Hey all,

Yes, this is a call for papers, but it's also an interesting read on open so don't go straight for the delete button.

Quick read

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https://2020.pressedconf.org/ is the pressED website. PressED is a conference about WordPress which happens solely on twitter. So there are no fees to attend and anyone in the world can attend (hopefully, and with caveats on internet access).  Last year, many tweets got over 5000 impressions, and every tweet was seen by at least 500 people. 

Long read

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PressED is a conference (https://2020.pressedconf.org/) about WordPress / ClassicPress which happens solely on twitter. So there are no fees to attend and anyone in the world can attend (hopefully, and with caveats on internet access).  Last year, many tweets got over 10000 impressions, and every tweet was seen by at least 500 people. 

The call for submissions is available in the 10 most spoken languages in the world (plus one for both forms of Chinese). If you go to the call for papers page - https://2019.pressedconf.org/call-for-papers/ - you can see the call in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (Mainland), Chinese (Simplified), Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish and English. In doing this, that means 42% of the world is covered (in terms of first language, caveats on literacy). In terms of second languages, it covers 4.6 billion people, so around 70%of the world's population.  People are welcome to tweet their presentation in the language of their choice as well (they always would have been, but we've said it explicitly this year). The translation work was done by professional translators.

Secondly, we adhering as best we can to the principles of the progressive stack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_stack) which relates, indirectly to research on how questions at conferences can be discriminatory on grounds of gender. We've also signed the diversity charter - https://diversitycharter.org/signatories/

Thirdly, we're aiming to favour new voices in the peer review process, and when submitting we ask if you've presented a conference before and if you've presented at pressED before. People submitting who've presented before still have a chance to get through, it's just people who haven't get a boost during peer review. Last year we had two students present on their work, and our gender balance was 50/50. We were still very global north, so we've tried with a lot of the above to open up to more areas. 

Fourthly, we've got a mentoring site set up where people can submit their ideas and then gain support from community members - https://mentoring.pressedconf.org. There's also a site to gain help on how to come up with your idea and how to present it https://toptips.pressedconf.org 

Anyways, stories over

Thanks for reading

Natalie and Pat

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