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What?
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A conference of
conversations
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Who?
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108 participants
(approximately)
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Disclaimer: I did not manage to include
every participant on the next slide (sorry)
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That wasn’t everyone
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Rarst
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Rarst
DENIED
(visa denied by the US because of stupid reasons)
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China
(large community, no attendees nominated)
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36% International
(ish)
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64% United States
(ish)
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Where?
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Sidenote: Tybee is now the
origin of the Taco Flight
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Why?
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How can we make
WordPress better?
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What are
the challenges
WordPress faces?
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How do we get more
people to contribute
to WordPress?
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How do we
strengthen the
community?
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How it worked
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(anyone could nominate a topic)
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(then we all milled around)
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(while Nacin worked out the schedule)
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(ta da!)
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(each discussion was round a round table)
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(someone led, someone else took notes)
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What did we discuss?
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Accessibility
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Theme review team
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Improving handbooks
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Managed
WordPress
hosting
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Making
WordPress
global
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Internationalisation
improvements
(I was in this one)
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WordPress
as a framework
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Contributing to core
without it being
a full time job
(I was in this one)
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Improving deployments
on WordPress
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WordPress Codex
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Transparency of the
WordPress Foundation
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Theme Functionality
vs Plugins
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Mobile apps
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Plugin dependencies
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GPL
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WordCamp.org
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Commercial Plugins
and Quality Control
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How can developers
with small plugins make
money and be legit?
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Future of multisite
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How WP Businesses
can Give Back
(I was in this one)
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Javascript
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Customizer future
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Pain when
theme switching
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Plugin performance
and security
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Abandoned plugins
(I was in this one)
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WordPress and Women
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Meetups
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Updates
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What will
kill WordPress?
(I was in this one)
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Internationalisation
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Mobile
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Rickityness
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What happened for the
rest of the week?
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Collaboration
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In summary
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“It was absolutely incredible
to be in the same place as all
the attendees, a real and
genuine thrill and honour.”
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“[I] have a lot more
momentum to move
forward with getting
involved than I
had previously.”
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“Really good to get together
in person and discuss all the
things that tend to go
unsaid or have never been
verbalized at all.”
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Hurrah for Jane!
(she spent so much effort making this happen)
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What next?
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I am WordPress
(and so can you)
(Credit: Amy Hendrix)
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I’ve been…
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simonwheatley.co.uk
@simonwheatley
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Photo Credits
themitcho
Kopepasah
konsobe
andrea_r
…did I forget anyone?
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