Konstantin Obenland | @obenland
Gareth Allison | @garethisatwit
Job Thomas | @jobtex
Automattic | @Automattic
Open-Source Yourself
How you can help build WordPress
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+24% of the web
Powers (almost) 1 in 4 websites
+60m
Total WordPress Sites
5 billion
Page Views
+430
Employees
+25k
Plugins
+14m
WordPress.com
4
Upgrades
• Volunteer contributors, loosely organized.
• Three releases a year.
• Decisions: Meritocracy.
How It’s Made
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• Asynchronous development, fast iterations.
• Must be ready at the beginning of a cycle.
• Won’t always end up in core.
Feature Plugins
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• Attend weekly dev-chat in #core.
• Look through “Good first bugs” report.
• Test patches and give feedback.
• Volunteer for unpopular tasks.
How to Contribute
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• Host on WordPress.org
• Handbooks:
developer.wordpress.org/plugins
developer.wordpress.org/themes
• Review Themes to learn and help others.
Plugins & Themes
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@jobtex
Other Expertise
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• Explain everything
- Documentation
- Support forums
• Include everyone
- Polyglots
- Accessibility
Other Expertise
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Documentation
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Support forums
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Swahili as example
• sw.wordpress.org
• translate.wordpress.org/locale/sw/
Polyglots
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24 April:
WPTranslationDay.org
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• Questions:
- Is all content available to everyone? (Perceivable)
- Can visitors use all functionality? (Operable)
- Can visitors comprehend all content?
(Understandable)
- Can visitors use any device? (Robust)
• make.wordpress.org/accessibility/handbook
Accessibility
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@garethisatwit
How to Contribute to
WordPress OFFLINE
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It’s a whole other level of learning
when you meet people, and there is so
much advice to be given.
- Kim Gjerstad
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How to Contribute to
WordPress OFFLINE
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• WordCamps
• Meetups
• Contributor Days
How to Contribute to
WordPress OFFLINE
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WordCamp?
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Less like this…
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…more like this:
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WordCamps
central.wordcamp.org
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WordCamp Kenya
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WordCamp Cape Town
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WordCamp Cape Town
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plan.wordcamp.org
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For me, the best part of organising these things is being able
to showcase how great a local WordPress community
can be and what it really means to come together as a
community. It’s always super rewarding seeing so many
people coming together under the banner of WordPress to
share ideas, make new connections, and generally have fun.
- Hugh Lashbrooke
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Meetups
www.meetup.com/pro/wordpress
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• Lagos, Nigeria
• Accra, Ghana
• Susah, Tunisia
• Yaoundé, Cameroon
• Lusaka, Zambia
WordPress Meetups in Africa
• Durban, South Africa
• Cape Town, South Africa
• Johannesburg, South Africa
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• Lagos, Nigeria
• Accra, Ghana
• Susah, Tunisia
• Yaoundé, Cameroon
• Lusaka, Zambia
WordPress Meetups in Africa
• Durban, South Africa
• Cape Town, South Africa
• Johannesburg, South Africa
• Support:
- Sign up on WordPress.org
- Answer 5 questions
• Make:
- Sign up on make.wordpress.org/chat
- Join at least 1 team
- Make 1 contribution
• Join/Organise:
- 1 Meetup
- 1 WordCamp
Challenge