Category: News
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Announcing the winners of the Share Your Pride Photo Drive
Thanks for the patience while we reviewed the Share Your Pride submissions. Whew, you all made it hard for us! If you haven’t yet, we recommend going through all of the 76 submitted photos. Which were your favorites? Let us know in the comments. As hard as it was to make a decision, we narrowed…
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Share Your Pride with the WordPress Photo Directory
Quick, strike a pose! To help celebrate Pride month, we’re running a photo drive to the WordPress Photo Directory and offering up some cash prizes as a bonus. The funding for the prizes are proudly powered by Queeromattic, the collection of queers within Automattic. Who can participate? Anyone and everyone. What counts? Any rainbow themed…
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Insights from LGBTQ+Press Empowerment Grantees
With the completion of the LGBTQ+Press Empowerment Grant, we ran a survey and wanted to share some high level results both for more public accountability and so any future folks who want to run the same or similar program can learn from what we did. The questions below match the questions asked in the survey…
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Let’s celebrate our six LGBTQ+Press Empowerment Grantees
After announcing the first LGBTQ+Press Empowerment grant, six folks applied and six folks have been chosen to be grantees. Let’s all take a moment to celebrate them–dance, raise a toast, smile to yourself, whatever works. Originally, only four folks were going to be chosen but, thanks to some extra budget planning and discussions, Queeromattic decided…
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On being out (or not) & the LGBTQ+Press Empowerment Grant
The WordPress community is vast, spanning many countries, languages, backgrounds, and more. The same is true of the LGBTQ+ community and the spectrum of experiences we each have. In launching the LGBTQ+Press Empowerment Grant, subsequent conversations have been stirred up. It became clear that there was a need and opportunity to be explicit about how…
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Announcing the first LGBTQ+Press Empowerment Grant
Bring out your rainbows! 2024 is starting off with some great news for LGBTQ+ folks interested in contributing to WordPress: you can receive a $500 grant to participate in and complete the WordPress Mentorship Program. The funding is proudly powered by Queeromattic, the collection of queers within Automattic. This is a new initiative with the…