columbus and the wordpress community

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WORDPRESSCOMMUNITYAN OVERVIEW OF WHO AND WHAT DRIVES THE WORDPRESS COMMUNITY, AND WHERE YOU FIT IN-Angie Meeker, @angiemeeker

ColumbusWPMeetup | Third Thursday every monthwww.meetup.com/wp-columbus/

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ABOUT WORDPRESSWordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it for anything from your cat’s home page to a Fortune 500 web site without paying anyone a license fee and a number of other important freedoms.

SO IT’S BEEN AROUND FOREVER, RIGHT?Not really. WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPLv2 (or later). It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. b2 was launched in 2001, WordPress in 2003.

www.wordpress.org


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Matt Mullenwag

The WordPress Foundation, a non-profit founded by Matt, furthers development of WordPress and protects the trademarks and brand.

Founder, WordPress

Automattic

A for-profit entity that offers services based around WordPress. WordPress.com, Akismet, Gravatar, VaultPress are a few examples.

For-Profit Company

WordCamp

WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences centered around all things WordPress

Not-For-Profit Conferences

Names to Know


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So Who Makes WordPress?WordPress is continuously made and remade by a core team of developers, along with contributions of code from community members like you and I.

LeadDeveloper

s DesignTeam

Contributing

Developers Documentation and Support


DevelopersEmeriti

To meet the actual people on these teams, visithttp://wordpress.org/about/

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Someone has to review them to ensure they’re GPL compliant and up to WordPress standards.Theme Review

Plugins submitted by the community are reviewed by Plugin Managers

Localization teams work to ensure every person who wants WordPress can have it, no matter what language they speak.

WHO ELSE?

The core code doesn’t function by itself, though. What makes WordPress amazing are the themes and plugins which make it an extensible CMS.


1500+free themesin the repo

19000+free pluginsin the repo

70+language

translations of WordPress

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All Of These Moving Parts…Where can you go for help?

HELP!

wordpress.org/forum

WordPressCommunity

Online

WordPressMeetups

Wordpress.org/codex


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Things to remember at WordPress.orgThe forum IS moderated, but volunteers also contribute heavily. The Codex is written both by people paid to write and volunteers. We’re in this together.

DO

Give a link to your site.

Be specific and descriptive. It’s ok.

Say thank you.

DON’T

Talk in ALL CAPS!IT’S LIKE YELLING!

Say things like, You are supposed to help!

Be afraid to ask for help.

Be a good member of

the WordPress community


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Other Sites You Might LoveThe people in the WordPress community are incredibly giving of their time and talents. Here are a few sites you should check out.

ma.ttWPTavern.comWPCandy.comWPBeginner.comLorelle.wordpress.comMyNameIsAngie.comCopyBlogger.com

weblogtoolscollection.comWordPress.StackExchange.comnacin.compippinsplugins.com/wpmututorials.com/wordpress.org/news/ wordpress.tv/planet.wordpress.org/


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Where Does Our Meetup Fit?Some meetups are specific to skill/interest (users, developers, theme designers, etc) while others are general interest groups that touch on all topics around publishing with and developing for WordPress.

Every month, we will offer a separate group for those who need a walk through of basics. We can’t cover everything in one month though!

For Beginners

Attend on a regular basis to sharpen your skills. Ask for specific subjects; be prepared to ask for help on specific projects.

For Power Users

Practice your skills by helping others, sharing what you know, or meeting up with other devs to work on projects.

For Developers

We are planning presentations by core contributors, and WordPress community members from outside Central Ohio, too.


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Our Meetup Grows Our WordCampWordCamp Columbus, July 14-15 at the Ohio State University Unionis driven by the members and participants of our Meetup

To Know What’s NeededGauging the experiences of our Meetup users helps us to know what sessions to offer

To Share ContentWe’ll always bring in national WordPressers to challenge us, but locals make up majority of speakersTo Fund the EventWhether you’re a sponsor, helping to find a sponsor, sharing the event, or volunteering

ColumbusMeetup | Third Thursday every monthwww.meetup.com/wp-columbus/

Meetup

WordCamp

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None of the speakers are paid. The organizers aren’t paid. The volunteers aren’t paid. The more we collect in sponsorships, the more we can do for attendees.

$16,000Approximate cost of the 2012 WordCamp Columbus

$5000 = SponsorshipsWe have $2100 already from national sponsors.

230 tickets x$45 =$10,350This is an increase of 65 tickets from 2011.


WordCamps are not-for-profit events

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If you are interested, please tweet your interest to @wordcampcbus, email [email protected].

Sponsor or Help Us Find SponsorsYou can direct potential sponsors to our websitewww.2012.columbus.wordcamp.org for info

Volunteer on one of these teamsVolunteers, sponsors, content, registration, technical, design, website, marketing, genius bar, after party and documentation

Share, Share, ShareTell other people about WordCamp Columbus. Many there last there have well-running sites, businesses or jobs now as a result.

HOW YOU CAN JOIN US


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Get in Touch www.mynameisangie.comwww.angiemeekerdesigns.co

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614.353.0633

[email protected]

twitter.com/angiemeeker

facebook.com/angiemeeker

Skype: angiemeeker

Angie Meeker


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