Ask Not What WordPress Can Do For You (Ignite - WordCamp Seattle)

Ask Not What WordPress Can Do For You
@nacin
Core Developer, WordPress.org
Tech Ninja, Audrey Capital

How can youcontribute?

Ask for help! Pay it forward.
Support Forums

The Codex, Blog Posts…
Documentation

Speak another language?
WordPress is collaboratively translated into 70 languages.

UI & Design
You don’t want medesigning, do you?

Break it.
Testing, test, 1, 2, 3…

Maybehelp fix it?
Report or patch a bug.Contribute to a feature.

But…
Community.is more than just that.

Attend a meetup group or WordCamp
Next: Speak at or sponsor one.

Donate to the
WordPress
Foundation

Release a theme
And send it through the theme review process.

Contributea plugin
And talk to your client about open source.

Why?
Wherewould yoube without WordPress?

Contributions
give you a greater voice.

“
I love the feeling
I get from my work being used by30 million .

Benefit from
lessons in development
and user
experience.
(Consultants, hint hint.)

I learned morein 3 months thanIhad learned in3 years .
”

Help a friend. Evangelism is powerful.

@nacin
Thanks!

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by andrewnacin on Apr 16, 2011