Add 2023 Community Kickoff & Stats posts

docs/blog/2023-community-kickoff.rst

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+.. post:: Jan 17, 2023
+   :tags: stats, year in review, newsletter
+   :author: Eric Holscher
+
+Write the Docs Community Kickoff - January 2023
+===============================================
+
+Hey folks, Eric Holscher here, one of the co-founders of Write the Docs.
+I'm here with the traditional January community update,
+which goes out in place of the newsletter. 
+
+We're excited about a lot of things this year,
+but most of all we're excited to see you all again in-person.
+
+Our 2023 conferences
+--------------------
+
+Thanks to everyone who attended our virtual events in 2022.
+We had wonderful attendance in Portland, Prague, and Australia.
+We continue to appreciate the warmth and spirit that you bring to our virtual events,
+and look forward to more of it in 2023.
+
+We are excited this year for a partial return to in-person events,
+and a new experiment for our virtual event:
+
+* `Portland <https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/portland/2023/>`_ will be in-person on **May 7-9**.
+* `Atlantic <https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/atlantic/2023/>`_ will be a virtual event, spanning the US and European timezones, on **September 10-12**.
+
+We hope that you'll work with us to make all of our events unique again this year by submitting talks,
+and showing up with your usual enthusiasm and warmth.
+
+Team restructuring
+------------------
+
+There are some changes coming to our teams this year,
+specifically the `CoreOps team <https://www.writethedocs.org/team/#core-operations-coreops>`_ and new `Community board <https://www.writethedocs.org/team/#community-board>`_.
+
+The *CoreOps team* is a small group of us that have been working to make Write the Docs happen for a long time.
+Historically this group has included our Portland & Prague conference chairs,
+along with a couple other folks heavily involved in the overall operation of Write the Docs.
+It's responsible for the tasks involved in keeping Write the Docs a viable organization.
+
+The major change happening there is that Mikey Ariel will moving into a new role focused on non-conference community development.
+Sasha Romijn will be filling the role of conference chair for our Atlantic conference.
+The other members of the CoreOps team, myself & Samuel Wright, will continue with our current roles.
+
+The *Community board* is new, and tasked with the overall direction of the community.
+The members are the team leads of each of the Write the Docs team,
+as well as the conference chairs of our various conferences.
+Our goal is to have meetings quarterly where we all share the status of what we're working on,
+and any help that we could use in keeping the various teams functioning effectively.
+We're hoping that having more defined communication will help people feel more connected and supported in the work we're all doing.
+
+You can see the full set of changes in `pull request 1811 <https://github.com/writethedocs/www/pull/1811>`_.
+
+Other community updates
+-----------------------
+
+We have shared our high-level community stats for the past 5 years,
+and will continue to do it each year going forward.
+You can view our 2022 stats on our blog at :doc:`/blog/write-the-docs-2022-stats`.
+
+We're are now accepting `talk proposals <https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/portland/2023/cfp/>`_ and selling tickets for our Portland conference.
+It would be great to see you all in-person this year.
+
+**Submit your talk proposals by February 6th**,
+If you need feedback or help with your talk proposal,
+we will be having a `virtual talk prep meetup <https://www.meetup.com/virtual-write-the-docs-west-coast-quorum>`_.
+The meetup will be announced soon, so follow that group or the ``#meetups`` channel in Slack for updates.
+
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+----------------
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+
+
+Featured job posts
+------------------
+
+* `Technical Content Marketer <https://jobs.writethedocs.org/job/535/technical-content-marketer/>`__,  Chainlink Labs
+  Remote, full-time
+* `Technical Writer <https://jobs.writethedocs.org/job/559/technical-writer/>`__, Tecton
+  Remote (San Francisco, CA, USA), full-time
+* `Technical Writer  <https://jobs.writethedocs.org/job/570/technical-writer/>`__, Corrily
+  Remote, part-time
+
+*To apply for these jobs and more, visit the* `Write the Docs job board <https://jobs.writethedocs.org/>`_.
+
+
+Have a great year
+-----------------
+
+Thanks again for being part of our journey.
+
+The Write the Docs team

docs/blog/write-the-docs-2022-stats.rst

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+.. post:: Jan 13, 2023
+   :tags: stats, year in review
+   :author: Eric Holscher
+
+Write the Docs 2022 Stats
+=========================
+
+This year we have done a :doc:`/blog/2023-january-community-update` post along with our stats.
+Check there for context around the community going into 2023.
+
+Unfortunately our Podcast has been in hiatus for a while with no new episodes in 2022,
+so we have removed it from the stats post.
+
+2022 Stats
+----------
+
+We have shared our high-level community stats for the past 5 years,
+and will continue to do it each year going forward.
+
+You can read our previous posts from 2016_, 2017_, 2018_, 2019_, 2020_, 2022_.
+
+.. _2022: https://www.writethedocs.org/blog/write-the-docs-2022-stats/
+.. _2020: https://www.writethedocs.org/blog/write-the-docs-2020-stats/
+.. _2019: https://www.writethedocs.org/blog/write-the-docs-2019-stats/
+.. _2018: https://www.writethedocs.org/blog/write-the-docs-2018-stats/
+.. _2017: https://www.writethedocs.org/blog/write-the-docs-2017-stats/
+.. _2016: https://www.writethedocs.org/blog/write-the-docs-2016-year-in-review/
+
+Conferences
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* 650 attendees in Portland (down from 650)
+* 225 attendees in Prague (up from 330)
+* 100 attendees in Australia (no conference in 2022)
+
+We were excited to see continued success of the virtual conferences,
+but it definitely felt like more people are slowly yearning to return to in-person.
+The world has also had another large shock with the war in Ukraine,
+which we expect to have lowered our 2022 attendance in Prague.
+
+Slack Network
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* 18,339 :doc:`members </slack>` (up from 15,012)
+
+Newsletters
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* 10,558 :doc:`subscribers </newsletter>` (up from 9,237)
+
+This is across all our various mailing lists (conference-specific and community newsletter).
+
+Meetups
+~~~~~~~
+
+* Over 10,000 :doc:`members </meetups/index> (too many to count)
+
+Last year we stopped counting total meetups because we launched Quorum meetups that cover a larger geographic area.
+We're excited to see a return to in-person meetups,
+with the easing of COVID concerns in various areas where we have meetups.
+
+Website
+~~~~~~~
+
+* 270,000 sessions (up from 250,000)
+* 440,000 page views (up from 395,000)
+
+Our website traffic is generally pretty stable,
+but we do see spikes around our conferences.
+This number comes from Google Analytics which many users are blocking,
+so the numbers are likely much higher in terms of total traffic.
+
+GitHub
+~~~~~~
+
+* 745 commits_ to our repository (down from 1,193)
+* 26 people_ who contributed to our repository (down from 30)
+
+.. commits: git rev-list --count --all --after="2022-01-01" --before="2023-01-01"
+.. _commits: https://github.com/writethedocs/www/commits/master
+.. _people: https://github.com/writethedocs/www/graphs/contributors?from=2022-01-01&to=2023-01-01&type=c
+
+Thanks
+------
+
+Thanks again for being part of our journey,
+
+The Write the Docs team