 All right, thank you. I realize I'm really short, and this is really, really one of the fun things that are being shot. So, yeah, we'll do it this way round, cos then you can't actually see me. And I like doing this a lot. So hi, I'm Jenny. Nice to meet you all, hello Vienna. I haven't met a lot of you, so I just want to start today by asking you to stand up if you're not from Vienna. Are you really unlucky during break? I met everyone who was from Vienna. Great! I hope a lot of you are from Austria. The people stood up or did you come from afar? No talks. Okay, cool. Sorry. My name's Jenny. I'm from the UK. I'm originally from Manchester. I have a really bad tendency especially when I'm in England to talk really fast. ac anhedwch ond rhai'r cyflwyranc ymwysig. Felly, rydych chi'n gweld fydd yn gweithio, pan gwelwch eich cwmdeithas a'n fyddi i ynweithio, ac rydych chi am fuddy, gennym Ionwyr a Rmodd i wneud yn gweithio'r gyflwyno. Gwyddo consult gwahanol. Rhyw gwyddo chi'n gweithio pan ddim yn gweld yn gweithio ar conferenceau? Ionwyrmau, roeddwn i'r awry ddim i'r floating. Mae cyflwyr yn gweithio. Mae cyflwyr yn gweithio. Mae'r ffrind yn cael. Daethwn. my brother a my mum at Christmas a few years back having a selfie like you do and I want to introduce you especially to my mum so the reason why I want to introduce you to my mum is because when I grew up she used to give me pocket money and she would give me like five p or coppers so that's like one p two p like so like one cent two cents and it would be like you couldn't buy anything you could buy like a sweet like a one penny sweet or um you couldn't buy a toy you couldn't buy like a nail car or anything and it really made me angry because I was like but I want a new toy I want I want new this and new that and she'd be like well you know Jenny and she used to tell me this a lot 100 pennies make a pound Jenny 100 pennies make a pound so every time I'm like mum mum can I have this like new toy she's like well have you saved up have you have you actually gone and saved all your pennies to make a pound and I'm like no because I'm really bad with money and I spend it and eat sweets instead but you know my dentist never hated me so that's okay and now that I'm a bit older I was thinking about this I was having Christmas dinner with my mum and she was talking we were talking about how I've moved away from home we never see each other and we were laughing about all the stupid things I used to do and one of the things that she said was like do you remember every 100 pennies make a pound I was like yes mother and um so yeah um once I was thinking about this I realised actually in an open source project like WordPress 100 pennies do make a pound and that's what I want to talk to you about today so let's have a look at the next big thing that's going to hit WordPress it's the WordPress API we've got a few talks on it today um and everyone who's a developer should have heard about this and if you haven't please go to the website and have a look at it it's coming really is coming don't ask me when because I don't know um but when we look at the stats does the statistics of WordPress API a new feature of WordPress it's quite interesting it's taken to date 1,797 commits to get WordPress API to the points that it is today and this was this morning I updated these stats this morning it has taken 485 pull requests and what's interesting only 43 of those are currently open they're all public they're all on github 598 issues from the project being started on github have been opened only 176 of those are now still open and I'm sure they're new issues rather than issues that were there at the very beginning and what's really interesting about this huge new feature is that only 51 contributors on github have actually been working on this project so something that's going to affect all our sites the 23% of the word of the internet that WordPress goes and utilizes 51 people have had a hand in that that's quite impressive so as you've noticed I'm quite a interactive person so another interactive section hands up if you are WordPress user also don't judge there will be non WordPress users in the room and that's absolutely fine and hands up if you've contributed to WordPress before people look around keep your hands up people look around a second ago most of your hands were up yet now there's hardly anyone with their hands up to the people who have contributed before thank you you are making it that little bit better one bug at a time so to the rest of you why so I've been here I've done this and I won't tell you which of these excuses are mine but quite a few of them are and I hear this time and time again so you can giggle or you like but I'm sure one of these will will really feel like the one that you would like to use the most so let's get get to it which excuse would you like first I don't want to code when I go home if you are a developer and you develop nine to five artwork the last thing on your head is yeah I'm going to go home have dinner and do more work that doesn't really feel like fun to me at least not to me anyway that's like more work and I understand that that's cool if that's your excuse that's fine what about the excuse I'm not a developer therefore I can't contribute to WordPress how many of people have that excuse in their head or the excuse I don't know anything I'm not a good enough developer I'm not a good enough designer I'm not a good enough business person or insert job title into section I don't know enough we all suffer from this is absolutely fine I don't know what to do maybe you've thought about contributing to WordPress or contributing to any other open source project but when you get there you're like yeah I want to do it now what what's your excuse anyone dare tell me their excuse fine so I've been there I've done that I've definitely used more than one of those excuses if not all those excuses at some point in my life and I'm here to tell you there was a gain changer in my life I actually went to a work camp just like this one work out London it was the very first work out London it happened in 2013 we've just had our second and it was awesome and at that work out London it they had a contributor day it is a one day event after the work out and the whole idea was that you went along and you learned about how you could contribute to WordPress so first contributor day in the UK I was like oh I didn't really want to travel to London because being from Manchester is a really far away and really expensive so the only reason why I went to this work out was because of the contributor day and what I learnt from that contributor day was that actually everybody can contribute to WordPress and I mean everybody even if you've never used WordPress before you can still contribute to WordPress you'll be surprised so okay if you are thinking about contributing to WordPress the one address that you need to remember is make.wordpress.org it has everything in there I'm not saying you can find it easily but it is in there that's a different question all together so yeah it is what I call the home of the WordPress contributing project it's where you'll find everything all the information you want and what you will see when you get in there is actually the WordPress project is split into different teams and the reason why we split people into different teams is because we want people in an area that they're comfortable with or an area that they want to learn about so I'm going to run through some of the areas that you can actually contribute to WordPress and if you don't find something that you are interested in or you don't feel that you can contribute at the end of it please talk to me after the session during lunch because I'm sure I can find you something to do and I'll accept that challenge so first the accessibility team so WordPress is really really popular because it's accessible it's really accessible to anyone and everyone and the reason why is because it's a really dedicated team of people who go in after all the developers have updated all the beautiful UIs and stuff and go by the way that doesn't work that doesn't work that doesn't work and that doesn't work um they check that anyone using anything can actually access the WordPress backend and all the different features it's a really important part of growing WordPress project and getting it out to more people as well being accessible is super important and when I talk about accessibility it's not just about people who are deaf or blind everyone in this room knows at least one person in your lives who has an accessible issue and maybe that's a disability or maybe it's just you know they have RSI um repetitive strain injury where they can't use a mouse and if you don't think you know somebody with that issue then you're looking at one me without glasses is me well I just can't see anything um if I ever want to day off I just break my glasses and be like yeah I can't see anything while ashamed but what the accessibility team means that I can actually still develop and code without my glasses as long as I knew where all the key or shortcuts were so accessibility is super important can I get some water thanks um so cool when we think of that's what people think of for the WordPress project um you get you get lots of different parts of WordPress but the core is what you download really thank you oh no no it's cool oh this is so going well um so yeah cool WordPress project once every time you download WordPress.org you're downloading what the core team have been working on the core team is really big they have a lot of people working on that and it's great if you're a developer and you want to fix something and you want to feel like you're part of the center team then I guess core is for you but core is also for non-developers as well because how many times have you downloaded WordPress found a bug and then got really angry because no one's fixed it yeah someone's laughing which means they definitely have done this um the core team is the core project is where you go and tell them that their bug is there it will be a particular browser that no one else is using that you need to tell them about and once someone brings it up then someone else can fix it so some other common task that you'll see with core and actually with the rest of the project includes testing if an issue is a bug we have a crazy long list of issues in core they have this thing called track and it's basically a tracker of all the bugs that have ever happened in WordPress and there's a lot of issues as you can imagine so having people to say yes this is a bug no this is not a bug the same way we do that with our clients or with ourselves when we're trying to double check if we're going crazy or not the core team also need people to do that but also check if a bug fix so when a developer actually fixes something and then has a file that says yeah this is the solution to fix this we need people to actually say yeah that also worked for me too that worked for me and the more people we have testing these fixes the more likely those fixes are going to go back into the core project and building new features we don't stand on our morals in the WordPress community we go and improve ourselves just like the WordPress API we try and improve WordPress to the best it can be and we need people we need developers and we need non-developers to build and test these features and also come up with ideas how can we make WordPress better all these ways of making WordPress better have come from people who are just like you and me humans who saw a need and then thought hey that might be a good feature pool game UI so the UI team look after all the user experience of WordPress they redesigned WordPress API at the WordPress back end they do all the little icons so every time you want a new icon you can go and ask them to create one for you if you have an idea that will make it more easy for people to use WordPress they're also looking at things like the image flow links and the image flow editor how many people have tried to use the image editor and just never understood what was happening they're actually going through the project in a moment and trying to work out a better solution for that they're also looking at the core css roadmap and how we can actually make it sustainable long-term the mobile team how many people here know that there's actually a mobile app you can download onto your phones and actually write blog posts on your phone that is linked directly to your WordPress site a few of you not all of you hope that wasn't a phone um so the mobile team are the team that build this they build the iOS app the android app and the windows app they need people who can not only write java objective c or c sharp but they also need designers to help them design the best interface for those apps the best experience for all our users and ourselves polyglots now i know i'm in vienna which basically means everyone here at least i hope can understand english and another language which i assume is german as the official language if i'm incorrect so you are all polyglots by nature but if you can even have a third language that's great the polyglot team are amazing they translate WordPress into all the other languages all over the world well now we have a talk on this later so i'm not going to dwell too much but i'd like to point a few things out to you first of all only six months ago WordPress 4.0 came out and it was the first time that local downloads surpassed english downloads that's amazing the international community are downloading in their local language more than the standard american english language that's great now we're in austria so let's look at the WordPress locals for this kind of area german the locals officially with WordPress currently are formal german and informal german which makes no sense to me but i'm sure it makes sense to you guys i have german cousins i understand about two words of german so if anyone wants to teach for you german later please feel free now let's look at austrian locales i understand that you have an austrian version of german austrian german you have alemanic did i pronounce that correctly and austrian bravarian yeah yeah and you have actually i was talking to someone at break time and they said um you have actually a lot of other minority local languages that are like just a certain region in your country yeah child is like that too so i totally know how you feel and when we look at this austrian locales even though there's the three major locales in austria for WordPress there's nothing absolutely nothing you don't have an austrian german look how why even the brits have english gb because we got bored of howdy and wanted hello so why not why are you subjecting your you know alemanic clients to formal german why not have an alemanic wordpress there's no reason why not anyway there's a talk later so you can think about it support i'm assuming everyone here because your wordpress users have at least had a problem with wordpress at some point in your life with wordpress am i right yeah yeah nods i've had them too answering questions on the support forums and even asking questions on the support forums is one of the best ways to contribute to wordpress with the least amount of effort all you need is a wordpress.org user account you log into the forums and you answer a question that you know doesn't matter what question any question that's it everybody knows the answer to something that someone else doesn't know and that's really important to remember documentation how many people here have used the codec yeah right some poor person had to write that codec and some poor person also has to keep that codec up to date those documentations on the wordpress.org site needs to be written i'm a really bad writer which is why i don't have a blog but i'm sure a lot of you have written before or have written things for your company for your clients are you giving them back to the wordpress project as well that same stuff could just go back to the wordpress project and in fact the documentation team have gone through a big revival about a year ago where they're actually writing out new handbooks to make it easier for new people to use wordpress they're updating wordpress inline documentation for all you developers out there and now they're also built they've been building i'm now using a new codec which is called developer hope which you can go to at developer.wordpress.org and there you get more information about your functions i'm sorry if you're not a developer that probably just went over your head but it's super cool that's all you need to know and we need more document writers themes so the theme team do not make themes just to let you know um in fact what they do is they review every single theme that goes on to the theme repo so the repository um and they have to be done by human it's literally someone going in and checking line by line or the code sounds really painful but people do it and you do not have to be a developer to do this if you are a developer great if you are a theme developer even better because actually by doing a theme review of somebody else's theme you will learn what is good practices for your theme development and what is bad practices but if you're not a theme developer if you're just a user and you think about going joining this joining this team then actually it's a really good one because you get to see what good codes look like and what bad code looks like and there's lots of support in fact all these teams have great supports infrastructures around them meta i like to call the meta like the god parents of um the wordpress.org they basically look after the whole of wordpress.org anything on wordpress.org all the tools we use the website all the things we need for all the other teams they kind of like just give you stuff when they're free um and they provide lots of support for all the other teams they're a really small team considering they're supporting the whole of all the other teams they're a really small team um so if you can help support the meta team help them that'll be amazing you're not helping the wordpress thing that you download but actually you're helping everyone else and that's amazing training so this is quite a new team it started last year at work out san francisco so that was in october and what they're doing is they're creating downloadable lesson plans and training manuals for people who are trainers and instructors to use in workshop environments that's super cool but i know there's a lots of people who'd do this for their clients anyway you could actually contribute your workshop manuals back to the wordpress project so there is a standard set that people can use all over the world wouldn't that be really handy and if you enjoy teaching people or if you've been a teacher in the past you guys have been trained in the way to teach people the best so even testing these workshop manuals and training instructions would be really helpful getting feedback is some of the hardest things to do wordpress tv how many people here have used wordpress tv watch the video on there not many of you actually so if you don't know it wordpress tv is the home of all the videos from all the word counts and user groups that do have videos on the internet it literally is wordpress.tv so it's hot not hard to forget remember remember definitely remember um so one of the things about wordpress tv is that actually every video gets reviewed so someone has to sit there and moderate the videos they get go through post production as well so if you're a better video geek nerd then that'd be amazing if you could lend your skills to the wordpress tv team but the other thing about wordpress tv is they're trying to subtitle all of the videos and there was a lot of videos on there and the reason why they're trying to do that is if they can subtitle it into English or the videos then we can translate them to all the other languages which means that if you don't speak English you can still watch the videos and it'll be subtitled so if you can help do that that would be amazing the community now community is my forte so i can ramble on a bit so that's all cool but the community is all about organizing meetups work camps and also just helping each other out now from what i understand there is only one wordpress meetup in the whole of Austria in Vienna which i understand because it's the capital but what i don't understand is why Vienna is so far east what do the people in the west do do they just like i don't know like i've never been around your country so i'm not gonna make judgments but you need to think about it we have a saying in English two is a company three is a crowd four is a party the meetups do not have to be big they can be really small it can just be at a coffee shop or a restaurant or someone's house or an office to meet up together and discuss the good things about wordpress the bad things about wordpress and just support each other is super important to ensuring that our ecosystem of the wordpress community stays healthy it's really important and i would love even a year's time there is another wordpress meetup somewhere else in Austria i'm super lazy and most brits also feel the same way when we say that a meetup shouldn't be far enough from your house so that when you go and have a drink you can definitely get a taxi home and it wouldn't cost you the world um i don't know how you feel about that but i would recommend it to be close to you if there isn't one physically near you because you're quite a rural in a quite rural area think about doing it offline nomad user groups there's a nomad php which has no location they just go on google hangouts and hangout together you could do an Austrian version or nomad js which is the same principle when i talk about speaking and i'm going to go through this really quickly because i know i'm holding people up for lunch um speaking is really important just like me standing on the stage having loads of technical faults and issues and clicker issues it's absolutely fine sharing knowledge is really important and the reason why i say sharing knowledge is really important is because i want you to learn from my mistakes and i want to learn from your mistakes but i also want to learn the things that you've done well so that i can copy them sharing knowledge is about making it easier for someone to get to the plane point and get over that plane point that you've just gone through i don't want you to go through the same potholes that i have gone through and by sharing this knowledge together we can help each other we can learn from each other what you don't know but we can share what we do know and the great thing about sharing experiences is that no one can tell your experiences wrong no one because it was your experience no one can tell me that my high school experience was an epic because you guys didn't go to my high school so start small share with your friends share with your colleagues and that way the wordpress ecosystems gets a little bit bigger too think about it user groups and work camps this is the first work camp in austria it's amazing i'm so privileged to be here and it's amazing to see all your people here too but there's no excuse for not having another one maybe a year's time in vienna maybe somewhere else in austria what's stopping you now i'm also going to quickly just go through the sister projects buddy press glut press and bb press the all sister projects of wordpress and they also need contributors so what's next in the uk what happened was i started contributor days i decided that contributor days were great with work camps because everyone was really excited and all in one location but there was no reason why at our user group we couldn't also have a contributor today so i started a contributor day on its own and trust me i knew nothing about how to contribute to wordpress i was just like help and people helped so now we're working on making contributors easier for people to set up but think about it all you need is wi-fi somewhere that isn't raining which is probably easier than manchester so that helps it can be online or offline so like together in a room or actually just do it remotely you go to the make that wordpress.org website you pick a group you pick a team you look for a handbook um it's a section called getting involved and then you find a page called getting started our contributor day there's also another thing that you should do you should get on the slack channel if you're thinking about contributing to wordpress get on the slack channel because that's where you're going to get help remotely everyone who contributes to wordpress is on there and it's a global um channel so you get people from all different time zones so please get contributing remember we're all part of the wordpress community if you're not sure please ask ask your peers ask me ask anyone in the on the twitter land or slack just ask there's no such thing as a stupid question and feel free if you choose a group to switch to another one and don't forget time zone differences people do sleep and it's absolutely okay so i challenge you all to share the knowledge you have to contribute to wordpress and help build a sustainable Austrian community and get contributing thank you