How to contribute to grow and promote the WordPress community.

1. GROWING THE COMMUNITY
BEYOND WORDCAMP

2. SPEAKER’S
PROFILE DAVID C. ONOH
@davidconoh
@davidconoh
davidconoh@live.com

3. The WordPress Effect.
More than 74 million websites running on
the internet are powered by WordPress.
This creates massive opportunities for
themes, plugins, hosting, developers,
consultants and experts.

4. WordPress User Community
■ Ambassadors
■ Content Creators
■ Developers / Designers
■ Entrepreneurs / Freelancers
■ End Users

5. Community Generated Resources
❖ Blog posts
❖ Tutorials
❖ Podcasts
❖ Videos
❖ How tos
❖ Wikis ...

6. Community Organized Events
● Conferences
● Bootcamps
● Workshops
● Hackathons
● Codelabs
● Meetups

7. What are WordCamps?
WordCamps are community-organized
events that are put together by WordPress
users like you. Everyone from casual users to
core developers participate, share ideas, and
get to know each other.

8. Benefits of WordCamps
● Networking
● Discussions
● Active Learning
● Collaboration
● Hands-on Practicals
● Perks and Freebies

9. Beyond WordCamps
WordCamp events are very important to
the continual growth of WordPress User
Communities. However, it the effort put in
by members of these communities beyond
such events that truly sustain them.

10. Growing The Community
● Life-Long Learning
● Continuous Research
● Shared Knowledge
● Side Projects
● Donations
● Meetups

11. Contributing To Communities
● Time
● Skills
● Tools
● Information
● Funds

12. Q & A

13. Thank You
DAVID C. ONOH
@davidconoh