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Learn WordPress course planning

In order to make sure Learn WordPress is ready for a full launch, we need to work towards publishing content as soon as possible that can empower WordPress users to learn relevant and valuable skills. The best way to do that is by compiling courses that target specific learning outcomes. I proposed this on GitHub, so check that out for a deeper explanation of the data structure for this.

In this post, I’d like to explore some course outlines that we could use on Learn WordPress. For a full launch later this year, we need to have a minimum of two complete courses published on the site.

Alongside the course outlines below there are links to existing docs and lesson plans that could be used for people to record the workshops, as well as currently available workshops in some cases. The existing lesson plans and documentation make it very easy for anyone to record a workshop on the topic with minimal effort.

The course & workshop names aren’t set in stone – they’re just from initial brainstorming and this can all be evolved over time.

The feedback needed here is:

  1. Is there anything you would add/change about the course outlines listed here?
  2. Are there any additional courses you can think of that would be good to include?
  3. Which two courses should we make sure to have ready before we do a full, marketed launch of Learn WordPress before the end of 2020?
  4. Are there any workshops that you would like to be involved in creating/recording? If a lesson plan exists, then the workshop is simply using that as your script to record the workshop.

Please read through the proposed courses and outlines below and leave your feedback in the comments!

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Start publishing with WordPress

Advanced site management / Unleashing the power of WordPress

Build & distribute a WordPress plugin

  • Install WordPress locally (lesson plan / documentation)
  • Plugin file/folder structure
  • Best practices for plugin development
  • Tools/plugins that help with plugin development
  • Using WordPress core APIs (multiple workshops for different APIs?)
  • Building Gutenberg blocks (workshop)
  • Submitting to the Plugin Directory & Block Directory

Build & distribute a WordPress theme

  • Install WordPress locally (lesson plan / documentation)
  • Theme file/folder structure
  • Best practices for theme development
  • Tools/plugins that help with theme development
  • Using WordPress core APIs (multiple workshops for different APIs?)
  • Building Gutenberg blocks (workshop)
  • Submitting to the Theme Directory

Organize WordPress events

  • Intro to event organising (workshop)
  • Organising online events
  • Handling complaints
  • Moderating discussions

Start contributing to WordPress

Crafting good content / Building an audience

  • How to write engaging content
  • Writing for SEO
  • Marketing your content

Blogging 101

  • How to create a blog
  • How to write engaging content
  • Monetizing a blog
  • Marketing the blog (SEO, Digital marketing)

Advanced WordPress development

  • Using the WordPress REST API
  • Building complex Gutenberg blocks
  • Full site editing

Developing for the block editor

  • Building Gutenberg blocks (workshop)
  • Building complex Gutenberg blocks
  • Converting widgets to blocks
  • Creating block patterns

Advanced use-cases

  • eCommerce
  • Podcasting
  • Social
  • CRM

Getting started with e-commerce

  • WordPress e-commerce Basics
  • Choosing an e-commerce plugin
  • Create an e-commerce site with WP using the 5(?) Most popular plugins in the Plugin Directory
  • Growing/Scaling up your e-commerce store

Learn WordPress 101

  • What is Learn WordPress?
  • How to plan workshop content
  • How to create a workshop video
  • Planning workshop series, courses, etc
#learn-wordpress

Recap of the Diverse Speaker Training group (#WPDiversity) on October 28, 2020

Summary: We talked about how our workshops went in October, the Intermediate workshop series coming up in November, Spanish translations, Community badges, working on our annual report for consideration for the upcoming State of the Word, finding roles for a new volunteer, and how confusing it currently is to find what workshops we have upcoming.

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Attending: @jillbinder, @tantienhime, @onealtr, @cguntur

Start: http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20201029180452/https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1603904543268900

1. October review

In October, we experimented with a new format: Encouraging people to watch our pre-recorded workshops up on Learn WordPress and then join us for discussions. Both @angelasjin and I held discussions at different times.

It’s too early to say if this format is successful. I’m pretty sure we both experienced similar things: low attendance and almost everyone had not watched the videos. I think we both had maybe 1 or 2 people who had watched the correct video for the correct day.

It sounds like we had some valuable discussions in some of the sessions. Mine were assisted greatly by having a group of experienced speakers attending as mentors. They helped the conversation flow, and even used the opportunity to get some coaching on topics.

@miriamgoldman held a “Train the Trainers aka Learn How to Run Our Workshop For Your Group” on Saturday. No one attended.

2. Upcoming November Intermediate workshop series

This Fall, we have been alternating our regular workshop series with Intermediate topics for people who have given a talk before, or who are willing to go deeper before giving a talk.

We are holding our next Intermediate series in a few weeks:

  • Tuesday, 17 November 2020, at 6:00-7:00 PM UTC: Improving your proposal for your online WP talk
  • Wednesday, 18 November 18 2020 at 6:00-7:00 PM UTC: Intermediate online stage presence
  • Thursday, 19 November 2020, at 6:00-7:00 PM UTC: Story-telling for tech talks

http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20201029180452/https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intermediate-wordpress-diverse-speaker-workshops-november-2020-tickets-125564150755

The third is new. It is a popular request! We talk a lot in our work about creating a story out of your topic. People have been asking how to do that, especially for talking about technology. So we will go over some story-telling structures that work well.

We are looking for volunteers to help out. Do some background admin work during the sessions. Help answer advanced questions. Give feedback on people’s topics on day 1, and possibly on their story structure on day 3, if there is time for that.

We also would like help with getting the word out about this series. The Marketing team will be putting out messages about it about a week before. It’ll be great if members of our team could help share those.

I’m keeping my eyes open for someone who can help with communicating with the Marketing team when we have a workshop to promote, and watching for when their social media promos go out so you can let our team know that they are ready to be shared.

@tantienhime: Can we set up a notification when they send it out? kind of like when they send a tweet on the official account to slack? that way we get notified and we can send it out?

@jillbinder: That’s an interesting question, @tantienhime. I wonder if there is a way to do that. I know that they post on accounts that have more activity than just what we do… But I’m pretty sure (I can check) that they give our promos a specific tag… I can check if they already know, and otherwise, see if anyone on our team can research it….

3. Translations

I am thrilled that @pastelito has taken on the leadership for getting our workshop translated into Spanish. There are about 5 people who are working on the translations right now. I believe they have a goal to try to finish by November 13th!

We also want to get our Learn WordPress videos captioned in Spanish, and the first step for that is getting them captioned into English. @angelasjin and I are taking the first steps to see what resources we have within the WordPress community for this.

Japan has translated into Japanese. They sent us more feedback on it today. So happy to see this.

4. Community badges

It is a new initiative that people who have contributed significantly for at least a month to working groups can now have the Community badge on their WordPress profile. Woohoo!

I have finished most of what I need to do on my end for it. The last item is contacting people to let them know that they have earned it and get them to submit the request on their end. I have contacted about 70% of the people on my list. A handful more to go!

5. Working on the annual report

It is the time of year that we put together our stats and submit for consideration being featured in Matt’s State of the Word speech.

Numbers haven’t been finalized, but I will say that this has been an INCREDIBLE year. Despite all odds of what 2020 has thrown at us, we have pivoted and been very successful!

6. Other

@onealtr and I chatted about how joining the team and how to help out.

@onealtr and @tantienhime also asked about finding our workshops…

@onealtr: so there are some events on Meetup and others on Eventbrite?

@jillbinder: @onealtr, I know, it’s confusing right now.
Our “normal / regular” workshops are by eventbrite.
Our experiment with running “discussions” are on the Learn WordPress meetup group.

@jillbinder: You can always find the right link by checking our posts on the Community blog here:
http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20201029180452/https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/wpdiversityworkshops/

This is an area that might benefit from your help? Figuring out if there is a way to be more clear about what we have upcoming?

End: http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20201029180452/https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1603909886343000

#wpdiversity

Tuesday Trainings: Organizing WordPress Meetups Part 1: Getting Started

Welcome back to Tuesday Trainings

We took a bit of a break from the Tuesday Trainings series to reassess and see how best to proceed. But now we’re back. The aim of this series is the same as it was before, to shed light on topics and information that folx in this community may find valuable. Some weeks I’ll provide you with fresh content from contributors on the community team but other weeks I am excited to share with you some of the workshops being built for the Learn WordPress Workshop program.

This week and next we’ll focus on the Organizing WordPress Meetups series created by @harmonyromo @harishanker @evarlese and @angelasjin.

Learning outcomes

Each workshop in the learn series has a set of objectives called the learning outcomes. For this workshop (part 1 of 2) the following learning outcomes have been set by your workshop hosts:

  1. Learn how to apply to organize an official WordPress Chapter meetup.
  2. Understand the five good faith rules and expectations of all organizers.
  3. Learn about how sponsorships for meetups are handled
  4. Learn why the trademark and GPL guidelines are important for anyone who represents WordPress in an official capacity.

Now that you know what you’re going to learn, you can watch this video workshop here!

Comprehension questions

Once the video is complete ask yourself these questions to see if you got from the workshop what your hosts hoped you would:

  • Learn how to apply to organize an official WordPress Chapter meetup.
  • Understand the five good faith rules and expectations of all organizers.
  • Learn about how sponsorships for meetups are handled
  • Learn why the trademark and GPL guidelines are important for anyone who represents WordPress in an official capacity.

Talk about it

Now that you’ve taken something away from the workshop I hope you’ll take this all a step further and join a live discussion group to discuss the content with others who have watched it as well. You can find discussion groups specific to any of the workshops you find on Learn.WordPress here on Meetup.com.

You’re also welcome to bring your questions here in the comments!

#tuesdaytrainings

WordCamp.org URL Migration Complete

Background

Earlier this year, @jonoaldersonwp and @joostdevalk highlighted some significant SEO problems with WordCamp.org, and proposed changing the URL structure to help fix them.

After discussion, the team decided to change the existing structure of year.city.wordcamp.org to city.wordcamp.org/year.

Status

All sites have now been migrated to the new structure. I’m not aware of any significant problems on past or current sites, but if you notice any please let me know.

Next Steps

We’ll need to wait a few months, in order for search engines to update their indexes. After that, we can measure the discoverability of WordCamp sites again, to see what problems remain, and how severe they are. Based on that, we can re-evaluate potential solutions for the remaining problems.

Feedback

If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, please leave a comment below.

#wordcamp-org

OMG this is such great news, can’t wait to see this new system in action.

Thank you for all your hard work on this, @iandunn! The new URL structure for our camps looks great, and I’m excited about this! 🎉

Woop! Thanks for the hard working making this happen!

Super excited to see this happen. Thanks for all you hard work @iandunn!

Thanks so much for getting this done, Ian! Very much appreciated.

Thanks so much for this! I’ve seen this new structure in action on a few camp sites I’ve been supporting, and so far no issues!

Weekly Updates

Hello to all our Deputies, WordCamp organizers, Meetup wranglers, and WordPress Community builders! You were probably hard at work this weekend. Tell us what you got accomplished in our #weekly-update!

Have you run into a roadblock with the stuff you’re working on? Head over to #community-events or #community-team in Slack and ask for help!

  • Hosted a Learn WP discussion group on Contributing to the Community Team
  • Supporting organizers, mentors, and sponsors with online event changes
  • Katy, TX Meetup orientation and setup
  • Updated Community Team HelloSign templates
  • The usual Help Scout tickets, payments, general community support

Meetup Organizer Newsletter: October 2020

Hello friends,

Welcome to the October edition of our meetup organizer newsletter! We have many exciting news and updates from the WordPress community and resources for your local meetup group.

Newsletter contents:

  • Learn WordPress 
  • Meetup Organizer resources
  • Online Event updates

Learn WordPress

The Learn WordPress initiative offers WordPress video workshops that can help WordPress meetups. Check out our new workshops on Contributing to WordPress, Using the WordPress Block Editor, WordPress Troubleshooting, and the Diverse Speaker Training, topics! Have questions on these workshops? Participate in our upcoming discussion groups to get answers!

All community members can now submit their workshop ideas for the program in any language of their choice! Meetup organizers can also organize discussion groups based on workshops for their local meetup groups. You can also contribute to Learn WordPress by helping the Training team update screenshots on existing lesson plans.

Meetup Organizer Resources

  • Sponsored Zoom Pro accounts for Online Meetups: In the light of WordPress events moving online in April 2020, the Community team started offering Zoom Pro accounts for online WordCamps and special WordPress events. The team has opened up a discussion to investigate if these accounts can be made available for meetup groups. Please comment on the post to share what you need to successfully run your local meetup online, if you would like to get Paid Zoom accounts for your local meetup or if you have ideas on how to improve the process.
  • WordPress 5.5 marketing resources: Meetup groups can make use of the WordPress 5.5 marketing resources from the Marketing team and other teams. The resources consist of video presentations, slides, questions & answers, social media posts, and more – aimed at both developers and non-developers. If you would like to help out with WordPress 5.6 outreach, reach out to the team on the #marketing channel in the Make WordPress Slack.
  • Videos to help onboard WordPress contributors: Step-by-step video instructions on how to set up accounts on WordPress.org and Make WordPress Slack are now available on YouTube in the Marketing Team’s YouTube channel. The captioned videos are available in several languages. If you wish to add captions and voiceovers in your language for the video, get involved through the #marketing Slack channel.

Online Event Updates

Upcoming Online WordCamps
Don’t miss the chance to get free tickets for these online WordCamps! 

Upcoming Online meetups

You can find all the upcoming online meetups across the world at: http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20201029180452/https://make.wordpress.org/community/events/online/.

Past Online WordCamps
Several online WordCamps were held successfully in the past few weeks. Did you miss these events, and would you like to catch up with them? Check out their websites to follow their recorded live streams. Videos of these camps are being uploaded to WordPress.tv.

The WordPress Translation Week

As part of the International Translation Day celebrations on September 30, a host of WordPress translation events were held from 28 September to 4 October. After a couple of weeks, the celebrations are still ongoing! You can catch recorded talks and interviews with Polyglots on YouTube. In response to requests, the Polyglots and Marketing teams are considering month-long translation periods once or twice a year to promote translations. Follow @TranslateWP, and use the #WPTranslationDay tag on Twitter to share your translation adventures. The Translation week event highlights will be published on: http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20201029180452/https://wptranslationday.org/2020-events/.

Diverse Speaker Training Workshops (#WPDiversity)

More workshops will be in October and November to encourage diverse voices to share their knowledge and stories to online WordPress Meetups and WordCamps. Here’s a list of upcoming events for you or your members:

Don’t forget to keep up with the #WPDiversity announcements on the WordCamp Twitter and Facebook accounts, along with the Marketing team LinkedIn Page

If you have any questions, Community Team deputies are available to help. Please send an email to support@wordcamp.org or join the #community-events Slack channel. Thanks for everything you do to grow the WordPress community; let’s keep sharing knowledge and inspiring each other with our contributions! 

We will see you online soon!

The following people contributed to the newsletter this month: @angelasjin @chaion07 @courane01 @harishanker @hlashbrooke @jillbinder @lmurillom @meher @nao @oglekler @webcommsat and @tacoverdo

#newsletter #meetup-organizer-newsletter

Addressing Mailchimp and Newsletter service privacy concerns

A few weeks back, @hlashbrooke and I jointly-published a post that announced Mailchimp as the chosen newsletter service for the Community Team. In the following days, members of the community shared concerns about the lack of transparency in the newsletter service selection process and the privacy implications of using a newsletter service. I had published a follow-up post last week, to shed more light on the process behind the Meetup newsletter service selection. The current post is a second follow-up that will hopefully address the concerns that were raised by community members about community organizer and meetup group member privacy.

I have privacy law concerns about using a third-party service such as Mailchimp for contacting Meetup organizers. Is this move legal and GDPR-compliant?

WordPress chapter meetups are part of Meetup.com’s “Meetup Pro” network. When people join a WordPress meetup via Meetup.com, they agree to their privacy policy which states that, “Members who administer a Meetup Pro network, known as ‘network administrators’ have access to the content within their groups, including information about group participants.” (see 3.2 Group Networks). Meetup.com also makes it possible for WordPress chapter group members to share their email address with the network administrators of the Meetup Pro account.

The Community Team has been sending monthly newsletters to WordPress chapter group organizers since 2018. The reasons behind the suggestion that the quality of those newsletters could be improved if they were sent via a dedicated email newsletter platform are outlined in this blog post.

According to privacy consultants (in this case, people who oversee Automattic’s various privacy policies) who gave pro bono advice on this question, GDPR and other privacy laws do not require an organization to seek data subject consent (consent from subscribers) to change email platforms. It is not a legal or GDPR requirement to obtain consent for which platform is used to send emails, just as an individual is not required to obtain permission for which email platform they use to send emails to their friends, family, and other contacts.

Thus, it was clear to us that there are no privacy issues with changing the newsletter vendor. Hence, the list of meetup organizers, who had already given permission for meetup.com to share their email addresses with WordPress chapter network administrators, was exported to Mailchimp. Ongoing email newsletter preferences will be managed there.  

What is the privacy policy of Mailchimp?

One of the concerns raised was that Mailchimp could potentially use the contacts we upload for their marketing purposes. As mentioned in the Privacy for contacts section, Mailchimp support confirms that contacts will not be used for marketing purposes. Their usage is restricted to the following cases:

  • To enforce their terms
  • To protect the rights and safety of Members
  • To do anything required to protect itself legally and to fulfill its legal obligations
  • To provide support and improve the service
  • For internal data analysis purposes
  • To fulfill other business obligations

However, as mentioned in the privacy policy, Mailchimp may use data collected from those community deputies, who use the community Mailchimp account to send newsletters to the community, for marketing purposes. This is common with many third party services and it does not pose privacy risks to the larger community.

Furthermore, if any community member does not want to have their contact information being used for the internal data analysis purposes of Mailchimp or wants to get their personal information erased, they can get this done by submitting a Data Subject Access Request.

How does someone know that an email from WordPress Community Support is being sent through Mailchimp?

All newsletters sent through Mailchimp will have a notification included in the footer of the email. The footer for all future Mailchimp emails will contain the following information: 

This email was sent to you via Mailchimp. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website: http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20201029180452/https://central.wordcamp.org or through http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20201029180452/https://meetup.com/pro/wordpress

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link in the footer of our emails. For information about our privacy practices, please visit the following URLs:

http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20201029180452/https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/
http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20201029180452/https://central.wordcamp.org/
http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20201029180452/https://make.wordpress.org/community

What emails will be sent using Mailchimp?

The WordPress Community Team sends email newsletters to meetup organizers every month. The newsletter contains news, updates, and essential information for WordPress community organizers all over the world. As outlined in an earlier post, Meetup.com was being used to send these emails previously, so there is no change in the number and types of emails that will be sent now that Mailchimp is being used. Each month, Mailchimp will be used to send the meetup organizer newsletter to approximately 1,600 meetup organizers (out of 2,000+ organizers) who have subscribed to emails from Meetup.com. Please note: only people who have subscribed to Meetup.com emails will be contacted via Mailchimp. That’s a total of one email per month (typically sent on every second Friday of the month), which amounts to 12 emails per year.

It would also be ideal to use Mailchimp to send the annual meetup organizer and member surveys (aimed at meetup organizers and meetup group members respectively), as well as any critical announcements that are relevant to the entire community.

What is the benefit of using a different platform, such as Mailchimp, for sending newsletters?

Meetup.com has been an unreliable platform for sending newsletters with several pain-points like non-delivery of emails, lack of formatting options, inability to reach out to specific meetup groups, lack of data on engagement, and lack of separate email lists, to name a few. Many organizers complained to us about missing the newsletter emails. During the recent meetup group inventory, many organizers did not receive the emails that were sent to them via Meetup.com. Using a dedicated email newsletter vendor, we can communicate with meetup group members more reliably about the program and convey any urgent and time-sensitive information without worrying about organizers missing our emails. We can also make those messages easier and more enjoyable to read. 

Can I unsubscribe to emails from Mailchimp?
Yes, you can always unsubscribe by following this link, or by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in the footer of any email received via Mailchimp. The team will be implementing a widget on make.wordpress.org/community that will make it easier for community members to subscribe  and unsubscribe from emails. 

Additionally, community members can also submit a Data Subject Access Request if they wish to prevent their data from being used for internal data analysis or if they want their personal data to be erased from MailChimp servers.

Will Mailchimp be used for marketing emails to organizers?

No. This list will only be used for emails that support the legitimate interests of the global community team: to help people learn to use and contribute to WordPress. Community organizers and meetup members will only receive messages that support this mission. 

What if I want to revisit the email newsletter vendor discussion, and suggest a different approach? 

One of the reasons why Mailchimp was chosen as a newsletter service was because it offered a Pay as you go plan that allows us to effectively ‘test’ the service without lock-ins. We have only spent $150 with them for 5000 emails. We can always choose to cancel our plans of using Mailchimp and move to a different service, if there are better options. 

If you feel that there is a different newsletter service that the team can use, please feel free to share more about them in the comments on this post. Feel free to refer to the past discussion in the Make/Community blog on newsletter services, and the list of shortlisted services for reference.


The Community team remains committed to protecting the privacy of our event attendees and group members, and it’s great that the members of the WordPress community  help hold us accountable on this. 

Are there any concerns about this project that you would like to see addressed? Do you have any feedback on the project to share? Share your thoughts and concerns in the comments. 

This post was prepared jointly by @hlashbrooke and I.

The following people contributed to this post: @adityakane @andreamiddleton @bph @camikaos @courtneypk @francina @kcristiano @rmarks and @sippis

#newsletter #newsletter-service #newsletter-service-selection

Weekly Updates

Hello to all our Deputies, WordCamp organizers, Meetup wranglers, and WordPress Community builders! You were probably hard at work this weekend. Tell us what you got accomplished in our #weekly-update!

Have you run into a roadblock with the stuff you’re working on? Head over to #community-events or #community-team in Slack and ask for help!

  • Vetting WordCamps and Meetups.
  • Participated my own LearnWP discussion group
  • Worked on the meetup newsletter
  • Published the Meetup newsletter announcement follow posts: part 1 and part 2.
  • Submitted the LearnWP workshop, and published videos on WP.tv.
  • Worked on the script for my new LearnWP video.
  • The usual: HelpScout tickets, payments, WordCamp/meetup support.
  • Help Scout tickets and triage
  • Discussion on Community Zoom accounts
  • Published a new Learn workshop!
  • Hosted a Learn discussion group in Slack
  • WC NEO orientation
  • Payments

Call for participants: Diverse Speaker Workshops October & November 2020

The Diverse Speaker Training group (#WPDiversity) is holding workshops to support diverse voices to share knowledge and stories at online WordPress Meetups, WordCamps, and other online WP events.

Training (for Event organizers)

WordPress Meetups/Event Organizers: Hold Your Own Diverse Speaker Workshop

Saturday, October 24, 2020, 5:00-7:00pm UTC

Have you ever had trouble getting speakers from marginalized and underrepresented groups to speak at your WordPress meetup, WordCamp, or other WordPress event?

The Diverse Speaker Training group (#WPDiversity) has a workshop for your community members that has been proven to increase how many speaker applications you receive from speakers from marginalized and underrepresented groups.

We will teach you how to use the workshop material for your own group.

Sign up here

Workshops (for Intermediate speakers)

Now that we have held a number of beginner workshops, some are ready to go deeper into intermediate topics. You do not need to have attended our previous workshops in order to attend these sessions. Having done public speaking at least once before is preferable, but is not required in order to attend these sessions.

Workshop 1 of 3: Improving your proposal for your online WP talk

Tuesday, November 17, 2020 from 6-7pm UTC

  • Fine-tune your title and proposal (aka pitch) to improve your chance at getting selected to speak.
  • Helpful but not required: a pre-written pitch that you want to improve
  • No prerequisite to attend this workshop.

Workshop 2 of 3: Intermediate Online Stage Presence

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 from 6-7pm UTC

  • Camera techniques: Learn what you need to look and sound good on camera
  • Becoming a better speaker: What do you want to improve in your public speaking? We will be taking questions.
  • No prerequisite to attend this workshop.

Workshop 3 of 3: Story-telling for tech talks

Thursday, November 19, 2020 from 6-7pm UTC

  • We talk a lot in our other workshops about writing your talk as a story, but how do you do that? Is it possible for a tech topic? We will cover some story-telling structures that work well for tech.
  • Helpful but not required: a topic you are wondering how to turn into a story
  • No prerequisite to attend this workshop.

Sign up here

You are welcome to attend 1, 2, or all 3 workshops.

Discussions (for new & improving speakers)

Writing a pitch for being accepted to speak at a WP event

Monday, October 19 at 4:00-5:00pm CEST

This discussion is geared towards people from marginalized or underrepresented groups in WordPress who are intrigued by the idea of speaking at an online WordPress event. The focus is to look at creating a workshop description (aka pitch) and bio that has a higher chance of being accepted by speaker selection committees.

Sign up here. Please watch the workshop in advance.

Who am I to be speaking? + Finding a topic for a WP event

Monday, October 26 at 3:00-4:00 pm CEST

This discussion is geared towards people from marginalized or underrepresented groups in WordPress who are intrigued by the idea of speaking at an online WordPress event. The focus is to look at what has stopped you from speaking in the past and explore how to move past your fears, generate WordPress-related topics to give a talk on, and boost your speaking confidence.

Sign up here. Please watch the workshop in advance.

Please note! These events are intended to train speakers who are members of a marginalized or underrepresented group in terms of gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, age, etc.

If this is you, please get your ticket(s) now.

Everyone, please help us spread the word!

P.S. If you would like to attend these sessions because you want to learn how to be a good ally, please note that this is a closed workshop for members of marginalized or underrepresented groups only. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion material is not covered in these workshops. If there is enough interest, we could hold a different workshop for you in the future.

We do have a few resources available for you: Building A Diverse Speaker Roster, Inclusive and Welcoming Events, and Encouraging Diversity in Meetups and WordCamps.

#wpdiversity, #wpdiversityworkshops

Community Team Chat Agenda | October 15 2020

Hello Team!

Our bi-monthly Community Team chat is happening today Thursday, 15 October 2020. Meeting times are detailed below. We use the same agenda for both meetings in order to include all time zones.

Asia-Pacific / EMEA friendly: Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 11:00 AM UTC

Americas friendly: Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 08:00 PM UTC

Deputy/Mentor check-in

What have you been doing and how is it going?

P2 posts needing review/feedback

Highlighted P2 posts

Please add any additional items to this agenda by commenting on this post as needed.

#community-team, #deputy-chat, #meeting-agenda