Standalone Contributor Days: Help Make WordPress With Your Community
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The Italian WordPress community was dormant for years, until a bunch of people got together at WCEU Contributor Day in Seville, in 2015, and decided it was time to revive it. After months of online chats in our Slack team, we organised an event that kick-started an avalanche of Meetups and WordCamps in Italy: a stand-alone Contributor Day. Two years later, Italy has more than 20 active Meetups, 4 cities with WordCamps in planning, and a great numbers of Contributors across the project. In this talk, I’ll go through the steps we took to organise it, and I will also talk about Contributor Nights, special Meetup events where we concentrate on one of the Make teams and learn how to contribute from scratch.
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- 1. STANDALONE CONTRIBUTOR DAYS: HELP MAKE WORDPRESS WITH YOUR COMMUNITY @FrancescaMarano
- 2. CIAO! SONO FRANCESCA WordPress Community Team Meetup and WordCamp Organiser WordPress Community Manager @FrancescaMarano
- 3. ITALY BEFORE 2015 2 Meetups Less than 2 WordCamps per year Translations were an individual effort Forums outside of it.wordpress.org @FrancescaMarano
- 5. ITALY AFTER 2015 26 Meetups 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 the overall WordPress usage @FrancescaMarano
- 10. SHOW OF HANDS How many 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 A CONTRIBUTOR 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, not really @FrancescaMarano
- 13. A DAY TO MAKE WORDPRESS TOGETHER WITH OTHER PEOPLE @FrancescaMarano
- 14. A DAY TO LEARN HOW TO CONTRIBUTE @FrancescaMarano
- 15. A DAY TO BECOME FAMILIAR WITH MAKE.WORDPRESS.ORG AND WITH SLACK @FrancescaMarano
- 16. @FrancescaMarano
- 17. HTTPS://MAKE.WORDPRESS.ORG/COMMUNITY/HANDBOOK/CONTRIBUTOR-DAY/ Contributor days are for everyone, on every experience level. Even someone who knows very little about WordPress can contribute by answering support questions. @FrancescaMarano
- 18. WHAT IS A CONTRIBUTOR 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 THE DAY WE BECAME A COMMUNITY @FrancescaMarano
- 20. 90 people registered 60 showed up from all around Italy Accessibility, Community, Core, Mobile, Polyglots, Support @FrancescaMarano
- 22. THE WORDPRESS SUMMER OF LOVE @FrancescaMarano
- 23. Find a room with Wi-Fi Organise food and coffee Tell everyone about it Get help from team mentors @FrancescaMarano
- 29. FEARS AND OBJECTIONS AND OTHER THINGS YOU NEED TO STOP DOING @FrancescaMarano
- 30. IT DOESN’T NEED TO BE PERFECT @FrancescaMarano
- 31. FUHGEDDABOUDIT I am not an experienced developer I haven’t contributed before We need a lot of money How will we fill a full day? @FrancescaMarano
- 33. GRAZIE! @FrancescaMarano Photo Credits: Florian Ziegler, Henk-Jan Winkeldermaat, Jenny Wong, Gianni Vascellari