Contributor Day

Friday, September 28, 2018 from 10:00-16:30 by Apptitude at Innovation Park, EPFL, Lausanne

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WordCamp Contributor Days give you a special opportunity to share a room with other people who are contributing to WordPress. WordPress is now running more than 31% of the World Wide Web and it needs our help. We encourage you to take part in Lausanne’s WordCamp Contributor Day: especially if you have never contributed before and you’re looking for a way to get started. There will be people at the conference and at Contributor Day who can help you get started.

What happens at Contributor Day?

If you’ve never contributed your time to WordPress before, Contributor Day is a great place to start. There are plenty of opportunities for everyone to help projects like:

  • Core – improve the main WordPress platform. 
  • Design – Help design and develop the user interface for WordPress; a home for designers and UXers alike. 
  • Theme Review – Join the team which is responsible for the high quality in the WordPress.org Themes Directory.
  • Translations – make WordPress and its accompanying resources available in your language. 
  • Community – improve the WordCamp and meetup organization processes. Help getting a meetup started in your area. We have meetups in Geneva, Bern, Zürich, Luzern, Baden, Sion, and St. Gallen. 
  • WordPress.tv – reviews and approves every video submitted to WordPress.tv. They also help WordCamps with video post-production. We need help editing the videos of the talks so that we can upload them to WordPress.tv.

Register for attendance

Attendance at Contributor Day is free, but attendance is not included in the conference ticket. Please complete this meetup registration form. As for the WordCamp, there will be a limited number of places available. test

When and where will Contributor Day be held?

WordCamp Lausanne’s Contributor Day will take place on Friday 28th September 2018 from 10:00.  The location, opened for us thanks to Apptitude is around ten minutes from M1’s station EPFL when travelling by public transport.

What do I need?

Don’t forget your laptop and charger – you’ll need them during the contributing process.

Sign up for (or make sure that you already have):

Currently, the main communication medium for contributors is Slack, so download a desktop version or use the web version with your WordPress.org credentials.

If you have any questions regarding the Contributors day, reach out to any organiser use the #wclsne hashtag on Twitter.

More ways to contribute

  • Documentation – improve the Codex, handbooks and other online resources for WordPress users and developers.
  • Support – spread some happiness by helping out WordPress users in the support forums.
  • Accessibility –Make WordPress core and bundled themes accessible & usable for all.
  • GlotPress – help to improve the collaborative, web-based software translation tool.
  • Mobile – with the growing number of mobile devices on a daily basis, let’s make WordPress more mobile-friendy.
  • Meta – help the main WordPress websites such as WordPress.org or WordPress.tv.
  • BuddyPress & bbPress – grow the community building group by helping each of these projects.
  • Rest API – join the Rest API team and start contributing to the future of WordPress.