wordcamp london 2016 contributor day introduction, with notes

Contributor Day

Welcome!

Gary Jones: @GaryJ

Welcome to WordCamp London Contributor Day.

My name is Gary Jones, and I’m one of the organisers for the WordCamp, and specifically this contributor day.

In this introduction, we’ll go through a few necessary bits of administration and explain how the day will run.

Fire Exits

No fire drills planned all weekend.

Primary exit is through the external door by registration and meet outside the front of the building. If blocked, the secondary exit is to follow the green fire exit signs.

Hands up if you use WordPress for your

job

Most of those with hands up, earn their income building on top of the efforts of others who have created the free software we know as WordPress. Today is the day

that we can all give back through our own contributions.

Everyone CAN Contribute

I want to thank you for volunteering your time to contribute back to WordPress.

The fact you’ve made the effort to come along already shows me that you feel you can contribute. And you can, in many ways.

Do I need to be a Developer?

One of the misconceptions about Contributor Days is that you need to be a developer to understand what’s going on, but that’s simply not true. You can have no

coding abilities whatsoever, and still make a big impact.

Designers, documentation writers, those who can speak multiple languages, those who have a willingness to help others and can find or work out solutions; all of the people with those skill sets, and more, can contribute.

Hands up if you are new to Contributing

Hands down if you’ve ever run WordPress trunk to test a plugin against it.Hands down if you’ve filed a bug ticket on WordPress Core Trac. Hands down if you ever answered a someone else's support forum question.

Hands down if you’ve ever given feedback on a user interface mockup or upcoming feature proposal. These all examples of contributing that folks may not realise.

Hands up if this is your first

contribution day

Contribution Days are just like contributing at home or work, except we get the benefit of like-minded people being in the same room, allowing easier discussion and

group efforts. They are often attached to WordCamps, like this one, but sometimes run as standalone events, like WordUp Brighton Feb 2015, or WP London in Nov 2014 events.

Running Order

Let’s focus on how today will run.

Start Time End Time Activity09:30 10:00 Introduction & Groupings

10:00 11:00 Session 1

11:00 11:30 Break

11:30 13:00 Session 1 (continued)

13:00 14:00 Lunch

14:00 15:00 Session 2

15:00 15:30 Break

15:30 16:30 Session 2 (continued)

16:30 17:00 Closing Reviews

17:00 End

Day is split into two sessions, morning and afternoon.

Tea & Coffee

Available all day, just opposite the door at the back.

My suggestion is to keep cups on the floor, to reduce the risk of spilling drinks on laptops and other devices.

Lunch

Lunch is free, and will be served between 1pm and 2pm. Available just outside the room.

If you have dietary requirements and you can’t find the right food, let me know. Everyone else, please stick to the main selection food.

Toilets

Ladies just outside the door. Men downstairs, in the same place. Disabled downstairs by the mens, or through The Junction and go straight on.

WIFI

Network: metNet

Login: On your badge

The university has provided WiFi codes to be used throughout the duration of the event, and you should find this printed on your badges. You should have got these

when you registered this morning.

Unfortunately the wifi won’t work with a proxy, so you won’t be able to use that.

WIFI

Google (Public DNS)

8.8.4.48.8.8.8

Open DNS (Public DNS)

208.67.222.222208.67.220.220

If you’ve been to an event like this before, you’ll know that one of the usual problems is that of wifi connections.

If you have difficulty connecting to a website, and you know how, try changing your network connection to use public DNS. On screen are the Google and Open DNS

IPs.

Cables

Trip hazard: Extension leads, device power cables.

We have some plug adaptors by WP Engine

Feel free to switch teams between

sessions

You don’t have to stick with the same team all day, but please only change at lunchtime between the two sessions.

Teams• Accessibility• BuddyPress• Core• Community• Design• Documentation• Flow

• Meta• Mobile• Polyglots• Support• Themes• Training• TV

We’ve got team leads for half of these teams, and they are going to do a 1-2 minute introduction about their team.

Rian (Accessibility)

Accessibility

Rian

Henry (BuddyPress)

BuddyPress

Henry

John (Core)

Core

John

Tammie (Design)

Design

Tammie

Tom (Meta)

Meta

Tom

Taco (Polyglots)

Polyglots

Taco

Sarah (Themes)

Themes

Sarah

Other Teams

Community, Documentation, Flow, Mobile, Support, Training, and TV

No pre-assigned team lead, but we can help you get started with them, and anyone can step up to oversee the group for today.

Community

Community: This team oversees official events, mentorship programs, diversity initiatives, contributor outreach, and other ways of growing our community.

Documentation

Documentation: This team is responsible for all things documentation, including the Codex, handbooks, developer.wordpress.org, admin help, inline docs, and other

general wordsmithing across the WordPress project. Needs help with HelpHub.

Flow

Flow: The flow team patrols flow across the entire WordPress ecosystem on every device they have at hand. They test, document, and report on the WordPress user

experience. Flow can follow the Design team.

Mobile

Mobile: They design and develop the iOS and Android WordPress apps.

Support

Support: Answer questions in the support form and on the #wordpress IRC channel.

Training

Training: The training team creates downloadable lesson plans and related materials for instructors to use in a live workshop environment.

TV

TV: They approve and publish all videos on WordPress.tv as well as helping WordCamps with video post-production and captioning and subtitling of published videos.

Groupings

Show of hands for each team.

Teams• Accessibility• BuddyPress• Core• Community• Design• Documentation• Flow

• Meta• Mobile• Polyglots• Support• Themes• Training• TV

Getting Started

If you’ve got a team lead, then they can suggest how to get started, but you could also find out yourself.

Go to make.wordpress.org

Pick the group you are interested in

You’ll see white boxes, one for each team.

Look for Handbook or Get Involved

section

Linked across the top blue section, or in the sidebar.

Mobile team links to GitHub.

“Getting Started at A Contributor Day”

New Contributor Session

Because some of the teams will require you to be working on a live copy of WordPress, we’ve got a session for new contributors, that John is going to run.

Igor will help with installs.

Team Locations

Approx!Upstairs: Accessibility (L), Core (L) (and New Contributor Session), Design (L), and Flow.

Downstairs: Polyglots (L), Docs, Support, BuddyPress (L), Themes (L), Meta (L), Mobile, Community, Training and TV.

Upstairs

Downstairs

Breakout room 4 below this one. Breakout room 1, 2, 3 are the glass-fronted rooms. Looks for signage.

If you’re not sure, ask!

Ask your team lead, ask me, ask the relevant group on Slack.

Any Questions?

Ask me later: @GaryJ

Let’s Get Contributing!