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Here is where we have policy debates, project announcements, and assist community members in organizing events.
Everyone is welcome to comment on posts and participate in the discussions regardless of skill level or experience.
Get Involved
If you love WordPress and want to help us do these things, join in!
The Community Team chat takes place on the first Thursday of every month in the #community-team channel on SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
This meeting is meant for all contributors on the team and everyone who is interested in taking part in some of the things our team does. Feel free to join us, even if you are not currently active in the team!
Asia-Pacific / EMEA friendly meeting:Americas friendly meeting: You will find a preliminary agenda for the meeting below.
If you wish to add points to discuss, comment on this post or reach out to one of the team reps: @adityakane, @Arthur, @Shusei, or @webtechpooja. It does not need to be a blog post yet, the topic can be discussed during the meeting nevertheless. We use the same agenda for both meetings.
Check-ins: Program and Event Supporters / Contributors
What have you been doing and how is it going?
What did you accomplish after the last meeting?
Are there any blockers?
Can other team members help you in some way?
Highlights to Note
Here are a few things everyone should be aware of.
Open Posts
Check out these new and ongoing discussions needing review, feedback, thoughts and comments.
This is your chance to discuss things that weren’t on the meeting agenda.
We invite you to use this opportunity to share anything that you want with the team. If you currently have a topic you’d like to discuss, add it to the comments of this post and we will try to update the agenda accordingly.
Hope to see you on Thursday, either in the Asia-Pacific / EMEA (12:00 UTC) or Americas-friendly version (21:00 UTC) of the meeting!
This recap is a summary of the Community Team’s monthly meeting. It will cover the discussion points, ideas, and decisions that came up during the meeting. The aim of this recap is to provide a quick overview for those who were unable to attend, as well as an overview for everyone. These meetings were based on the Agenda for September and are held in our #community-teamSlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel on Make WordPress.
Please leave your comments if you have any feedback.
Additionally, each agenda item discussed may have its own Make post related to its topic with more information, and you can add to the discussion directly to that post.
Chat Summary
Here are some discussion points from the meeting.
Highlights to Note
Here are a few things everyone should be aware of:
Highlights included Matt Mullenweg’s keynote, sessions on AI, accessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility), and large-scale WordPress, plus a lively Sponsor Hall and community networking.
Open Posts
Check out these new and ongoing discussions needing review, feedback, thoughts, and comments.
WordPress Credits Program Update The program is moving from alpha to betaBetaA pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process., expanding beyond the pilot atthe University of Pisa. This fall, Fidélitas University (Costa Rica) will join with its first student cohort. The initiative aims to onboard more students by 2026 and welcomes support from educators, companies, and contributors.
WordPress 6.9 Roadmap In the August 27 Dev Chat, the WordPress 6.9 roadmap was published. Targeting a December 2, 2025, release. GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ 21.5 is now available with improvements, and discussions are focused on adding a database index for enhanced performance and enhancing wp_die() with HTTPHTTPHTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. status codes.
As with the 6.7 and 6.8 cycles, 6.9 will continue with a smaller, focused squad structure, ensuring collaboration across teams while keeping the release process efficient. This cycle also continues the experiment of merging MarComms Lead responsibilities with Release Coordination.
Open Floor
There was community interest in whether a future Community Summit is planned, as the last ones were in 2017 (WCEUWCEUWordCamp Europe. The European flagship WordCamp event.) and 2023 (WCUSWCUSWordCamp US. The US flagship WordCamp event.). Some contributors noted overlap with WCEU discussions on improving cross-team collaboration and contribution models.
@4thhubbard replied, Currently, there is no movement on P2P2P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. or formal planning for another summit. The idea can be revisited in the coming weeks with a more structured discussion.
Community members praised Kolhapur’s online contribution events, with interest in starting similar initiatives in the USA, the Americas, and LATAM (possibly in November). Organizers and contributors expressed enthusiasm and support to help make this happen.
Next Meeting
Community Team Meetings are held on the first Thursday of every month. There are two meetings to support different time zones. The meetings will take place on #community-team on Slack.
The Community Team Monthly Meetings happen on the first Thursdays of every month. These meetings can be facilitated and run by any member of the community team and are a great opportunity to engage with the rest of the community and team.
If you are interested in facilitating any of these meetings in the future, please feel free to comment or get in touch with any of the Community Team Reps.
If you wish to add points to discuss, comment on this post, or reach out to one of the team reps: @Aditya Kane, @Arthur, @Shusei, and @Pooja Derashri.
After the success of WordCamp Kolhapur 2025, I wanted to keep the momentum going. Instead of hosting just a one-day contributor sprint, we ran a nine-event Online Contribution Series with our Kolhapur WordPress Community—and it worked even better than we imagined.
Why We Started
I led this initiative as the Lead Organizer of WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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. Kolhapur 2025, with strong support from Abhay Kulkarni and our local team.
The idea was simple: many people cannot always attend physical contribution days because of travel, equipment, or time limits. So we decided to go online. This made contributing easier because:
People from other cities and remote areas could join.
Screen sharing allowed participants to get quick help and solve issues on the spot.
Back-to-back sessions were possible without travel fatigue.
We could focus completely on contributing instead of logistics.
Many people couldn’t bring laptops or travel for in-person meetupsMeetupMeetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook..
While in-person events are great for networking, going online gave us more focus, less travel, and higher participation in actual contributions.
How the Series Worked
I took inspiration from both in-person Contributor Days at WordCamps and online Contributor Days. We mixed the best of both formats by spreading activities across several meetups, with each session focusing on one Make WordPress team.
This format allowed contributors to:
Explore one team at a time (CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., Polyglots, Photos, Patterns, WordPress.tv, Test, etc.).
Learn hands-on with real-time guidance and screen sharing.
Join sessions easily, even back-to-back, without the barrier of travel.
It was a simple approach that gave contributors confidence and made learning easier.
Impact
This approach brought real results:
Many first-time contributors joined and discovered how WordPress is built.
Participants earned multiple badges and props, which encouraged them to stay involved.
Our reach expanded beyond Kolhapur, with contributors joining from other regions.
Some participants grew into mentorsEvent SupporterEvent Supporter (formerly Mentor) is someone who has already organised a WordCamp and has time to meet with their assigned mentee every 2 weeks, they talk over where they should be in their timeline, help them to identify their issues, and also identify solutions for their issues. themselves, guiding others in future meetups.
Several contributors continued contributing independently after the series ended.
How You Can Run One in Your Community
If your community finds it hard to gather people physically for contribution days—or if you want to give contributors a chance to dive deeper—an Online Contribution Series can be a good idea.
Focus each session on one Make WordPress team.
Use screen sharing to help contributors in real time.
Ask participants to set up their WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ profiles and join SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. before the first session.
Celebrate every contribution and explain how badges and props work.
Acknowledging Our Contributors
I’m thankful to the 29 community members who actively joined and contributed in this series. Your energy kept the initiative alive!
We’re expanding the Incident Response Team (IRT) and are looking for new contributors to join us.
The mission of the IRT is to provide a clear channel for community members to report and address incidents that may violate the WordPress Community Code of Conduct, ensuring a safe and respectful environment for all participants.
If you’re committed to fostering a respectful community and have experience in community moderation, conflict resolution, or DEIB practices, we’d love to hear from you.
You can also open the application form using the following link: Applications will remain open until July 6, 2025.
Selected members will receive dedicated training and onboarding.
To create more opportunities for involvement and bring in fresh perspectives over time, we’re also planning to introduce a rotation system. So if now isn’t the right time or you’re not selected, there will be more chances to join in the future.
This topic was raised during the WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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. Europe 2025 Q&A session, where I highlighted the growing limitations of the CampTix pluginPluginA plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. In response, Matt Mullenweg expressed support for exploring improvements to the tool and encouraged us to take steps toward making CampTix more effective for WordCamp organizers and attendees.
Overview
CampTix is the official WordCamp ticketing plugin used for events across the WordPress ecosystem, including WordCamp Europe (WCEUWCEUWordCamp Europe. The European flagship WordCamp event.). While it has served the community for years, its capabilities have not kept pace with the evolving needs of organizers or the scale of flagship events. As a long-time organizer involved in WCEU for over 9 years, I believe it’s time to prioritize improvements to CampTix to ensure it remains a reliable, central tool not just a payment gateway. Yes we use it mainly as a payment gateway.
This proposal aims to:
Raise awareness of the current limitations of CampTix.
Highlight use cases and pain points shared by many event teams.
Suggest practical short-term wins and long-term improvements.
Open a conversation around how we can collaboratively move the project forward.
What Is CampTix?
CampTix is a WordPress plugin designed to handle ticketing for WordCamp events. It enables attendees to purchase tickets, organizers to collect information, and teams to manage event registration and invoicing. It is released as open-source software.
CampTix is a coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. part of the WordCamp infrastructure, but its current feature set and development support are limiting its usefulness:
Many flagship and small WordCamps have turned to third-party tools (e.g., Eventora, Tito, Eventbrite) for attendee management, while using CampTix only for payments.
Organizers rely on manual spreadsheets, custom workflows, and one-off hacks to manage data that could and should be part of CampTix.
Features like visa letters, check-in tools, reports, and attendee role management are either missing, hard to use, or entirely externalized.
Data Protection: Currently anyone with Administrator access to a WordCamp website has the ability to download all ticket information which includes (but not limited to) names, nationalities, email addresses and confidential items such as dietary requirements, allergies and any custom fields added to the registration form. This CSV file can be downloaded anytime from current and previous WordCamp editions where users are still listed as Administrators, and could therefore breach privacy regulations (such as GDPR, CCPA).
We are missing a huge opportunity to improve efficiency, consistency, and data quality across events.
Common Challenges for Organizers
These are challenges echoed by many organizing teams over the years:
Visa Letters: No built-in option; handled manually or through third-party tools.
Reporting: No way to generate comprehensive reports during or after the event (e.g., demographics, ticket types, attendance breakdown, swag/T-Shirt sizing, catering requirements).
Attendee Management: Limited options for updating or assigning roles, checking in, filtering by ticket types, or seeing complete user history.
Shortcodes: Cannot filterFilterFilters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. specific ticket types for events like Contributor DayContributor DayContributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/., Social Dinner, or Workshops.
Bulk Ticket Issues: Bugs when multiple tickets are purchased under one order but need to be edited individually.
Data In/Out: Poor integration with WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ accounts and no real data liberation. Tickets require a WordPress.org login, but the system doesn’t leverage or connect that data usefully.
Partial Refunds: Currently only full refunds are possible where a user purchases more than one ticket, resulting in having to re-purchase tickets again – this is a poor customer experience.
Payments: A number of additional gateways have been added as ‘standalone plugins’ to support various payment providers (countries where Stripe or PayPal is not common or supported), and most of these individual plugins are no longer maintained.
Why We Should Act Now
The plugin has no roadmap, active maintainer, or visible plan for growth. Yet CampTix remains a required component for WordCamps. If left stagnant, more events will abandon it entirely, fragmenting the ecosystem and increasing the workload for volunteers.
This is not a complaint, it’s a call to action.
Proposal
1. Short-Term Improvements (“Quick Wins”)
Add Visa Letter generation, similar to how invoices are generated.
Fix known bugs with bulk tickets and editing tickets associated with unknown email addresses.
Extend shortcodes to allow filtering by ticket type (Contributor Day, Social Dinner, etc.).
2. Long-Term Improvements (Roadmap)
Partial Refunds: Allow for per-ticket or percentage-based refunds.
Data Liberation & APIAPIAn API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. Access: Create an open, privacy-conscious method to import/export data for organizers.
Better Reporting Tools: Dynamic reports that don’t require exporting to spreadsheets.
Organizer Sandbox Environment: Provide a sandbox/demo version of CampTix for testing and training.
Modular Roles: Assign roles (attendee, speaker, sponsor) from within CampTix, with better UXUXUX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it..
Better Permissions for Organisers: Only Administrators can edit specific areas (e.g. budget) but are automatically given access to all functions (speakers, sponsors etc) which is not appropriate for their role.
Improved API: Enable external tools and dashboards to interact with CampTix programmatically.
How We Can Make Progress
We understand that resources are limited and that there is currently no dedicated maintainer for CampTix. However, that should not blockBlockBlock 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. community contribution.
Here are some suggested approaches:
Appoint a Dedicated Maintainer or Gatekeeper
Someone with access to review PRs and deployDeployLaunching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. updates.
Open Access to Contributors
Provide a sandbox or mirror repository for the community to submit improvements, roadmaps, and test features.
Form a Community Working Group
Contributors from different WordCamps (WCEU, WCUSWCUSWordCamp US. The US flagship WordCamp event., WCAsia, local camps) can collaborate to identify and prioritize improvements.
Opportunity to have a specific dedicated table at Contributor Days at flagship events to proceed with further developments, onboard new contributors, etc
Transparent Roadmap
Use GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ Projects or a Make blog post series to share upcoming changes, bugs, and ideas.
Closing Thoughts
CampTix deserves more attention not only because it’s central to WordCamp organization, but because it reflects how we as a community build tools for ourselves.
Let’s invest in it.
I am personally committed to:
Contributing to development and testing.
Engaging other organizers to identify priorities.
Helping build a roadmap with the Community Team.
Let’s stop reinventing the wheel for every WordCamp. Let’s make CampTix better together.
The Community Team chat generally takes place the first Thursday of every month in the #community-team channel on SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. This month it will be the second Thursday of the month ie: 8th May 2025.
This meeting is meant for all contributors on the team and everyone who is interested in taking part in some of the things our team does. Feel free to join us, even if you are not currently active in the team!
You will find a preliminary agenda for the meeting below.
If you wish to add points to discuss, comment on this post or reach out to one of the team reps: @webtechpooja, @thehopemonger, @shusei or @adityakane. It does not need to be a blog post yet, the topic can be discussed during the meeting nevertheless. We use the same agenda for both meetings.
Call for meeting host and notetaker If anyone is available to host this month’s or next month’s Community Team meetings and/or write the recap notes , please reach out to one of the team reps: @webtechpooja, @thehopemonger, @shusei, @leo, @nukaga or @adityakane.
Check-ins: Program and Event Supporters / Contributors
What have you been doing and how is it going?
What did you accomplish after the last meeting?
Are there any blockers?
Can other team members help you in some way?
Highlights to Note
Here are a few things everyone should be aware of.
WordPress Campus Connect Expands. WordPress Campus Connect, initially launched in October 2024 as a pilot program, has now been formally established as an official event series due to its resounding success.
WCEUWCEUWordCamp Europe. The European flagship WordCamp event. 2025 takes place next month. Get your tickets soon!
The call for WCEU 2027 host city is open, if you know any community that would love to bring WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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. Europe to their city/country, please invite them!
The activity will be probably ongoing through the month to offboard community team members who have left
To identify inactive members who might be waiting for more information and get help and support
To identify mentorsEvent SupporterEvent Supporter (formerly Mentor) is someone who has already organised a WordCamp and has time to meet with their assigned mentee every 2 weeks, they talk over where they should be in their timeline, help them to identify their issues, and also identify solutions for their issues. to be assigned for newer community event and program supporters.
Open Floor
This is your chance to discuss things that weren’t on the meeting agenda.
We invite you to use this opportunity to share anything that you want with the team. If you currently have a topic you’d like to discuss, add it to the comments of this post and we will try to update the agenda accordingly.
Hope to see you on Thursday, either in the Asia-Pacific / EMEA (12:00 UTC) or Americas-friendly version (21:00 UTC) of the meeting (if we do not find anyone active in the Americas friendly timezone, we encourage to leave your comments and bring your questions suggestions asynchronously)
This proposal is focused towards improving our project management and goal and progress tracking by using the same transparent tools that other Make Teams already utilise.
Background and Skeleton
Currently we have many spreadsheets, trelloTrelloProject management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. boards, slackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. groups and many other disparate ways of working on our various ongoing projects outside of helpscout.
From my personal experience having returned as a Community DeputyProgram SupporterCommunity Program Supporters (formerly Deputies) are a team of people worldwide who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about program supporters in our Program Supporter Handbook. and now as Community Team RepTeam RepA Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts., I believe that the first action – before further planning and goals discussions – is to standardise and fully utilize the power of the tools already available to us. We can benefit by learning from other teams that already consistently use these tools.
Benefits of adopting GithubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/:
GitHub is a powerful and widely-used platform for project management and issue tracking already in full use by @WordPress.
Adopting GitHub for these purposes within the Community Team would bring a number of benefits, including:
Improved collaboration and communication: GitHub provides a central location for team members to access and work on project tasks and issues, as well as a built-in system for commenting, tracking progress, and assigning tasks. This makes it easy for team members to stay informed about the progress of a project and to contribute to it, even when working remotely.
Increased transparency and accountability: With GitHub, team members can easily see the progress of tasks and issues, as well as who is responsible for them. This increased transparency helps to ensure that everyone is on the same page and that tasks and issues are not falling through the cracks.
Better organization and prioritization: GitHub provides a number of tools for organizing and prioritizing tasks and issues, such as labels, milestones, and project boards. These tools make it easy for team members to understand what needs to be done and when, and to focus their efforts on the most important tasks.
Standardisation: By adopting GitHub for project management and issue tracking, the Community Team will standardize our way of working, making it easier for new team members to get up to speed and enabling more effective cross-team collaboration. This standardization also makes it easier for Community Team members to track progress, identify issues and make data-driven decisions.
Overall, adopting GitHub for project management and issue tracking would bring improved collaboration, increased transparency, better organization, and standardization, ultimately leading to a more efficient and effective team.
Next Steps, the Experiment:
I propose we adopt these tooling methods similar to other make teams, and experiment with its usage for a month, having monthly meetings reviewing its success or not, and gathering data for more data-driven decision making
If after the first Quarter the consensus is that this does not suit our team, we will revert back to initial project and tracking practices and explore more.
We already have a place-holder team and projects board on the WordPress Github org
This will help get everyone onboard should we move this way.and as well as improve decisions about how we will use the tool and the decisions we make by using this system.
Update: Other teams using github already were kind enough to share some of the resources they use and workflows which would be extremely beneficial should we move forward with this adoption standard.
Recently, a WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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. organizing team raised a question to Community DeputiesProgram SupporterCommunity Program Supporters (formerly Deputies) are a team of people worldwide who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about program supporters in our Program Supporter Handbook. about a potential sponsor’s product, a WordPress derivative, being promoted in competition with WordPress and putting WordPress in an unflattering light. This question naturally prompted some discussion around where our expectations could be clarified to address WordPress derivatives and how they are promoted by sponsors, speakers, and organizers.
A WordPress derivative can be defined as any software that is built on top of WordPress – this primarily consists of plugins, themes and distributions.
Existing Expectations
The Community Team asks that everyone associated with a WordCamp in an official capacity — organizer, speaker, sponsor, or volunteer — uphold the principles of the WordPress open sourceOpen SourceOpen Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project, including the GPLGPLGPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL is a ‘copyleft’ license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html. This means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms. This is in distinction to permissive free software licenses, of which the BSD license and the MIT License are widely used examples.. This helps protect users/attendees, who might not realize that by using a non-GPL pluginPluginA plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party or theme, they are giving away the rights that WordPress provides them.
Additionally it is important to ensure that this community remains safe, inclusive and welcoming. To ensure that these values are reflected in WordPress events, the WordPress Community team has long stood by the following expectations for individuals and companies who want to be a part of the WordPress events program as found in the WordCamp Organizer Handbook:
No discrimination on the basis of economic or social status, race, color, ethnic origin, national origin, creed, religion, political belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, or disability.
No incitement to violence or promotion of hate
No spammers
No jerks
Respect the WordPress trademark.
Embrace the WordPress license; If distributing WordPress-derivative works (themes, plugins, WP distros), any person or business officially associated with WordCamp should give their users the same freedoms that WordPress itself provides: 100% GPL or compatible, the same guidelines we follow on WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/. ***Note: this is one step above simple compliance, which requires PHPPHPPHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php. code to be GPL / compatible but allows proprietary licenses for JavaScriptJavaScriptJavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/., CSSCSSCSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site., and images. 100% GPL or compatible is required for promotion at WordCamps when WordPress-derivative works are involved, the same guidelines we follow on WordPress.org.***
Don’t promote companies or people that violate the trademark or distribute WordPress derivative works which aren’t 100% GPL compatible.
This brings us to our two questions!
In the comments, please share your thoughts on the following questions to help make decisions on how to move forward on this topic.
Should the WordCamp and meetupMeetupMeetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. programs accept sponsors, speakers and organizers who engage in competitive marketing against WordPress?
How should competitive advertising be defined in the WordPress space?
This discussion will remain open and ongoing until April 29, 2021. At that time we will close comments and summarize the discussion for final review.
Already some time ago, @iandunn handed me the list of WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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. sites missing their counterpart in the WordCamp tracker.
Some of these sites are for WordCamps that did never take place at the end. Some sites are for WordCamps that have taken place well before the WordCamp tracker was introduced or do lack their counterpart for some other reason
I’ve gone thru the list of 60 sites and checked their status. Based on that, my proposal is that we:
Create the counterpart post in the WordCamp tracker to backfill the history, with simple details like location, lead organiser (if available) and dates
OR
Remove the WordCamp site, as the event never happened or the page links to a domain that does not work/isn’t controlled by WPCSWordPress Community SupportWordPress Community Support PBC is a Public Benefit Corporation, created specifically to be the financial and legal support for WordCamps, WordPress Meetup groups, and any additional “official” events organized within the WordPress Community Events program. or WPFWordPress FoundationThe WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software. Find more on wordpressfoundation.org..
Some of these sites go back to the early years of WordCamps, to 2008. More eyes on this list and determining the right action for the site would be highly appreciated, in case there is some historical information that isn’t available from the site.
Please leave a comment on this post if you think that the proposed action in some of the sites is wrong. The discussion will be open until 2021-04-23 after which we’ll start to remove the sites and creating counterparts in the tracker. If you’d like to help with creating these counterparts, let me know in the comments!
A few days ago, @iandunnasked for feedback on the idea of Stats Dashboard from all the make teams. During today’s Asia/EMEA version of the Community Team Meeting, participants understood that the question is actually quite big as our team has so many areas, numbers and metrics that could be monitored in the dashboard.
Instead of figuring out the ideas metrics for our team in the comments of the original post and making the comments threads long over there, let’s have the initial discussion here in our own blog.
The second discussion is about what metrics we would like to have in the dashboard? There’s already reports in the WordCamp Central, our support tool Help Scout has some reporting possibilities, meetup.com APIAPIAn API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. is used to track organisers and events in our chapter meetupsMeetupMeetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. but those details are not in the public Central reports. It’s highly possible that I’m forgetting some reports and usage of data we are already doing. But more interestingly, are there some other things we don’t measure in any way currently that could be beneficial to us?
Please share your feedback especially on the questions:
What metrics should be in the Community Team dashboard?
Are there some metrics that would be helpful to have in the dashboard, but shouldn’t be public for some reason?
