Paul Kevan

If Edit flow doesn't solve this (require investigation), then a simple code addition on `transition_post_status` would probably suffice and would be preferable to another plugin.

It looks like the conflicts in `public_html/wp-content/plugins/wcpt/wcpt-meetup/meetup-loader.php` change some of the permissions, but not sure if it's solved completely (probably not), would you mind taking a look @timiwahalahti to confirm?

 It is consistent with the [WordCamp form](https://central.wordcamp.org/wordcamp-organizer-application/), and it seems like that has probably been this way for a while.

> It looks like it was a BuddyPress bug, so I filed a report. > > I'll see if there's a good workaround. If not we may be need to...

It might be better to assume that some sites have a fixed top nav, and just place this banner somewhere below that - I do wonder about the effectiveness of...

> we don't want to force WordCamp attendees to have a wordpress.org account Makes sense, I wasn't assuming it would be forced, but as an option.

 Example: all countries which appear in the list currently have no events.

Yeah, I looked into it a bit yesterday, and found it was quite complicated - I was hoping that the stat `108 countries` on the homepage was a cached query...

> Come up with the badge [dashicon](https://developer.wordpress.org/resource/dashicons) with the Community team it doesn't look like a badge has been created yet, so we'd need that done first, since any manual...

The badge has been created (along with the relevant group), an example is on my profile: https://profiles.wordpress.org/paulkevan/