Enable/organize/contribute to NextGen and other Events related to Sustainability goals and focus areas

[gusaus]

Ideas/action items

NextGen and other Event ideas and suggestions

Share and submit event ideas and formats with the Community Team

• Extend the do_action hackathon format #21
  • provide opportunities for new contributors and maintainers to receive hands-on training
  • enable organizations and contributors in specific interest areas or industry groups
  • create additional ways to support and sustain organizers, contributors, and participants
• Leverage and Extend the FundOSS Democratic/Quadratic fundraising format #22 - Each quarterly round can have multiple focus areas with their own match fund.
  • WordPress project and community - Participants could include any Make Team, Working Group, Community project, or program on Open Collective (stand-alone collective or project on the WordPress Collective).
  • Specific interest areas (could be coupled with do_action)
    • Education
    • Arts & Culture
    • Civic Tech
    • Mutual Aid
    • Publishing & Media
    • Music
• WP and Friends Sustainability Hackday - An event for the open source community to come together, share challenges, and explore new solutions to make our efforts more sustainable.

Contribute and help organize more ‘environmentally’ sustainable WordCamps, Meetups, and other events.

• Input for the (WordCamp) handbook around sustainability #9
• Sustainable Travel Support for WCEU24 #11

Reference/resources

• Sustainability Team: NextGen and other Event ideas and suggestions (Slack Canvas)
• WordPress Sustainability Team: NextGen and other Event ideas and suggestions (Google Doc)
• The Next Generation of WordCamps
• The NextGen Event Project: Your Ideas, Your WordPress Community!

[meeware]

Self assigning here.

I have been engaging with the nextgen events team and am proposing a sustainability extended hack day.

[gusaus]

@meeware I didn't realize you were working on this 👆until I skimmed through the recent meeting logs. I've been talking with some of the same folks on the community team but haven't circled back to see if/how we could contribute as a team... until now.

We should trade notes and figure out a path forward after the weekend 🎉🎬