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Standalone Contributor Days: Help Make WordPress With Your Community
The document discusses the evolution of the WordPress community in Italy, highlighting the growth in meetups and contributor events since 2015. It emphasizes the role of contributor days in encouraging participation from individuals of all experience levels in the WordPress ecosystem. The document also outlines practical tips for organizing successful contributor events.
Standalone Contributor Days: Help Make WordPress With Your Community
- 1. STANDALONE CONTRIBUTOR DAYS: HELP MAKEWORDPRESS WITH YOUR COMMUNITY @FrancescaMarano
- 2. CIAO! SONO FRANCESCA WordPress CommunityTeam Meetup and WordCamp Organiser WordPress Community Manager @FrancescaMarano
- 3. ITALY BEFORE 2015 2Meetups Less than 2 WordCamps per year Translations were an individual effort Forums outside of it.wordpress.org @FrancescaMarano
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- 5. ITALY AFTER 2015 26Meetups 2 WordCamps in 2016 3 WordCamps in 2017 5-7 WordCamps in 2018 1200+ Polyglots Support team for it.wordpress.org @FrancescaMarano
- 6. Rise of theoverall WordPress usage @FrancescaMarano
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- 10. SHOW OF HANDS Howmany of you know what a Contributor Day is? How many of you have attended at least one Contributor Day? More than three? Ten or more? How many of you have attended a standalone Contributor Day? @FrancescaMarano
- 11. WHAT IS ACONTRIBUTOR DAY? A dedicated day when only developers write code for WordPress? A day reserved only for existing contributors? A way to extend a WordCamp? @FrancescaMarano
- 12. Well… Sort of, notreally @FrancescaMarano
- 13. A DAY TOMAKE WORDPRESS TOGETHER WITH OTHER PEOPLE @FrancescaMarano
- 14. A DAY TO LEARN HOWTO CONTRIBUTE @FrancescaMarano
- 15. A DAY TOBECOME FAMILIAR WITH MAKE.WORDPRESS.ORG AND WITH SLACK @FrancescaMarano
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- 17. HTTPS://MAKE.WORDPRESS.ORG/COMMUNITY/HANDBOOK/CONTRIBUTOR-DAY/ Contributor days arefor everyone, on every experience level. Even someone who knows very little about WordPress can contribute by answering support questions. @FrancescaMarano
- 18. WHAT IS ACONTRIBUTOR DAY? Contributors days are not for developers only! They are great to make your first contribution ever They can be organised as a stand alone events @FrancescaMarano
- 19. NOVEMBER 7TH 2015 THEDAY WE BECAME A COMMUNITY @FrancescaMarano
- 20. 90 people registered 60showed up from all around Italy Accessibility, Community, Core, Mobile, Polyglots, Support @FrancescaMarano
- 22. THE WORDPRESS SUMMER OFLOVE @FrancescaMarano
- 23. Find a roomwith Wi-Fi Organise food and coffee Tell everyone about it Get help from team mentors @FrancescaMarano
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- 29. FEARS AND OBJECTIONS ANDOTHER THINGS YOU NEED TO STOP DOING @FrancescaMarano
- 30. IT DOESN’T NEED TOBE PERFECT @FrancescaMarano
- 31. FUHGEDDABOUDIT I am notan experienced developer I haven’t contributed before We need a lot of money How will we fill a full day? @FrancescaMarano
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- 33. GRAZIE! @FrancescaMarano Photo Credits: FlorianZiegler, Henk-Jan Winkeldermaat, Jenny Wong, Gianni Vascellari