Handbook update: How to Improve The Diversity of your WordPress Events

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After a year of work, help from many people, and undergoing many, many revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision., two new documents are ready in the handbook to help WordPress event organizers improve their event diversity with practical advice:

Building a Diverse Speaker Roster
Inclusive and welcoming events (updated from a previous version)

Please share with your fellow WordPress event organizers!

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kOoLiNuS 10:30 am on November 26, 2019

thanks for sharing… I’ll dig through them
jillbinder 9:41 pm on November 26, 2019

Although there are many who contributed, a special shout-out goes to @allienimmons, @aurooba, and @andreamiddleton who put an extra amount of time into it over the last few months.

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