This is a summary of the Community Team monthly meetings held on April 2, 2026. Both sessions followed the same agenda published on March 31. If you weren’t able to join live, this recap is for you, and we’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments.
🗓️ Meeting chat logs
APAC/EMEA → April 2, 2026 at 12:00 UTC. Meeting host: @unintended8
View the chat log on Slack
Americas → April 2, 2026 at 21:00 UTC. Meeting host: @unintended8
View the chat log on Slack
👋 Attendance
We had participants from Spain, Bangladesh, Philippines, Germany, Switzerland, Serbia, Poland, Italy, India, Nepal, United Kingdom, Uganda, and Kenya, a good mix of time zones and corners of the WordPress world!
Thanks for checking-in @kafleg @malgra @mehrazmorshed @patricia70 @crixu @alicjamaria26 @noruzzaman @sunilkumarthz @onealtr @matteoenna @mosescursor @nilovelez @nazmul111 @r1k0 @tobifjellner @chetan200891 @aquila20 @unintended8
⚡️ Check-ins
It was great to hear from so many active corners of the community. Among the things people have been working on: mentoring WordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. and meetup 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. organizers, organizing local and regional events, sponsorship coordination, GatherPress development, WordPress Credits contributions, Campus Connect organizing, Polyglots work, and media partnerships.
A special welcome to @crixu from Germany, @r1k0 from Kenya, and @chetan200891 from India, who joined to explore for the first time, and to @alicjamaria26 from Poland, a student in the WordPress Credits program who joined at her mentor 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.’s suggestion. Glad you all took the leap. 👋
🚀 Highlights
A few things worth noting from the agenda that came up during the sessions:
Community Team at WordCamp Asia 2026 (Mumbai, April 9). Devin Maeztri is co-leading the Community Team table at the Contributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/, and a few attendees expressed interest in volunteering on the spot. If you’re going to be in Mumbai, there’s still time to get involved.
WordCamps in Africa and around the world. @mosescursor and others shared updates on events held in Uganda and Nigeria. It continues to be exciting to see the African WordPress community grow. WordCamp recaps from Valencia and Bhopal were also celebrated, both milestone editions in their own right.
Campus Connect momentum. The program is reaching students globally. This month’s highlights included the first Campus Connect in Malaysia and a multi-campus program in Uganda led by @mohkatz (that was also around in the meeting!) that reached over 1,200 students. Remarkable scale for a still-young initiative.
📝 Open discussions
These were the two questions that sparked the most conversation.
Where should content live: WordCamp Central Website for all WordCamp activities globally. https://central.wordcamp.org includes a list of upcoming and past camp with links to each., Make/Community, or organized chaos?
Several people weighed in (and “organized chaos” did get a vote or two). The most useful framing that emerged from the conversation came from @mohkatz, who suggested Make Community for general announcements and WordCamp Central specifically for event-related news. @nilovelez proposed that Central is worth preserving for event-specific content, with Make as the home for general team news, and that Central posts can always be linked from Make. @unintended8 floated a possible distinction: “general public” → Central, “learnings for organizers” → Make.
One thing everyone seemed to agree on: before we can make a real decision, we need to know where people actually read. Which platform has more reach? Which one drives more engagement? We don’t currently have a clear answer to that, and we probably should. One practical outcome in the meantime: it became clear that a spring cleaning of publishing permissions is overdue, nobody is quite sure who has access to write where.
The question isn’t fully resolved, what do you think? Leave a comment below.
How do we make these meetings worth attending?
This one hit close to home, especially for a meeting about meeting engagement.
@patricia70 suggested sending a direct message/email to the team reminding people that participating live and shaping the discussions matters. @unintended8 noted that many people have notifications off and may not even realize the meeting is happening, @aquila20 confirmed he’d missed it for exactly that reason.
In the Americas session, someone half-jokingly proposed a raffle among attendees. @tobifjellner offered a more structural take: with async channels available 24/7, the bar for showing up synchronously has to be high. He suggested that meetings might work better with slightly longer “open windows” (12 to 24 hours) where threads stay active and input gets collected before closing, rather than requiring everyone to be present at the same time.
There’s something worth exploring there. If you have ideas, this comment section is a good place to start.
📢 Announcements
- 2026 Community Team Reps. Juan Hernando (yeah, me) joined the team as a new Team Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. for 2026, alongside the three continuing reps. The meeting was gracious enough to celebrate this, thank you all for the kind words. No pressure now 😅
- Monthly Education Buzz Report – March 2026. Destiny Kanno’s latest report covers another strong month for the education programs. Notable highlights include ten new institutions joining the WordPress Credits program and the launch of a new Leading WordPress Education Programs course on Learn WordPress. Worth a read if you work in or near the education space.
- Campus Connect–Specific Mentor Program retired. Its responsibilities are now absorbed into the existing Event Supporters program, simplifying the support structure for WPCC events.
🎤 Open floor
Three topics came up outside the agenda and both deserve their own follow-up.
Community Summit planning. @patricia70 shared a post she’d been working on for two months about scheduling a Community Summit alongside a flagship event in 2027 or 2028. The key point: this needs to be decided early, as it affects the host city call, venue capacity, catering, and the number of attendees. If you have any thoughts, head to that post and leave a comment.
Live captions and translation at multilingual WordCamps. @patricia70 raised the question of whether there’s a community-owned account for live captioning and translation tools, something WordCamp Switzerland would benefit from, as they plan to host speakers in English, German, French, and Italian. @unintended8 shared that WordCamp Asia is using Interprefy this year (while past editions of WCA and WCEU WordCamp Europe. The European flagship WordCamp event. used Wordly AI) and that a conversation with the Central Production Team is already underway to explore a global account that multiple events could share. Switzerland and Canada were mentioned as natural early candidates apart from flagship events.
Where do declined applications go? @tobifjellner noted that there are many automated decline messages going out to cities and groups, and asked whether there’s a public resource listing the most common reasons, something that could even be linked from application forms. @unintended8 confirmed that no such resource currently exists (or if it does, it’s buried deep in the handbooks), but that the idea is solid. Common reasons include applications from people without an existing local group or wanting to organize everything alone. This might be worth turning into a proper handbook page.
💬 Join the conversation
If any of these topics sparked a thought (especially the meeting format discussion) drop a comment below. These conversations are better with more voices.
📅 Call for meeting facilitators
Community Team monthly meetings can be facilitated by any team member. It’s a great way to engage with the broader community. If you’re interested, reach out to one of the Team Reps: @adityakane, @unintended8, @thehopemonger, @webtechpooja.
⏰ Next meeting
Community Team meetings are held on the first Thursday of every month, with two sessions to accommodate different time zones, in the #community-team channel on 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/.
APAC/EMEA: May 7, 2026 – 12:00 UTC Americas: May 7, 2026 – 21:00 UTC
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