Contributing To WordPress Community

This presentation talks about 17 different areas, where an individual can contribute to WordPress Community.

Everyone can contribute including Developers / Designers / Writers / Teachers (who teach WordPress) / Blogger / User.

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1. Contributing To WordPress By Meher Bala @meherbala WordPress Mumbai Meetup
2. I am Meher K Bala. Working as a Freelancer and Social Media Marketer. Been a part of the WordPress Mumbai community since 3 years. Contributing to WordPress since last 5 months.
4. Where To Start? https://make.wordpress.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/ https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ https://codex.wordpress.org/Contributing_to_WordPress
5. Forum https://wordpress.org/support/view/all-topics/
6. Slack Login with wordpress.org a/c on this link https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. Scroll on that second which say “Joining the WordPress team on Slack”. Enter Email Address. Check Your Email. You will have a “user@…” account. Activate your account. (wordpress.slack.com) Find the channel you’d like to contribute to and join.
7. 17 Areas YOU Can Contribute To: ★ Support ★ Documentation ★ Training ★ Community ★ TV ★ Polyglots ★ Marketing ★ Accessibility ★ Meta ★ Design ★ Mobile ★ Core ★ Themes ★ Plugins ★ Testing ★ CLI ★ Hosting
8. Support Answering a question in the support forums one of the easiest ways to start contributing. https://make.wordpress.org/support/ Weekly chats: Thursdays @ 16:00 UTC #forums channel on Slack
9. Documentation The docs team is responsible for creating documentation and is always on the look-out for writers. https://make.wordpress.org/docs/ Weekly chats: Thursdays @ 18:00 UTC #docs channel on Slack
10. Training Creates downloadable lesson plans and related materials for instructors to use in a live workshop environment. https://make.wordpress.org/training/ Weekly chats: Tuesdays @ 19:00 UTC #training channel on Slack
11. Community Interested in organizing a meetup or a WordCamp. WPMumbai will very shortly start looking for volunteers for WCMumbai 2018. Join different channel on WPMumbai Slack and stay up-to-date. https://wpmumbai.org/join-slack/
12. TV The TV team reviews and approves every video including WordCamps submitted to WordPress.tv. https://make.wordpress.org/tv/ Weekly chats: Thursdays @ 17:00 UTC #wptv channel on Slack
13. Polyglots Help out by translating WordPress into your own language Hindi, Marathi, Gujrati. Also assist with creating the tools that make translations easier. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/ Weekly chats: Wednesdays @ 10:00 UTC #polyglots channel on Slack
14. Polyglots - India Saurabh is planning to create a resource on wpindia.org where demo versions of WP will be installed in different languages and available for everyone to test. Want to know more, join the #polyglots channel on WPIndia slack. https://wpindia.slack.com
15. Marketing The marketing team oversees materials which help people sell and market WordPress the software and the community. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/ Weekly chats: Wednesdays @ 17:00 UTC #marketing channel on Slack
16. Accessibility Make WordPress and everything on WordPress.org accessible to people of all abilities. https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/ Weekly chats: Mondays @ 17:00 UTC #accessibility channel on Slack
17. Meta The Meta team is responsible for maintaining and managing WordPress.org websites. https://make.wordpress.org/meta/ #meta channel on Slack
18. Design The design group is focused on the designing and developing the user interface. https://make.wordpress.org/design/ Weekly chats: Thursdays @ 16:00 UTC #design channel on Slack
19. Mobile The mobile team builds the iOS and Android apps. https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/ Weekly chats: Mondays @ 16:00 UTC #mobile channel on Slack
20. Core Support The Core team makes the WordPress software. Write code, fix bugs, debate decisions, and help with development in the core product. https://make.wordpress.org/core/ Weekly chats: Wednesdays @ 20:00 UTC #core channel in Slack
21. Themes The Theme Review team reviews and approves every Theme submitted to the WordPress Theme repository. https://make.wordpress.org/themes/ Weekly chats: Tuesdays @ 18:00 UTC #themereview channel on Slack
22. Plugin The Plugin Review team acts as gate-keepers and fresh eyes on newly submitted plugins, as well as reviewing any reported security or guideline violations. https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/ #pluginreview channel on Slack
23. Testing The Test team patrols flow across the entire WordPress ecosystem on every device we have at hand. Test, document, and report on the WordPress user experience. https://make.wordpress.org/core-flow/ #core-flow channel on Slack
24. Test Gutenberg! New drag and drop block editor for WordPress. Install the new editor and test it! https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/ All feedback is welcome. The more testers the merrier!
25. CLI WP-CLI is the official command line tool for interacting with and managing your WordPress sites. https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ Weekly chats: Tuesdays @ 1600 UTC #cli channel on Slack
26. Hosting Discussion about the best hosting practices and tools for the community. This channel is mostly for people who are in the hosting company. https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/ Weekly chats: Wednesdays @ 17:00 UTC #hosting-community channel on Slack
30. Ways To Contact Me: Twitter: @meherbala WP Slack Channel: @meher WP Mumbai Slack Channel: @meher Email Id: meher@meherbala.in