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Bridging Communities

Bridging Communities

The WordPress project is built on many technologies and even more experiences. With that we have managed to collectively build the most popular CMS system to date. The project is also big enough to have a global network of communities. Although strong and self sufficient, has this come at a price?

This talk will review how people not inside the WordPress community view us. I will bring some practical suggestions and solutions on how we can look outside our comfort zones, widen our knowledge circles and ensure that we learn from other communities mistakes whilst bridging the gap. As a result, we can make our communities more diverse and stronger for the future.

Jenny Wong

June 26, 2015
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  1. @miss_jwo #wceu “From the glimpses I get through your feed:

    A very large, vibrant, active, passionate group of people.”
  2. @miss_jwo #wceu The mocking of WordPress by other communities is

    like watching my parents have a fight every day.
  3. @miss_jwo #wceu The mocking of any technology by anyone is

    like watching my parents have a fight every day.
  4. @miss_jwo #wceu “I generally have good experience interacting online with

    authors of PHP projects/libraries that I use.”
  5. @miss_jwo #wceu “Not much regular interaction, but I am tired

    of reading blog posts our articles that denigrate WordPress!”
  6. @miss_jwo #wceu – a WordPress core developer “I’m too scared

    to go. They [the PHP developers] will mock me for being a WordPress developer”
  7. @miss_jwo #wceu We are able to choose our words, 


    but we are not able to choose the affect they will have on others