Contributing to WordPress

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Contributing to WordPress #wpldn

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Siobhan McKeown Writer @ Words for WP Editor @ Smashing MagazinE WordPress Contributor @SiobhanPMcKeown

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WordPress Contributors (not looking at all crazy)

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Why Contribute to WordPress?

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Learn The more I dove in, the more interesting it became, and the more diﬃcult things I was able to ﬁgure out. Now, when I look back and see what I've learned just by contributing, I'm amazed. It's been more than I ever learned in college. Andrea Rennick

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Connect It raises your status inside the community, which is helpful, because it’s a very tight-knit community, and a lot of your business links are going to come from there. A lot of your potential partners on ventures and projects are going to come from within the community. And by contributing and staying close to that tight-knit group, you keep those connections alive. Mark Jaquith

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Career I got my job with DreamHost. And really, I used to work for a bank. I always used to say to people, I get satisfaction out of doing support for WordPress because I feel like I’m making things better for people in such a way that I can see the change happen that I know that I’m making peoples’ life a little bit better and a little bit easier, in a way that my job at the time just couldn’t satisfy. Mika Epstein

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Impact It’s not very often that something you do in an afternoon can touch so many folks, but WordPress is one of those places where you can. And for people who care about that, there’s nothing better. That feeling is so amazing. I still get it. I get that sort of shiver. You push out code or you push out change or a new design and you see the tweets start, you see the blog posts, you see the numbers move. It’s kind of amazing. Matt Mullenweg

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Love I’m totally a little bit of a hippy type, and I do it because I love the software. It’s my living. I get paid to do it full time. I love the community, and I think that the basic premise that WordPress is built on—democratizing publishing for everybody—is a really important one. Helen Hou-Sandi

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Developer Designer Writer Linguist Teacher Organiser Anyone

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Developer Designer Writer Linguist Teacher Organiser Anyone

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Core Features Bug Gardening Patches Testing

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3.6 Cycle Led By: Mark Jaquith & Aaron Campbell Features: Revisions AutoSave Post Format UI Editorial Flow Menus Projects: Twenty Thirteen Bug Gardening

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Better Docs for Developers

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Code Reference

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Plugins BuddyPress BBPress GlotPress

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The Future’s Mobile

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ioS Windows Android BlackBerry Objective C C# Java

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Patches Testing User Experience A11y

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Review Themes

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Developer Designer Writer Linguist Teacher Organiser Anyone

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Core Make WordPress beautiful

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Usability

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Documentation Layouts/Landing Pages/Styles

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Mobile Design for the Mobile Devices

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The BBs bbPress BuddyPRess User Interface User Experience Browser Testing UI Tickets

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Join The Theme Review Team

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Developer Designer Writer Linguist Teacher Organiser Anyone

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Codex Update the

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Handbooks Handbooks Targeted Documentation for Different User Groups

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Inline Help

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The bbs

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take Part in A Docs Sprint

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Developer Designer Writer Linguist Teacher Organiser Anyone

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Translate WordPress

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Rosetta Site Translate a

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Docs In Your Language

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Plugins BuddyPress GlotPress bbPress Innstikk Разширения םיפסות vtičnikov

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Translate the Mobile Apps Make Mobile Global

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Multilingual Support

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Developer Designer Writer Linguist Teacher Organiser Anyone

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Training Teach WordPress

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Courses Share Your Courses

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Developer Designer Writer Linguist Teacher Organiser Anyone

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WordCamps WordCamp Get People Together At A

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Meetup Start a

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Better Make Events

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Developer Designer Writer Linguist Teacher Organiser Anyone

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Everyone knows Answer The To Something

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Test

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Community Help Others Get Involved

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Speaking Share Your Knowledge

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How?

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Make WordPress http://make.wordpress.org/core http://make.wordpress.org/plugins http://make.wordpress.org/ui http://make.wordpress.org/support http://make.wordpress.org/themes http://make.wordpress.org/accessibility http://make.wordpress.org/docs http://make.wordpress.org/polyglots http://make.wordpress.org/mobile http://make.wordpress.org/events http://make.wordpress.org/community

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IRC Chat Schedule Wednesday: Mobile. 1600 UTC in #wordpress-mobile Wednesday: BuddyPress. 1900 UTC in #buddypress-dev Wednesday: bbPress. 1900 UTC in #bbpress Wednesday: Core. 2100 UTC in #wordpress-dev Thursday: Support & Docs. 2100 UTC in #wordpress-sfd To get help helping out, check out #wordpress-contribute irc.freenode.net

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Hack Days Hack Day

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Just Get Started

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Questions? @SiobhanPMcKeown

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Photo Credits Slide 55: Me at WordCamp Netherlands. Photo CC License dmvdberg Slide 47: WordCamp Netherlands. Photo CC License Erno Hannink Slide 3: WordPress Contributors. Photo copyright Dougal Campbell Slide 5: Learn. Photo CC License themitcho Slide 6: Connect. Photo Copyright konsobe Slide 7: Career. Photo Copyright konsobe Slide 8: Impact. Photo CC License Andrea Rennick Slide 9: Love. Photo CC License Andrea Rennick Slide 10 (etc): WordPress Community Summit. Photo Copyright Mika Epstein Slide 32: Photo CC License synx508