Proposal: how to return to safe in person WordCamps

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Proposal: how to return to safe in-person WordCamps

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Thank you to everyone who has participated in our many conversations about in-person events. Your input has helped to make the current guidelines for organizing in-person meetups.

This post is a proposal to discuss how the WordPress community can return to in-person WordCamps. Please read it carefully and participate in the comments by answering the questions below, thanks!

If you don’t want to read all of this post, here’s the tl;dr:

“The WordPress community team is discussing the return to in-person WordCamps, building on current guidelines for meetups (defined in this handbook page and image below) with additional guidelines described in the section below on “Proposal for further discussion”


In-person WordPress events this year so far
There are 752 WordPress Meetup groups in the chapter program in 109 countries around the globe.
Since February 16, in-person WordPress meetups have been held in 3 countries: Taiwan, New Zealand, and Australia using the meetup safety checklist.
Since the latest guidelines announced on July 9, in-person events have been organized in 6 countries: Russia, US, New Zealand, Uganda, Australia and the Netherlands
The discussion so far
Deputies agree that it seems unrealistic to immediately go back to how WordCamps were in 2019. Resetting expectations for WordCamps may be necessary, as the world has changed significantly. This is a great opportunity to rebuild the program by restarting locally, and then building back up to the levels we had in 2019. Before the pandemic, WordCamps came in different sizes and scales. As a reminder, the Community Team considers the “minimum viable product” for a WordCamp to be at least 50 people, in a room, for one day, talking about WordPress.



Please share your feedback!
It would be great to get some feedback on this proposal, specifically in the following areas:

What do you think about the proposal?
Is there anything that you’re missing or that you’d change? Why?
Are there any ideas listed above that you’d include as guidelines for in-person WordCamps in this transition period?
What could the Community Team do to assist with easier and/or inexpensive WordCamp events?



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