 So thank you everybody for being here. I know that the other talk is very interesting. So thank you for staying here It's a pleasure and an honor for me to be at working Athens this year at this work. I'm this is a massive event And I'm very happy to be a little bit a little part of this event this year of the world's community in Greece So I'm going to talk About how to get more or how to get involved with WordPress But I want you to explain what does that mean what that means How many of you use WordPress for work up here and you raise your hands Okay, and how many of you use WordPress as a hobby or you know has used WordPress But you know you're here for learning and you're still getting You know learning what it's WordPress about Thank you. Great So I'm going to explain you a little bit about the ecosystem of this project I'm going to explain you a little bit how this project works and how things are like they are and How everybody's welcome? Everybody in this room everybody in the wall is welcome to get involved in a project like this because this is a global project So this is WordPress or this is my profile in WordPress or you know When you go to WordPress or for example to write on the forums or whatever you register You know like one second in the page and you get that profile, right? So this is my profile on work is the door and as you can see we have the activity or you know Activity on the forums and a little you know profile like description of my profile and you will see here That I remember of what was the door since 2009 and I have some special colorful badges there, okay, and This is relevant because in some minutes you will understand what is this about and why it's relevant in the WordPress community those are called community badges, okay, and in a global open source project like this Everybody is welcome to participate or to contribute to different parts of the project the project of WordPress is divided right now in 18 teams and Everybody every time that you check the profile of someone of WordPress or you can see all the different teams that that person has been Contributed to so I've been contributed to all those different teams and during the last Age years so polyglots helping translations Helping be a work is to be translated into Spanish or meta or video or speaker or work an organizer I will explain you a little bit how this works But the first thing is to give you a little bit of context WordPress is an open source Project are you familiar? Can you raise your hands if you know what is open source? Okay, the half of the room. That's great. That's great because I'm going you know for the rest For the rest of you who doesn't know what it is or you know, won't you know a little bit more about that open source is All these projects that you can see here are just a little little example a little list of all the open source projects Active in the world right now. Okay, and every day you use open source projects You know you use your mobile phone with Android for example. You're using open source software You're using Drupal WordPress Mozilla Oracle, you know, you're using every day without being conscious about a lot of different software Created with that open source license. Okay open source basically means That everybody that the code is open to everybody and the code and you are free to modify the code to improve the code Okay, to check the code to check if there is a vulnerable security vulnerabilities or any other things So everybody in the wall can become You know a security Consultant in some way or it can modify something if you don't like how it works So if you don't like how WordPress works You just can go deeper go to the code and check something and it's and you're free to do it You're not only free to do it I mean you are encouraged to do it because the philosophy of the open source is that the more we work together The more we you know We have the freedom to do these things the faster and the faster the project grows You know and move forward. This is like a Wikipedia. You know is similar to like the the philosophy of the Wikipedia Okay, the everybody together move forward, you know the project faster and grows and improved faster So WordPress is using the GPL, which is a license Which is the license called? general public license Okay, so the general public license is the license that Permits us to to be like this. I mean to to have the software Defended or you know or to be able to To you know every time that someone creates some software for WordPress The GPL license says that if you if you use some GPL software like WordPress For example, and you're creating some derivatives like plugins or themes or anything that is going to work with WordPress It has to stick the license that means if WordPress is with GPL That means open source and open to everybody if you create anything for WordPress It has to be GPL. So it continues the freedom of use and improvement and everything Okay, so any software that adheres to WordPress should be GPL That's a little bit of context. Maybe too. I hope not too I don't want to get lost on technical details. So when we say free we say free as a freedom Okay, because then the the the thing is that WordPress when we say WordPress is free. We're not talking about money We're not talking about that if you are a professional of WordPress You know have to give your time or your work for free that we're not talking about that We're talking of the freedom for everybody to modify to improve or to change anything in this software and You know the GPL and the license, you know, it's in your back So why contributing? I mean why I've been spending the last years of my life personal and professionally Contributing to the WordPress open source project Because we know that we are all very busy, you know, we have our own jobs full-time jobs Normally very very busy with our own things So why I will use one hour of my free time for example helping people on the forums or adding I don't know subtitles to the WordPress WordPress TV videos from Greek to English or whatever, you know, there are a lot of ways of contributing So the first I'm going to give you some of them Okay, some of the things that in the last years I've experienced as a prof as a you know The good things about contributing to open source product like this so The first thing will be profit You don't get direct profit Contributing to the first project. Okay, you don't get money if you're going to help, you know, making trust documentation in Greek for example But the good thing is that giving back to WordPress will make you more valuable in so many ways to clients or your company So there is no a direct project, but there are so many so many undirect Profits contributing to the WordPress community for example professional development. So working The thing is that this is a global project There are people or thousands of people working with WordPress every single day at every hour all around the world the globe And we connected in one place We have one place where everybody's connected and some of the best developers designers marketing experts documentation people audio some of the best Professionals in the world of some areas are working in this project and you can just work with them every day if you want You cannot imagine the experience that you can get just getting there Which because it's open everything is transparent in this project and you just can go there and To see how people and teams are working together and you can participate with decisions with things or helping or whatever So as a professional development, I can tell you that it's a great opportunity to work and learn with the best ones To be an authority as well because you know more about WordPress how it works What's coming soon in the next versions your clients your employer Your will appreciate it because at the end you will get more and more knowledge about the project and about the software that you're Using for your clients for yourself for you know for the website of your university, for example, right and To make WordPress better. Why is this is so important my life hood? I make a living with using WordPress I've been making a life using WordPress for the last eight years and and that relies on WordPress and The consistent of WordPress is massive. I mean it's not only about people who works in big companies It's about Freelancers it's about people with the small clients medium clients small agencies or medium agencies and big ones I mean and we all make a living thanks to WordPress So it's our responsibility and our interest to create a better project So the better project it is the better is for the ecosystem in general So if you want to get involved with WordPress, okay You say okay, Rocio I'm gonna try. Let's see how it is. You know how it works So the first step is to join a slack as lack is a tool if you don't know what it is It's like a tool for communication of teams and it specializes focus on the communication between Teams that work remotely. Okay, so for companies that works remotely or you know for teams like this one Because we are thousands of people around the world making WordPress better every day. We go here to communicate with each other. So If you if you want to join a slack, you know of the WordPress community the global WordPress community You only have to go to make dot WordPress adore dash chat and you get the instructions there. It's like 30 seconds And that's where we talk every day Every day I work in the I work part of I'm very lucky that a company donates the 100% of my time To work for the open source WordPress community. So that means that I'm focused on the community team I will tell you a little bit more about how many teams that are in the project But I'm focused on the community team that means that we help my team helps and support or work Can I meet up organizers around the world because we work for you know, trying to make the lives easier for the WordPress events organizers So if you go if you can see there that is a list of channels and the community events This is the community events. So all all of these is conversations with the community people like me helping We're gonna meet up organizers. There were some questions about Brazil there Sao Paulo and you know, so this is a slack and There are a lot of channels don't get over. Well, please you don't have to join all channels because there are hundreds and If you are interested that about a specific team Just join that a specific team And if you want if you're curious about how other teams for example design or the design team or others Just join that channel and see how it works and say hello. I mean just say hey, I Knew about this at work and Athens. This is my name Hello, everybody and I can tell you that the WordPress community is a very very welcoming place if you want to to join So if you want to do something and if you want to learn doing things What would be the first step to join a slack the second step the second step will be To find your place in the project. What what is what you're passionate about if you're passionate about coding? Welcome if you're passionate about marketing welcome if you're passionate about accessibility if you're passionate about Documentation all of that we have 18 teams because WordPress is a very big project We are one of the biggest open source project in the world. We're making history and in the last 15 years We have been growing organically and we have been Separating you know the tasks the different tasks in different teams in an organic way So if you go to make dot WordPress dot or that's the place for the contributors That's the place where you will find the information about all the different teams and how to start contributing Because every team they has like a section at the top and at the time of that section of every team You can see here core design mobile if you like mobile development if you like accessibility For example or any of the teams you will click you can click there And you will have all the information about how to start so this is that this is the famous list Right now. This is the structure of the project and we divide on all these sections I've been contributing to six of these teams in the last eight years So them, you know, don't get over well if you want to focus on one thing and to learn about one thing or another one You know, you're welcome to any of them. Okay, so The first one I will tell you that one of the first one that needs your wants to start contributing to To to feel how it you know to know how it feels in my opinion is the support and the translations once Why because you don't need anything to start you you know if you go to work at the door I'm sure how many of you have used the WordPress forums for asking questions at least once Okay, that's a lot. So how many of you have gone to the forums to answer questions to other people like you? Okay, that's a lot less but that we still have five or six of you So that's the thing the thing is that we improve helping each other and sharing knowledge, right? So if you the idea is that at the same way that you go to the forums to make a question You can go to the forums to answer a question that you know To how to answer and to help other people like you and that's how the the project works Because you know, we help each other. This is our open-source project There is no one behind except we and the companies that we work with you know, thanks to the you know with the project every day and Yeah, and that's the whole idea we help each other we share knowledge so getting to support for example It's going to give you the opportunity of researching about things that you're not sure about for example If you see a question and they say I can't answer this but when you're writing though the answer is like, I'm not sure I'm gonna check so you go to your work besides you check you double check and at the same time that you're helping someone You're learning more knowledge So that's about support There are very interesting and I'm going to give you just a few of them I'm going to tell you just a few about a few of them training Do you know what is the training team about and you raise your hand? Okay one person. Oh Alexander if you look at there at the bottom, can you raise your hand? Please Alexander? Yeah, say hello So he's one of the contributor of the training and documentation team And is it they're very small teams. There are bigger teams for example polyglots. They have like 1,000 or 2,000 active contributors like Translation people making translation into you know, I don't know Chinese Indian Spanish Etc. And the training team is very interesting because there are a lot of teachers in the world teaching about WordPress, right? I'm sure that even you at your company or with your friend have been teaching about WordPress So what these people are doing is that these people who are every day using WordPress for teaching their students or Colleagues or whatever and maybe they have been doing a slides or they have been doing some tutorials or something like that What they do is that they participate in the training team and they share all of that so if you want to teach about WordPress you only have to go to the training team and to Download all the documentation all the slides all the different all the courses are there available for anyone So, you know, you have you can just use the documentation and the training courses and test exams Slides and everything you can just use it or if you have some, you know, maybe in Greek You can just go there and to say hello. My name is I don't know cost us And I have some documentation in Greek because I was teaching some Students and you know your documentation is welcome. So that's all about, you know We share all we have and the training team is about that they're shedding all the documentation they have for teachers and it's very very interesting and For example about the speakers, you know, just being here sharing knowledge is another way of contributing to WordPress You know a work and it's just once a year, but you know, we organize each other You know, for example, we have in Seville and in a lot of cities in the world. We have the WordPress meet-up groups We meet monthly or be weekly and we just do workshops and of course This is non-profit events. Okay for anything supported by the WordPress foundation We just you know help each other teach each other and everything So as being a speaker or talking a meet-up or in a working like this is another way of Helping the project and helping people to grow together. What about TV? If you go to wordpress.tv You will see all the diff all the talks of all the work comes around the world is that You cannot imagine how valuable, you know The treasure inside that website in WordPress TV So this is the thing if we have a talk today or we have a lot of talks today in Greek Okay, these those talks are going to be tomorrow or next week in WordPress TV But what about the rest of the world if it's Greek? Nobody's you know, not everybody's going to understand Greek But you can contribute to a WordPress project just going to WordPress dot TV Contribute and to have subtitles into English for example So if you speak English and you speak Greek, that's another way of contributing You know, you just add the subtitles and maybe just five minutes and another person will add another five minutes This is like, you know for you to get an idea like the Wikipedia, right? I mean everybody puts a little bit and at the end we make a mountain so And and you know and there are a lot of other There are a lot of other Teams doing different stuff for example if you the hosting team is focused on getting you know Communication and good practices for the hostings, you know They work with the best hostings and they have like they are represent representatives of big Hosting companies working with them to make sure that the hosting companies are giving the best of the you know To the users and to give a good user experience and Marketing is a very great team because they're making a lot of a big effort There we have a lot of marketing experts as well helping different teams of work is for example If we have the WordPress community team, which is down there up there in blue That's that teams that team where I work We focus on the WordPress events around the wall that is not only work comes or meetups There are as well workshops about Open source for people around the world to know what it's open source about or making workshops about WordPress or a specific more technical specific ones or a lot of things, right? So we help the community event organizers and So for example, so every team as you can imagine now this is big, right? We're a lot of people, you know Working every day with in some way or another with the WordPress open source project And the the funny thing is that everything is done remotely Doesn't matter if you're working or if you're living in Greek or I'm living in Spain and other ones in the US or France or whatever the common language is English and If you feel scared about the language barrier, no worries I'm you know, I always felt scared about the language barrier, too The good thing about working with the WordPress this project is that everything is on text So, you know, if your English is not very good, you always can you know Take one minute extra and to check the dictionary and to make sure that you're right in the right world and not a Funny thing, you know So we communicate on a slag on text and we have to P twos when I say P twos is this So if you go to make dot or dash support You're going to go to a special website when a specific design and every team that has that a specific design So is that the sign that we call is a theme of WordPress? Okay, it's just another WordPress site is a multi site in fact work is the door and The P2 is a special a special theme for working Okay for you know creating debates for between the team the team members and for you know Making reports and for talking about the next task of the team where we're going to do to improve this or to that or whatever But and then on a slack because we use a slack every day, you know For talking about the small things and you know improving or fixing or helping The last minute things we have a channel on a slack So the forum the support team was helping people on support every day They have the channel support and this is how it looks the forums on On on WordPress or and maybe you don't know about this But a lot of locale's locale's are the different languages for example, Spain Spanish from Spain is a locale And we have a lot of locale's Available in WordPress in WordPress. Okay, so imagine all the translators of Spanish from Spain Because Spanish from Chile is very different. Okay, we can understand each other, but it's different If you are from Spain, you will not like to people will feel very weird reading the dashboard of WordPress For example in Spanish from Argentina. Okay, so we have a lot of different translation teams and we call that locale's So I don't know if you know, but you have forums or you can have forums in your locale as well So this is the WordPress.org forum in English, but I don't have the screenshot But we have a WordPress forum in WordPress.org which is ES dot WordPress.org dash forums or support and Those forums official forums are in Spanish and you could have that in Greek as well If you have an active translation community and you want to get the locale for forums You could have official forums in Greek and that's totally fine So about documentation, I'm sure that a lot of times people When you're when you're teaching or when you're explaining something about WordPress your clients or your friends or your users or Your colleague don't know about things and you have made little tutorials or whatever So we have a team helping with documentation and we have people from all around the world It's a small team in fact So welcome if you want to join them and they have weekly chats So if you are interested about helping with doing some documentation, you know Like screenshots in Greek and for people to understand how to do something specific in WordPress because you don't know a very important thing about that all the things I'm talking right now is It's very common to think the following This is a software project right a global software project and it's common to think hey, I'm not a developer I don't know how to read code. I cannot help here. I don't know anything about WordPress It just started last week, you know, and I've been using just a dashboard So don't think that you cannot help Someone I'm sure That every single person here knows more than another person that means that you can help another person, you know Because you know more than other people, right? So there are so many of this 18 teams available now right now in the project only four of them Only four of them need Need you to know how to code the rest of the teams like documentation training community plugins support Not plugins, but support design, etc. Needs need you to know how to code the rest of them No, most of them they only need you to know how to speak In another language or how to use WordPress not technically, but just used it Etc so people in the different teams They have like we have weekly or monthly chats in the community in the documentation team They have one weekly chat so once a week they they meet on a slack on that channel on documentation and they have a Meeting about you know how to organize the work. So if you want to help. Hey, hello, I'm Costas from Greek and you know, I would like to help about this, you know This team to do something or introduction you're welcome to do it and as you can see Every single site Of the WordPress of the teams they have like an introduction welcome part So this is the top part of the website of the team and as you can see here you have like the welcome Section where there are some instructions if you are new So if you're new and you want to know how to start contributing the first steps You have a you know You have the instructions there with a page with all the little steps for beginners If you want to just start helping or to and to join the team And so you have the information for a starting you have the contact how to get in contact with the team where they Where to find them, you know if you want to maybe you want to learn about you know more about design one of the best designers of the wall is is Involving the WordPress community since one year ago. Maybe you would love to work with them, you're right So all the information is there And this is my team. I'm very especially proud of this one because I'm very Involved with this team since eight years ago when I founded the WordPress meetup group in Sevilla in my city with other colleagues We started the first Local work in Spain like a long time growing out not so long and And now I'm very lucky to say that you know we are helping other people sharing our experience to do other meetup groups and work camps like this one in other parts of the wall and Yeah, and we because we are so big and we have events and Contributors to this team all around the globe We have two chats every two weeks. So we do one in the mornings So all the Asian people and European people can join so it's the morning for Europeans And it's the evening for Asian people and then we have one in the evening so it's especially for you know, America and Pacific and We coordinate ourselves like that remotely. This is the future, right? So that's why I said that we're making history. So this is work in central when I work where I work so only in 2017 we had 130 or around 130 work camps around the wall and It's amazing to see the map and to see How is the bowling and growing and this is not updated because just one day ago The number of WordPress mid active WordPress meetup groups in the world is was 555 groups With more than 250,000 active members in the wall So the map is quite impressive and as you can see there and I feel a little bit proud about that So let me share it. I Started the WordPress meetup group more in the north in the wall. So that was last year when I was living in Greenland and It's yeah, I was there and I realized that there was not that WordPress group there You know to I don't know to talk about to share things to do workshops or whatever And I started the meetup group the WordPress meetup group there. It was amazing It was a very small city, but we were like 10 people an average of 10 people in every event it was amazing and I Yeah, it's something is a little bit of the story of the WordPress community now This this was the first event one of the first events with the group in Greenland and And Yeah, and it's it's great to see how people things to this kind of events, you know people connect People you know grow together a company was founded things to this group because you know one developer one desire They they met together and they started the project and right now they're running an agency So things work like that at the end is our question about people. We are people we're humans We share values and we share some passion and you know and if we can connect with each other and to make these things happen that worth it, you know and You know if you want to share your knowledge here If you were you know, you can find it is the WordPress people in your city in your country so The first link is where you can find all the WordPress meetup groups in the wall all the list of official WordPress meetup groups in the wall and Athens is there, of course, and there are a lot of different WordPress meetup groups in Greek right now and they're more coming and The next work comes if you are interested about attending more work camps is there all the schedule of official work WordPress Conferences are there So I told you at the beginning that I will show you this again for you to understand about the badges So as you can see here and in the WordPress the door profile This is my profile and this is you know all that I've been contributing and Improving my personal and my professional career in the last year because this is not only about my work This is about a passion that I have. I really believe in open source I really believe that we're making a better internet because we're going in a direction where We are the hippies of the internet right now And yeah, it's the truth I mean, it's not easy to be against the big ones You know when everything is going to a direction of a more closed internet with everything your information Belongs to the big ones and you're not even the owner of that and a project like this Make me feel that I'm doing something for the future. It makes me feel that I'm really really, you know Enjoy my time doing something that is going to improve the future of the new generations at least in internet Which is something big and yeah, and I've been contributing to the polyglots Translating WordPress meta, which is the team that makes sure the WordPress or the multi site of WordPress at work Or you know gets better and improve and secure and everything community because I help the bed the community event Organizers plugins because I released plugins to the WordPress repository video because I added Translations or subtitles to the videos of some videos, of course of work is TV a speaker because I'm speaking here I'm working on organizer because I've been organizing some work comes in Syria. I'm three work comes Europe and So, you know, it's in some ways is something that you know It's a little bit part of your life at the end, you know, you make friends around the wall and You may you find, you know, great colleagues around the world. You learn a lot You grow personally and you grow professionally. So it's a great experience You're very welcome if you are but if you are interested about, you know, more information or whatever Related with the WordPress open source period. I'm here all day and tomorrow at the contributor day. So You can just, you know, tell me or ask me or stop me in the corridors and You know, ask me any question. So all the I was I'm just going You know, keep going because I wanted to tell you before finishing that This is very interesting. We have like a little big revolution in the WordPress open source project in this project And it's Gutenberg, which is the new editor. If you've been using WordPress at least, you know Normal like a user making articles and all of that You know that we have like a editor. It's like a box where you write down your post or your pages, right? So More a lot of developers of the project they're working right now on a project called Gutenberg and This project is Improving the editor of WordPress to be more visual to be more Interactive so people don't have to know any code or short codes or HTML or whatever and to be able to do everything Visually, okay. It's one of the biggest revolutions It will be one of the big revolutions and steps and new features of WordPress. So we need testers everybody's welcome and You you know, you only have to install the Gutenberg plugin on the repository and And to test it and there is a diet it that is there is a diet Button saying feedback. So if you have any feedback, I can assure you that we are taking the feedback very seriously Because we really want to release something strong and powerful For WordPress and to keep improving because you know, this is a live project and we have to keep moving So we need testers. You're welcome to test this Gutenberg just install the plugin there and Don't forget that, you know, when you install it if you can write your post in the normal editor or you or you will have a Menu on the dashboard where you can just go and to write all your posts there and there is a zoom menu with a feedback All feedback is welcome. The more testers the merrier and this is a little bit of how it looks and you know I can assure you is very Yeah, it's very interesting and There is so many people working on this that is amazing to see how every week they have a new release when you know new futures new functionalities and everything And polyglots all of you here if you're sitting down here is because you at least understand two languages Greek and a little bit of English, but at least, you know, it feels like you're understanding me So if you want to help to improve the translations of WordPress into Greek, you're very welcome to join polyglots The only thing is so easy that you don't have to do anything. I mean, I mean, this is my favorite team to work to contribute because Every time that I'm translating something because for you know for me because I think that is a mistake in the translation I know that I'm helping more people because whatever you're translating you're translating that for the wall You know in you know that they speak Greek in your case. So you only have to go to translate dot WordPress or translate dot WordPress or and then just to check or to select what you want to Translate you can select, you know, you can translate WordPress in general or you can just if you can see there Or you can just translate any theme that is in the repos official repository of WordPress You can translate any plugin which is in the official repository of blowing of WordPress. You can translate The multi-side of WordPress adore in general or the apps the mobile phone the more the WordPress mobile phone app as well So this is an example for example of in Greek So the this is like one example of one thing called weaver extreme for example as you can see there There are like it's in 12% translated. So if you use that thing for example for your clients or for your Website or whatever and it's not in Greek and maybe your client doesn't speak English You know, you only instead doing this translation just for your client leave it there You can just translate it and to share it with the rest of the world So other people can just enjoy just your translation And the same with plugins, you know all the plugins are there, you know If you are interested about translating a specific one into Greek Go there and you will be, you know doing something for you and share it with the wall And much more. I mean there are teams for about design helping, you know, the WordPress project design there are teams about Marketing if you are interested about as well, everything is in make dot WordPress or so I hope this helped and If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer any questions Okay, that is one there If not, you can come here and to make the questions Okay, the microphone is coming Can you hear me? Yes, I was wondering if there's a slack child for Gutenberg in order to There are four channels for you to murder right now Because I said that I couldn't find one you could not yeah, oh So I'm sure there are four so I don't know the specific names now But I can check it after the talk and I will let you know the names. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome Anymore questions? If not, you know, I'm happy, you know, just coming the corridors during the day to say hello And I will be very happy to talk with anyone if you have any questions. Thank you very much