What happened at the WordPress Community Summit

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

Transcript

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)
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?
18. Sidenote: Tybee is now the origin of the Taco Flight
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)
63. Internationalisation
64. Mobile
65. Rickityness
66. What happened for the rest of the week?
67. Collaboration
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)
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?