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Hello team! Last week we decided in our weekly team meeting that we will not have any more formal meetings before WordCamp US. This means that our regularly scheduled meeting TODAY, 11/21, and next Tuesday, 11/28 at 19:00 UTC in the #training channel of the WordPress Slack will NOT happen.
We will adjust the meeting time after WordCamp US. Based on the results of our Doodle survey and multiple conversations over the course of recent team meetings, the weekly team meeting is likely to be rescheduled to Thursdays at 19:30 UTC after WordCamp US. Please post any last comments/thoughts/issues with the new meeting time on our post about the survey as soon possible.
We DO still need to finish planning for WordCamp US Contributor Day (in Nashville on December 3rd) as a team. This conversation should continue asynchronously in the #training channel and in the comment thread of our 2017 WordCamp US Contributor Day post. We will formalize an agenda in the next week and a half as WordCamp US approaches. If you are not available to attend WordCamp US in person and want to participate in a team check in at some point that day, please comment on the post with your interest and availability that day (please include time zones with all times or use UTC time!).
Please ask any questions you have as comments on this post or in Slack! I am looking forward to seeing many of you at WordCamp US and regrouping virtually with all of you in Slack.
Thanks team!
I wrote this in today’s Training team meeting, and Beth asked me to make it a blog post so that everyone can read, digest, and comment.
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It works. We’ve had more women speak at meetups and WordCamps as a result of it in Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, and Montreal. Partly because I hadn’t finished the modules and partly because we weren’t putting in good promotion, most folk haven’t known about it. So I’m:
The group was announced on Community yesterday. (https://make.wordpress.org/community/2017/11/13/call-for-volunteers-diversity-outreach-speaker-training/) We’re going to create an “army of Jills.” ;D I’m going to train people to run it, train them to train others, get promotion going, and make it a self-perpetuating system so that I can walk away in about half a year and it will live on.
To do:
I think it’s important to do because:
I’d like to volunteer to be the first person to do this. Right now I’m the one who knows the project the best. (It is more my strength and passion rather than this other work I’ve been dawdling on for a long time. 😉 )
I’d like to propose that I also train the working group to take on this role so that we will always have folk to do it. Plus I’ll have people to go implement the changes if I get busy or sick again.
How does that sound?
If good, let’s discuss the logistics of how this happens another time.
Please join us later today at 19:00 UTC in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meeting! A brief agenda for today:
If you have any other items to add to the agenda, please list them in the comments. We’ll see you soon!
X-comment from +make.wordpress.org/community: Comment on Call for Volunteers: Diversity Outreach Speaker Training
@melindahelt: We’re going to have a quick meeting today. Please note @bethsoderberg Doodle and post on WCUS contributor day. They are at https://make.wordpress.org/training/2017/11/07/survey-for-new-meeting-times/ and https://make.wordpress.org/training/2017/11/07/wordcamp-us-2017-contributor-day-planning/.
Also please note the Doodle breaks into 30 minute segments instead of one hour. That’s to help anyone with availability.
If you are not attending WCUS, still keep an eye on that as we hope to have ways for people to be involved, at least for a little while, remotely in the past we’ve been able to schedule a brief hangout to involve all folks.
AND IF YOU’RE IN THE US: GO VOTE!
WordCamp US is approaching and will be in Nashville in early December, with a contributor day on the Sunday, December 3rd. Since this will be an opportunity for many contributors of the training team to meet in person we want to make sure we’re gathering a list of all of the items we’d like to address as a team beforehand to make the most efficient use of our time together. That said, for those who are not able to make it in person, we will work as a team to make sure that you are updated and able to participate as much as possible in what we’re working on this day.
We’ll chat about this subject over the next few weeks in team meetings and will use this post as a place to store our thoughts and asynchronously share our ideas.
Please add your ideas in the comments!
Team! I have good news and bad news here. The good news: we have amazing people who are excited about working with our team. The bad news: what has become a large majority of our consistent contributors are no longer able to make our standard meeting time (currently Tuesdays at 19:00UTC). This has caused our progress (which had been on fire in late summer/early fall!) to stagnate as a result of scheduling issues.
BUT! This is a fixable problem! Over the last month or so we have collectively decided that we need to consider changing our meeting time. Please fill out this survey to share your available times: https://doodle.com/poll/qtb3yucfvgkhd4sg. This survey will show up with the times listed in the time zone you are in. Please also note: I set this up with a random theoretical week in the future, what we are voting on is day of week (M-TH) and time of day, not the specific dates that show up in the Doodle.
Please be as generous with your Doodle selections as possible. The reality here is that we’re dealing with many people’s complex schedules, many time zones, and also avoiding all of the other meeting times for the other Make teams. If you have flexibility in your schedule, please keep that in mind so that we can best account for the needs of those folks who don’t have as much flexibility.
General Updates
None given.
Meeting Times
@bethsoderberg:
Times have been suggested and there is a spreadsheet of conflicting times from other groups.
What I’m thinking is that we have this meeting as another time to throw out alternate times that DO work for your schedules out there.
And then reach out to the people who we know aren’t here bc this time is bad for them.
And get a set of times together to do a doodle on.
So that we can see what works for all of us.
I am hoping that folks with super flexible schedules are not super picky with their doodle selections so that we can account for the needs of people who don’t have as much flexibility.
Workflow
WordCamp US’s contributor day is in about a month and we should plan for this segment of our work to be the focus of that day for those of us who are able to be in Nashville. I feel like WCUS might be our opportunity to really organize and get unified on the plan for this so that we can go into 2018 with a spectacular plan.
We definitely need to come up with real activities for newer contributors who may not want to be part of this larger conversation.
Please join us later today at 19:00 UTC in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meeting! A brief agenda for today:
If you have any other items to add to the agenda, please list them in the comments. We’ll see you soon!
Hi All!
Sorry for the late notice, but we need to cancel today’s meeting!
But, instead of chatting with us in real time, please comment below as to if any other days/times would work better for our team meetings. Due to schedule shifts, life happenings, moves, etc we haven’t been having many folks at our weekly meetings, so if another time would work better, please comment below!
Just an FYI, that we will not schedule our meeting during another WordPress team meeting. Here’s a list of all current meeting times. Thanks Shanta for pulling this information together!
