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From Blogger to
Core Committer
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Pascal Birchler
@swissspidy
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Make WordPress
great again
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Core Committer?
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My beginnings
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Baby steps into WordPress
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Swiss WordPress Magazine
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The ins and outs of WordPress
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It was great!
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Events
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WordCamp Switzerland
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WordPress Zurich Meetup
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Just do it
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My first core
contributions
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WordCamp Europe
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core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/25725
“props swissspidy”
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It felt amazing
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WordCamp Europe by night
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Breaking things
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WP_User_Query
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That was easy!
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Except it wasn’t
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You learn from failure,
not from success.
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On Feature Plugins
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20 contributors. 500 commits.
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Breaking things again
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Backwards compatibility
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Swiss chocolate
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WordCamp US
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Committing in 3… 2… 1…
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core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/35795
“Author: swissspidy […]”
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Looking back
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Why you should
contribute to WordPress
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make.wordpress.org/
great-again
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Because WordPress
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It makes you a better
developer
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It makes you a better
designer
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It makes you a better
project manager
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Swiss chocolate
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WordCamp US
The people are awesome
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Thank you!
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Questions?
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Tea time!
Photos: Silvan Hagen Florian Ziegler Sheri Bigelow Petya
Raykovska Andrey Savchenko Stefan Pasch Marco Hartmann