What happened at the WordPress Community Summit

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2. What?

3. A conference of conversations

4. Who?

5. 108 participants (approximately)

6. Disclaimer: I did not manage to include every participant on

   the next slide (sorry)
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8. That wasn’t everyone

9. Rarst

10. Rarst DENIED (visa denied by the US because of stupid

    reasons)

11. China (large community, no attendees nominated)

12. 36% International (ish)

13. 64% United States (ish)

14. Where?

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18. Sidenote: Tybee is now the origin of the Taco Flight

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20. Why?

21. How can we make WordPress better?

22. What are the challenges WordPress faces?

23. How do we get more people to contribute to WordPress?

24. How do we strengthen the community?

25. How it worked

26. (anyone could nominate a topic)

27. (then we all milled around)

28. (while Nacin worked out the schedule)

29. (ta da!)

30. (each discussion was round a round table)

31. (someone led, someone else took notes)

32. What did we discuss?

33. Accessibility

34. Theme review team

35. Improving handbooks

36. Managed WordPress hosting

37. Making WordPress global

38. Internationalisation improvements (I was in this one)

39. WordPress as a framework

40. Contributing to core without it being a full time job

    (I was in this one)

41. Improving deployments on WordPress

42. WordPress Codex

43. Transparency of the WordPress Foundation

44. Theme Functionality vs Plugins

45. Mobile apps

46. Plugin dependencies

47. GPL

48. WordCamp.org

49. Commercial Plugins and Quality Control

50. How can developers with small plugins make money and be

    legit?

51. Future of multisite

52. How WP Businesses can Give Back (I was in this

    one)

53. Javascript

54. Customizer future

55. Pain when theme switching

56. Plugin performance and security

57. Abandoned plugins (I was in this one)

58. WordPress and Women

59. Meetups

60. Updates

61. What will kill WordPress? (I was in this one)

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63. Internationalisation

64. Mobile

65. Rickityness

66. What happened for the rest of the week?

67. Collaboration

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70. In summary

71. “It was absolutely incredible to be in the same place

    as all the attendees, a real and genuine thrill and honour.”

72. “[I] have a lot more momentum to move forward with

    getting involved than I had previously.”

73. “Really good to get together in person and discuss all

    the things that tend to go unsaid or have never been verbalized at all.”

74. Hurrah for Jane! (she spent so much effort making this

    happen)
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76. What next?

77. I am WordPress (and so can you) (Credit: Amy Hendrix)

78. I’ve been…

79. simonwheatley.co.uk @simonwheatley

80. Photo Credits themitcho Kopepasah konsobe andrea_r …did I forget anyone?

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