About Me • Partner at Orion Group • PHP, JS, .NET, Ruby, iOS, (Lisp?) • Organizer of Milwaukee PHP User Group mkepug.com • Organizer of MobileMKE meetup.com/MobileMKE Thursday, July 19, 12
Goals for today • Why should I contribute to open source? • What types of help is needed? • How do I make a meaningful contribution? Thursday, July 19, 12
The selfish reasons • Make your own life easier (fix a bug, improve docs, etc) • Scratch your own itch (build something entirely new) • Resume/career booster (good for freelancers too) • Get experience and become a better developer Thursday, July 19, 12
How to get started • Work on something that interests you personally • Follow the coding standards • http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Coding_Standards • Understand the community Thursday, July 19, 12
What next? • Start small, but start soon • Slides posted on joelclermont.com this evening • Contact me for help / questions • Twitter @jclermont • #devmke (freenode) Thursday, July 19, 12