The Meetup Organizer Newsletter has been quiet since July 2025. Huge credit to @bjmcsherry, @josvelasco, and @peiraisotta for carrying that one.

As we’re all thinking hard about reconnecting communities, a regular events roundup feels like something worth having again, and I’d like to help bring it back.

I’ve been getting more involved in community events (just got approved to organize a 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. in my area 🙌🏻), and I want to lead the charge on getting a V1 out.

Keeping it simple to start: a monthly post highlighting upcoming and recent events across meetups 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., WordCamps, Campus Connect, and the “next gen” formats, with the cool things organizers are actually doing front and center.

From what I understand, the old one lapsed partly because it was a lot to put together by hand each month, and that got hard to keep up. One thing I’d like to use is 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/’s built-in AI, Slackbot. It can search across our event channels and pull together a surprisingly solid first draft in minutes. The idea is to let it do the heavy gathering, then a human pass to polish, fact-check, and pick photos, so it never falls entirely on one person to write from scratch.

I’m going to build a V1 and get a first issue out. To start, I’m planning to pull event updates from a few channels: #community-events, #campusconnect, #community-team, #student-clubs, and #contributor-day. I’ll share the first draft next week, and I’d love your input, now or once the draft is ready, on two things:

• What made the old newsletter useful, or what you’d change.
• Other channels or sources I should add.

And if you worked on it before, I especially want to hear from you.

#highlight, #proposal