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Several months ago, I received a very special invitation from @Isotta to embark on an equally extraordinary project: the Revival of WordPress Communities in Latin America. This call resonated deeply with me, awakening an unwavering enthusiasm and commitment to the revitalization of our WordPress ecosystem in the region.

In this post, we are delighted to present to you the progress and details of this significant project. From the initial planning to the concrete actions we have taken, we want to share with you the journey we have undertaken to revive and strengthen the WordPress communities in Latin America.

Main Objective

Reactivate and strengthen WordPress communities in Latin America to foster collaboration, mutual learning and active participation of members.

Specific Objectives

● Increase active participation
● Create monthly interaction events
● Create strategic and collaborative alliances

Propose activities

Form collaborative team to lead the project
Translate important handbook material into Spanish
Prepare material: Course to become an organizer
Organize monthly meetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. in LATAM time to teach the course and encourage other communities.
Offer individual or group mentoring to the different meetup groups.
Have a support channel for organizers.
- #community-support on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. Spain

Project Stages

Stage 1

Months: February and March 2024
- Activities to be carried out
- Formation of the team
  - @LMCliment and @alexcu21
- Material preparation

Stage 2

Months: April – June 2024
- Activities to be carried out:
  - Course Calendar
  - Communication with the organizers and volunteers of the meetup groups.

We are convinced that together we can achieve great things and build a vibrant and thriving WordPress ecosystem throughout Latin America.

#community-management, #meetups-2, #wordcamps

Isotta 1:43 pm on February 19, 2024

@lidarroy, what a great project! Please keep us updated with the evolution of it, and let the community know how we can support you. Congratulations on all the people who are working on it. If someone reaches out wanting to help, can they pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” you on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.?
Rocio Valdivia 9:56 am on February 20, 2024

Excellent strategic project and planning recap, @lidarroy, thank you! 🙂

Let me know if your team need any support and I’ll be happy to help! Reactivating the LATAM community has a huge potential and there is so much material for MeetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. and WC organizers and speakers that can be reused and shared by our very active Spanish WP community.

About this:

Have a support channel for organizers.
#community-support on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. Spain

For future reference, this is how to access the WordPress España Slack: https://es.wordpress.org/team/handbook/equipo/chat/#crear-una-cuenta-de-slack-espana
yvallejo 2:07 pm on February 22, 2024

Thanks for starting this project, the main problem we have in the community of WordPress Tuluá – Colombia, we do not get any speaker is encouraged to give a talk (our city is relatively small) and we are always the same people (organizers) who give the meetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook., but we want to revive the events, this will be very helpful :).
- Lidia Arroyo Vargas 3:39 pm on February 22, 2024
  
  @yvallejo We would be happy to meet to find a solution together.
Patricia BT 7:41 am on February 29, 2024

This is fantastic @lidarroy!
Vibrant communities world wide!

I’m far from LATAM but I helped revive some meetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. groups in my country, and available anytime for information (pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me on slackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.)