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Please note that some do_actiondo_actiondo_action hackathons are community-organised events that are focussed on using WordPress to give deserving charitable organisations their own online presence. Learn more on doaction.org. documentation may be outdated due to the changes in our event website and financial tools. If you have any questions, please ask your event mentorEvent SupporterEvent Supporter (formerly Mentor) is someone who has already organised a WordCamp and has time to meet with their assigned mentee every 2 weeks, they talk over where they should be in their timeline, help them to identify their issues, and also identify solutions for their issues. or in the #community-eventsSlack channel.
do_action is a charity hackathon that uses WordPress to uplift local communities.
do_action hackathons are community-organized events that focus on using WordPress to give deserving charitable organizations their own online presence. Each do_action event includes participants from the local WordPress community coming together to plan and build brand-new websites for a number of local organizations in one day.
The goal of do_action is to support these charitable organizations by giving them a fresh and dynamic online presence. This enables them to get on with the work that they already do so well without basic website management getting in the way of their productivity.
Each hackathon is organized by members of the local community. Once the non-profit organizations for the day are chosen, the signup form for the event is then activated, and anyone can sign up to be involved in the event as a participant. Signing up involves selecting the organization you would like to work with and selecting your role on the build team for their website. Each build team has many roles available, which can vary depending on the organization’s needs. In general, the available roles are Project Manager, Designer, Developer (x2), Social Media Manager, Content Manager, and Quality Assurance Tester.
Each event will also offer training to non-profit organizations on how to use WordPress effectively. This empowers them to be able to manage their own websites in the future.
With do_action being a WordPress-focused event, it made sense for the name to come from WordPress itself. do_action is a function that is used throughout WordPress coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and the name of the function really fits with the goal of the events: to allow the non-profits to ramp up their own activity and really get down to business.
There are two ways to get involved in do_action: You can sign up to participate in an event in your area, or organize one yourself. You will find the upcoming events listed on the doaction.org site, or you can have a look through this Organizer’s Handbook to find out more about how to organize your own do_action event.
To find out a bit more about what do_action is and how it works, here is the recap from the event in Zurich and here’s a video from the 2014 do_action event in Cape Town: