 Just how we're telling us who you are, where you're from, and what you do. Yes, my name is Hodge Fleming, I'm the founder of Rebrand Cities. I'm based out of Detroit, Michigan. And what we're all about is eradicating the digital divide. My name is Adam Silverstein, I work for TenUp, and I primarily work on contributing to open source. Hi, I'm Keis from Selfie Managed Wipers hosting. I'm here today to contribute today for Wood Computer. Hello everyone, I'm Afsana Multani from India. My name is Pitta Kakoma, I'm from Kampala, Uganda. I'm Ben from Elementor. Alright, Ben, and what do you do with Elementor? I'm the CMO. CMO, great. And is this your first contribution, or are you a veteran? I was in World Camp Europe last year, but actually I wasn't in the Contributors' Day, so it's my first World Camp computer. Is this your first World Camp, or are you a veteran? I guess I'm kind of a veteran slash newbie, so I've been in two World Camp USes. This is my first World Camp Europe, so I'm a newbie here, and I've been to a couple in the United States. I'm a veteran. So how long have you been involved? Probably about six years contributing to WordPress core, and I'm also a core of Committer. Core of Committer, alright, that's great. So for the people who don't know what that is, could you explain it just very… It means that I can take code and actually put it into WordPress itself, so I can look at existing tickets and approve them, and when they're ready I can merge them into four. Is this your first World Camp, or are you a veteran? I would say somewhere in between. I've been visiting World Camp since five years ago, but I know for sure there are people that visit a lot more World Camps than I do, so I guess that's my somewhere attempt, World Camp or something like that. And why are you contributing today? I'm contributing today because I believe that you have to eat your own dog food, so that's kind of a terminology in America, not sure if it's here, but the goal is that we want to be able to get and to be example of what we need other people to help us do to be a help small bit. And why do you think it's important to contribute to WordPress? Why do you contribute? You know, it's a combination of reasons. Some of it is selfish. I have learned a tremendous amount working in core from other people, from digging into the internals of WordPress as a developer. It's a great way to learn about it, to really understand how WordPress works. I also feel like it's a moral obligation to contribute back to the software that's made my livelihood possible, so I do it out of some good, you know, community-based feelings of trying to make the thing better for everyone. I love the fact that, well, it might not be widely known, but WordPress has one in three websites. So that means there are so many people out there who are not very technical, who need help with learning the ropes. But it also means that it's creating a livelihood for so many people, and yet it's an entirely open source too. So if there are no people who are given into the WordPress ecosystem, none of this stuff will be possible. And why do you think it's important to contribute to WordPress? Well, the whole open-source project, you see how successful it is, how important it is to millions of people. It has a symbolic importance and also an actual importance where people actually promote and help and improve if you take the minds of so many talented people and put them together. You can make so much more than, you know, a single company can ever make. Why are you contributing? Because I think it's important for all of us to make WordPress better, so to speak, to increase the size of the pie. So if we all make WordPress a better product, then all of us can be more successful in our business around the WordPress ecosystem. And what are you working on today? I'm a part of the community group. And so the exciting part about being a part of the community is that we're creating events that are interesting to be able to pull together the same people that we're targeting. So business owners and developers. We are going to focus on improving or finishing some case studies to put on the WordPress.org website. And those case studies should help people choose WordPress over other CMSs for us. It's the obvious thing to do, but not for everyone yet. Today we're working on upgrading jQuery in core to version 3. Okay. So for non-tech people, what does that mean? So how is it going to help us? Yeah, so jQuery is a library that was very popular some years ago, but it's a library that helps write JavaScript that works across a wide variety of browsers. It's the library that we've relied on in WordPress to write most of our JavaScript. And the version that we have in WordPress core is quite old. And this is about bringing it up to the latest version and also fixing all the things that break by doing that. What are you working on today? Okay. Today we are working on a support. We give support to the people who require those who have a question on a query for the plugins themes. So we just go and help them out on the WordPress support.org. I look forward to, at the very least, closing. I love coding. So I look forward to at least closing one ticket in the code aspect of things. That's my very low entry goal for today, at the very least.