What happened at the WordPress Community Summit

A presentation to the Manchester WordPress User Group on the WordPress Community Summit.

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2. What?
   

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3. A conference of
   conversations
   

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4. Who?
   

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5. 108 participants
   (approximately)
   

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6. Disclaimer: I did not manage to include
   every participant on the next slide (sorry)
   

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8. That wasn’t everyone
   

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9. Rarst
   

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

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11. China
    (large community, no attendees nominated)
    

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12. 36% International
    (ish)
    

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13. 64% United States
    (ish)
    

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14. Where?
    

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

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20. Why?
    

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21. How can we make
    WordPress better?
    

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22. What are
    the challenges
    WordPress faces?
    

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

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24. How do we
    strengthen the
    community?
    

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25. How it worked
    

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26. (anyone could nominate a topic)
    

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27. (then we all milled around)
    

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28. (while Nacin worked out the schedule)
    

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29. (ta da!)
    

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30. (each discussion was round a round table)
    

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31. (someone led, someone else took notes)
    

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32. What did we discuss?
    

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33. Accessibility
    

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34. Theme review team
    

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35. Improving handbooks
    

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36. Managed
    WordPress
    hosting
    

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37. Making
    WordPress
    global
    

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38. Internationalisation
    improvements
    (I was in this one)
    

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39. WordPress
    as a framework
    

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40. Contributing to core
    without it being
    a full time job
    (I was in this one)
    

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41. Improving deployments
    on WordPress
    

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42. WordPress Codex
    

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43. Transparency of the
    WordPress Foundation
    

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44. Theme Functionality
    vs Plugins
    

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45. Mobile apps
    

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46. Plugin dependencies
    

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47. GPL
    

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48. WordCamp.org
    

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49. Commercial Plugins
    and Quality Control
    

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

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51. Future of multisite
    

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

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53. Javascript
    

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54. Customizer future
    

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55. Pain when
    theme switching
    

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56. Plugin performance
    and security
    

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57. Abandoned plugins
    (I was in this one)
    

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58. WordPress and Women
    

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59. Meetups
    

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60. Updates
    

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

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63. Internationalisation
    

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64. Mobile
    

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65. Rickityness
    

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66. What happened for the
    rest of the week?
    

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67. Collaboration
    

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70. In summary
    

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71. “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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72. “[I] have a lot more
    momentum to move
    forward with getting
    involved than I
    had previously.”
    

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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.”
    

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

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76. What next?
    

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

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78. I’ve been…
    

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79. simonwheatley.co.uk
    @simonwheatley
    

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

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