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

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1. Finding
   Your
   Way
   Around
   Angela Jin
   @angelasjin
   WordCamp Boston 2019
   

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2. WordPress
   community
   organizer
   Connecting and
   empowering
   Celebrating
   one year!
   

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3. You’re already
   here!
   ...What now?
   

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6. Just over a
   year ago...
   Years using
   WordPress
   "
   

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7. WordPress is
   Open Source
   Software
   

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8. WordPress is Open Source Software
   General Public License (GPL)
   FOUR ESSENTIAL
   FREEDOMS
   

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9. ESSENTIAL FREEDOM #1
   Freedom to Run
   

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10. ESSENTIAL FREEDOM #2
    Freedom to Study
    

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11. ESSENTIAL FREEDOM #3
    Freedom to Copy
    and Share
    

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12. ESSENTIAL FREEDOM #4
    Freedom to Modify
    

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13. The limit does not exist!
    

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14. Software as a
    Service (SAAS)
    Training
    Hosting
    Agency Work
    
    $
    ☁
    &
    
    
    Wait a
    minute...
    

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15. Open Source
    Software
    The WordPress
    Community
    AND THE
    

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17. Contributors
    

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18. Do I need to know
    how to code?
    

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19. NOPE.
    but if you want to:
    PHP
    , JavaScript, HTML/CSS
    

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20. make.wordpress.org
    Get Involved!
    

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21. Accessibility CLI Core Documentation Support Test
    Community Design Hosting Marketing TV Mobile
    Training Plugins Tide Polyglots Themes Meta
    

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23. chat.wordpress.org
    Get Online!
    

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24. Communication
    tips
    Be patient
    Provide context
    and feedback
    Ask all the
    questions
    
    
    ⁉
    

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25. Join or start
    your local
    WordPress Meetup
    

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26. Boston WordPress Meetup
    ! https://www.meetup.com/boston-wordpress-meetup/
    ! https://bostonwp.org/speak-at-a-meetup/
    

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27. Finding
    Your
    Way
    Around
    Angela Jin
    @angelasjin
    WordCamp Boston 2019
    

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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/
    

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