It is time to host the next Monthly chat of the WordPress Contributor Working Group. We’re meeting on the Next Thursday (May 23rd) to continue our work on improving the contribution experience of WordPress and to continue our work on mentorship programs. For more information on the working group and its plans, check out our launch post and past chats .
Note: The Contributor Working Group typically meets on the Third Thursday of the Month, but for this month alone (May), we are moving our chat to the Fourth Thursday of the month.
Meeting times
We will hold these chats in multiple time zones to accommodate as many participants all over the world as possible. These chats will continue to be held on the Third Thursday of every month.
The chat will be held on the #community-team channel of the Make/WordPress Slack . Here’s the link to a handy `.ics` file containing calendar entries for our upcoming chat so you won’t miss it. These chats have also been added to the Make/Meetings calendar . Everyone interested in improving the contributor experience in WordPress and building future mentorship programs is welcome to attend!
Pinging some of our active working group members:
@ adityakane , @ aion11 , @ alexcu21 , @ alexdeborba , @ angelasjin , @ askdesign , @ casiepa , @ coachbirgit , @ courane01 , @ devmuhib , @ foosantos , @ gusa , @ harishanker , @ hellosatya , @ javiercasares , @ josepmoran , @ juliarosia , @ kafleg , @ kirasong , @ leogopal , @ leonnugraha , @ lighthouse79 , @ lumiblog , @ maheshpatel , @ matteoenna , @ meher , @ milana_cap , @ mrinal013 , @ mysweetcate , @ nao , @ ninianepress , @ nilovelez , @ ndiego , @ nomadskateboarding , @ oglekler , @ onealtr , @ onemaggie , @ patricia70 , @ peiraisotta , @ pooja1210 , @ ratneshsonar , @ rcreators , @ realloc , @ sancastiza , @ sereedmedia , @ st810amaze , @ sumitsingh , @ thehopemonger , @ thewebprincess , @ tobifjellner , @ topher1kenobe , @ unintended8 , @ voboghure , @ webtechpooja , @ yoga1103
Agenda
1. Welcome, introductions, and check-ins
How is everyone doing? New members joining the group can also introduce themselves. Do we also have any volunteers for notetaking, next agenda drafting, or next meeting host?
2. Brainstorming/Planning Cohort #3 of the Mentorship Program and Call for Interest
Now that Cohort #2 is over, and since we received a lot of interest and excitement from community members on hosting Cohort #3, let us start making an initial plan on how Cohort 3 is going to look like. We are also going to use this opportunity to bring in new facilitators for the group for Cohort 3, so this will be a chance to do so.
3. On-demand Mentorship
In our last chat , @ tobifjellner shared an excellent idea around “on-demand mentorship”, where we create a pool of mentors Event 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. who are available to support new contributors, so that new contributors coming in can get mentorship whenever they want. We will briefly explore this idea and think of a framework to build such a program.
4. Five for the Future Documentation Updates
In our last chat, we mentioned that in addition to our work on mentorship, this group will additionally start focusing on bolstering the broader contributor experience of WordPress. As part of that work, we started focusing a bit on creating documentation for self-sponsored and sponsored contributors for Five for the Future . We have already received excellent feedback on the same from community members on work done so far, and we will use this opportunity to discuss this.
5. Questions, thoughts, and open floor!
If we still have time after all that intense discussion, we’ll open up the floor to discuss WordPress Contribution broadly and our program!
Looking forward to seeing you at the chat!
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