 We still love you. Yeah, sure. Before we start, I'm going to put up my e-organising gap and take off my speaking gap and say that we can't sit around here and hear people who are from the bottom. Look around you, these are my connections. But I don't have people here. So, if you have a partner or a friend that's going to help you, I'm going to put up my e-organising gap and take off my speaking gap and say that we can sit around here and hear people who are from the bottom. So, if you have a partner or a friend that's taking you up, or they're waiting for you home and you want to put up your speaking gap, this is what people want to say. Go ahead. Really, go for it. Cool. So, I can pretty much guarantee you that Bruce and I have prepared nothing. Of course. I can almost guarantee that. The reason we prepared nothing is because it's an exciting art story. A story about a partner waiting for a community to make a difference in our home. Do I need to be on the ESD on camera? Thanks, John. This is the story of how I got involved in a community. Okay. So, my name is Jonathan Foster. I'm a freelance developer. I speak for the term of my name, WordPress, and I have a big term of my name in my book. I also want to be an ESD. I work for ESD, and I'm going to organise it along with you. Last year, I was dealing with the work I cared about. You can see here, this is my slide, this is my note. So, I'm going to go ahead and see that. And work for ESD is how to make a new chain of art. It was the first work I ever heard of. It was the first time I discovered that WordPress is not just a login tool. It was the first time I discovered this thing called the WordPress community. And at the end of that second day, I made the decision that I was going to choose WordPress for you all and make WordPress what I do with tomorrow. And I realised that in the last few years, I've realised that purchasing is not enough for what you do. How hard do you do it? Or how much? It's just the fact that you do something. One small thing. Make it a little small. I remember sitting in a tall pen, working out how to use 2016. Constantly learning was a speedy digital condition. And his first contribution was fixing a double underscore in a translation So it was supposed to be a double underscore or a single underscore. So he added another double underscore. And a line, whatever it was. He just added one character. And he submitted that hash. And he was working on it. So it's working. Okay. I'm going to add another one. And what I discovered when I realized about WordPress is that you don't have to be an organizer of WordPress. You don't have to be a finance programmer. You don't have to do anything more than what you can have. And it boils down to making it a choice. Now, the main reason that RoosterEye is doing this talk is to try and convince those of you who are here today to join us tomorrow for a truth. You totally should. Gave us about the numbers. We have gays and 450 people. So I won't take my mouth again. People are going to get out of my mouth. Pete's going to look at me, telling me there are 50 people for our lunchtime. We currently have 16 people side up. If you want some group, if you want some group, come and join us. Please. Because the most important thing is you don't have to be an amazing developer. You don't have to be a core controller. You don't have to do anything more than just one thing. If you arrive and join us tomorrow, you're going to get there at the end of it. And you spend an hour, and you want to do one support, and you help one person start from there for the last time, and you help one person solve a problem you have come through. And that's what it says. The rest of my talk is going to be about my journey, my story, but before I leave, I'm going to have to do the second sentence before I'm done. Christmas. So apparently, the one thing I'm going to do is I'm going to have to write it. So it's a car wash. So I'm going to have to write it. Of course, my idea was to study it and that my involvement with the workers community led to involvement with other communities, which led to a changing career. And I had the idea to start with a developer. I started when I was 14 as a developer. I worked on the TV system for a big events company, as well as one of the big seminars. And then after that, for two years, I went to Kent, and produced a lot of career. I decided to take a job also, but I couldn't do it. Then the delivery of a boat, I went back to work. Then I kind of changed what I translated and the benefits of it. I realized I like to do it with people, which is weird because I'm actually into work. And my mind is a total failure. And I then kind of learned to be a manager when I learned about it. And I joined a small company called the Gates-Bottom as the project manager and consultant and eventually became the manager of it. And after that, I decided I'm kind of done working with one of the last one-year-long mayor. So I co-founded the work manager. And we knew nothing about it. We did massive corporate assistance, so custom stereo systems and so on. So after two years of doing that, realizing that it is terrible, we started doing more websites. And someone said, hey, come to work at. So I joined my work. I think the first one was in 2015. And to be honest, I couldn't get out of that world. It was because of a legacy in, where they were soon willing to help and teach you how to train and get involved. What's great about this community is that even as a PhD student, I had too much work. I needed that I could contact the guys in the room and say, hey, would you help me with this? They'd happily probably help us out. And at the same time, we had quite a great say, hey, I'm sorry, do you have anything we can do? They'll actually help us out. So I really wanted to know about that community. Because of that, and a huge job, we started getting involved in running the meetings. We volunteered at the workshop. And now I'm based on the organized community workshop for your two years. We've fallen out with the math. And then you started to know that you couldn't say no anymore. And I thought that, I think I know, if we were going to do the best we could, and everything else, they can't have taught me how to do it to school no matter what. And we had to shut down the office for a while. We didn't need one. We started to get out there and we were more ahead of travel. And they didn't know how old you could suddenly, I think that in the special five years, it was like 34 hours. Because that's what you need to offset. And then you need more people. And through these people with your life change, you learn new things to grow. And then through that, about seven months ago, I got a call from the vice president of the community to start a grant. And I don't know anything about that. But I was just talking to the organization. He called me and said, just by the half of the day, if we had a community, we had to drop a good job. And I had my latest skills running. It was like, I'm sure, I dropped everything in our community. And he said, okay, that's a good job. And he called in our lady and said, by the way, that job's yours. So that day, I called the whole community and I was like, listen, I love you guys, but I can't say no to this. And because of my work with the work with the community, I was now being asked to help run this massive local community of volunteers. And I had to take it, I could say no. So I put it out in Wordpress without going to their first Wordpress. Without people, without people. I never would have meant to start a grant route. I wouldn't have been ever going to step into a five-year land job interview, which is nothing like a job platform. I never would have dreamed of to help literally millions of volunteers around the world. So I had to take it with me. I mean, totally not that much. So thank you. So this is my story. And we're going to have to refer to my photos. It's a terrible event. My name's and I'm glad it works. I'm very excited about it. It's a term 259 to look at for the first time. I'll get to this thing quickly. I heard about it before. I tried to go to the previous year and I wasn't as best as I could go. I met some amazing people. I was practicing amazing people. And I've been living with one of those two days going, this is what I'm going to do for the rest of my life. I'm going to be moving forward. Doing something that I've learned all my life, which I was crazy. I was going to make hardly a drastic change in my situation. But I kind of just used the word, I don't know why. Soon after that, soon after that work out was a term 259. I can't get to you because I saw the news running in the head time unit. And they were usually in the internment on that work out. And I'd like to do it before and it's about a hard drive, a good drive. And I said, I'd like to get you all starting up a meetup in the north side. And he said, well, why don't you join the way for us to start and join a meetup group and then from long time meetup we could turn. Unfortunately that meetup group doesn't exist yet. Because what happened was that I got involved in the gig time unit. I'm Jerry. Jerry, the 2016 man at the week did a fireside chat and he'd done much like this. I still say I don't like that. But it was around another time that my youngest was about at the end of the year. I fell over for a year into your own chat and now I'm going to be there. And I finally went to my first meetup with Hugh 2016. I met the folks and got to know them at the end of the time. I was going to go to Bruce and I then started getting more involved in the community. For the very next work out I applied to be a speaker. I didn't get invited that would be awesome too. I applied to be a speaker because I realised that if I wanted to share where I wanted to share I had to step up and make a choice. Then I was invited by a local worker at a company called Cocoa to be interviewed by an academic worker. The reason that they sent me that I wanted to interview because they were interested in people like Jeremy Piers and Hugh Rashford and people who are veterans of the K-time worker space. Yeah, I was this new party. I just want to remember I think it was a matter of asking who is the star of the night. Because I think you are what's I wasn't even as involved in the community of them. And the reason they wanted to interview you because they found it so interesting that I went to my first movie in 2015 and I was speaking at least in a way but what is so amazing about it is that I'm speaking with an expert and I've said to them and I've been able to do nothing. I'm just a guy who likes to do things and this is a space where you can do things where they welcome people to do things. At the same time so from the point of choosing to repress at that time I was working as a volunteer there and I was I worked in the business of my life trying to manage one son who was living in you and contracting on site business and all that so I did and the first year was hot the first year was exceptionally hot and then I met a company called Wearing a t-shirt right now that I were in Christmas in my future before I was accepted one of the questions that they asked me was is how are you involved in the WordPress community? Well that's how I'm going to go well I'm visiting a meeting with a guy and I would like to leave because they're they're really up still in the language community that I was in the scope and part of the meeting was a community a community project I was involved in the community I was giving back to it I applied to leave for example 2017 because after you finished your 2015 there was another lead who was leading in 2016 2017 I applied now I'm 520 because I was 520 in October 2016 I was asked by you whether I really was the person who was leading that jazz family issues that I needed and without being paid to do it I don't know how I'm going to be more good so I'm going to make the series not enough and I'm going to finish going to say a jazz interview and the key thing that I want to again drive home is it was I decided to try these things so I am making I have written this amount of code towards winners I have not done any design I have not done any testing it's only convenience but because I just got involved in an area where I was comfortable and get involved outside of my job I get especially where I am literally and I each question literally in the library but I'm literally in two years double my reputation because I've made that choice to go away double I kid you not and that's where you can be okay I'm not a situation where my wife and I don't have to work in all the issues and I feel comfortable enough to say don't worry I've got this because I'm involved in the community because I need more amazing clients around the world and this I'm a little bit to the score for when you wish to explore and things outside of where you wish and learning new things and growing all that kind of thing but because I'm involved I still rest assessing so the biggest thing I really think of you as a gardener as you come and get involved and the thing that I started the we're best if you get all the great community people together whether you're right-handed or about together and we try and promote websites for our products and the city talking about this is not like yes I'm involved and the first year I joined as a project manager for the team and after that you know I have a woman and I've been here before and every year it's better there and we work with their organizations and again because of you it's a very strong international so we have working with the community do we websites for my brothers or because of starting this start here we should all be right from a personal to everything like I said especially if you speak to some of those people and I know that we came from the of years of space to even talk about hey we can make that much better if we're from more by doing smaller projects more readily and then there's been all of our resources of time to a year and a half more project that half way through the internet is going anyway so we made that decision to say hey we're going to stop and we got worried and because we weren't involved in the community we started making key partnerships for the agencies we worked on all of them because of our sponsorship at these events at all at these events and we wanted to know if this is part of working time and then literally we taught the agencies the marketing and the pricing of the agencies how to do proper breeze technical breeze and they just started taking us work and we made a little work again and we really took in a bunch of breeze we put them together we tried out how to start to be and to be fantastic and in doing that we started doing more work on such and the last thing is the work on guys so we started bringing back everyone else that we needed back then and then we started being asked to speak on cows and we started building sites and we were processing a company and we were doing a company and then this day we were talking about a bakery or it's a good bakery but a bakery that makes cupcakes that's a little little ranch with orders whatever it is like a month all of them makes them wood logs that's pretty down resident we also had furniture and then we sold couches during that Friday and then we said we had a pretty down resident so from our perspective getting involved helped make more business more business but we started doing cool things with cool companies and almost I don't ever have a reaction to anyone who doesn't know I used to eat that in my head I made all of that from customers that's kind of how it started for me and all the people that we work with are people that we met in the world of this community we don't hire outsiders because we know that they're passionate about caring unfortunately they're not here today but we really we don't hire the community but I think most of you are actually going to a company and they just do the same thing that we're going to consider about you know the other guys from YouTube to say or do a bit more you know that's not necessarily providing code meeting people helping people giving back in any way you can and I can guarantee you that we'll be returned to you at least therefore so for a very less signed group our aim is that we're just doing it okay we might as well do it that's how we work so the direct in plan contributing that to my life contributing late you to recommend me it's all about you then you can submit that the amazing show you know letting him to recommend me to the new owner of services and broadcasting which they in terms of two year positions so far has been that much you have not seen a line in my phone when he made that recommendation it was clearly less on my what to do with you know I think you know I think it's the talk quite a lot so yeah not a lot of you have to do the purely because I was involved in this when he sold the lady at the U.S. State who do you recommend my I've never been out of this country on my I've never been out of this country on my I've never been out of this country when I was at the U.S. is the I've never been out of this country a lot of you may have a lot of full of a lot of a lot of a lot of people you know I was in a company this year this year is I think maybe you to the devil and making up a tension. If you haven't learned about the concept of vital diffusion, Matt Mothery talks about giving you 5% of your time back to the rooms. And that 5% can be joining us as a volunteer for the two days at work. It can be being involved in what I do. When I start with it, I used to go on the front. Who do you know how to provide enough to do? I'm a forum carp. You don't know how to work in whatever room. Most of the time. So what I used to do, and I know there's a bunch of people that do other things, front after the forum carp, we're first of all such support. Find some teams that have been around, that haven't been answered, that have been asked to support us, that have been asked to support us. That's five support teams that somebody else doesn't have to do. That's perfectly fine. So whatever it is. And the point that I try to explain is that we all use rooms, and we all make a living from rooms. And we love rooms. But if you can start thinking about as much as you can, and I say this as much as you can, as much as you can, giving back to the rooms, it will have a dire risk of impact on what you're able to do and grow and achieve as we grow. My hands are short, but I'm really tired. So as I mentioned in part, it's because I'm kind of a subject and kind of an expert. And somebody who is thinking about how I was talking about things that two years ago we had in our day-to-day life. So I definitely think that was really cool, by the way. Thank you very much for the opportunity. This is very important to me. I made friends in our contacts. A contact when you ask them for help, they're not really going to do it. They're very important to me. And this community has made a difference. It's very important. They taught me to live in a digital lifestyle. And they said, I think 34 countries are quite a lot of ideas. This year alone I went to 13 countries, trying to give me again a couple weeks or two weeks. And... I don't even remember. And then, as a matter of fact, they taught me pretty well that I'm never even born. Community management is kind of my passion, because my destiny. I have no idea that anything exists as a group. So it's a big thing. Mr. Mayor, what's your name? I'm Mr. Mayor. So these are the five key things that I've noticed about contributing to the workforce. Contributing just reminds me of something I've said before. The world wants to make a change in the world of workforce. One of the questions that I've never been able to deal with is if you're making improvements, contributing to the workforce, yes. If you're not contributing to the workforce, you're not contributing to the country. So the first thing that I know is that countries are human beings. We're all human beings. Some of us are more human. They're crazy. We are jobs, but they're clients. If you're clients, do what you want to do in the street, which is their team or their team or their team, that's iron. We are all a tiering. So if anything, I need you to do that to the workers of our new free time. So people aren't going to expect you to have these crazy day-longs and sticks to them. If you follow automatic, whether the automatic freeze is communication that must be distributed to teams, and that applies to the market as well. If you sell somebody or other teams that you're going to finish this document by next week or Friday, and something happens that you can't, then you just tell the team, they throw something out of that cartonition and they'll do it for the next week and everybody gets it. So it's not like you're looking for a company and I think that, I know for me at least, when I first started working, we were all on that. In a volunteer environment, in a remote source for the sunlight environment, we all understand, we all get when I, this year, when I think of you, instead of being the normalizer that I entered in my job so that people can actually form a team to live in it, and we have teams that are ISD, who has us community, that teams are digitally set up. And I contacted them to set up the petition and that project to the project, I said to them, we're doing this team thing, we're recruiting teams. You manage the team, do you have any advice for me in this volunteer space? The two that you sent to me were number one, make sure that everybody understands that you give that they're doing this volunteer. Make sure they know that it's okay to miss that day one. It's not really a day one. You're not dealing with this, yeah. Also make sure that you check in with the teams. You notice that they're high there, what hospital are you expecting to use, check in with your high there, what can I do to help you. Because they keep our boy kind to say, I need help with this. So those are the two pieces of our schedule. Number three, small things can affect big changes, adding one underscore to at least a new line, adding one underscore. Adding one underscore by character, adding one car, adding one translation, that's probably not even going to be that bad by the way. Go back to the situation. The reason I haven't downloaded it is because there's no more things that I'm fixing for you. If I could get a whole bunch of people to come along and add those comments, they'll be amazing. And they'll all get props to the way. I'm telling you to come out, I'm just saying work is the call, whatever. If it's my plan, you're not doing it right. If you continue to work with me, come to the people, you're taking me too seriously and that's okay. And finally, don't get dragged to the next WP draw. There is always some drama going on because of how big our community is. It's 32 cent on the top 500 websites in the world. That's a huge number of people. Ten million. Ten million is next week. I want to show a very good job. That's a huge number of sites. That's a huge number of people using women with same-hand workers, relying on workers to earn their income. Some people are going to disagree with you. And that's okay. Somebody's going to sell the person to the US. So when the drama is happening, don't get sucked in. Take a step back. It's like a ladder to the truth. I'm telling you, system-on-miner, disagree to high-fielder workers and that's not getting all the way done. Take a step back. They're experiencing it in one way. They're trying to expand their life. They're trying to include them in the concert. And in one of your orders is asked why all the family followers are going to be? Family followers? Family followers? Thank you. If you're going to go further, and if you're going to do business and projects that you actually can, it's okay to do business. It's okay to do business. It's okay to not finish your job where you're supposed to be. The more you move on to your job, the more you can get more people to join. And not just to join because you want to get in the way of something else to workers, but joining because they're busy workers and I want to expand on how amazing community to workers is. They're first of all free to tomorrow. Not just for that, not just for the people. I don't want to take you so I don't want to take you to another time. It's the least you can do. It's like having a greater family, Let me just say, you've changed the class. Actually, not me. I'm not a staff member. Also, I do as well as I wish to inform you why I need to work with the community, and since I've worked with my friends, what has brought me, what you have told me, is to get involved in everything that I've actually done. So, the main thing I've learned to do again is to get involved with the community, not just for the work that's in care, but to have a massive impact on your life. And because we're passionate about it, there's a good chance that we're going to have a big impact on the rest of the community. Number one thing for me to make friends, my contacts, which is great. I've traveled so much, it's a very simple city I've been to. I've met someone in the community and that city that I've been to, had a lot to share with. And, you know, I asked him, he said, I'd like to meet up with a strength to be a part of your family. You can just get to a distance and you've got a little mutual passion. That's amazing. It's about giving, but I'm just taking it. And that's not much to know. It's about volunteering. It's about doing what's important. The main thing to look around yourself as well is if you go to bed and you don't have to do something wrong. Others, people you've got to start with are very similar, but especially, in my opinion, the single most important thing that we have to deal with is time. You can make more money, you can get more things, but you can't get to your time there. So to actually take some of your time to devote yourself to something you're used to on us, that's priceless. And this would be a big opening for some of the new teaching ideas, a lot of these experiences. I never thought I'd be managing community. Now, I never thought I'd understand anything about people. It's a project. This is the second time I've learned about it. And also, this is a big one I know I didn't believe in myself, but if you heard that, actually read it. And if you can't find it, you can actually go to people. You can actually go to them. And it's okay to be scared. Do it anyway. So, you know, we're all scared of something. You don't know how to contribute. That's okay. You don't know how to change one line of code. Write one line of code. It doesn't matter if it's called out. And then just because he showed no interest, I think this was the only day I was going to make breakfast in Athens. So, this was the last year. I mean, as you can see, we're all obsessed with most people, man. And this is the information queue because we left us. But I put a mark on him. I learned a couple of years from him here. Do you have any questions? Yeah, where is it tomorrow? So, I've got a few things happening in the old, possible room. Which is just around my area as well. It's even a normal office. I had no idea what we were going to have. I sent out an email along with the electricity support for the ICANN portal. Oh, oh gee. Thanks so much. I was just thinking about the ICANN portal. I left this one with a link to the post for details. If you didn't receive it, you can just check your spare. And then if you saw it, you can just click there now, join in with the post and you're in the team on that comment. And I'll send you the link. Or you can go out to the WCAB website and just search for 100 today. There is a form to fill in. You don't have to fill in. It's just so you know that you'd like to help. You can go in for a minute. I'll be more sorry for the form. As I said, that last check was 60. My, so, I wish this was not a major thing tomorrow. My goal is tomorrow. I think everybody pitches up and that's just one thing. Either they join the slack travel for the team they want to come here to. Or they read it out for the teams and they pick a team to come here to. Or they ask them one small question. Or they fix one bug. Or they set up their government environment and they can go open fixed bugs. Just one thing. That is the end goal. Because it's the first time we're doing it together. No idea how to figure it out. Okay? If you can't make it through time, but you're sitting at home and you want to join us, we will be more slack. I can't see you pizza through school, but I'll see you in a minute. So you can go. But if you want to join us on slack and you want to figure it out, we'll be more slack. Ask us questions. Feel free. If you don't know us slackers, you can come and jet to the E.M. You can be more inspirational. You can find out. You can download the app on your MacBook or that type of desktop of mine. And you'll also have a T-Zero on your machine here that you can use for a second. So please, you can do it. So as a patient, you can have an opportunity to add to the sliding of the line. So if you need it, then we'll come to you to work with you and share your overall. Okay? If I can convince all of you to join us tomorrow, this talk will make the official event more online fun. As I said, we're 16 people. So if you're wondering if you're going to go for it, or if it's a while, or if you're doing other stuff or something like that, go ahead and talk. And now I'm going to make another statement. I'm sure we'll be fine. What time? We're starting at 10 o'clock for this very first talk. We've got the spaces until 4 o'clock and I don't think we're going until 4 o'clock and that aspect is only the right time to start that 8 o'clock. We will be having lunch at about 12 or 15. The beginning of the day will literally be it's like, I don't know, but I'll give it a time. I'll give it a time. I'll give it a time. Okay. So, if you're going to go for it, I'll give it a time. So, the four-day after the day will be a really good interaction on more than a team basis and one of the people who are leading our experience around the relationship and our questions of it. We will then give you time to find a seat and get your laptop stored down and go on to the main block. If you've never been there, I'll forget that and we'll read about more than a team. Once you've got our team, we're going to ask a big team if you want to contribute to it. Once you've got that, they will help you sit up if you need to sit up if you're sitting outside, if you're sitting out at an open environment. If you're getting access to a community team or a national team or whatever they're doing. Then, how often do they want to start doing it or what do you want to start doing? What kind of help do you want to do? We'll recognize you to talk with you and then if you're at home at that point in time, if you want to hang around for a few minutes, if you do something and put something on there to help you, it's great. And that will be the basic moment where you're there. It's very much important just as I've raised it up. But if you can't do it, please do it. You're a little bit late if you're going to be there at 12 o'clock for lunch, and I need to open up a pizza and I'm going to have 50 or 60 people on the floor. Yes. Sorry. Where's the most quality? I didn't check out a little piece of paper. Hang on. Okay. Okay. I want to see you need to do that. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. Make. East is off the clock and Friday is looking at us. Good evening. Thank you so much.