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Every WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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. needs badges, and making them is still one of the most technical jobs on an organizer’s list. The two methods in the handbook were introduced in April 2016, ten years ago: writing CSSCSSCSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. in the CustomizerCustomizerTool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. and printing from the browser, or exporting the attendees, running a script and laying everything out in Adobe InDesign. Many teams end up with spreadsheets, paid design tools or the one volunteer who knows how to do it.
At the same time, Matt’s post on Elevating individuals asked for badges that show the WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/ username, hometown and website, with the company below. Part of that already reached the HTMLHTMLHTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. badges, but the way badges are made did not change.
This proposal is to fix that with Badge Designer, which is ready to try today. Please share your feedback by Friday, November 20, 2026.
What it is
A visual editor in wp-admin, under Tickets, where organizers:
Upload their own badge artwork, made with any design tool.
Place the attendee’s name, WordPress.org username, GravatarGravatarIs an acronym for Globally Recognized Avatar. It is the avatar system managed by WordPress.com, and used within the WordPress software.
https://gravatar.com, a QR code to their WordPress.org profile, and the answer to any ticket question (hometown, website, company, job title…).
Check every attendee’s badge on screen, with warnings for text that does not fit.
Get one print-ready PDF, with bleed and crop marks, to send to the print shop.
No CSS, no scripts, and no proprietary third-party tools like Canva Pro or Adobe InDesign. The PDF is made in the organizer’s own browser, so it adds no load to WordCamp.org, however big the event is.
Try it now
Live demo, no install needed, with CampTix and 140 test attendees: open it in WordPress Playground (it takes about 40 seconds to load).
The badge tools on WordCamp.org have barely changed since 2016, and the ticket to automate badge making stayed open for more than ten years, until it was closed this week alongside this proposal. This time the hard part is already done.
Badge Designer is a standalone pluginPluginA plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. for now, so it can be tested without touching WordCamp.org. Once it has been tested, the plan is to integrate it into CampTix Badge Generator, the badge tool every WordCamp site already has, as the recommended way to make badges, with HTML/CSS and InDesign kept as alternatives. The user guide would then replace the badge pages of the Organizer Handbook.
The integration is small: one more option in an existing plugin, built with the same tools WordCamp.org already uses, and nothing changes in CampTix itself. It could easily be available before the end of the year, so the WordCamps of 2027 can start using it.
Where to give feedback
Please leave your feedback on the GitHubGitHubGitHub 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue: WordPress/wordcamp.org#2286, so everything stays in one place next to the code. The most useful test is to recreate a real badge: upload the artwork of a past or upcoming WordCamp and see whether its design can be made with the editor.
A special thank you to @bor0 for all his support and help, and for reviewing every change so carefully and generously. Thanks also to @annezazu and @desrosj for their input along the way.
The Community Team’s Event Supporters, Program Supporters and Program Managers are the people who mentorEvent SupporterEvent 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. organizers, review local community and event applications, and keep the WordPress events program running. Over the next few weeks, several representatives from the Community team will be doing two things to keep this team healthy: checking in with everyone currently listed, and welcoming a new cohort of supporters.
Checking in with current Supporters and Managers
The Supporters and Managers page currently lists 71 people. Life changes, and many of us have less time than when we joined, which is completely fine. The list just needs to reflect the current reality.
Starting today, everyone on the list will receive an email and a SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ message with a short check-in form. You’ll be able to choose:
Active: you continue in your role.
Inactive: you take a break of up to 6 months (holidays, work, family, sabbatical…). We’ll temporarily remove your access to our tools and you can come back whenever you’re ready.
Stepping back: you leave the role. We’ll thank you, remove access, and you’ll always be welcome to apply again in a future cohort.
Please reply by Wednesday, 18 November 2026. If we don’t hear from you after a reminder, we’ll mark you as inactive, not remove you, so you can come back easily.
Join the team: applications are open
We’re looking for new Event Supporters and Program Supporters.
Event Supporters mentor event organizers through the planning process, review local community applications and check in on dormant local communities.
To mentor WordCamps, you need to have been the lead organizer of a WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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., from application to close, in recent years.
Program Supporters review local community and event applications, interview and orient lead organizers, and help with the Community Team inbox.
Experience organizing WordPress local communities or events.
Three references from current Program Supporters or Program Managers.
Both roles involve sensitive information, so all Supporters sign a contributor and confidentiality agreement. More details in Community Team Contributor Roles.
Applications close on Wednesday, 18 November 2026. If you’re not sure which role fits you, apply for the one closest to your experience and say so in the form; we’ll talk about it.
How onboarding will work
Accepted applicants will join a cohort in December:
Mon 30 Nov: we’ll contact everyone who applied.
Thu 3 Dec: welcome session for the whole cohort.
7–18 Dec: group orientations by role and region, each with an assigned mentor.
January: a 30-day check-in to see how your first tasks are going.
You won’t be alone: each new Supporter has an onboarding mentor and a checklist to follow step by step.
One of the key drivers of unique visits to the WCUS 2026 event site was WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/, its banners and News posts, which also generate email newsletters and are the basis for social amplification. While the individual event blogs and social accounts share frequent updates for prospective and registered attendees, WordPress.org/news reaches a much larger audience.
We’ve known this for a while, but the publication of event news has been inconsistent across flagship events. After observing how we were able to double traffic to us.WordCamp.org this year (vs 2025 or either of its sibling events), I’d like to provide a framework for when and how we share updates in the future.
Current state
The following is a breakdown of posts made to WordPress.org/news for 2026 flagship WordCamps. Bear in mind that these were published amidst release posts and other content and sometimes reactive rather than planned.
Based on what we’ve seen work in terms of readership and event site visits, I’d like us to publish at the following cadence for 2027 events:
51 weeks before or ASAP: Call for organizers and sponsors – A general announcement highlighting the location, a call for organizers, and a sponsor packet. Be Part of WordCamp Asia 2026 was a good example.
26 weeks before: Announcing ticket sales – A hyped introduction to this year’s themes, photos from last year, and keynotes (if chosen). Something like Get Your WordCamp US 2026 Tickets works.
The provided examples and our agent skill should make it easy for anyone to draft these posts. @bjmcsherry and I (@eidolonnight) are available to help get these over the line and published with respect other scheduled content.
In addition to the aforementioned posts, other suitable News posts will promote the proper event in their footers. For example: WordPress 7.1 launched at WCUS 2026, so the following event banner was added to betaBetaA pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. and RCRelease CandidateA beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. releases (example). I appreciate the coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. release squad for their help in making this happen for WordPress 7.1 releases.
Registration lines are one of the slowest parts of event day, and we introduced two new CampTix features that can help.
Check in attendees with a QR code
Set it up
Go to Tickets → Setup → Attendance UIUIUI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing..
Set Enabled and QR Code Scanning to Yes, tick “Generate a new secret link”, and save.
Copy the secret link and share it with your registration volunteers.
What attendees see
Each attendee gets their own QR code. Their ticket email has a link to it, and it shows on their ticket page. They can show it on their phone or print it.
At the door
A volunteer opens the secret link on a phone. The scanner opens right away.
They scan the attendee’s QR code. “Did [name] attend?” appears.
They tap Yes. The attendee is checked in, and their row turns green.
The scanner shows a message instead when a ticket is refunded, cancelled or pending, when someone is already checked in, or when the code isn’t a ticket.
If someone’s code gets shared, open the attendee in Tickets → Attendees and click Reissue code. The old code stops working, and their ticket page shows the new one.
QR codes on badges
The badge generator can now print a QR code on each badge that links to the attendee’s GravatarGravatarIs an acronym for Globally Recognized Avatar. It is the avatar system managed by WordPress.com, and used within the WordPress software.
https://gravatar.com or WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/ profile, so people can easily connect with each other.
Go to Tickets → Tools → Generate Badges → Create Badges with HTMLHTMLHTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. and CSSCSSCSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site., and pick a QR Code Destination. It also works with the InDesign export.
Try it before your event
Test both ahead of time with a phone and a couple of test tickets. If something doesn’t work, let us know in #community-events or open an issue on GitHub.
From May 20, 2025 to October 28, 2026, some attendees who had chosen not to appear on an event’s public Attendees page were listed anyway. It’s now fixed, and organizers and attendees of upcoming events will get an email about it.
What happened
The ticket Edit page showed “Yes” for “Do you want to be listed on the public Attendees page?” even when you had answered No. Saving that page, for example to update your name, changed your answer to Yes. The Attendees page shows names and Gravatars. On some events it also shows links attendees added to their ticket, such as a website or social profile, and answers like company name or job title. Based on our review, email addresses, phone numbers, mailing addresses, and dietary or accessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) answers were not shown.
Who was affected
We estimate about 1,280 tickets, across 168 events on WordCamp.org and events.wordpress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/. We can’t say exactly who, because the earlier answer wasn’t recorded, so we hid everyone who might have been affected: about 8,580 tickets. The events with the most:
Event
Tickets hidden
Likely affected (estimate)
WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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. Asia 2026
956
149
WordCamp Europe 2026
694
129
WordCamp Dhaka 2025
979
83
WordCamp US 2025
215
46
WordCamp US 2026
163
46
WordCamp Athens 2025
154
36
WordCamp Europe 2025
131
33
WordCamp Rajasthan 2026
169
30
WordCamp Surat 2025
144
27
WordCamp Nepal 2026
258
25
The remaining 158 events each had fewer.
What we did
Fixed the bug on October 28, the day we found it.
Hid everyone who might have been affected from the Attendees pages, past and upcoming events alike. That includes some who had chosen to be listed, but we’d rather hide someone by mistake than list someone who opted out.
Emailing organizers and attendees of upcoming events so they know what happened.
Want to be listed again?
Find the ticket email from the event. Its subject starts with “Your Ticket” or “Your Tickets”.
Click the link in it to open your ticket.
Set “Do you want to be listed on the public Attendees page?” to Yes.
Click “Save Attendee Information”.
If you can’t find the email, ask the event’s organizers to resend your ticket.
Questions
We’re sorry about this. If you have questions or concerns about your data, contact dpo@wordpress.org.
Welcome to the Monthly Education Buzz Report, your go-to source for highlights and updates on the WordPress Campus Connect, WordPress Credits, and WordPress Student Club education initiatives within the WordPress community. This report aims to celebrate, promote, and inform individuals across the WordPress community and beyond about the diverse educational endeavors underway.
WordPress Campus Connect
September was the busiest month WordPress Campus Connect (WPCC) has had so far. WordCamp Central lists 13 Campus Connect events held during the month across India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Costa Rica, and Spain, plus the multi-week Surat and Ajmer series. Campus Connect now makes up 64 of the 138 community events on the 2026 calendar, more than any other format, according to the Community Events dashboard.
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Completed Events
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Participating Institutions
7800+
Students Reached
From campus to the WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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. stage
WordPress Campus Connect Beenova opened on September 12 in Cartago, Costa Rica, with 52 students aged 17 to 24 from the Empléate program run by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security for young people in vulnerable conditions. Students heard talks from Sammy Arburola and Gianko, painted their own Wapuu, and created their WordPress accounts before the day ended. Sponsor HHC Academies covered the day and, with it, WordCamp tickets and transport for the whole cohort. Organizers were Sebastián Zúñiga, Sammy Arburola, and Gianko, supported by volunteer mentorsEvent SupporterEvent 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. Johazz, Gerardo Venegas, Juan Prendas, and Francisco Leiton.
A week later, WordCamp Costa Rica (September 18–19) sold out at 368 attendees, and at least 100 of them were Campus Connect students from Beenova and UCR Esparza. Stefanía Venegas, who placed second in the UCR Esparza project showcase in August, was one of the main speakers with “Your WordPress site is already generating data: learn how to read it.” @lornamurillo published the full recap of WordPress Campus Connect UCR Esparza, an event organized entirely by five female students from the University of Costa Rica.
Three events in one month in Gujarat
@chean200891 organized his first WPCC at OM Education Campus, Junagadh (September 7–8), the first WordPress event ever held in that city, where more than 90 students built their first websites. He followed it with Adani University, Ahmedabad (September 19), with 80+ students and seven faculty members, and Gyanmanjari Innovative University, Bhavnagar (September 28), which drew 150+ students and 15+ faculty and made the local newspaper.
Surat finished its first series, and the college asked for more
Organized across three colleges as three chapters, Aarambh at SSASIT (August 29), Udaan at VNSGU (September 12), and Pragati at TDEC (September 26), WPCC Surat 2026 closed with 470+ registrations and 300+ students attending, together with 20 to 25 faculty members who received certificates. The college has since asked for a dedicated faculty training session. Lead organizer Sajid Ansari worked with co-leads Alkesh Miyani, Priyanka Sida, Hardik Kukadiya, and Amitkumar Dudhat, with @webtechpooja as Event SupporterEvent SupporterEvent 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..
A Coruña: one program leading into the next
At the Universidad de A Coruña (September 30), teachers Carlos Longarela and Ana Cirujano guided students through building their first site, and a former attendee of the Liceo La Paz Campus Connect returned to share her journey from WPCC into WordPress Credits. Liceo La Paz hosts a repeat Campus Connect on November 30.
Campus Connects held in September
Kolhapur, India: @mkrndmane hosted 103 students at D.Y. Patil Agricultural and Technical University, Talasande, across two labs, with new facilitators Snehal Kashid and Ghansham Sutar teaching for the first time.
Ajmer, India:WordPress Campus Connect Ajmer 2026 kicked off on September 12th, bringing WordPress education to 241 students across three colleges in September. The workshops were held at RK Patni College, Government Mahila Engineering College (GWECA), and Star Infotech College.
WordPress Campus Connect – D.Y. Patil Agricultural and Technical University, TalasandeWordPress campus Connect – Star infotech collegeWordPress Campus Connect Banyumas 2026 (Vocational School)WordPress Campus Connect – Sukkur IBA UniversityWordPress campus Connect – Star infotech collegeWordPress Campus Connect – Adani University, AhmedabadWordPress Campus Connect – Gyanmanjari Innovative University, BhavnagarWordPress Campus Connect-St. Philomena College, PutturWordPress Connect at Government Mahila Engineering College (GWECA)WordPress Campus Connect – OM Education Campus, JunagadhWordPress Campus Connect BeenovaWordPress Campus Connect – VNSGU SuratWordCamp Costa Rica was buzzing with at least 100 students from Campus Connect Beenova and UCR EsparzaWordPress Campus Connect – RK Patni
Program updates
@piyopiyofox published Keeping WordPress Campus Connect true to its purpose, asking organizers to build events around what students do: create a WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/ account, build a first site, make a first contribution. The handbook was updated to match.
She also proposed a WordCamp Education Sponsor Fund for Flagships, one fund to bring WPCC and WP Credits students to flagship WordCamps, piloting at WordCamp Asia 2027 with eight students.
@desrosj proposed identifying WPCC and WP Credits participants on WordPress.org profiles, including each participant’s mentorEvent SupporterEvent 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., so experienced contributors can spot and support newcomers.
September was the biggest intake month yet for WordPress Credits. As of the October 1 monthly snapshot, the program counts 45 partner institutions, 363 graduates (up 13 since mid-September), 522 WordPress sites created (up 28), and 459 first contributions made. The live dashboard shows 924 students joined to date across 17 countries, contributing to 15 WordPress teams, with an 88% graduation rate and 87% of graduates recommending the program.
New cohorts and partners
The #wpcredits channel filled with introductions all month, led by a large new cohort at Universidad Fidélitas in Costa Rica and joined by students from Italy, Bolivia, Spain, Bangladesh, and CUNY City Tech. Two firsts stand out: Colegio Universitario de Cartago started its first cohort with about 20 Big Data students, and high school students from Liceo Experimental Bilingüe José Figueres Ferrer are translating WordPress.org MetaMetaMeta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. into Costa Rican Spanish. Rowan University in the United States moved to the agreement stage, mapping Credits hours onto academic credit, with a first cohort planned for spring 2027, and UIN Banten became the second Indonesian institution to sign a Credits agreement.
From student to mentor
Atikur Rahman, who graduated from WP Credits earlier this year and leads the student club at Ahmad’s Education in Dhaka, is now a WP Credits mentor, supporting the 17-student cohort that started on September 21. New mentors also joined from Serbia, Romania, Spain, and Costa Rica. Program admin Rita Robles Loaiza won first place at the 18th Latin American Women in Computing Conference with a paper on WP Credits.
WordPress Credits Foundations, built by @celigaroe, replaces the original 150-hour course and is the first with autograding, so students earn their certificate the moment they finish instead of waiting for a manual review.
@piyopiyofox published The WordPress Facilitator Training Program, Five Months In, tracing the first complete outcome chain: @devmuhib’s online faculty workshop in Bangladesh led to a full WP Credits program at Ahmad’s Education, five graduates, and one graduate now leading the school’s student club and mentoring the next cohort. @webtechpooja conducted an in-person faculty workshop at Texas International College in Nepal, where 11 faculty members took part in a hands-on session with help from @regankhadgi. @webtechpooja is now program lead, and two courses are open to anyone who wants to teach WordPress: Leading WordPress Education Programs and AI Literacy through WordPress.
WordPress Student Clubs
@devmuhib published Proposal: Rethinking how Student Clubs actually run, the first full definition of a club’s lifecycle from application to offboarding, with a readiness checklist for institutions, a mentor for the first 60 days, an eight-indicator health score, and three paths for graduating club leaders. A baseline audit of all recognized clubs starts in October.
Other Happenings
The AI-Powered WordPress course is live on Learn WordPress: four modules, about nine hours, including a developer module.
WordPress Education offers three practical ways for learners to develop skills, gain practical experience, and build confidence as open sourceOpen SourceOpen 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. contributors.
WordPress Credits is a program of the WordPress FoundationWordPress FoundationThe WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software. Find more on wordpressfoundation.org., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and it connects students at partner institutions with real contribution work on the WordPress project. We began with eight partner institutions, and in our first year we have worked across 17 countries and reached over 900 students. If you want to watch it happen, the WP Credits dashboard refreshes weekly from our program records and WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/ profiles.
That growth is the reason for this post. The program has reached the point where curriculum, translation, tooling, and the work of bringing new institutions on board all need steady funding behind them, and our current sponsorship setup was never designed for that. So we’re piloting new ways to support the program and the students, from in-kind mentorship through to funding an entire program. This is a test for 2027: we’ll run it, publish what we learn, and adjust or retire what doesn’t work.
Thank you to the sponsors who got us here
Weglot and Automattic have supported this program since it was an idea on a page, sponsoring the people who have designed, built, and worked to ensure the program improves and adapts to the needs of students and the community. Along with WPBakery, Hostinger, DreamHost, Hosting.com, Raiola Networks, Cloud86, Smarthost, Villa Sostaga, Elementor, miniOrange, and Novamira, they have also sponsored mentorsEvent SupporterEvent 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. who guide students, and contributed products that students use throughout the program. Mentors sponsored through Five for the Future have done the daily work of guiding students, cohort after cohort. None of the numbers above would exist without them, and the tiers below are built on what they made possible.
The tiers
Our community is vibrant and evolving, and we love stepping into new territory: trying, adjusting, and learning from what works and what doesn’t. That’s what has allowed a community more than 20 years old to evolve, overcome a global pandemic, and thrive. Starting in 2027, we’ll pilot the following tiers and refine them as we learn. These tiers cover WordPress Credits, and WordPress Campus Connect events stay separate from them.
Friend
Supporter
Backer
Champion
Partner
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In-kind (5ftF)
$5,000
$10,000
$15,000
$30,000+
Name on the partner page
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Mention in the mentorEvent SupporterEvent 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. feature
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Acknowledged in the sponsor thank you post
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Logo and description on the partner page
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Badge for your own site
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Annual program report
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Named for what you fund in program communications
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Report covering that cost line
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A self-written educational post about the sponsored product*
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An additional self-written sponsor post with factual, value-neutral information about additional products*
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Invitation to the annual education partners session
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Co-hosted webinar or event
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Named as program partner on the program you fund
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Named in launch communications
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Program-specific report
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*Sponsor posts are drafted by the company and published on wordpresseducation.org once the education team has reviewed them, so that everything we publish stays useful to students first.
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Friend, in-kind through Five for the Future. For companies sponsoring mentors through Five for the Future. Company name on the partner page at wordpresseducation.org, a mention in the mentor feature, and acknowledgement in the sponsor thank you post.
Supporter, $5,000 a year. Everything above, plus logo and description on the partner page, a badge for your own site, and the annual program report.
Backer, $10,000 a year. Everything above, plus being named for the specific part of the program you fund, a report covering that cost line, and a self-written educational post about the sponsored product on wordpresseducation.org.
Champion, $15,000 a year. Everything above, plus an additional self-written post with factual, value-neutral information about additional products, an invitation to our annual education partners session, and a webinar or event co-hosted with the education program.
Partner, from $30,000 a year. Everything above, plus funding a named program end to end, with the exclusive program partner role, a mention in launch communications, and a report specific to that program.
Products donated for student use
Separately from the tiers, sponsors at any level may offer free access to their products for students to use in the program, and the Foundation decides how those are shared. Donated products are offered at no cost to students, require no card details to use, and come with a way for students to export or move their work so nobody is locked in.
Donations may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law, less the value of any benefits received, and we will note that value in your acknowledgment letter. Donated products and services are not tax deductible. Please check with your own tax advisor.
What the Partner tier makes possible
This is the tier we most want people to look at. A Partner sponsorship funds a complete, named program, the kind we haven’t been able to build yet because we’ve always had to work within what we could afford, which means we can build programs around real needs rather than available budgets. That could be students translating WordPress into languages with thin coverage, students working on accessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility), or students building sites for nonprofit organizations that could not otherwise commission them, and those are only the first ideas we came up with, so there is plenty of room for others. If you see a need in the ecosystem that students could help meet, we would rather shape the program with you than hand you a list to choose from.
A Partner sponsor is named as program partner on the program they fund, holds the exclusive role within that program, is named in launch communications, and receives a report specific to that program.
Choosing a tier
A program managerProgram ManagerProgram Managers (formerly Super Deputies) are Program Supporters who can perform extra tasks on WordCamp.org like creating new sites and publishing WordCamps to the schedule. is reaching out to every current sponsor over the coming days to talk through which tier fits, and to make sure nobody ends up in a tier that asks more of them than they intended. If you sponsor the program today, you will hear from us directly, so there is nothing you need to do.
We are glad to talk it through first if that is easier. You can find us in the #wpcredits channel in the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/, or send us an email at education@wordpressfoundation.org, and we’re always happy to answer questions before you commit.
Most WordPress Campus Connect (WPCC) events in Indonesia are organized by universities and schools that are new to WordPress and to the Community Program. To keep payments simple for them, we’ve set up a local payment arrangement is being shared here for transparency.
Why a local approach
Events in Indonesia can’t use CampTix, and international wire transfers are a poor fit for small local vendor payments.
Until now, events have relied on the Lead Organizer’s bank account or local sponsorships
New organizers shouldn’t have to front costs from their own pockets or take on that financial overhead for a first event.
The payment process
WordPress Community SupportWordPress Community SupportWordPress Community Support PBC is a Public Benefit Corporation, created specifically to be the financial and legal support for WordCamps, WordPress Meetup groups, and any additional “official” events organized within the WordPress Community Events program. (WPCSWordPress Community SupportWordPress Community Support PBC is a Public Benefit Corporation, created specifically to be the financial and legal support for WordCamps, WordPress Meetup groups, and any additional “official” events organized within the WordPress Community Events program.) funds are graciously being held locally by @devinmaeztri, a Indonesian WPCC event mentorEvent SupporterEvent 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., who pays vendors in IDR on behalf of each event.
The organizer sends the mentor the vendor’s invoice and payment details.
The mentor pays the vendor.
The organizer submits a Vendor Payment request which is verified and marked as Payment Sent with a note that it was paid locally
The mentor records each payment in spreadsheet with the date, event, item, payee, and status. WPCS has access to the ledger for tracking purposes.
