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Welcome to another meetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20200407152912/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. organiser newsletter – in this edition we’ll be highlighting some upcoming virtual events and providing you with more info about taking your events online!
Upcoming Online Events
With much of the world either on lockdown or in recommended self-isolation, organizers all over the world are taking their events online. The WordPress community is no exception to this trend as many meetups, WordCamps, and other events in the community are being streamed online for the whole world to enjoy.
WordCamp San Antonio
As WordCamps begin to move online, the first to do so is WordCamp 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. San Antonio taking place this weekend – March 28-29. You can see the full schedule on their site (all times in the local time zone of UTC-5) and book your free ticket here. Over the next few weeks and months, we’ll start to see many more WordCamps be presented as live streams. If you are an organizer who would like to get started with this for your community, then keep an eye on the Community Team blog as more info about online events will be published very soon.
WPBlockTalk
On Thursday, April 2 a virtual event all about the WordPress block 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 will be broadcast live. WPBlockTalk includes speakers from all over the world and, after the live event, will be published on WordPress.tv for you to watch (or re-watch) whenever you’d like.
Online Meetups
It’s not only WordCamps and all-day conferences that are streaming online, but local WordPress meetup groups are also doing it too! You can find all the upcoming online events from WordPress meetup groups all over the world on this page – times will be shown in your local time zone unless otherwise noted.
Resources for Online Events
If you would like to take your meetup online, we have some resources available to help you get started with streaming your expertly-crafted content to the world. First off, we need to note that for the time being, we won’t be approving or paying venue-related costs for meetup groups, even if it is in advance for when you do ultimately start meeting in person again. We don’t know what the situation will be once in-person meetings are possible once more and it is safer to only pay for those venues once we know how it will work.
In order to assist you with bringing your meetup events online, we have put together a page of resources and tips to provide with ideas and software options for this move. Additionally, Meetup.com has published information on how to indicate that your event is taking place online. If you follow their guide then your events will be listed in the online meetup events page that is mentioned above.
During this time, when everyone is connecting virtually with each other, people are joining forces with other local communities that speak the same language. The Global Community Team has removed location limitations and reduced the planning process to a minimum. WordCamp Central Website for all WordCamp activities globally. http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20200407152912/https://central.wordcamp.org includes a list of upcoming and past camp with links to each. will provide Crowdcast accounts for these longer online events (more info coming soon!) and they will have free tickets for everyone around the globe to be able to join without any financial limitation.
If your community is interested, you can submit the WordCamp Organizer Application now!
Running Charity Hackathons Online
For the last few years, we have included the do_action Charity Hackathon event series in the WordPress community program, and there are some handy recap posts on the WordPress Foundation site all about how these events have been going. In order to keep these going, we have opened the event format up a bit to allow them to be run online. You can find more information about that in the announcement, and if you would like to organize a do_action event, you can apply for one here.
If you have any questions or concerns, Community Team deputies are available to help. Please send an email to support@wordcamp.org or join the #community-events Slack channel. Please note that our Meetup.com inbox is not monitored, so please don’t reach out by replying directly to this message.
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Much needed information and guidelines for the WP Community. Indeed expecting updates more frequently. Much love to all of you from Bangladesh. My prayers and best wishes are with everyone involved!
It’s come to my attention that some people don’t know the term “community transmission.” With that term, I mean that infections in your area are not imported from another virus-hit area.
As described here this source**:
[EDIT:] A variation on this term is “local transmission.” The WHO has a report dated March 7 indicating what countries have reported local transmission. Please check for the latest reports from reliable health organizations such as WHO. [end EDIT]
That said, if you are in doubt whether to encourage people to meet in person, the global community team supports you in making decisions that are motivated by caution. I strongly encourage organizers in areas affected by this outbreak to look into online gatherings for the next few months, and check back here frequently for more resources and recommendations in the weeks to come.
**this article seems to have a typo, using “community transition” instead of “transmission“. Based on my reading however, the information in the article matches that of other creditable sources.
Should a link to this be sent out to MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20200407152912/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. chapter organizers? There may be some who are not monitoring this site.
Probably should, since one I just talked to minutes ago was unaware of this post.
P.S. @andreamiddleton great work on this post.
Good idea, @rmarks — I’ll add that to the list of tasks we can invite help on, from deputies, with a goal to send out an email via meetup.com in the next 6-8 hours.
Just got that meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20200407152912/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. email! Thanks.
Thanks a lot @andreamiddleton for sharing all these advice. It’s a really complex time to get together even if the local authorities guidelines put 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. out of scope because these guidelines can be updated at any time. In France for example gathering more than 1000 people is not allowed, but we have no idea if this will be extended to less people gatherings or any of them.
Moreover we can’t avoid people to be very worried whatever the local authorities guidelines are. Some people just prefer not to buy tickets at all or ask for reimbursement. I’d suggest to add 2 advices to your list :
The 2 WordCamps I’m mentoring (Paris & Antwerp) decided to postpone. It’s a really tough decision and it brings a lot of complexity about how to communicate the right way to attendees, speakers, volunteers, sponsors & vendors. I’d like to thank the organization teams for the great work they have done dealing with this crisis and I wish them a lot of courage to deal with all the tasks postponing involves. You’re great, organizers 💪👍
Thanks for supporting the Paris and Antwerp teams during this difficult time, @imath! I agree that communication around cancellations or postponement are really difficult to manage right. I believe some deputies are working on some email templates that 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. organizers can use — please check the #community-team slackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20200407152912/https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20200407152912/https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel if you’re interested in collaborating on the templates or translating the templates. 🙂
Fantastic, you can count on me for the translations 👌
Note. A major problem with mask and glove wearing is that folks aren’t trained to use them properly.
In the case of non-trained food servers/prep folks it’s just as easy to contaminate their gloves as it is their hands, by putting the gloves on with unwashed hands, or touching contaminated surface after putting them on.
More important would be food servers wearing masks, just in case they expel respiratory droplets (coughing and breathing), and that any open food also be protected from attendees doing the same via food sneeze guards. These are all pretty standard in the US in a commercial setting.
Perhaps the best added advice is simply “make sure your food vendors are professional and taking strong precautions for preparing and serving food”.
Updated information from the WHO, including that they now classify this as a pandemic and sharing current data on what countries have reported cases of local transmission.
I updated the above comment with the link to the correct report, number 51. Originally, I had linked to report 50, which was not the report that classified the situation as a pandemic.
Thank you Andrea for this much needed statement. We started in march to hold our local MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20200407152912/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. in Düsseldorf exclusively online. This will affect all upcoming events in our local community until further notice.
Thanks for this Andrea, it’s appreciated. It’s looking like we’ll need to cancel our first MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20200407152912/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.. I’ll look at hosting a Zoom call (or similar) instead. Has anyone else had any joy with this?
Yes, we just switched to online via Zoom, worked like a charm. If you need further advise. We have some pointers on what to look out for if going to an Online Conference. What rules apply and so on…
Hi Mario – I’d love to hear your recommendations for hosting meetups via Zoom. Do you have a blog post or something you can link to?
Earlier this week, the facility we used informed us we could not meet there for the time being, so we had our first virtual MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20200407152912/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. last night. We used Zoom and it went pretty well. The hardest part was getting the message out that we had switched from physical to online. I recommend having someone act as the meeting facilitator to keep attendees on subject and ensure people don’t get cut off or talked over. It’s not as engaging as meeting in person, but it’s better than not meeting at all. An added benefit is screen sharing.
Thank you for posting these guidelines. I was very worried about how to proceed with my local meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20200407152912/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., and I appreciate the clear guidance and being able to link to this reference. We’ll be trying to set up an online gathering.
We just published a handbook page with tools and tips and tricks for meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20200407152912/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 for virtual events.