Scheduled WordCamps in need of feature image/description

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We have 36 WordCamps currently on the schedule (yay) but 20 of those events don’t have featured images set so the default is showing on the 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. Schedule.

It would be great to have deputies pitch in and email each event to ask them for the updated image. Here’s a spreadsheet with camps in need of feature images and/or descriptions and email addresses to contact.

We have a saved reply ready to go in HelpScout named: WORDCAMP: Banner and “About” text request

If you have a few moments to send out a reminder please sign off on the spreadsheet so we don’t have duplicates sent out. Ideally all WordCamps should be notified by Wednesday, December 11, 2019 with the goal of having all images updated by the end of the year.

Once organizers respond with an image, deputies with admin access to Central.WordCamp.org can update the files.

Let me know if you have any questions!

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Mariano Perez 2:55 pm on December 6, 2019

Done! Now to wait for them to send the images @camikaos
- Cami Kaos 6:32 pm on December 6, 2019
  
  Awesome! Thank you so much Mariano!
- Rocio Valdivia 3:31 pm on December 19, 2019
  
  Wowww! Thank you Mariano for being SO fast! 😀
Courtney P.K. 7:36 pm on December 7, 2019

I just took the last one on the list, so we’re done with all the initial emails!
Ian Dunn 12:44 am on December 13, 2019

Is it always difficult to get most people to add them? It looks like even after this push, most camps still haven’t added one.

If that’s the case, maybe it’d be better to just not display the images at all? We might be able to tweak the design so that it looks good without them.

+make.wordpress.org/design
- Ian Dunn 12:46 am on December 13, 2019
  
  We could also try and use the images that they set as their site logo or headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. image, since most camps probably do that. The automatic cropping probably wouldn’t be perfect, but in this context I’m not sure it’d be noticed much.
Mel Choyce-Dwan 4:10 pm on December 13, 2019

FWIW, the current banners are an awkwardly thin size that makes it hard to design for, in my experience. Plus, they’re shown at 1x, so they look blurry and fuzzy on the website, if you can even find them, since Central often hides the page that shows them. The only way I could locate an individual camp page was using the “upcoming wordcamps” widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. on the homepage.
- Ian Dunn 4:14 pm on December 13, 2019
  
  The primary place I was thinking of is https://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/; I agree that people don’t really visit the individual pages for the most part.
  
  Maybe if we broke the list into 2 columns, it’d look better w/ just text?
  
  If we can automatically create a thumbnail for that page (at whatever dimensions you think is best), then I’m guessing that’d be better than text-only?
  - Rocio Valdivia 11:26 am on December 19, 2019
    
    automatically create a thumbnail for that page
    
    +1 to automatically create a thumbnail for that page, @iandunn! It would save us a lot of manual work, to organizers and deputies 😀

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