 Hi everyone, I'm Kel Santiago Polarski and I grew up with a family of artists just like what Taco told you a while ago My parents for example, they're painters and my dad is a comic artist in my country and my brothers Painters and sculptures and my sister brings life to to chocolates by making them into a life-size Sculptures it's it looks too good to eat. I guess so I grew up in something that is Partly a home and also partly an art gallery because I grew up with my my parents who are artists as well I grew up with all of that, but I I was not able to grow up with the computer So I am very honored to be standing here in front of you at WordCamp Europe in front of developers and an awesome programmers like you guys So that's it. So let's start the story so the year was 2008 and the backstreet boys were still big at that time and That was also the same year that I became a nurse and I was working at the hospital for five years and Afterwards like I mentioned a while ago my family's art influence to me was was so great that by 2009 a year later I was looking for something else to do so I started tattooing and a lot of people asked me So what is it like to work as a nurse and a tattoo artist? Well, I would say that working as a nurse and a tattoo artist at the same time feels like The opposite sides of a magnet. It just you don't know what which what starts where does it end and In 2014 I had a chance to switch careers so I got insane probably at that time and about one-way ticket to Japan and That's where our adventure begins So who here has been to a country? Where English is not the native language any any anyone here in the room? All right a lot of people so if you have been in a country where English is not the native language and You cannot speak the local language, then you know you're in for a real adventure like for example Looking at all of these neon lights very Tokyo Japanese style Advertisement you can get lost a lot right and You will also find yourself in a situation where Something as simple as a washing machine or a toilet could be a very intimidating device because everything is in the language that you don't speak And finally I'm sure some of you have experienced the same thing When you can't speak the language when you open a menu in a restaurant You would just point point point that I want this I want that and you end up eating that mysterious food so It's always a default in a great adventure, but just like any other story when there's a mishap there's also success so I have been living in Japan for the past two years and it's been a great journey and I joined digital cube as the writer and evangelist and we're a company who's that's based in Japan We started in 2006 where Amazon Web Services advanced consulting partner and we're also a team of professionals who are Dedicated to contributing to wordpress that is why today I wanted to share with you the benefits that we saw as a team and as a company together on the benefits on your profession Your business and the community like you can see here Our talk will highlight different contribution groups and how you can take part in them. You can see here core plugins accessibility training support and and so on So the big question you might have is Do I what it takes to want to be the wordpress the largest CMS in the world? Or you might think oh, I'm not a developer and I don't touch code. I I don't do that thing Well, I would say that there is something for everybody and each one of us can benefit in our own contributions So let's begin with something with the core contribution If you go to make wordpress.org you can see something like tickets that are marked As good first bugs. This is something good for new contributors And you can also do something like patch testing if you're really interested into Contributing to core you can go to make wordpress core and you can see there the schedule Of the the weekly chat meetings. So why should we contribute to core? I think it's really beneficial to know that if you contribute to the core you're able to know the WordPress coding standards and the the processes plus it's also a a great feeling to know that you've contributed to to WordPress which is one of the largest CMS out there right now and of course Seeing your name on the contributor list. It's a great motivation and we all need motivation to move forward another Contribution or plugins and what plugins are are very useful tool to help Extend the functionality of WordPress and these plugins are created by WordPress users all over the world that right now We have over 44,000 WordPress plugins out there In the WordPress repository So my my colleague my good friend Takayuki Miyoshi, he's right here at WordCamp Europe You could just find him talk to him later I talked to him the other day and I asked him Why why should we contribute to WordPress and he said we should contribute to WordPress plugins because we learn from one of the most important things which is feedback and Feedback has a huge role in and developers growth and and learning So developers can learn from each other codes and the more good codes are out there available the better our developers become So next up there would be a video interview done by Takayuki the Creator of contact form 7 he will tell us His own opinion on why we should contribute WordPress Can you hear it? It's he's speaking basically in Japanese and we did a subtitle so I think that would work So there are also other ways of getting involved So besides besides writing plugins we can also join the plugin review team So last year when I met Mika Epstein at a Q&A session she did at WordCamp Tokyo She said that there are about 30 plugins Submissions per day and each plugin review takes about five to ten minutes So the review team is there to read all the codes and make sure there are no errors after all security It's the top priority so also related to plugin contributions are Something like this. I'm not sure if you've heard of this before. It's called addendio, which is a Free and open to all search engine for plugins. It's authored by my good friend Luca for Kasi He's in the room right now. You can talk to him later about this So it's a Chrome extension if you install it And go to the plugin directory in WordPress. You would see something like this You can choose something like For example, what plugins are already translated in Japanese Turkish and so on or what plugins are Have four or five stars So it's also a very helpful tool This is a continuation of Miyoshi's video a while ago Said writing code isn't the only way to contribute to plugins You can support users on forums and you can translate plugins into your language You can make you I suggest justins from your design knowledge And there are a lot of things to do so let's join and have fun Another contribution we can do our WordPress environment so there are a lot of talented developers and other professions professionals who are Building their own WordPress environments So WordPress has a lot of users and has a lot of developers and by creating free and open source environments We help users discover a variety of tools that works for them and their projects So one example here is called VCCW. It's created by my colleague. He's right here in the room as well It is a vagrant based WordPress environment and Another one is Walker, which is also awesome. This is a local WordPress Development environment that is based on Jocker So it only takes about three or five seconds and you get a new WordPress install And finally is Ami Moto, which is a WordPress and WooCommerce cloud environment on Amazon but services Next up are training Books and education recently we see WordPress in higher education like for example my husband here used to Teach at a university to students on how to create WordPress based websites And now more and more people are doing that and we can see it in classrooms In kids workshops and also university so getting involved in Training and education what you can do is you can create lesson plans and you can test the accuracy With current WordPress if you're really serious about getting involved in training and education You can go to a make WordPress.org slash training and there you can see the the weekly chat schedule What kinds of contributions are already out there like for example probably some of you have heard about word sesh Which is a free Full day of live streaming of everything about WordPress These are presentations from all over the world so Another was in word camp us 2015 Matt said we should learn JavaScript Deeply so one of our good friends Zach Gordon created something like a JavaScript master course masterl course, I'm sorry So that this is a good approach to that another example is WP campus dot org so this is a community and and conference for web professionals educators and people who are Dedicated to taking WordPress in higher education Accessibility this our this is a point of another contribution that we can do so there are a lot of struggles of people with disabilities when they use the web and When we contribute to accessibility, it helps increase engagement and broaden audience except what accessibility what does it mean accessibility means Putting people first that everything begins with the user so to get get involved in WordPress accessibility you can go to this side and you can see the the slack channel the schedule and Start getting involved Some kinds of contributions about accessibility is a plug-in created by Joe Dalton It's called WP accessibility and what it does is it fixes common issues Accessibility issues on your WordPress website Another is transcription something like we can see here on on the top of the slide So a few months ago. I was in London had the pleasure to be with some of the amazing people out there and In this photo you can see a lady who's doing a live speech to text transcription Another example is interpretation this photo was taken in Brisbane in 2015 so you can see here that the speaker is next to a sign language interpreter So accessibility is not only making the web accessible for people with disabilities But it can also mean being accessible to everybody by using accessible media and plain language So for designers for artistic people those who are interested in design This one is for you so people are always welcome in submitting their themes and You can also help Review the the themes that are submitted and you can also of course join the group where you can contribute It's here about themes are underscores or underscore s which is a WordPress target theme Another is if you're a designer you wanted to see how your site will look like on different The size sizes of devices you can try this plug-in which is Customizer theme resizer and what it does is it allows you to see your live site on a different devices and Of course this little little guy right here Wapu so what started as a little yellow fella Became a craze and now there are hundreds and hundreds of variations like the one on top It's space wapu and then my part one of my favorites the wapu from Berlin Very cute. So who here can speak more than one language A lot. All right. So this one is for you So let me tell you first a bit of a story when I was young when I was growing up when I was growing up I didn't know much about my sister. I didn't know what her likes are what her dislikes are or we even have the same interests I don't know a thing about it, but then I started learning sign language and I Realized that I have a lot of similarities with her. I learned Deeper about her have a better understanding of her. So just like WordPress when it's in the language that we understand We Understand it deeper. We learn about it deeper and better. So when WordPress for example was translated into Japanese There was the major increase in Japanese users and Japanese developers as well So getting involved you can of course also go to taco is one of the the people at the polyglots team You can become a translator and you can join our team, of course More details on make wordpress.org polyglots You can translate WordPress plugins and themes. I don't know if you can see it at the bat, but this is a WordPress page in Tagalog, which is my language because I'm from the Philippines. So Other things you can translate our WordPress strings plugins and themes of course another one is interpretation this photo was taken last year in Osaka, Japan where an English speaker my husband is being translated into Japanese and finally An event that was that happened just recently the WP global translation day last 24th of April It is a wonderful day of globalizing and localizing WordPress. So in Japan. This is What we did over there Next up our community. So word camps like this one highlights on things about WordPress and It is put together by WordPress users like us and year after year it gets Bigger so word camp starts from local meet-ups that develop the community So for example in Japan, we do have a local meet-up called word bench word bench is a Meetup that can be in different cities in Japan. I think probably now 50 I'll give you some examples probably also you can have some ideas What you can do in your community first one is word bash. This is a meet-up in Kyoto and What we do there is we have WordPress sessions at the beginning and then At the end we have a party the next one is a word fest which is a fiesta a festival and finally Probably something very good for this summer is word beach because What we do is we have Sessions WordPress sessions next to the beach. So after that we can help some party have fun go to the beach play in the sand Have barbecue and and all things fun like that. So Contributing to the community you can start your own meet-up or join one after all Word press meet-ups all of the word are over a thousand so most likely you will find a Group in your city. So some communities start from the beginning while other communities already existing But you have to they have to be rebuilt and finally if you have an experience in organizing meet-ups or word camps and Building communities don't lock the knowledge to yourself, but instead you should pass the torch to the next community leaders so We're now at the FAQs of contributing so people ask why do you contribute and what do you get out of it? Well Contributing to WordPress is a continuation of our education and it helps you keep up-to-date with the latest trends and After all everything have happens fast in tech So we need to be flexible because we don't know what the skills are required for tomorrow and It's of course the very rewarding experience For the qualities of a great contributor Of course, you need to have a great communication skill because you're working with people who are From different parts of the world and it's important to get your message across and Like a cat you stay curious. You wanted to discover something learn something you and of course a great contributor is You work on things that you enjoy Because when you stick to your to your interest to your strengths, you can make a project better Some people ask so so what is it like to contribute to WordPress? It definitely takes dedication to contribute to WordPress because we have lives outside contributing So don't just make time to contribute but make time to enjoy it So the best way the best time to start contributing is on our contributor day on Sunday, and now we're down at the summary so Contributing is an enriched learning experience, and it's a continuation of our education and our growth It prepares our skills and gets us ready for what tomorrow may bring because there is no such thing as a small contribution all the other areas of contributions are just as significant and Contributing comes in many shapes and forms It's about giving back to the community to the open-source platform Making the web safer more accessible and setting a good example for the next generation And this will keep our community growing open and global So this is contributing to WordPress for business profession in the community. I'm Kelsen Tiago Pilar ski and let's all enjoy WordCamp Europe. Thank you