I stepped down from leading the Toronto WordPress Group last fall. (Brent Kobayashi is now the lead organizer.) I never took that sabbatical/break — woops! — but things have worked out all the same.
With lead organizer duties off my shoulders, I now have the time to help onboard event hosts for Toronto’s WordPress meetups; support other non-WordPress meetups in our city; and, starting soon, help other WordPressers organize meetups in their own cities.
From today’s Make WordPress Community meeting notes:
In-house Mentorship Program. Jen to contact each contributor group about developing a 1-month/3-month pilot per the post about it. For this team, we’ll try pilots around meetup organizing, WordCamp organizing, and WordPress.tv. Jen and Andrea will work out the volunteers and will set up a meeting next week to discuss the content with those volunteers. @andymci will be one of the first meetup mentors. @STDestiny reminded us of the work done last year around a WC mentorship program. (We need to find you a new username that doesn’t make people think of STDs.)
Last month I shared some thoughts about organizing meetups over on WPUniversity.com. Through this new effort with the Make WordPress Community team I hope that we can get more WordPress groups going around the world.
WordCamps are great and all, but why limit it to just a weekend of WordPress? 
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