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Organize a WordPress Campus Connect event

WordPress Campus Connect helps you bring hands-on WordPress learning to your school. These focused, approachable events give students practical website-building experience, connect them with industry professionals, and introduce them to open-source collaboration. Workshops typically cover topics such as:

  • Building responsive websites
  • Customizing themes and plugins
  • Understanding SEO fundamentals
  • Contributing to the WordPress open-source project

Each event creates opportunities for students to learn, collaborate, and join the global WordPress community, without the complexity of organizing a full WordCamp.

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How the WordPress Campus Connect Program Works

Flexible, simplified format
Campus Connect events can be half-day or full-day workshops, a series of events over time, or a series of workshops across different campuses. 

Free and supported
All WordPress Campus Connect events are free for participants. The WordPress Foundation covers event expenses (up to $300 USD per campus) under the Global Sponsorship Program

Consistent branding and materials
You’ll use the official WordPress Campus Connect logo and presentation templates to keep things consistent worldwide.

Friendly guidance
Community supporters can help with any questions you have in setup. Feel free to join the conversation now in the #campusconnect channel on Slack.

Ready to get started?

Educators, student leaders, and community organizers are encouraged to apply. Tell us a bit about yourself and the event you have in mind, and a community supporter will reach out to help with the next steps.

WordPress Campus Connect Organizer Form

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Read the WordPress Campus Connect Organizer Agreement

WordPress Campus Connect Organizer Agreement

This agreement is designed to direct the responsibilities and obligations of the WordPress Campus Connect Organizers as they decide to organize an official WordPress event and represent the WordPress Open Source project. Organizers guide community members in acting according to the project philosophy, codes of conduct, and program guidelines.

The purpose of this agreement is to clearly define expectations and preserve the integrity of our community.

As a WordPress event organizer, you agree to:

  1. I agree that WordPress Campus Connect events are meant to benefit the local WordPress community through live events and the broader WordPress community through the sharing of online video and other materials.
  2. I agree that a WordPress Campus Connect event is a casual, locally and volunteer organized event, focused on WordPress and reflecting the local WordPress community it represents.
  3. By officially associating myself with WordPress Campus Connect as an organizer, I understand that I am expected to support the WordPress project and its principles.
  4. I understand that the principles of the WordPress project include:
    • no discrimination on the basis of economic or social status, race, color, ethnic, origin, national origin, creed, religion, political belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, or disability
    • no incitement to violence or promotion of hate
    • no spammers
    • no jerks
    • respect the WordPress trademark
    • embrace the WordPress license; If distributing WordPress derivative works (themes, plugins, WP distros), any person or business officially associated with WP events should give their users the same freedoms that WordPress itself provides: 100% GPL or compatible, the same guidelines we follow on WordPress.org.
    • don’t promote companies or people that violate the WordPress trademark or distribute WordPress derivative works which aren’t 100% GPL compatible
  5. I agree that WordPress Campus Connect events are not for profit events, organized with budget and funding transparency.
  6. I agree that WordPress Campus Connect events should be accessible to as many people as possible, regardless of financial status.
  7. I agree that I am not an employee of the WordPress Foundation and am participating in the WordPress Campus Connect event/s exclusively as a volunteer.