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right. So everyone, Welcometoday to this session format is
about contributing to theWordPress Community Team. We are
focused on events and roles fortoday. I am Isotta, I am based
in Barcelona, Spain, and I'm afull time contributor for the
Community Team. If you have anyquestions, there will be time at
the end for a Q&A moment. Butplease also, feel free to just
unmute yourself or write aquestion in them in the chat, in
the chat space, and I'm not ableto right now while presenting to
see the chat. But maybe Naokoor... you can unmute yourself
and ask a question. But thispresentation will last about 30
minutes maximum. And there willbe time also at the end for
discussing sharing feedback andanswering any questions you
might have. Thanks. Alright, sowhat we're talking about today,
as mentioned, this session isgoing to focus mostly on events,
WordPress events, and theCommunity Team roles and
responsibility. We're going tostart with a quick overview
about the different ways you cancontribute to the community,
then we'll dive into the typesof WordPress events, what you
can expect the WordPress events,what usually happens at our
events, then we will share a fewresources about the events. And
then we will focus on theCommunity Team roles and
responsibilities. We want totalk a little bit more about
these roles, because there havebeen changes in the past months.
And also, we've seen that it'sit seems quite easy for everyone
to start contributing to thecommunity by organizing events.
But there's still a lot ofconfusions about the other
Community Team roles and theother ways that you can
contributing and support othercommunities as well. So the main
ways we can contribute to theCommunity Team is by organizing
events or becoming an event or aProgram Supporter. organized
event. It can be a Meetup, itcan be WordCamp, a to actions or
a new type of events that willbe we will, we'll see in details
in a few in a few moments. Oryou can also decide to become an
event or program supporters.These are roles that we won't
talk a lot about those thoseroles in, in this presentation.
And these are role created tosupport organizers all around
the world. A little bit ofanother view about the
organizational structure of thecommunity. We will come back on
these later but so you can allhave another view of it. We were
all community members, let's saythat we participate to the
community. To the WordPresscommunity, we organized events
we attend WordPress events andwe are already part of the
community. Then there are twoways has we so we have just seen
become a organizer of an eventby applying for events
organization, or becoming anevent or program supporter. It
is an added path and applicationand a different process. But
these are all ways that we cansupport and oppose each other.
Let's start from events.Organizing to contributing as an
event organizer is quite simple,straightforward. onboard, anyone
who is willing to follow theFive Good Faith Rules, which of
the five rules that our ourcommunity is based on? I believe
this could be familiar for youall. If not, don't worry, we can
share resources in the in thechat at the end of the
presentation. So if you'rewilling to follow the Five Good
Faith Rules, you want to respectour community code of conduct
and embrace the principle ofopen source. And of course, it
you say that you organize anevent and then you show up, you
can organize the WordPressevent, it's the very, very
simple and open isn't there'smore we are the bad entities. So
about the Five Good Faith Rules,which, again, you will, you will
get the link to this. So if youwant to come back later, you you
can do it. Basically, the theserules are the pillars of our
community, I'm gonna breakthrough them. So the first rule
says that WordPress meetups, andwe can also extend it to any of
our events are for the benefitof the WordPress community as a
whole, not specific businessesor individuals. The second rule
says that we need to be open toall who wish to join, regardless
of ability, skill, financialstatus, or any other criteria.
Events are all volunteer runwith volunteer speakers. So the
same that you as an organizer,you're doing it as a volunteer,
non speakers or othercollaborators should expect to
be paid for participating. Bothroles as their communities allow
events to be organized, but anyreliable, trusted members. And
the last one that work will itwork to foster an accepting
environment, which is free ofdiscrimination, incitement of
violence, violence, promotion ofhate, and Hootenanny jerk like
behavior, summarizing theseroles we want for everyone who
wants to join the community tofeel that they belong, don't
feel any type of discrimination,and they feel that the final
goal will always be the benefitof the whole community. So we
don't want to push for aspecific business to get
visibility or to raise thevisibility of the individuals
were there. All of us were therefor each other. And we need to
work for maintaining or makingthe spaces free of any
discriminations. And regardingthe fourth rules, this is very
important when it comes tobuilding an organizing team or
having more people joining youas the organizer. Everyone who
desire to organize an event canorganize it, of course, if these
are people, reliable, trustedmembers of of your community,
even if they don't have anyexperience organizing event, but
they want to help youorganizing, please let the mean
teach them how to organizeevent. Because the more the
merrier. And this also allows usto brings in more diversity in
terms of people in terms ofideas. And so these effects
would also have a benefit foryour whole community. Okay, we
we said who can organizeWordPress events but we haven't
said yet. What are theseWordPress events then? Don't
WordPress events and a situationwhere people have WordPress
gathers, connect, learn fromeach other and also contribute
to the WordPress projects. Theremight be there are different
formats for gathering. And wewill see each one of these right
now. That didn't from meetups.meetups are local groups that
get together on a regular basis.It can be was pronounced other
some meetups gather every two orthree months. It depends a
little bit on the needs of thecommunity. But Meetup groups are
all over the world right now.There are over 700 meetups in
more than 100 countries
What do we mean by "Meetups"?How we can have meetups?
Basically, if we're already twopeople talking about WordPress
things, it can, it can alreadybe considered a Meetup. All
meetups are free to join, and ofcourse, to attend. And during
your Meetup, you can offerdifferent types of activities.
Some of the most common arepresentations or lectures, there
can be coworking sessions, alsoworkshop, or course contribution
events. Also, social gatheringsare very important for putting
back the community together evenmore now that we're coming back
from a pandemic socialgatherings are very, like very
loved and wanted by thecommunity. So folks can have a
moment to regroup or get to knoweach other on a personal level,
and, and then start organizingand planning the whole here. At
the end of the day, if you havedifferent ideas, even better,
please feel free to organizedifferent types of Meetup and
also please share with thecommunity team, what did you do
how was there the outcomesbecause there are basically no
limits to what a Meetup can be.As the the the important thing
is to keep respecting the thecommunity, the community values,
how you can get involved in aMeetup. First thing, attend a
Meetup event, you find thecommunity on meetup.com
WordPress meetups are, as Isaid, all over the world, you
will find also the next theupcoming events of your
WordPress in your WordPressdashboard. So you can just sign
up and attend a local Meetup.You can volunteer to speak or
organize a lead an activity atthe Meetup you can join the
organizing team and have themorganizing events. And if there
is no local Meetup in your city,you can apply to start one.
Let's jump to welcomes Welcometo another type of war
precedents. We're talking aboutslightly different events, they
tend to be more conference stylelonger than usually, we'd a
little bit more usuallyworkshops are bigger than
meetups and historically theyhave happened once a year in
Bridge CT. A little bit of anoverview the first WordCamp was
held in 2006 in San Franciscoand since then, the community
have organized more than 1100Webcams worldwide. Like same
them that we so for meetups alsoworkcamps can have different
types and formats. The maincategories are local work comes
and flagship and regional workcomes local work comes city
based organized by the localcommunity and they target the
local community. Flagship andregional events are bigger
events usually organized bycommunities from different are
different countries or differentregions within the same country.
An event of local war comescould be WordCamp Paris sample
and an example of a flagshipevent. Welcome Europe and event
an example of regional WordCampcould be welcome. Welcome
Denmark, for example. Typicalschedule of a traditional work
camps Welcome sir as they areone or two days events or in
some cases three. They usuallyhave a registration in the
morning opening remarks. Thenthere is the morning sessions
with talks or workshops oractivity, a break for lunch
depending on the country landsbut it could be at 12 at 2pm It
depends on on the local culture,then you would almost always
have an afternoon sessions. Thena closer match Back and an after
party after party, we call ithis way but it can be also like
any social gathering informalgathering to keep spending time
together without having anytalks on activity or activity to
attend different types of typesof session it you can find a
word camps you havepresentations, banners around
tables, interviews, AMA'sworkshop and networking events.
What can you do it welcomeswelcomes usually offer a sponsor
area. So you can work with thesponsors or learn about their
products and connect to them.You can find help that or
happiness bar sections, you havesocial events, and also
something that is calledHolloway Trac, which is an AI, I
found out the meaning themeaning of it later, because I
am Italian, I had no idea whatthe hallway track was. And
basically it is just connectingto other people chatting in the
hallways between one session andanother. You can find very
commonly in WordPress CommunityContributor events, they can
happen during a WordCamp or as astandalone events. But Twitter
events are moments where weencourage support and work
together on WordPress projects.Currently, there are 22
contributor teams within theWordPress ecosystem, and you can
choose to choose any team thatyou'd love to contribute to. And
also very important, you canchoose multiple teams. So if
you're interested in communityteam, please come join us. And
that if you also have otherinteresting interests, please
reach out to the other teams andthey will be more than happy to,
to have you join them. And othertimes type of event that we see
within our community is theycall it we call it we call them
youth events or kid camps. Theseare wordpresser events specially
for young folks who areinterested in learning about
WordPress. Also, in this case,we can find them here as part of
a WordCamp or as a standaloneevent. We also have do action
events, do action events agathonfocusing on using WordPress to
give charitable organizationsonline presence. What does it
mean that if we have a nonprofitorganization who have not online
presence, or they don't have awebsite that make them allows
them to reach more people and tokeep performing their charitable
activities, we gather and wehave them by creating them a
website. These are eventsorganized by a member of the
local WordPress communityusually. And now one new
introduction when something new,one of the one of the news of
this year, the next generationevents, what do we mean by next
generation of wordpresserevents? These are React Revanth
that the community is currentlyencouraging the organizer to try
out because when we came backfrom the pandemic, we have seen
that all our needs change andthe whole community needed
something different that theseall his life received, in some
ways a switch. So we got ittogether with the whole
community. And we thought, okay,how can we reflect these new
needs in to our events, so theyand these, this new generation
of war presidents is born fromthe need of reactivating the
community and bringing thecommunity back together in a way
that can spark innovation thatcan support then you need. We
also want to reach new anddifferent audience and keep
growing growing as a healthy,sustainable community. Along
with the new event format, wealso discovered a new, let's
say, revisited the purpose ofour events.
What prevents spark innovationand adoption by way of access
Simple training and networkingfor users, builders, designers
and extenders. We celebratecommunity by accelerating 21st
century skills, professionalopportunities and partnerships
for wordpresser. As of today,and tomorrow, many of us during
the last these last few years,we were changing careers, we
fit, we felt the need of wantingto learn something new to
overcome our limits, and keepconnecting more and more on a
global level, while coming backto the personal connection in
person connection on a locallevel. So this is why we, as a
community, we launched thisproject this year. And we are
currently we're currentlysupporting organizers who are
planning and organizing pile ofevents in 2023. We saw a while a
few a few minutes ago.Traditional formats for war
camps. Let's now see a littlebit about what's the next
generation events can be becausethe limit is the sky. So, these
are a few ideas that we havegathered by lecture and feedback
receiving feedback from thecommunity. So, we we received
ideas regarding events. Forcollege campus based groups are
organizing event targeting aspecific group of students, self
learning clubs, events foridentity based groups, other
events focusing on like a sortof Shark Tank, so ideas
pitching, something morefocusing on the business world,
how can I pitch my ideas tocollaborators sponsors, we have
received feedbacks about andideas about WordPress to learn
up sponsor networking day toconnect with sponsors on a
deeper level and also job fairs.One last but not least, type of
events that you'll see in in ourcommunity events to introduce
you to the open source workshop.So we we spread knowledge and we
want everyone to understand theopen web and open source through
training bands third, they canbe online. If you want to
organize an in person events,please let us know we will be
more than happy to support you.And the goal of these events are
to highlight the potential ofopen source software's in
regions where they are lessparticipations. To summarize
what we've seen, until now,different a nice way to get
involved in the community isattending events, becoming a
speaker or leading an activity,volunteer to help because all
events need volunteers to thenrun all things mostly during had
during the event today's andthen, of course become you can
become an event organizer. Let'sjump now to the community roles
and responsibility. We've seenthat okay. There are so many
types of events. There are many,many, many organizers all around
the world. The there is a needof a group of people, a team
behind the scene who can supportorganizers and help them to to
run their events in the mostsmooth and easiest way possible.
The mission of the mission ofevents and program supporters is
to serve our community to servethe new events types and provide
guidance and support to the restof the organizers. This year we
have the we have introducedslightly different roles
compared to the past and we haverenamed some of those. So
remember the organizationalstructure that If we see, we saw
at the beginning, we haveintroduced this year, the event
supporters. Formerly we used tocall them mentors, and we only
had in past WordCamp mentors.Now, we want to offer also
support to Meetup group. And sounder the umbrella of events,
events supporters, we will beproviding support to all event
types and all types oforganizers, programs supporters,
formerly called deputies. Andthen we have program manager,
the formerly super deputies.Let's see now, each each roles
who like the requirements tojoin in a specific role and our
responsibility. Let's start withevent supporters. The goal, the
goal of event supporter is tomake events easier to organize
and improve attendee experience.Well, how we do it, we check in
with organizers and we provideguidance and support. We also
work as a bridge betweenorganizers and the community
team. In this way we hope toremove part of the task the
responsibility from organisersshoulders and working as their
point of contact. Therequirements become an event
support is what you need to loveWordPress and WordPress
community that to meet otherpeople because you would support
Natale folks in your region, butalso folks in other in other
countries it if if of course,you you have a language in
common then when we ask foreffective communication skills,
organizational skills,reliability, because we have
events supporters, we need to beable to communicate find the
best way to communicate withorganizers and also help them
keep on track with with theirplanning. We also required to
complete two training courses.Programs supporters, formerly
deputies are those who respondto all requests from the
community members on Slackemail. There are many, many
folks that spread out in indifferent countries. And every
day, we receive requests ondifferent channels. And we our
main goal is to respond thisrequest as a program supporters
we also that application so wereview all applications that
arrive to the community for anytype of any type of events or
any type of support that thatorganizers applies. And we also
interview applicants and hadthem moving forward with their
event planning and other thetasks that we take care of here
to handle swag shipment. Soanytime that we need to invent
need to receive things, betterbuttons, lanyard etc. We handle
all the other shipments what arethe the type of experience that
we required required for beingbecoming a program supporters
have to have been part of anorganizing, organizing team for
a WordCamp or Meetup. somefamiliarity with WordPress
community of course, thirdskills these are going to be
very useful for applicationreview. Effective communication
skills, friendly and welcomingattitude. So we would love to
have all the nice people in thisrole because we have to support
folks who need help or they'rehaving a problem. So we want to
be friendly and welcoming asmuch as possible with everyone.
And there are also in this case,training that we required to
complete than the last.
The last role that we will bevisiting today is the Program
Manager, formerly called SuperDeputies. These people
performing in these roles thatare former Program Supporters
who can now perform budgetreviews for events, they create
event sites, moderate crisis,organize training, and also
negotiate global sponsorshipagreements. Program Managers are
veteran program supporters withglobal experience with
historical knowledge. And, mostimportantly, long, not most
important, but very important,long-term commitment to the
community. The Community Team,every year, vote for the its
Community Team representatives.Thsi year, Cate, Junko, and Leo,
are our team reps. We hostyearly elections, they lead the
community meetings. They definethe Community Team goals and
organize community activities atflagship events' Contributor
Days. There is another sub-teamwithin the Community Team. We
call it IRT, Incident ResponseTeam. This is a team formed by
people who are trained to handleincidents. The responsibility of
the Incident Response Team isnot to actively search or
monitor behavior within thecommunity or at events, but to
be a resource for to thecommunity when things don't go
as expected. There are ways toreach out to the Incident
Response Team. And once theIncident Response Team received
an incident report, they willthey will start investigation to
help the community where theincident occurred. Okay, so now
it's time to get involved withthe Community Team. Probably
even more like even easier thanstarting, organizing or
proactively applying the easythings is to join the community
meetings and our conversation onSlack and the May community
blog. Or our team meetings areheld at first Thursday of every
month at 12 UTC and 9pm UTC onslack in the #community-team
channel. And as I mentioned, youcan also apply to become an
event and or a programsupporter. One role doesn't
exclude the other. Here are afew links that you might find
useful from our handbook, theblog, we have Handbooks for
organizers, for program andEvent Supporters, and few other
resources that you might finduseful. I can share all of those
in the in the chat in a second.All right, I thank you all for
joining us today. I'm gonna stopsharing and let's see if anyone
anybody has a question. Feelfree to unmute yourself if you
want to ask anything. Oh, andwelcome to all those who have
joined us during the during thepresentation that much more
people now
Meanwhile I'm gonna check theirthe chat to see if I've missed
question. Thank you so much nowfor sharing all the links. Yes,
yes. Please unmute yourself. Andalso, can you... Hello. Thank
you. Great, thanks. How are you doing?
Yes. Thanks for asking. I'm goodtoo. I want to know what you
have said this URL for the jointhe Community Team right?
Yes, yes. Okay.
Yes, I'm sorry, I asking if toshare the link.
No, my question is if I am, Iwill join the Community Team.
So, so you have said the link inchat, right. How to join in
Community Team?
Yes, yes. Depending on the rolethat you're interested in. Yes,
there are different links, whichtype of role you were looking for.
I go, I go to your point.
Thank you, Anna, you can findthat already. The links are
shared in the in the chat. I canre stare them now at the end. So
you can grab the link that youprefer. But if you scroll, if
you scroll the chat, you willfind sent from now Kota Canada,
she has shared there. Okay,thank you. Okay. Does anyone
else have questions to ask? Orcomments?
Okay. Okay, see, that's it.There was a question regarding.
Okay, well, the application thatare really, for everyone, so in
case it can be useful forothers, we received a question
from Hans, I would like toorganize WordPress Meetup here
in Amsterdam, Germany. Andyesterday, I filled out the form
on the Welcome Center, thewebsite and send it off. We can
use location here for free ifpossible. Can you tell me what I
can expect? Announcer thanks alot, Hans for asking this
question. And also for once youorganize a WordPress Meetup in
your city, we, we usually we tryto always give a replies within
one or two weeks, depending onthe moment of the year, we can
be a little slower. Usually whenthere are some big events and so
all programs supporters are mostof them are are busy with
supporting events, like, forexample, working for us
happening at the end of thismonth. If you don't hear
anything back from us before thenext 1014 days, please feel free
to ping us on Slack. And and wewill we will reply to to your
pings.
And I don't think that any otherquestions, huh? House. Thank
you. Thank you for joining us.If there are no more questions
or doubts, we can we can end thesession I will upload the
recording on WordPress.tv. Andlet you know, let you know once
once the recording is isavailable, and also Oh, hey,
Devin. Yes, please unmuteyourself and ask question or
share with sorry,
everyone, I'm Devin, I'mactually listening to his own
presentation and keep go movingback and forth and slack and the
presentation. I would just liketo use this opportunity to also
because we I am aware that wehave 15 minutes if because I
noticed Hans and Bridget and Iknow you both of you have talked
to Harmony about the next genevent. So this is the reason
project that we all excitedabout. So is that I'm not trying
to hijack the session. But ifanybody wants to ask any
question about the next genevent is autonomy and now here
are happy to respond. Oh, wehave three minutes. No 15
minutes. Yeah. Oh, no actually
session and in three minutes,but don't fly if anybody has any
question regarding next gents.We can we can certainly stay.
Five more minutes to answer allquestions. Yeah.
Okay, no, or is that five minutewe'll do so hands And Birgit,
and I see also there's Junkohere. If you have any questions,
specifically because Junko hasapplied, so Junko is the lead
organizer for next gen event inJapan, it's going to be an
online event, focusing ontraining the community. And I
think Hans and Birgit, I knowyou have met with harmony during
the discovery call talking aboutwhat you all wanted to do in
reactivating the community inGermany. And I think if I'm not
mistaken, your ideas isspecifically about finding an
innovative approach to connectMeetup, organizers and WordCamp
organizers in Germany. So I'mjust going to add two things
that we want to see from nextgen events moving forward.
First, we really want to see anevent that we've never seen
happening in the WordPressecosystem. If you can come up
with a great innovative creativeID that we can support that is
doable, replicable, scalable,lattice, no. Particularly events
that we've never seen happeningin our WordPress ecosystem.
Because we know our Meetup,organizers, WordCamp,
organizers, they are no, theyknow how to organize
conferences, trainings andworkshop. So if you can come up
with something exciting, that isdifferent from conferences, and
training and workshop, that willbe great. And the second thing
that we want to really see inthe next gen event is how we can
bring new audiences, newattendees, to our events,
because word test needs to getbigger and stronger. And we need
fresh, innovative minds toactually Make WordPress bigger
and stronger. So yeah, that'sbasically the two things that we
are looking from next genevents. That's it. Any any
questions? Virgin, we are goingyeah, let me read your messages.
I feel you Rico. And yeah, well,if you have any, any, any
anything. So you know, how we docontributor day, if you find a
different format, on how ourcommunity can contribute, but
more exciting than justlecturing in a, on a on a table,
like in the same table, thenyeah, let us know. It might be
called something else. Hedoesn't have to be called
contributor date, but basicallyallowing folks to experience how
to contribute to wordpress.orgproject. And it doesn't have to
be coding programming. Anythingthat you feel like, Oh, this is
something that my communityneeds. And I can contribute to
help that happen. Yeah, what canGermany's happening soon as
well, in October 19, to 19 to12. Okay, probably, I got it
wrong. 20 voices sorry.
And go, if you have time tocheck out our Meetup organizer
handbook, we do actually have apage that lists down the kind of
format we can do for our Meetupevents. I agree that folks tend
to fall into organizing the samekind of lecture format. While
you can actually organizesomething different Brownback
discussion, even just acoworking or networking, or
thank you now, or, well, I'mgonna say the Japanese community
have done photowalk two times infact, especially in Tokyo, where
you bring the community members,your Meetup members out, go out,
take the mobile phone and SLRcamera probably and take
pictures and then upload it tothe WordPress photo directory.
So that is fun. You don't need avenue basically, you might need
something like two refreshmentsafter a long walk. But that
would be nice as well. They havean outdoor sort of activity, and
then people get a batch of photocontributor batch by uploading
just one photo so that'sexcited. Several times all
already several times, oh mygod, Jakarta trying to get job,
but it hasn't happened. And it'salready several times in Tokyo.
Yeah. Moses, I asked if the teamcould come up with a standard
template for a concept proposalfor the next generation
WordPress event, we arepreparing that we're going to
have a dedicated application.But at the moment, before the
discovery call, we already senda list of information that we
want to hear from you. So thatI'm sorry, this doesn't didn't
happen with you budget, enhance,and Junko. But moving forward.
Before the discovery call, wewant to have a list of
information that you canprepare. And then when we have
the discovery call, we canreally focus on helping you
shape your idea. So yeah, so oneOh, one more. I'm sorry, I
forgot to mention. In Masaka,we're also going to have an
event, next gen event. And it'sfocusing on students showcasing
the project. So it's targetingstudents, but it's about project
showcase. So yeah, that's alsosomething new. Yay. All right.
These are the I think this ismore than five minutes sorry.
No, no, no. That's fine, it'smore than welcome and really
relevant. So thanks for jumpingin. Thank you, everyone for
joining the session. As wementioned, you can always find
the #community-team on Slack. Ifyou come up with a new question
or feedback or something thatyou want to share, feel free to
drop a message in the communityevents channel. And we can keep
keep the conversation going inthere and so other folks can
also jump in and participate. Itwas lovely to see y'all. I wish
you a great week.
Thank you. Is that fine,everyone?
Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Byebye