Scheduled WordCamps in need of feature image/description

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 WordCamp 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!

#community-deputies #wordcamps

Done! Now to wait for them to send the images @camikaos

Awesome! Thank you so much Mariano!

Wowww! Thank you Mariano for being SO fast! 😀

I just took the last one on the list, so we’re done with all the initial emails!

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

We could also try and use the images that they set as their site logo or header 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.

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” widget on the homepage.

The primary place I was thinking of is http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20200301182829/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?

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 😀