Columbus and the WordPress Community
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WordPress is an open source content management system created and maintained by hundreds of developers and contributors around the world. It has a large community that provides support through forums, documentation, conferences and meetup groups. The Columbus WordPress Meetup group aims to help both beginners and advanced users through monthly meetings, and also supports the annual WordCamp Columbus conference by providing speakers, sponsors and volunteers.
Columbus and the WordPress Community
- 1. WORDPRESS COMMUNITY AN OVERVIEW OF WHO AND WHAT DRIVES THE WORDPRESS COMMUNITY, AND WHERE YOU FIT IN -Angie Meeker, @angiemeeker ColumbusWPMeetup | Third Thursday every month www.meetup.com/wp-columbus/ 1
- 2. www.wordpress.org ABOUT WORDPRESS WordPress 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. ColumbusWPMeetup | Third Thursday every month www.meetup.com/wp-columbus/ 2
- 3. Names to Know Matt Mullenwag Automattic WordCamp Founder, WordPress For-Profit Company Not-For-Profit Conferences The WordPress Foundation, A for-profit entity that offers WordCamps are casual, a non-profit founded by services based around locally-organized Matt, furthers development WordPress. WordPress.com, conferences centered of WordPress and protects Akismet, Gravatar, around all things WordPress the trademarks and brand. VaultPress are a few examples. ColumbusWPMeetup | Third Thursday every month www.meetup.com/wp-columbus/ 3
- 4. 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. Lead Contributing Developers Developers Design Documentation Team and Support To meet the actual people on Developers these teams, visit Emeriti http://wordpress.org/about/ ColumbusWPMeetup | Third Thursday every month www.meetup.com/wp-columbus/ 4
- 5. 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. 70+ 1500+ 19000+ language translations of free themes free plugins WordPress in the repo in the repo Someone has to review them Plugins submitted by the Localization teams to ensure they’re GPL community are reviewed by work to ensure every person compliant and up to Plugin Managers who wants WordPress can WordPress standards. have it, no matter what Theme Review language they speak. ColumbusWPMeetup | Third Thursday every month www.meetup.com/wp-columbus/ 5
- 6. All Of These Moving Parts… Where can you go for help? wordpress.org Wordpress.org /forum /codex HELP! WordPress WordPress Meetups Community Online ColumbusWPMeetup | Third Thursday every month www.meetup.com/wp-columbus/ 6
- 7. Things to remember at WordPress.org The 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 DON’T Give a link to your site. Talk in ALL CAPS! IT’S LIKE YELLING! Be a good Be specific and member of Say things like, You descriptive. It’s ok. the are supposed to help! WordPress community Be afraid to ask Say thank you. for help. ColumbusWPMeetup | Third Thursday every month www.meetup.com/wp-columbus/ 7
- 8. Other Sites You Might Love The people in the WordPress community are incredibly giving of their time and talents. Here are a few sites you should check out. ma.tt weblogtoolscollection.com WPTavern.com WordPress.StackExchange.com WPCandy.com nacin.com WPBeginner.com pippinsplugins.com/ Lorelle.wordpress.com wpmututorials.com/ MyNameIsAngie.com wordpress.org/news/ CopyBlogger.com wordpress.tv/ planet.wordpress.org/ ColumbusWPMeetup | Third Thursday every month www.meetup.com/wp-columbus/ 9
- 9. 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. For Beginners For Power Users For Developers Every month, we will Attend on a regular Practice your skills by offer a separate group basis to sharpen your helping others, sharing for those who need a skills. Ask for specific what you know, or walk through of basics. subjects; be prepared meeting up with other We can’t cover to ask for help on devs to work on everything in one specific projects. projects. month though! We are planning presentations by core contributors, and WordPress community members from outside Central Ohio, too. ColumbusWPMeetup | Third Thursday every month www.meetup.com/wp-columbus/ 10
- 10. Our Meetup Grows Our WordCamp WordCamp Columbus, July 14-15 at the Ohio State University Union is driven by the members and participants of our Meetup To Know What’s Needed 1 Gauging the experiences of our Meetup users helps us to know what sessions to offer Meetup To Share Content 2 We’ll always bring in national WordPressers to challenge us, but locals make up majority of speakers To Fund the Event 3 Whether you’re a sponsor, helping to find a sponsor, sharing the event, or volunteering WordCamp ColumbusMeetup | Third Thursday every month www.meetup.com/wp-columbus/ 11
- 11. WordCamps are not-for-profit events 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. $16,000 Approximate cost of the 2012 WordCamp Columbus $5000 = Sponsorships We have $2100 already from national sponsors. 230 tickets x$45 =$10,350 This is an increase of 65 tickets from 2011. ColumbusWPMeetup | Third Thursday every month www.meetup.com/wp-columbus/ 12
- 12. HOW YOU CAN JOIN US If you are interested, please tweet your interest to @wordcampcbus, email columbus@wordcamp.org. Sponsor or Help Us Find Sponsors 1 You can direct potential sponsors to our website www.2012.columbus.wordcamp.org for info Volunteer on one of these teams 2 Volunteers, sponsors, content, registration, technical, design, website, marketing, genius bar, after party and documentation Share, Share, Share 3 Tell other people about WordCamp Columbus. Many there last there have well-running sites, businesses or jobs now as a result. ColumbusWPMeetup | Third Thursday every month www.meetup.com/wp-columbus/ 13
- 13. Get in Touch www.mynameisangie.com www.angiemeekerdesigns.com Angie facebook.com/angiemeeker Meeker Skype: angiemeeker angie@angiemeekerdesigns.com twitter.com/angiemeeker 614.353.0633 ColumbusWPMeetup | Third Thursday every month www.meetup.com/wp-columbus/ 17
- 14. mp cbus rdca @wo cbus #wc ColumbusWordPressMeetup www. meetup.com/wp-columbus/.com SEE YOU SOON... ColumbusWPMeetup | Third Thursday every month www.meetup.com/wp-columbus/ 18