link

#helpscout ticket link

Suggested by: Juan Hernando

WordCamp, forms and personal data are one of the headaches for many organisers (and for flagship events, I don’t even mention it). We have a tool that is too simple, and it would be great to improve it (conditional fields, automatic responses, auto-fill of CPT fields) so that we don’t have to use third-party tools -with the privacy implications that this has-.

Either a training course, or a Meetup for training.

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Suggested by: Juan Hernando and Devin Maeztri

Let’s put more value on the http://wp.org profiles we have. With proposals like using them instead of the Twitter handle for WordCamps or looking for new ways to leverage them with ideas to measure Five for the Future. And maybe in the future, they will be the gateway to a new platform as Meetup for all our local events.

I love Juan’s idea around http://WordPress.org profile. It can be more powerful that it is now, to reflect more contributions of the individual in addition to the badges.

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