Finding Your Way Around WordPress

WordPress is powerful software with a large, diverse community — even if you know how to use WordPress, it can be hard to know how to get started in the community! In this session, Angela will share lessons learned from one year of participation in the WordPress community, including key terminology, an overview of the teams and skills that build WordPress, and tips for cross-discipline communication, all with the goal of helping you get involved.

WordCamp Boston July 2019
#WCBOS

Transcript

1. Finding Your Way Around Angela Jin @angelasjin WordCamp Boston 2019
2. WordPress community organizer Connecting and empowering Celebrating one year!
3. You’re already here! ...What now?
6. Just over a year ago... Years using WordPress "
7. WordPress is Open Source Software
8. WordPress is Open Source Software General Public License (GPL) FOUR ESSENTIAL FREEDOMS
9. ESSENTIAL FREEDOM #1 Freedom to Run
10. ESSENTIAL FREEDOM #2 Freedom to Study
11. ESSENTIAL FREEDOM #3 Freedom to Copy and Share
12. ESSENTIAL FREEDOM #4 Freedom to Modify
13. The limit does not exist!
14. Software as a Service (SAAS) Training Hosting Agency Work $ ☁ & Wait a minute...
15. Open Source Software The WordPress Community AND THE
17. Contributors
18. Do I need to know how to code?
19. NOPE. but if you want to: PHP , JavaScript, HTML/CSS
20. make.wordpress.org Get Involved!
21. Accessibility CLI Core Documentation Support Test Community Design Hosting Marketing TV Mobile Training Plugins Tide Polyglots Themes Meta
23. chat.wordpress.org Get Online!
24. Communication tips Be patient Provide context and feedback Ask all the questions ⁉
25. Join or start your local WordPress Meetup
26. Boston WordPress Meetup ! https://www.meetup.com/boston-wordpress-meetup/ ! https://bostonwp.org/speak-at-a-meetup/
27. Finding Your Way Around Angela Jin @angelasjin WordCamp Boston 2019
28. Resources ! https://www.tedxgeneva.net/talks/richard-stallman-free-software-free-society/ ! https://wordpress.org/about/ ! https://hugh.blog/2019/03/15/becoming-a-good-open-source-citizen/ ! https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/wordcamp-organizer/planning-details/gpl- primer/ Get Involved! ! https://make.wordpress.org/ ! https://make.wordpress.org/chat/