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Category: Programs

  • Charity Hackathons: 2018 Mid-year Report

    Charity Hackathons: 2018 Mid-year Report

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    At the end of 2017 we reported on how the recently introduced do_action charity hackathon event series had been going — by the end of the year, we had worked with four local communities to help them run their own do_action events, which was a great start to the program and one that we were…

  • Call for Organizers: Introduction to Open Source Workshops for 2018

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    Last year, in an effort to educate the public about WordPress and related open source software (OSS), the WordPress Foundation helped fund two “Introduction to Open Source” workshops in Mombasa and Kanpur. The goal of this workshop is to highlight the potential of open source software in regions where there is less participation in OSS…

  • Successful Open Source Workshops in Mombasa and Kanpur

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    In 2017, we set a goal of supporting the organizing of two “Introduction to Open Source” workshops in parts of the world with less participation in open source: Latin and South America, Africa, Oceania, and Asia*. This was accomplished with events in Mombasa, Kenya and Kanpur, India. Mombasa The Introduction to Open Source workshop in…

  • Charity Hackathons in 2017

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    When we were looking forward to 2017, one of our goals was to work with local WordPress communities to organize charity hackathons in order to help non-profits benefit from open source tools. We made sure to achieve this goal by bringing the do_action event series into our program. do_action is a charity hackathon that uses…

  • Call for Organizers: Introduction to Open Source

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    To further the WordPress Foundation’s charter to educate the public about WordPress and related open source software (OSS), we want to sponsor a new series of workshops/training events introducing people to open source. Specifically, we want to shine more light on the potential of open source software in countries where there is less participation in…

  • Looking forward to a great 2017

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    Happy New Year! We are excited for a great 2017. This year the WordPress Foundation will continue to pursue our educational mission in a number of ways. First, we plan to contribute financially to other non-profit organizations; we’ll be making major (to us) grants to Hack the Hood, Internet Archive, and Black Girls Code. Second,…

  • Introducing WordPress Community Support, A Public Benefit Subsidiary

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    Since January, we’ve been working on switching all operations related to official WordCamp and Meetup organizing to the new subsidiary of the WordPress Foundation, which is a public benefit corporation called WordPress Community Support, PBC (WPCS). One of the main advantages to the change from the WordPress Foundation (a non-profit) to the WPCS (a public…

  • WordPress Meetups

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    In our October update, we mentioned the WordPress Foundation has an official Meetup.com account through which it covers costs of organizer dues. As of this month, 23 meetups are now under this central account. There’s a lot of cool stuff in the works for the Meetup.com Program: Making WordPress Events is a discussion forum for WordPress…

  • WordCamps and Such

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    Howdy! This blog has been quiet but the Foundation has been busy and I want to catch you up on what’s been going on. WordCamps: world-wide Since spring 2012, WordCamps have been held everywhere from Seoul to Seattle, Bucharest to Boston, and Vegas to Vancouver. (Vancouver also hosted BuddyCamp, the first event to be focused…

  • Our First Project: WordCamp Videos

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    It’s been pretty quiet around here, but it’s been busy behind the scenes as we worked through budgets, tax requirements, legalese and reviewing the ways in which the Foundation could be of most use in helping to promote WordPress and provide education to the WordPress community. Our first program is centered around making it possible…