In the November 2025 Community Team meeting in 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/, I asked the following question:
[…] Is there any plan for a Community Summit alongside a flagship event in 2027 or 2028, so future organizers know about it when applying to be a host city?
The reply from @peiraisotta was:
[…] If you and other community members want to organize it, please start a discussion and publish a post with what you have in mind so everyone can chime in, and if it moves forward, an organizing team can be created.
Looking back at previous Community Summits
The WordPress project has already benefited greatly from Community Summits in the past. For reference and historical context, you can find:
These past editions show how valuable it is to have a dedicated space, alongside a flagship event, for deeper conversations focused specifically on the WordPress Community.
A proposal for 2027 or 2028
The idea is to explore whether a Community Summit could be organized alongside a flagship WordPress event in 2027 or 2028, for example alongside WordCamp WordCamps 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 or WordCamp Europe, given that the most recent Community Summit took place in the United States in 2023.
This post is an invitation to Community members from those regions, or from the Community at large, to chime in, share perspectives, and, as a next step, potentially take on roles in shaping and organizing the Summit.
What organizing a Community Summit involves
Based on previous editions and experience from flagship events, organizing a Community Summit would require:
- Working with the Local team and the Local Team Helper (if an external company is involved, like at WordCamp Europe) for venue, catering, and other logistics.
- Coordinating with WordPress leadership and the WordPress Foundation The 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. to ensure alignment, support, and clarity around goals and constraints.
- Drafting a program and discussion formats that reflect current community topics, challenges, and opportunities, and that allows for meaningful discussions.
Call for interest
If you are interested in:
- Helping organize a future Community Summit
- Sharing thoughts on whether 2027 or 2028 would make sense
- Sharing thoughts on which flagship WordCamp it could be organized alongside
- Suggesting formats, goals and potential new ideas that would differ from past Summits
- Participating in program design or facilitation
- Suggesting approaches for post-event follow-ups, to help ensure that the projects, decisions, and actions agreed on during the Summit can effectively move forward
Please leave a comment on this post by April 30, 2026. Showing interest is the first step toward seeing whether there is enough energy and commitment in the Community to move this forward and, if so, to form an organizing team.
Looking forward to hearing the Community’s thoughts.
+make.wordpress.org/summit/
Written by: @patricia70
Reviews and corrections (in January) : @peiraisotta, @malgra, @valer1e, @nilovelez, @4thhubbard, (many thanks)
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