Swag Report 4/25/16 – 5/1/16
Lanyard 100 packs sent: 3
WordCamp Asheville: 3
Button & sticker 200 packs sent: 1
WordCamp Asheville: 1
Button & sticker 100 packs sent: 0
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Cami Kaos
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WordCamp.org
Monday #daily-updates
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WordCamp.org
Sunday #daily-updates
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WordCamp.org
Saturday #daily-updates
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Andrea Middleton
Sponsorship and Finances Weekly Report for April 29
Here’s that weekly update on the payments and income for WordPress community events that we post on Fridays. This report might get more elaborate as we get the time to build more tools around financial reporting (currently it’s quite manual), so if there’s a level of detail we’re not providing that you’d like to see, please mention it in the comments!
Between April 22 and April 28, here’s what came in:
Ticket revenue via PayPal: $11,809.12 USD (total tickets 256)
Sponsorship income via wire transfer: $8,204.51 USD
Sponsorship income via check: $4,240.00 USD
Sponsorship income via PayPal: $7,868.66 USDTotal revenue (in USD): $32,122.29
Number of sponsor invoices paid: 24
Number of sponsor invoices issued: 20
Total invoiced: $10,600.00 USDAnd in that same period, here’s what went out:
Due to some changes we’ve made to the back end of the vendor payment tool, I don’t currently have a straightforward way to create a breakdown of what payments were for which event, but here are the totals:
Total number of vendor payments/reimbursements: 24
Total payments (in USD): $73,999.88Here’s a list of this week’s global sponsorship grants (which are determined at the budget review):
Nashik 150,000 Indian rupees
As always, if you have any questions, please ask away in the comments!
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Andrea Middleton
Community Team meeting reminder
Just a quick reminder that our monthly Community Team Chat will be held next Thursday at 19:00 UTC in the #outreach channel of WordPress.org Slack. Mark your calendars and double-check the time in your zone, because Daylight Saving Time happened (a while back there now but still)!
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WordCamp.org
Friday #daily-updates
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Cami Kaos
- deputy orientation + set up new deputy SP account for Francesca
- published three organizer reminder emails for WordCamp video (Thanks to @jerrysarcastic )
- vetted WordCamp Juba application – declined asked to start a meetup
- vetted WordCamp Wilmington WordCamp application – requested orientation
- vetted WordCamp Manchester – requested orientation
- vetted WordCamp Cologne – requested orientation
- re-reviewed WordCamp Maine budget – small increase to their global grant
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Andrea Middleton
WordCamp Incubator update
In February, we announced a new experiment called the WordCamp Incubator, with the intent to help spread WordPress to underserved areas through providing more significant organizing support for a first event. The plan was to select three cities in 2016 where there is not an active WordPress community — but where it seems like there is a lot of potential and where there are some people excited to become organizers — and to help those communities to organize their first WordCamp.
We ran into some staffing challenges after making that announcement, and so we’re both behind schedule and possibly not going to be able to make good on incubating three WordCamps this year. 🙂 But we really want to try it, so the plan now is to incubate two events and intensively mentor one event.
The main difference between “incubating” and “intensively mentoring” a WordCamp will be in the amount of support that the group of local volunteers receive from a community team deputy. Incubating an event will involve the deputy both advising local volunteers — acting as a kind of project manager for the team — as well as doing some of the organizing work on the event, like a lead organizer usually does. Intensively-mentoring will be more project management and involve less actual organizing work on the part of the deputy.
We received 182 applications for this program, and we’ve winnowed down that list to 16 communities:
Denpasar, Indonesia — there’s a local tech meetup but none oriented toward WordPress
Chandigarh, India — no local group
Colombo, Sri Lanka — chapter account meetup, active
Thessaloniki, Greece — no local group
Harare, Zimbabwe — no local group
Budapest, Hungary — chapter account meetup, active
Kalamata, Greece — no local group
Kampala, Uganda — no local group
Kochi, India — non-chapter account meetup, active
Lagos, Nigeria — chapter account meetup which is not active
Medellin, Colombia — non-chapter account meetup, semi-active
Nagpur, India — non-chapter account meetup, active
Nairobi, Kenya — chapter account meetup, active
San Jose, Costa Rica — chapter account meetup, active
Udaipur, India — chapter account meetup, active
Ulyanovsk, Russia — no local groupAndrea Middleton and Rocio Valdivia will each incubate one WordCamp this year, and Aditya Kane as agreed to intensively mentor an additional community that applied for the incubator program. We’re currently in the stage of talking to applicants about their communities and what kind of time they think they can put toward organizing a small, one-day, one-track event geared toward the goal of generating interest and getting people involved in creating an ongoing local community. In May, we hope to announce the three locations selected.
If there are deputies interested in stepping up to intensively-mentor another WordCamp organizing team in a location on this list, please let me know! I think there are more than a few communities listed above that just need extra support (and possibly a better understanding of how modest and uncomplicated an event can be) to organize a WordCamp in their town. I’d love to match a few more deputies up with communities that are excited to try something new — assuming we have some mentors with extra bandwidth. 🙂
Questions? Concerns? Feel free to share them in a comment!
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Luis Rull
I’m in. San José or Medellin wouldbe great
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Mark Smallman
Really wish we had of seen/known about this earlier. We could have really done with the help with WCBelfast.
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Andrea Middleton
Hi Mark! If the org team in Belfast needs some extra help, please just let us know with an email to support@wordcamp.org — we can connect you with a deputy that can provide some mentorship. 🙂
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Alexander Gounder
I am very interested in helping out!
I know the people in three out of the four Indian cities listed here.
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Peter Nemcok
I would like to help too. I prefer European WordCamps, especially Budapest is very near to Bratislava.
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Andrea Middleton
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Kevin Cristiano
WordCamp schedule widget idea
I have an idea for a new feature for wordcamp.org sites – a WordCamp Schedule Widget. This would allow Organizers to display upcoming WordCamps right in their sidebar. Opt-in of course.
This would allow us to highlight upcoming camps to the people that need to know most WordCamp Attendees. While they could go to the Central schedule page many attendees don’t know about Central and this would be a great way for them to find more camps to go to.
I think it’s a great way for WordCamps to support one another.
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Mikel King
+1 & double +1 for the opt-in
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Cami Kaos
I know I said it earlier, but I absolutely love everything about this. Now who wants to build it?
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Jon Brown
Good idea. I think you could just do it with the existing RSS Feed, but haven’t tried.
Ref: https://central.wordcamp.org/news/2013/12/30/rss-feed-now-available-for-newly-announced-wordcamps/
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Kevin Cristiano
That’s a good starting point. I would like to pull the featured image and potentially pull by region (which is currently meta) so we’d need some changes. I was thinking that since we’re on the same multisite using built in WP queries would be more efficient.
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Lydia
Love this idea!!
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Mayo Moriyama
Haven’t you made this kind of widget with REST API? @hideokamoto
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Okamoto Hidetaka
Like this?
http://hideokamoto.github.io/react-wordcamp/-
Okamoto Hidetaka
Try to make Widget plugin.
GitHub:https://github.com/hideokamoto/wc-schedule-widget
Screenshot(wp-admin):https://github.com/hideokamoto/wc-schedule-widget/blob/master/includes/img/setting.png
Screenshot(front):https://github.com/hideokamoto/wc-schedule-widget/blob/master/includes/img/view.pngNow waiting to review.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wc-schedule-widget/
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Mayo Moriyama
@hideokamoto You should make it into widget!
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Okamoto Hidetaka
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I already make widget.
https://github.com/hideokamoto/wc-schedule-widget
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Okamoto Hidetaka
Try to make Widget plugin that using WP REST API.
GitHub:https://github.com/hideokamoto/wc-schedule-widget
for moderator
Could you remove following comment?
https://make.wordpress.org/community/2016/04/28/wordcamp-schedule-widget-idea/#comment-22091
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WordCamp.org
Thursday #daily-updates
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Cami Kaos
- vetted WordCamp Geneva application – requested orientation
- cancelled out duplicate application for WordCamp Cologne
- WordCamp Stockholm orientation – sent organizer agreement
- scheduled WordCamp Phoenix budget review
- scheduled WordCamp Geneva orientation
- vetted WordCamp Tel Aviv application – requested additional information
- vetted WordCamp Caracas – declined, asked to start meetup
- released payments
- support triage
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00Sleepy
sorry for the cologne double 😉 would be nice if there is a auto reply email to the applicants email address with what he entered, so you can be safe that everything works fine.
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Josepha
- Payments for weekend WordCamps
- Submitted invoice for Meetup.com group fees
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