Show WordCamps higher up in the News Dashboard widget

[grapplerulrich]

WordCamp Bern is planned for 9th September. Till then we have three Meetups planned for June, July and August. Due to this the WordCamp is not being displayed on the list of events.

It is not really important for us that people see the Meetup happening in August but that people see that there is a WordCamp in September.

As there is less organising for meetup it does not mater if people sign up a few days before but for WordCamp we want people to buy their tickets as soon as possible.

If there is a WordCamp nearby it should be shown at the top of list of events.

Related #40702

events dashboard widget with only meetups and not the WordCamp

Not related to the REST API; data is provided by WordPress.org under the hood, and it seems like that's probably where this wants to be fixed.

This was ​brought up ​previously, and I think it's a great idea; there just wasn't time for it in v1.

It'll require some changes on the API side to make camps sticky in API responses, but I think it'll also require some minor (PHP and CSS) tweaks in Core.

cc @mrwweb, @mapk

Now that the Meetup has passed the WordCamp is being shown

Assigning ownership to mark the good-first-bug as "claimed".

@iandunn Is there already a meta ticket for the API change? Without that change, one cannot really work on this ticket.

For anyone looking to contribute the API code can be found here: ​https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/api.wordpress.org/public_html/events/1.0/index.php#L682

The Meta ticket is ​meta:#2994.

This is being worked on at WordCamp Philly contributor day . Assigning to @metalandcoffee as her computer is being used for the patch.

The above patch was worked on at WordCamp Philly Contributor Day by myself, @warmlaundry, and @alejandroxlopez along with @jorbin.

We found a way to do this without any API changes being necessary. Feedback is encouraged.

Screenshot before and after applying the patch

I tested it with the location Utrecht as I knew there was a WordCamp planned but at least three meetups till then. See the screenshot above of the before and after applying the patch.

Thanks @metalandcoffee, I think 41112.diff​ moves this forward :)

My hunch is that we'll also need some changes on the API side. In some active cities, there can be 2-3 meetup events per week. Since Core only requests 5 events from the API, the WordCamp wouldn't show up in the API response until about 2-3 weeks before the date.

Regardless of that, though, this is still an improvement on the current situation. If the API changes are languishing, then maybe we can do something like this for 5.0, and then iterate on it once the API is ready. If anyone wants to work on that side of things, the details are in ​#meta2994, and ​I posted some instructions for setting up the dev environment in Slack.

I think the widget will probably feel the most intuitive to people if the camp is just listed in the normal chronological flow, rather than having a fixed position at the top. We ​talked about it a bit before, but there wasn't a lot of feedback, so I'm definitely open to other ideas if you think having it at the top is better.

WordCamp Utrecht gone in favour of pinned WCUS, meetups still showing though

Some suggestions for improvement:

• The ‘Community Events’ widget could be tabbed. One tab for WordCamps, one for meetups. That way we still could stick to 3 items and not mix up the types of events.

• Fix with: next local WordCamp, Local Meetup and Regional WordCamp. If there is not alocal WordCamp or a Regional WordCamp then show a meetup.