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I am a fraud (and you can, too!).

Talk given for OKC WordPress Meetup Feb. 2014, focusing on overcoming Impostor Syndrome and contributing to WordPress.

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Transcript

  1. S Morgan W. Estes WordPress Developer Impostor

  2. S I am a fraud. And so can you!

  3. Impostor Syndrome

  4. Credentials S  Studied Info Systems in college. S  Graduated with

    Liberal Studies degree. S  Web Services Coordinator for the Oklahoma Bar Association. S  None of those sites exist any more. S  Wrote an app for iPad with JavaScript. S  Yeah, but just one of 5 other devs on it. S  And it looks ugly. S  Have my own blog on WordPress. S  Started on Blogger. S  Highest day’s view count: 41. S  Core contributor to WordPress. S  Minor changes anyone could have done.
  5. None

  6. My First Core Contribution

  7. Contribution ≠ Code

  8. Contribution Options

  9. How Open Source Works http://devpractic.es/post/77041646125/how-open-source-works

  10. Someone always knows more than you. But someone else knows

    less.

  11. @morganestes morganestes.me morganestes.wordpress.com