Wednesday #daily-updates
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epetrashen
Outreachy week 5: Exploring WordCamp Europe
Time goes by really fast and I’m writing this sitting in the Vienna Schwechat airport waiting for my plane as WordCamp Europe is already over. Those days were filled with awesome people, events and things, but per best instructional design practices 🙂 I’ll focus on the top three things I really enjoyed about WCEU.
1. WordCamp Spirit
This is something not really surprising for you, but as a newcomer I was smitten by such a chill, low-key, welcoming environment. Even though that wasn’t quite a regular WordCamp, but the biggest in Europe (check out a panoramic image WCEU shot at Q&A with @photomatt – whoa, that’s a lot of people!), it still felt cozy and open for everyone, regardless of the experience level. And I really want to thank @chanthaboune, @camicaos, @kovshenin and other automatticians for being super-nice and inviting me tag along despite the fact that I was overwhelmed and stricken with introversion most of the time 🙂
2. Contributor day
After two days of listening to the speakers it felt really good to move to action! Not only it was amazing to see five hundred people willing to contribute to WordPress and get to know what are other teams doing, but we also had a chance to test the WordCamp & meetup organizer training courses which I was working on last month. And there was a lot of useful feedback which we’ll use to improve. You can take a look at the document which summarizes what we found out here. Generally, some of the most important findings are:
- We need to agree on the way content is going to be synced between organizer’s handbooks and the training site.
- The navigation of the course is to be improved with some custom fixes like removing the links we don’t want to be clicked, forcing the links to open in different window and generally making sure learner understands where & why to click.
- The timing estimations should be added so that people would understand how long will them take to go through the training – especially given the fact that WordCamp Organizer course will be a long one.
3. Talks
WordCamp Europe 2016 really was the kind of conference that was open to everyone, regardless of experience with WordPress, with a diverse range of topics. This was really helpful to me to get a better perspective in what is going on in the community and learn from others’ experience. I have selected three talks I was most impressed with – and you can watch them as well at WordPress.tv, where they should appear this/next week (I will add the links to this post when this happens):
- My friend the Impostor Syndrome by Sonja Leix. A lot was said already about the impostor syndrome and techniques one could employ to cope with it, but this honest, brave and deeply moving talk is still really worth watching.
- WordPress: the early years by Mike Little. This one is a co-founder’s view of the early years of WordPress which is not-surprisingly very interesting.
- Code is Poetry: A Musician’s Tale by Helen Hou-Sandí. The shameful thing is that I haven’t actually seen this one as I was in another track but EVERYONE says it was awesome and features a real piano so you can’t miss this – and I will definitely watch as soon it’s on wordpress.tv.
To sum up, I think the biggest “take away” for a myself as a first time WordCamp attendee is about how big and generous the WordPress community is. And that even one with not much expertise in coding can become a part of this community and start contributing. What’s required is really just some persistence, a tiny bit of bravery and willingness to learn and explore. And I do have all of that 🙂
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Mayo Moriyama
Great recap! Yay! 😁❤️
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Tuesday #daily-updates
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Cami Kaos
- reviewed and signed WordCamp Birmingham venue contract
- WordCamp Kent application vetted, orientation scheduled
- closed duplicate WordCamp applications
- mentorship meeting
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Monday #daily-updates
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muqdah
Hi, as an admin, I monitor comments and must Approve them before they are posted to my website. I am given the following options: Approve, Mark as Spam, Move to Trash. However, there are some comments that I don’t want to Approve, but I want to save or archive them, not Spam or Trash them, because they will be deleted eventually.
Is there any plugin or way to add an option so that as the Admin, I can move the comment to another folder or archive folder?
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Saturday #daily-updates
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Cami Kaos
- signed and sealed WordCamp Moscow contracts
- WordCamp Kathmandu budget review and approval
- WordCamp Stockholm budget review and approval
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Friday #daily-updates
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Thursday #daily-updates
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Wednesday #daily-updates
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Cami Kaos
- WordCamp Bhopal budget review and approval
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epetrashen
Outreachy week 4: WordPress Meetup Organizer Training
The last week I was working with a newly created WordPress Meetup Organizer handbook. The training as it is now can be found here. As you can see, the pages were moved to the testing site and small quizzes were added. You are very welcome to try it out, and if you have any feedback regarding the way it works please feel free to let me know.
Some changes we will implement later are:
- Replace the links to the handbook materials with the links to the equivalent training site materials – after it will be decided where exactly will this site be hosted,
- Possibly expand the introduction and conclusion a bit.
Another alteration of the initial plan I didn’t mention last time is that we decided to have small quizzes after each lesson as opposed to larger quizzes in the end of each module, that is composed out of several lessons. The reasoning for that is that Sensei is designed in the way that if you want the “composed” quiz, all of the questions have to be linked to the module’s last lesson – which can become a disadvantage if you decide to move one of the lessons to another module or delete one of the lessons — the questions appended to this lessons will get orphaned and end up impeding the learning experience. On the other hand, having all questions based on the lesson’s content linked to exactly this lesson enables a more flexible, chunking and reuse-oriented structure.
Next week I’ll be working on questions for the WordPress deputy handbook-based training. And I will also get to go to WordCamp Europe, which I’m so excited about! I’m really looking forward to seeing community members in person and witnessing all the WordCamp glory and bonanza in real life, not just imagining it while reading the WordCamp organization-related materials. So please expect a full report about this trip next week 🙂 Also, at WordCamp Europe the WordCamp and Meetup organizer courses will be ready for testing on contributor day.
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