Incredible ideas and passion have already sparked real momentum across this community. Now it’s time to turn that energy into results: step forward, review proposals, lend your expertise, and help bring these ideas to life!
A few of the current areas we have identified that need support:
We’ve had great brainstorming conversations and now want to move to execution.
Camptix improvements
Anyone who has organized an event and used Camptix knows the system has limitations. Some that come to mind offhand include:
Steps to Move Forward with Camptix Improvements:
- Individual(s) set as dedicated maintainers: Currently Dion Hulse (@dd32) is monitoring Pull Requests within GitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/, but there are none coming in, so let’s change that!
- Offer Open Access to Contributors: Following setup instructions here, one is able to set up a Mirror. No production environment is needed.
- Community Roadmap: Let this post serve as a starting point for development of a roadmap for this work. Improvements are possible, and once we have a clear view of how many people can contribute to this effort, and which projects are most important within Camptix, priorities can be set. Perhaps, someone from the new program team has ideas? @karmatosed FYI
GatherPress Status
Earlier this year, there was a call for more help with testing before integration with WordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ can move forward. While WPCC Student Clubs have been set up on GatherPress, we need more real life testing from the community to move this project closer to integration. In addition, the development team needs guidance on what features are needed, such as messaging specifics, data exports, etc.
From a development perspective, the team needs help connecting to .org, as well as getting events in the dashboard widget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. for discoverability.
Join their Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. Group #gatherpress and participate in the GatherPress team weekly huddles on Fridays at 15:00 UTC.
Event Tools and Site Improvements
With some fantastic brainstorming from the community last year, a solid set of ideas were put forth for how to continue improving the newly created events site https://events.wordpress.org/, but in addition, let’s continue to improve our existing tools. Enhancing the budgeting tools, upgrading the planning features to better support team organization throughout the planning process (beyond the current drop-down menus), and improving the main interface and user experience would make a significant difference for those working to support WP events.
Currently, the WordCamp.org issues in GitHub could use a good scrub in order to resurface what’s most important and relevant at this stage.
In relation to an events app, there’s one already in use by WordCamps within Spain that could potentially serve as a starting point, with opportunities to build features like:
- Real-time attendee messaging
- Networking and professional matchmaking opportunities
- QR-based lead capture for sponsors
- Interactive event maps
Over the years, several apps have been started, but none have reached their full potential due to shifting priorities. An events app could offer valuable benefits for both attendees and sponsors. There are two possible paths forward: If we build on the current app in development, making the source code public would allow for broader contributions. Alternatively, given our talented community, someone could start a new mobile app and open it for collaborative input.
Next Steps
Whether you love working on front-end details, back-end systems, user experience, or event tools, there’s a place for you in our community. We’re a group of contributors who care about creativity, collaboration, and building tools that make WordPress events even better.
If you’d like to share ideas, contribute code, or help shape new features, we’d love to have you join the conversation. Bring your curiosity and enthusiasm: we’ll bring the shared vision and the open source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. spirit.
Want to get involved? Reach out at support@wordcamp.org and be part of shaping the future of WordPress events, one commit at a time.
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