 The most handsome and beautifully attractive bookie panel that you can see all day. Yeah, it's the only panel you can see all day. I feel so loved. They'll be introducing the styles that you know more about the backgrounds, but please give a hand and welcome our panelists on contributing to the work. Thank you guys. We're not like as they point out that it was sort of at the front of the room rather than on the stage, so I don't want to sit down. So, you know, I'm trying to look around so I can take a look around. Can anyone see us fine? All good? Cool. As you're going to find out, you can go to Slido.com and go to WCCT. They get a page you can add questions and upload them. There's a question there that you would like to see answered, because as it gets uploaded, you're just at the top of the page. And is there any silly questions out there? Well, you know what I mean. Some of you asked earlier, what is the ASP process of handling as well? I might have blacked out the correct 1-5 months, but I apologize if I'm correct. It's only 5 miles an hour. I don't know what I'm talking about. Cool. So, yeah, my name's Hugh Dashbrook. I am on the Worker's Community team, and I work all day, and I spend my full-time jobs culturally to work with this community and helping manage the team of managers and being able to work around some stuff all over the world, which is a lot of fun. I manage this panel today, but the first thing we're going to get from IKEA on my left, so I will introduce myself quickly, and then we'll go from there. All of them are involved in controlling the workplace in some way or multiple ways, brother. And, yeah, I work there to help spread the workplace project. One thing just to note that is very important is that, as has been mentioned, we're having our first Contributor Day. We've had this year, and a lot of work camps do these. We've never doubted that a work camp in Cape Town. Which is very cool. And it's happening tomorrow. No, no, it's the old Castle Brewery. The details are on the work camp website in the address and all that, from 10 o'clock or 4 o'clock tomorrow. And a bunch of people there as well. Contributor Day is basically when you ever come along, come together to contribute to a workplace in some way. It's not just about COVID, it's in loads of different ways, which is quite a lot of what we've been talking about today. So I'm going to kind of introduce themselves one by one, and then we'll start going through some questions. So if you could just, you know, just dive in the title if you've got a mic. A few out there from, and how have you, by the way, been working with us? Okay. Okay, thanks. Again, my name is Davo, and hello everybody. I work for Automatically as a happiness engineer at WordPress.com. The way I contribute to WordPress is I was the lead organizer of the work camp, I, for the previous two years. And I am currently the co-organizer of the Friday WordPress Meetup. And I'm a WordPress fan working here. Hello, my name is Vidancho. So I work for a time on my training, or just my training, and, yeah, so my first time was to come here with the work for the second time. I'm sponsored by Automatically to do that. And, yeah, nice to meet you all. Yeah, hi everyone, my name is Pascal. I don't work at Automatically, but I do work with stuff. I help organize work and serving two years, some four years, and also the WordPress Meetup and serving. I contribute to the WordPress core, the core computer, to the WPCLI engine, and lots of stuff with WordPress. Yeah. Hey everybody, my name is Trish. I also don't work for Automatically. And the main involvement that I have in WordPress is, apart from being open on Twitter, getting some generic messages going, what do I do? Is I'm a co-organiser of the WordPress Jo-Jo community. It's really, it's very fun. I have yet to write a line of code for the WordPress core or anything like that. So remember that contributing is not for developers, and just for developers. And the people who are sometimes the most useful in terms of contributing are the people who go, okay, I don't know what to do. What's the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com? Help. Because that helps us on the dark scene and things like that. Know what to write. So, you know, I hate the term when people go, oh, I'm just a WordPress user because the reason why WordPress powers 32% of the web, and the person who was wondering is from Alexa's top 10 million sites, they look at new users, content management systems, and they look at that, and they look at top 10 million sites in the world. And at the moment, we've just crossed 32% power by WordPress. So, the reason we got 32% of the web on WordPress is because of the users, the devs are a really valuable, small population. So, back to you again. Cool, thanks. Yeah, so, we're going to skip over questions, but just one thing to mention, you might see these, hang around on various tables, I think we're just waiting for this. There's all the icons of all the different contribution teams in the WordPress project, each team gets an icon, which is the one on the back, it's also what each team does, which are ways you can get involved with WordPress, and just reading that is pretty clear, there's not only a lot of code. So, you can grab one of these and then get some ideas, and also come on to content today. I will repeat that. We'll come on to content today tomorrow, we'll be back. It will be. It will be fun. Yeah, see ya. Cool, so, I will, I mean, Tricia, one of the questions that's happened in all the WordPress content, Tricia really mentioned some of that. But, it's quite on the table. So, we have that line from under here. That's just how you like this. Do you want to be, I'm always asking this, if you want to make sure you have more likes. And, at the top, can you just give us a, how do you speak of the early life style of your videos, in a very, maybe talk about some ways that none of them can take a lot of control of your videos. Right, so, I talked about organizing videos, and in my opinion, that's a really great way to get started. It doesn't require, like Tricia was saying, doesn't require any coding experience, or you don't have to be a developer. Just have a willingness to get people together. Also, there's, basically all of you have a lot of work with polyglots. So, I know a lot of us in this part of the world, we speak more than one language. And WordPress needs to be translated. And it's not going to translate itself. So, you know, that's a way you can get involved. There's a, I always mentioned there's a website make.wordpress.org, and you'll find all of these different teams and things that you can do to help on that website. There's a, being a speaker is a way to contribute. Being a volunteer, that's actually a contribution to the WordPress project. So, you know, there's many, many ways that don't feel like anybody, everybody in here, has something that can give, you know, a certain skill, a certain thing that you enjoy doing, that you can use to help make WordPress better for your body. Cool, thanks. Do you want to ask one other question? My commissions, which I suppose is becoming more formalized since I'm speaking about it here, is to see the WordPress project translated into all eleven of the official languages. At the moment, only four of the languages are on the official translations projects. So, if you speak Kozakosu or Zulu, we absolutely need you. And that's really, really easy and it will take you less than a minute to get involved in the WordPress community and you'll get a cool little badge on your WordPress.org profile. So, you don't just get that. If you speak any of the other languages apart from English, Afrikaans, Zulu, a little bit of your time and you're willing to oversee the quality of the translation. So, basically, just seeing that people didn't go into Google and go listen to that. We've all seen a few lovely translations all over Wikipedia and all over Google Translate. So, the way that the WordPress project quality controls by that is through something that we call Global Translation Editors and that's another cool badge that you can get. Yes, I will pump the badges, whatever will work. Then, you can get involved and it takes about to apply to get a new language out of it and then you can do this. Because all of us in this room have the great advantage that we can already speak English and I'll be familiar with technology. Technology is intimidating. So, one of the ways we can make it less intimidating is by translating. So, if you can translate, please, we need you if you want to talk more about it, please, you can hit me up after here and I'll be at the contributor there tomorrow. You don't need to stay for the whole day but if you can just come for a few minutes, you can have a meaningful contribution in less than 15 minutes. Thank you very much. Thank you. Yeah, so, regarding the developers there are a lot of projects that are built by really great developers backed by multi-million dollar corporations which fails, because it's not just the developers who make out the projects, for example, Google, Microsoft, whatever it is. So, again, there are a lot of things to contribute like writing a tutorial, writing a blog post, not just with the official word testing but even with, you know, writing a blog, writing a story, writing cases, everything is contributing back to the community life. If you want to get more involved, you can go to this matter so there you will find a list of different teams. You will find the blogs of different teams, what they're doing, and if you're a designer, I will access the way you speak or wherever you want to get involved you can pick and choose, you know, you can go to the blogs you want to invest in and that's a really good way to get involved. Cool, thanks. There's a question there at the top, and I'm not sure if this is something that you guys can counter as initially, because I know you guys are going in terms of very well managed at times, but the top question is what are the challenges with contributing but not the free-on position, but your daily needs to attend to the work so basically, if you have a full-time job how do you get involved in contributing and how do you work around this because that doesn't guarantee the challenge, because you don't want to take over the best part of the software. So one of the challenges of your interests is that it's disputed across the world, which means there's a lot of different times going into the world, and there are often meetings and polarized teams where some people are sleeping in public room and the other ones are chatting and the good thing is usually the views are organized in a way that you can follow and sustain problems with. So basically, every meeting, there will be a meeting agenda before and meetings afterwards, and you can just read these whenever you have time so you don't have to really make it's time to solve the way to come to you and do that whenever you want anywhere at school. Yeah. One of the other things that I'm speaking from the position of regards to, but here, don't underestimate the value of a small commitment over a long period of time. So if you take five minutes a day while it's in your coffee break and you do that for 40 weeks of the year and you do it five days a week, you've already got 45 times 40 little, little impacts on the community. So you can also, one of the things you can do, especially if your company makes money through work-raise, don't be afraid to say hey, I'd like to take one hour a week to do this. I believe that this will be advantageous to our company because of these advantages. I mean, if you look at people that we know and associate with a lot of the things with both breaks, for example, most of us, if you talk about ACO, we'll all go, oh, you've got to thank your superior. The reason people remember that is because they're active in the community as well. So there is a business case as well, so don't be afraid of actually saying, hey, boss, you know what, I think this is a good marketing strategy, especially since you can put it as part of your community, what corporate social responsibility do you think you can put in in that? Yeah, just as a case though, I guess when I first started as long as I work in a care company for 13 weeks, I worked for a week and some time in the company here because we were obviously very involved in the community for any time at that part of the job to organize those other things like that, so I was just surprised that there are a lot of these tasks and they're very much a problem. So yeah, that's that. Cool, so just quickly, yeah, just to clarify, someone asked, does it work with batches? Which one are you going to work with or do you prefer to work with your username? You can imagine batches saying what team do you contribute to? So if you contribute translations, you're going to find your last batch or whatever, that's what that is. Just clarify that, it's not like an actual batch, although it does work with batches. Yeah, that's a great question. Cool. So there's a really good question here to go down but I think it is where it was almost why contribute to work with what we're doing to contribute to work with batches? Cool. Yes. So one good example for lots of companies is when you're using WordPress to build websites for clients can you contribute back to WordPress to help make sure that WordPress is built away with a few years in time? If you like it's a bit over-exaggerated but basically it's in your interest to have WordPress be used as a example and you can only ensure that by contributing to it. Yeah? So if you were to add on top of a master set, so contributing to WordPress is not just a digesting fix it could be a strategy if you can think of it as a strategy thing. So if you're an individual contributor you could use it to advance your career if you're you know, if you're a designer you can actually order that Also contributing to WordPress is also important to avoid this when you're creating your cons in which a community can use a common source for just one solution and overestimate it like, send out a report to a doctor in Dubai and you know, the office right. So avoid that to ensure that you're not disturbed or that but also you're interested in contributing to WordPress So do you want to talk a little bit about it? Yeah, I really agree with what you just said you can't use community WordPress as a tool to open doors for you that's very important for the people who feel like you know, I'm contributing to WordPress but I'm not going to get out of it that's something I actually try to make the people in my community aware of and you know, you can actually get some benefit and career advancement from but the reason I like the company is WordPress is because it's actually been very good to me you know, it's actually something that I love doing so I do what I do because I love WordPress and it's out of gratitude for what it's done for me and I want to make sure like I said that WordPress continues to be there and continues to be there and another thing is that you know, we have this community called Google Earth on our web so you feel a lot of positive stuff about you feel a lot of pain yourself about but you know, it's simple to think about all the things that are wrong with Google Earth giving feedback is actually a contribution to the WordPress project and it's a relatively secret feedback because they don't know what it's like to tell the world so yeah, it's very important to just keep this thing going Can you interact with WordPress community and with Google Earth? Is it because of the people I've made some amazing friends through the WordPress community and for people out there I actually seen it beautifully last year that I'd asked you about the workings of like primary unions like I have for once a year because you can and each year you've got more people you can and they know oh wow, so cool to see you there and we've been very kind and it doesn't have a great event so for me, actually the people and the relationships are very important as well That's true, cool and in addition to the WordPress project there's a difference between all communities in addition to how you decide how well it's done and what is the best in some of these communities in code to the WordPress or actual WordPress which could be a bit of a high level work could be anything Yes, it's a good question so many years ago it was difficult to become a part of the group it actually isn't we tried to make it very easy to contribute to WordPress and it only had to be a programmer so for example if I write a page for WordPress it takes a lot all you need to do is test this space on your site and confirm that it's working it's also already confused and whenever you're confused we try to give you a cross on a client so in some way we make it tangible and it's like cross to the new username and it's also done as a batch of WordPress or a profile and why? because it's an institution so you really don't have to be a programmer at all but if you're a programmer you can download WordPress from GitHub you don't need some support or anything else so locally and you can write a batch Oh, that's a good one and well In the future we will be able to create WordPress or we could use Slack and some Jack to make WordPress a profile so we join this platform and there's a group called Ode to be made practical and you can do this so you join a different institution so you need some cycle And you can also come over here later and you can go over there as well. Or you can do that. You can go to the university if you know the key moment of that. So I guess we'll just have to do this a little bit before we get started. We'll get going in a bit. Yeah, go. And the question I guess is for you. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. So this is where you should have guys from the improvement, yeah? So one of the things that makes a wordpress so powerful is the fact that you can use any of the plug-ins and things, right, or things that you're here to plug into your functionality. And if you are involved with a plug-in that is put up to the wordpress.org for such plug-ins, and you listed as a computer on the plug-in, you get to go out as a computer, and in case plug-ins are absolutely caught up in the community with it. What is that? Yeah, it's one way to get into the project to extend the actual platform so that's it. And it's a good question to say. Thank you very much for the second one. Yeah, I'm starting to do the wordpress. Is there one more? Okay, that's it. Yes, sure. So again, the key to the wordpress is to turn the plug-in into a lot of categories. And I'm involved with a lot of other categories. I'm just trying to figure out what is the wordpress and what is the codepress. And you guys can do that. Nothing is complicated about it. But next up, we're going to start. Cool, yeah. So the same question I've made that is about the open-out. What is the wordpress in my head? So at the same time, I'm going to go over that. And what is the wordpress in my head? So that's cool. This is actually a good question. What is the wordpress for those of you who are contributing to the project? Anyone who has seen the wordpress or seen that there seems to be the most important thing for people who have seen it. The same answer. I'd say that the wordpress is two ones. One element is I changed it to three things. So you've got to test. You've got the new user coming up. So obviously, big changes need new testing. And this is where the just the user can be useful because you know what to do because you don't want people. And your perspective is valid. And that's true if something doesn't work in my head, it isn't going to get out of the presentation. Or it might be over or things like that. So if these testing needs, I would also go polygots in the entire community because I'm a manager. So it's a huge one. And it's also great in terms of creator than it is in mobile art. So those are the things that I would argue the most. And I think it's interesting by us. Yes. I just want to say in my opinion this new editor called Woopner, it's about to really change the face of wordpress. It's accessible. I think it's really important for people to give the developers their feedback because you don't want this thing to, I mean, face this the future wordpress. So we need to make sure that wordpress continues to be easy to use and well like where I say, go test Woopner there's an option to send feedback in your WP dashboard. Yeah, I think that's really important. I think it's actually it takes a lot of you talk about this with the command there are so many people who really do work with why in the night of that why should someone get involved they don't want to take that. Good job. And if you set it up on take a little thing that you can take and support for the some of our students if these are people who are going to have different skills on the skills that I think are there so this is a community effort so yes that could be one of the many reasons. If not you then you because can I do this because people's lives change jobs change and what makes them continue don't be small and make them all. So moving back on the state of India the state of India so it's on India so the state of India is not having a computer so currently I am the question is is there a way in which financial support work has and I think you can say that in other countries and where do we go? Oh there so so the financial support work has in other countries as well so this is a great question and I don't know if I can answer that but I would like to answer as well because I do not know what the answer is that was correct um if it's an existing work most work camps will give you the opportunity to buy a vehicle of micro-sponsorship tickets and this is something that I myself you don't even have to go to a work camp if you just feel like you want to help them out with a small donation if you just buy a ticket you don't even have a micro-sponsorship ticket but I thought it was good to do a do a small marketing in that certain area and do away with the tickets yeah I would say that's one of the best really easy way to go after you really like it I'm excited more than the micro-sponsorship at all pretty much all work camps on the cityname.wordcamp.org have anything of how to become a sponsor and you can apply to become a sponsor you can do it with the benefits of the name but we have work camps where people have said you know where it's given a lot to me I just want to increase the kitty and give a donation so you can do that as well and if you don't have a specific city in mind I'm pretty sure that the wordpress foundation has a way to take donations get a Google application and then you can use the Google application to provide you with a list of the work camps you can do so if you want some around the future you can and cool the special information is actually part of that it's how the community around the country and there are various associations that create a lot to influence and it's a very good question that we're not going to be able to answer for that so there seem to be a lot of chat or argument about more but there's a lot of enforcement there's a lot of people we aren't doing as much as we would like but we are doing certain things okay probably the main thing that we're pushing and what's actually really really cool is I don't know if Apple's got a parallel network running but what Google has now is with Android and Mete they've got peer-to-peer app installed so if you can get the WordPress app installed on your phone if you are in a low in a rural area with the cost of data that is driving you nuts your peers can install their app your app from their home which is brilliant but that only takes care of that if you can already understand one of the languages and for moments a WordPress is mainly available in the English app you might see it as a theme that I'm pushing to get it translated because there's a barrier to entry we are one of the things that the WordPress Jovic community is talking about but it hasn't formalized it's how to do some more Archive pronouns specifically for the networking initiative and things like that in terms of creating an education because a lot of times people they don't even know about WordPress which obviously makes me a sad panda but it is an opportunity for me to say the word WordPress a lot which is one of the things I think so I think that answers a bit of it he's come to help us a lot with the word WordPress and it's a good idea because there's something we want you to do what do you want me to do what do you want me to do and there's two questions that I can't say again what does this suggest to the coding manager to be able to contribute to WordPress or better than this to be able to do and the question for us is effectively the same thing so there are a lot of things we want you to do so there are two many program languages that WordPress is building the first one is PHP that's probably one of the most programming languages on the web but I don't know where it comes from so WordPress is building PHP but it also lots of JavaScript especially with the new keyboard editor which is where it can react so if you use WordPress on my PHP but you're using more modern objects that's perfect and all of the very best WordPress is going to work with WordPress it is do you need my store or is it your store now what do you want me to do do you want me to do my Manchester do you want me to do so we just talk really loud cool let's just talk loud it's green but there's no something back up there it wasn't me sounds like a desk issue it's all good so that's essentially our side of the question so that's all good and just talk about it until we have this I've got better years cool all good so the next question about site speed that's not really one about contribution but you can chat to anyone I'll be happy to talk about it I think that's actually two pretty good questions how is WordPress actively pushing PHP 7 and how is WordPress ensuring the drive of getting the latest integrations or widespread in the image of HTML5, CSS3 ES6 etc which you can add PHP 7 to that list so those questions kind of go together does someone want to pick up on that sure talk really loud try to let us speak loudly which is not really what you might say correct thanks so as I said the new Humbug editor is written in modern JavaScript so it's React, ES6 everything as far as HTML5 all the default things are already in HTML5 and if you go to the desktop you can use that what you go with it as for PHP there's an initiative going on called server happy which tries to push website owners to update their servers those things are part of the business that works as the version of PHP 5 and 2.0 very old version of PHP 7 that came out in 2006 or so and the problem is we don't have the most requirements to let's say PHP 7.2 or PHP 5.6 very good and so we try to push them to update their PHP 3.0 instead there's absolutely none that's stopping you from working as on PHP 5.0 and 7.2 or something yeah hello do you want me to do that? yeah so the PHP 7.0 it's more of a it's also pretty nice we actually got any so you can I love it if you if you're trying to if you are and you ask a lot of this to that and as possible you cannot just move other requirements so other than I think that was very well organized good another good question and as soon as you can go on to explore how do you get involved with the PHP 7.0 program and that's it's a pretty good question but I don't think you can answer that because I haven't had any people I'm going to have to join afterwards and any other about that I can get involved with all that so it's a good question and that's a good question who is the core team deciding on the future of workers that is a good question who decides how workers respond to what is done yes so the reason for sure is that we have a plan so with the project we are going to join this program and there will be you can you can you can so so we are to master the so there are some weeks that we can for example there is a week they would be for actually many of you would be part of the project but if you can you can you can and I just want to show that but as with the work of the project it's kind of a big problem that people who do work are going to get more responsibility so some folks in terms of the core and that kind of thing will be an access to the work that we put like the support that we have obviously it's great that we have the there is one of our some of the we have to we have to work with the project and You should. So it was, you know, a few hundred people that contributed to my work. So that was a disaster. The most important thing about it. Yeah, I guess this is a lot more than an anguish thing as well. I haven't seen such a thing as this, I have to admit that. The workers have a really deep interest in my people. That's what I'm looking for now. Sure, yes. Official workers support MySQL, which is one of the most competitive engines. There's also the protocol for MySQL, which is from, I think to say, I have founded MySQL Creative Variety, it offers dollars. And it's actually compatible with MySQL. So you can run workers with MySQL. Does it matter if the official support is possible? Cool. Yeah, okay. I mean, workers with WordPress, WordPress, WordPress. I'm lost. I mean, workers with WordPress, WordPress, WordPress, WordPress. Absolutely. We were running very short on time. And we didn't, we didn't, sort of, cover this rather very quickly. But I think we should be able to continue to add it. But I think we have this sort of architecture we can help you personally, career-wise, brand-name, or other. And yes, it's not the needs of the public, but you're right. It's not an issue. Where do you find your service? I think it's very personal. But how do you think we can help you personally? Go. Yes, lots of times. And I've actually been raised to be a part of that. A company that does a lot of WordPress. They're the kind of, they search, they search for clients that they turn on service. They do that. So they went, do you mind if we send them yours? And I went, of course, yes. So, yes. So I've actually got a financial thing in terms of, that I'm obviously asked of as well. Yeah, I guess we all would be here with our workers. I mean, which is a big thing. That's true. Yeah. No, no. We've been here. I don't know. Cool. Cool. Now, last time we were doing our service there, we had to be attentive to the work of our customers and the language. It was once more difficult on the end. It was time to die even. And the work, apparently, it was like massive. And the last time, it was very, very, very slow. That's why they had to be attentive to the other language, but we aren't supposed to be by anyone's word. So, looking at those, I can't decide what the answer to the question is. So, by the way, that Doctrine reports, I think it still works. It's solid and you can add kinds of talking on that. So, it wasn't, it wasn't adding your speech files and even some of the other numbers that you've looked at. But it was equal. It was equal to it. Okay. I can't believe the loop for that. I don't know if it's very correct, please. Cool. And, there you go. First, there's all the customers we have and even the walk-out, all the customers. And, there's a piece of our initials kind of to understand how it works, how you can work. And I'll give you an example of a country today, where you can learn a lot more and get involved, so we'll be there to help you get involved. If you get involved, you'll be like, it's really great. If you do have a picture today, you might have a good idea of everything on the World Campus site. Also, there's the same post we got, the address, so I want to sort of address how you prepare the name of that country that you want to do. And, the tip of the code is, you'll be sent out to me, all the attendees that are working out so all of you, the last time, but it could be today in front of you, because you will be there in the afternoon to have the, to have the, to have the, to have the, to have the, Cool. Cool. There's an thank you soon for watching, you will be going very, very long and very, very complex. Thank you very much.