The WordPress community has always been one of the friendliest, most helpful online groups in the digital world. Everybody involved in it knows that, and users have often expressed how proud and happy they are of this fact. This is why one of the first highlights we want to present this year is indeed the community talks. They are usually just a small part of the schedule, but nevertheless an extremely important one, as they remind us of the main reasons we’re all here and do what we do.
Without further ado, let’s see what community talks we’ll be able to hear this year!
Making WordPress Better
Being a hardcore WordPress fan will often lead to getting involved with the process of making it – this is something that thousands of people will likely confirm. We start by simply using it and than more often than not our passion for this amazing open source project grows and before we know it, we’re looking for ways to help in every way we can. It’s basic human psychology – we see other people giving and we instinctively want to do the same.
In this talk, Sergey Biryukov will share more details on how you can become part of the awesome WP community and participate in the contributor teams. His talk is an overview of how WordPress is developed, what do the various contributor teams do, and how anyone can participate in making WordPress better with code, design, accessibility, translations, support, documentation, community, marketing, or any other area.
Beyond Hello: Networking At WordCamp
As any entrepreneur will tell you, networking is crucial part of growing your contact base and establishing new opportunities for partnerships. There are professionals who even attend events exclusively to do exactly that and they do it with good reason; at some point, you may reach a better understanding than anyone else in what you do, but you can never have too many business contacts.
WordCamp events are usually an excellent place to get to know other WordPress professionals. However, many attendees stick to their own groups, attend lectures, and leave without cashing in on perhaps the most valuable part of WordCamps: networking. In his talk, Nikola Nikolov will explore some of the common reasons why attendees fail to form lasting connections. It will give some tips for more productive networking, and hopefully inspire deeper, more authentic networking at this WordCamp and beyond.
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