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  • Announcement: In-person do_action hackathons are back!

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    As announced in the Make/WordPress Community blog, in-person do_action charity hackathons are back! do_action hackathons moved online in March 2020, following the COVID-19 pandemic, and in the past 18 months, we have had five do_action hackathons so far. As more and more people around the world are getting vaccinated and as the spread COVID-19 pandemic,…

  • Announcement: Online do_action hackathons in India and Nigeria

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    Following the success of online do_action events worldwide in 2020, the WordPress Foundation is doubling down on its mission by supporting more charity hackathons in 2021. Even as COVID-19 continues to wreck havoc around the world, our community organizers in India and Nigeria are working hard to empower local non profits by helping them build…

  • The Basic principles of Open-source Software

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    The WordPress Foundation aims to educate the public about WordPress and related open-source software (OSS). Towards that end, the WordPress Foundation created the Introduction to Open-source workshops, which shed more light on the potential of open-source software, particularly in countries where there is less participation in OSS projects. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these workshops…

  • 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…