WordCamp Toronto, 2014
Slides: https://adcwp.me/wctor2014community

Aaron D. Campbell – https://aarondcampbell.com/
aaron@ithemes.com – @AaronCampbell
http://profiles.wordpress.org/aaroncampbell/

It’s OK to make money. Several of the things you gain by giving back to WordPress will make you more valuable to clients or your company.

* No, there’s no direct profit from contributing to the WordPress community.

You’ll know more about WordPress, how it works, what’s coming soon, etc. Your clients or employer will appreciate it!

Getting new clients and jobs is time consuming (and getting good ones can be difficult). The WordPress community is big. Let them know how good you are at what you do so they can refer people to you!

My livelihood relies on WordPress. It’s in my best interest to make WordPress better!

Ways to help

• Translation
• Documentation
• Support
• Accessibility
• UI/UX
• Testing
• Community
• Mobile
• Themes
• Plugins
• Development

The new way to communicate with the rest of the WordPress contributors!

https://make.wordpress.org/chat/

Translate

This year, 2014, is the first time that non-English downloads of WordPress surpassed English downloads!

Yes, we need people to translate core, but don’t forget about the plugin and theme developers.

• https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/
• https://translate.wordpress.org/

Most developers (myself included) hate documenting things. If that’s not you, help us out! We need everything from inline documentation of code to upkeep and expansion of the Codex and handbooks. The Codex is a Wiki, so you can start editing today!

• https://make.wordpress.org/docs/

No matter what your level of experience and expertise, there are questions you can answer in the Support Forums. WordPress is used by on over 60 Million sites. I’m sure there’s at least one person you can help.

• https://make.wordpress.org/support/
• IRC: #WordPress on Freenode

With over 23% of the Internet running on WordPress, we have a responsibility to try to set the standard in out-of-the box accessibility. Help make that happen.

• http://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/

People underestimate how much effort is put into making WordPress usable!

• http://make.wordpress.org/ui/

If we have 10,000 people testing and over 60 million sites, that’s only .0167%. Things get missed when there’s not enough testers. Please help!

• Beta Tester plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/
• Reporting bugs: https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/reporting-bugs/

Are you good at organizing events or groups? Organizr a Meetup or WordCamp or support those that do.

• https://make.wordpress.org/community/

Do you do mobile development? IOS, Android, Windows Phone, even Blackberry.

• https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/

Themes are reviewed, which means we need people to do that.

• https://make.wordpress.org/themes/

Plugins need to be approved, reviewed, etc.

• https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/

• https://make.wordpress.org/: List of ways to get involved and links to sites about each
• https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/reporting-bugs/
• https://make.wordpress.org/chat/

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