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Welcome to the official blog of the community/outreach team for the WordPress open source project!

This team oversees official events, mentorship programs, diversity initiatives, contributor outreach, and other ways of growing our community.

If you love WordPress and want to help us do these things, join in!

Getting Involved

We use this blog for policy debates, project announcements, and status reports. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to comment on posts and join the discussion.

You can learn about our current activities on the Team Projects page. These projects are suitable for everyone from newcomers to WordPress community elders.

You can use our contact form to volunteer for one of our projects.

Communication

We have Office Hours four times a week in the #community-events channel on Slack: Mondays & Wednesdays 22:00 UTC, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00 UTC.

We also have regular Community Team meetings on the first and third Thursdays of every month at 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC in #community-team on Slack (same agenda).

Events Widget

If you have questions about the Events and News dashboard widget that came out in WordPress 4.8, please read this FAQ!

Home / Handbook / Welcome / New Guidelines for Online Events in 2020

New Guidelines for Online Events in 2020

Due to the current global health emergency, we strongly encourage you to consider online events instead of in-person in 2020. For more information, please refer to our online events handbook.

Just like all in-person events, anyone involved in an official role for your WordCamp, Meetup, do_action, or any other WordPress community event is representing WordPress. For online events, we have the same expectations for those organizers, speakers, sponsors, and volunteers

In order to facilitate successful community events during this global emergency, we have adapted some of our existing community guidelines to promote online community events for 2020. 

  1. Regional/country WordCamps, Meetups, do_action events. We strongly believe that there is much value in local, in-person events, and intend to maintain this guideline when we can all meet in person again safely. During this time, however, we will approve country/regional events as long as the major meetup groups are involved in the organizing process.
  2. Reduce the budget review process for WordCamps. Online WordCamps cost much less than in-person events. The WordPress Community team has identified vendors who will help produce online events, and online WordCamps will be offering free tickets. Because of these factors, it is now possible to “fast track” budget reviews! Read more about online WordCamp cost guidelines or the budget review process here.
  3. Shorter planning periods for community events. An online event tends to be faster to organize. Organizers can propose the date of their event, allowing for enough time between orientation and the event to find speakers, volunteers, and market the event.

We hope to go back to in-person gatherings with original guidelines for planning community events as soon as we can, as our in-person program has proven to empower more community leaders across a large number of local communities and to reach more people within those areas.

Learn more about how to apply for an online event!

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