How WordPress Changed My Life

At WordCamp Europe 2016 I talked about how that conference helped me overcome my fears and contribute more to WordPress — eventually leading to getting commit access to WordPress. By sharing my story I want to encourage people to do the same and help give back to the community.

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1. How WordPress Changed My Life
2. Pascal Birchler @swissspidy
3. Core Committer?
4. My Beginnings
5. Baby Steps Into WordPress
6. The WordPress Magazine
7. The Ins and Outs of WordPress
8. Where Is Everyone?
9. Building Communities
10. WordCamp Switzerland
11. WordPress Zurich Meetup
12. Do it
13. – Taco Verdonschot “If there is no WordPress Meetup in your city yet, you are the one to organize it.”
14. My First Core Contributions
15. Impostor Syndrome
16. WordCamp Europe
17. WordCamp Europe by Night
18. WordCamp Europe
19. core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/25725 “props swissspidy”
20. It felt amazing
21. You Are Not Alone
22. Breaking Things
23. WP_User_Query
24. That was easy!
25. Except it wasn’t
27. You Learn From Failure Not From Success
28. On Feature Projects
30. 20 contributors. 500 commits.
31. Do it
32. Breaking Things Again
33. if ( targetHost === sourceHost && activeElement === source ) { window.top.location.href = data.value; }
34. if ( targetHost === sourceHost && activeElement === source ) { window.top.location.href = data.value; }
35. if ( targetHost === sourceHost ) { if ( activeElement === source ) { window.top.location.href = data.value; } }
36. Backwards Compatibility
37. Swiss Chocolate
38. WordCamp US
43. Committing in 3… 2… 1…
44. core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/35795 “Author: swissspidy […]”
45. Looking Back
46. Paying the Bills
47. Why You Should Contribute to WordPress
48. Make WordPress Great Again
49. make.wordpress.org/great-again
50. Because WordPress
51. It Makes You a Better Developer
52. It Makes You a Better Designer
53. It Makes You a Better Project Manager
54. Swiss Chocolate
56. Thank You!
57. Questions? Credits: Kevin Walker Silvan Hagen Florian Ziegler Sheri Bigelow Petya Raykovska Andrey Savchenko Stefan Pasch Marco Hartmann