A presentation to the Manchester WordPress User Group on the WordPress Community Summit.
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What?
A conference ofconversations
Who?
108 participants(approximately)
Disclaimer: I did not manage to includeevery participant on the next slide (sorry)
That wasn’t everyone
Rarst
RarstDENIED(visa denied by the US because of stupid reasons)
China(large community, no attendees nominated)
36% International(ish)
64% United States(ish)
Where?
Sidenote: Tybee is now theorigin of the Taco Flight
Why?
How can we makeWordPress better?
What arethe challengesWordPress faces?
How do we get morepeople to contributeto WordPress?
How do westrengthen thecommunity?
How it worked
(anyone could nominate a topic)
(then we all milled around)
(while Nacin worked out the schedule)
(ta da!)
(each discussion was round a round table)
(someone led, someone else took notes)
What did we discuss?
Accessibility
Theme review team
Improving handbooks
ManagedWordPresshosting
MakingWordPressglobal
Internationalisationimprovements(I was in this one)
WordPressas a framework
Contributing to corewithout it beinga full time job(I was in this one)
Improving deploymentson WordPress
WordPress Codex
Transparency of theWordPress Foundation
Theme Functionalityvs Plugins
Mobile apps
Plugin dependencies
GPL
WordCamp.org
Commercial Pluginsand Quality Control
How can developerswith small plugins makemoney and be legit?
Future of multisite
How WP Businessescan Give Back(I was in this one)
Javascript
Customizer future
Pain whentheme switching
Plugin performanceand security
Abandoned plugins(I was in this one)
WordPress and Women
Meetups
Updates
What willkill WordPress?(I was in this one)
Internationalisation
Mobile
Rickityness
What happened for therest of the week?
Collaboration
In summary
“It was absolutely incredibleto be in the same place as allthe attendees, a real andgenuine thrill and honour.”
“[I] have a lot moremomentum to moveforward with gettinginvolved than Ihad previously.”
“Really good to get togetherin person and discuss all thethings that tend to gounsaid or have never beenverbalized at all.”
Hurrah for Jane!(she spent so much effort making this happen)
What next?
I am WordPress(and so can you)(Credit: Amy Hendrix)
I’ve been…
simonwheatley.co.uk@simonwheatley
Photo CreditsthemitchoKopepasahkonsobeandrea_r…did I forget anyone?