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Simon Wheatley
November 21, 2012
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What happened at the WordPress Community Summit
A presentation to the Manchester WordPress User Group on the WordPress Community Summit.
Simon Wheatley
November 21, 2012
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Transcript
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What?
A conference of conversations
Who?
108 participants (approximately)
Disclaimer: I did not manage to include every participant on
the next slide (sorry)
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That wasn’t everyone
Rarst
Rarst DENIED (visa denied by the US because of stupid
reasons)
China (large community, no attendees nominated)
36% International (ish)
64% United States (ish)
Where?
None
None
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Sidenote: Tybee is now the origin of the Taco Flight
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Why?
How can we make WordPress better?
What are the challenges WordPress faces?
How do we get more people to contribute to WordPress?
How do we strengthen the community?
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
Managed WordPress hosting
Making WordPress global
Internationalisation improvements (I was in this one)
WordPress as a framework
Contributing to core without it being a full time job
(I was in this one)
Improving deployments on WordPress
WordPress Codex
Transparency of the WordPress Foundation
Theme Functionality vs Plugins
Mobile apps
Plugin dependencies
GPL
WordCamp.org
Commercial Plugins and Quality Control
How can developers with small plugins make money and be
legit?
Future of multisite
How WP Businesses can Give Back (I was in this
one)
Javascript
Customizer future
Pain when theme switching
Plugin performance and security
Abandoned plugins (I was in this one)
WordPress and Women
Meetups
Updates
What will kill WordPress? (I was in this one)
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Internationalisation
Mobile
Rickityness
What happened for the rest of the week?
Collaboration
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In summary
“It was absolutely incredible to be in the same place
as all the attendees, a real and genuine thrill and honour.”
“[I] have a lot more momentum to move forward with
getting involved than I had previously.”
“Really good to get together in person and discuss all
the things that tend to go unsaid or have never been verbalized at all.”
Hurrah for Jane! (she spent so much effort making this
happen)
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What next?
I am WordPress (and so can you) (Credit: Amy Hendrix)
I’ve been…
simonwheatley.co.uk @simonwheatley
Photo Credits themitcho Kopepasah konsobe andrea_r …did I forget anyone?
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