Master Remote Work by Contributing to Open Source Projects

by Petya Raykovska

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MASTER REMOTE WORK By contributing to open source projects

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@petyeah #WCPorto Human Made | WordPress polyglots | WordCamp Europe OLÁ!

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@petyeah #WCPorto with 20k employees WORDPRESS 100% DISTRIBUTED

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@petyeah #WCPorto MY JOURNEY Tiny, jobless Petya circa 2002

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@petyeah #WCPorto 1 2 Planting and picking beans in a ﬁeld in the middle of the UK 3 WORK EXPERIENCE: Running a school newspaper Helping at my grandfather’s pottery shop

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USEFUL SKILLS Reading sci-fi & daydreaming Getting lost and surviving while climbing Creativity Events Communication Bossing my friends around

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@petyeah #WCPorto FLEXIBLE HOURS INTERESTING GROW LEARN MENTORSHIP BALANCED DREAM JOB

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@petyeah #WCPorto GOAL: EXPERIENCE

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@petyeah #WCPorto INTERNSHIP?

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@petyeah #WCPorto FLEXIBLE HOURS INTERESTING GROW LEARN MENTORSHIP PAYS THE BILLS DREAM JOB :/

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@petyeah #WCPorto

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@petyeah #WCPorto No offices No commute Hired from anywhere WORK THE FUTURE OF WORK Work with the best

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@petyeah #WCPorto WHY REMOTE?

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@petyeah #WCPorto Work anywhere 1 Make up your own hours 2 Do something of value 3 WHY REMOTE?

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@petyeah #WCPorto THE CHALLENGES OF REMOTE WORK

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@petyeah #WCPorto DEAL WITH TIME ZONES

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@petyeah #WCPorto WORK ASYNCHRONOUSLY

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@petyeah #WCPorto COMMUNICATING ONLINE

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@petyeah #WCPorto DOCUMENTING ALL THE THINGS

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@petyeah #WCPorto WORKING IN A REMOTE TEAM

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@petyeah #WCPorto STRONG CULTURE

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@petyeah #WCPorto

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@petyeah #WCPorto CONTRIBUTE TO WORDPRESS

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@petyeah #WCPorto BUT I’M NOT A DEVELOPER!

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@petyeah #WCPorto MY JOURNEY Petya @ WCEU 2013

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@petyeah #WCPorto PEOPLE LIKE TO WORK WITH GREAT PEOPLE that make things happen

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@petyeah #WCPorto STILL DON’T BELIEVE ME? let’s look at a couple of things you can do on the project

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@petyeah #WCPorto CODE MARKETING CUSTOMER SERVICE ACCESSIBILITY & UX WRITE CODE MOBILE APPS EVENT MANAGEMENT TRANSLATE SOFTWARE DESIGN PEOPLE SKILLS TRAINING

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@petyeah #WCPorto WHAT CAN YOU LEARN BY CONTRIBUTING?

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@petyeah #WCPorto DEVELOPMENT http://make.wordpress.org/core | http://make.wordpress.org/meta

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@petyeah #WCPorto UX & DESIGN http://make.wordpress.org/design http://make.wordpress.org/themereview make.wordpress.org/accessibility

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@petyeah #WCPorto EVENT MANAGEMENT make.wordpress.org/community

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@petyeah #WCPorto ONLINE MARKETING http://make.wordpress.org/marketing

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@petyeah #WCPorto DOCUMENTATION WRITING make.wordpress.org/docs

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@petyeah #WCPorto CUSTOMER SERVICE make.wordpress.org/support

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@petyeah #WCPorto SOFTWARE LOCALISATION make.wordpress.org/polyglots

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@petyeah #WCPorto TRAINING & TEACHING make.wordpress.org/training

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@petyeah #WCPorto WHAT ELSE YOU CAN LEARN FROM CONTRIBUTING?

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@petyeah #WCPorto THE IMPORTANT STUFF

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@petyeah #WCPorto HOW TO WORK IN A REMOTE TEAM

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@petyeah #WCPorto THE GENTLE ART OF ONLINE COMMUNICATION

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@petyeah #WCPorto HOW TO DELEGATE

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@petyeah #WCPorto HOW TO LEAD

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@petyeah #WCPorto HOW TO BE A GREAT HUMAN BEING

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@petyeah #WCPorto Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character. You’re too good for schadenfreude, you’re too good for gossip and snark, you’re too good for intolerance, you’re too good to think people who disagree with you are your enemy. Don’t ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world. It’s the only thing that ever has. DECISIONS ARE MADE BY THOSE WHO SHOW UP „ “