{"id":10347,"date":"2018-01-15T09:02:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T15:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.us.wordcamp.org\/?p=10347"},"modified":"2018-01-15T10:01:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T16:01:52","slug":"wcus-2017-contributor-day-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wcus-2017-contributor-day-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"WCUS 2017 Contributor Day Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contributor Day at WordPress US was a huge success. Contributor Days are a collaborative community outreach with amazing opportunities to get involved in Making WordPress. Contributor Days happen at camps both large and small. We\u2019d like to encourage you with an update that will inspire your community as well.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2017.us.wordcamp.org\/\">Contributor Day<\/a>\u00a0for WordCamp US was held on Sunday, December 3 and was well-attended and productive.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Contributor Day Wrap Up <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WCUS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WCUS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rJ2aT2V6Mz\">https:\/\/t.co\/rJ2aT2V6Mz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WordCamp US 2024 (#WCUS) (@WordCampUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WordCampUS\/status\/937449234286239744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>ACCESSIBILITY<\/h2>\n<p>Team leads: Rian Rietveld (<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/rianrietveld\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>rianrietveld<\/a>\u00a0on Slack), Andrea Fercia (<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/afercia\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>afercia<\/a>\u00a0on Slack), and Joe Dolson (<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/joedolson\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>joedolson<\/a>\u00a0on Slack)<\/p>\n<p>The a11y group provides accessibility expertise across the project. They make sure that WordPress core and all of WordPress\u2019 resources are accessible.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/accessibility\/\">Learn more about the Accessibility team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As always, we had a few different tasks. We gave info on how to test for accessibility and reviewed and discussed work from developers and designers. We also tested Gutenberg, on-boarded new developers in the team, and talked to the other teams about common issues.<\/p>\n<p>Full recap:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/accessibility\/2017\/12\/08\/contributor-day-at-wordcamp-us-2017\/\">Contributor day at WordCamp US 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>COMMUNITY<\/h2>\n<p>Team lead: Andrea Middleton (<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/andreamiddleton\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>andreamiddleton<\/a>\u00a0on Slack)<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in organizing a meetup or a WordCamp, the community blog is a great place to get started. There are groups working to support events, to create outreach and training programs, and generally support the community.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/community\/\">Learn more about Community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At WordCamp US contributor day, we did a lot! Here\u2019s a tidy list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experienced community team contributors trained newer contributors on how to order swag for WordCamps and meetups.<\/li>\n<li>We held a couple of in-person meetup and WordCamp orientations.<\/li>\n<li>Brand new contributors reviewed our meetup organizers handbook for clarity.<\/li>\n<li>A group of experienced organizers worked on some new documentation on how to review speaker applications.<\/li>\n<li>23 people attended a discussion of recruiting diverse speakers and 8 attended a workshop on a new initiative to train people who are underrepresented in tech how to develop, propose, and give conference sessions<\/li>\n<li>New and experienced contributors took part in an application vetting sprint.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>CORE<\/h2>\n<p>Team lead: Adam Silverstein (<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/adamsilverstein\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>adamsilverstein<\/a>\u00a0on Slack)<\/p>\n<p>The core team makes WordPress. Whether you\u2019re a seasoned PHP or JavaScript developer or are just learning to code, we\u2019d love to have you on board. You can write code, fix bugs, debate decisions, and help with development.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/\">Learn more about the Core team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The core team helped onboard numerous new contributors and huddled around focuses including the REST API, JavaScript, and Gutenberg. Several commits landed and contributors submitted patches to core or tested existing patches. The JavaScript group brainstormed about how to structure core JavaScript to maintain backwards compatibility while also enabling merging and building features like Gutenberg. We managed to break and then fix our build and we updated our recommended PHP version to 7.2.<\/p>\n<h2>DESIGN<\/h2>\n<p>Team lead: Mark Uraine (<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/mapk\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>mapk<\/a>\u00a0on Slack)<\/p>\n<p>The design group explores solutions for various problems throughout the WordPress open source project. It\u2019s a home for designers and design-lovers alike. Regular design discussions span UI &amp; UX, information architecture, and computation design with emphasis toward user testing and inclusion.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/design\/\">Learn more about the Design team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Design Team talked about the importance of contributing to WordPress and the opportunity designers have right now to influence the direction of this open source project. We explored what design meant in the world of WordPress, and how design can be contributed in many different ways; Documentation, Core, Meta, etc. After lunch, some broke out to help other teams while others learned more details on Trac, tickets, and the contributing process.<\/p>\n<h2>DOCUMENTATION<\/h2>\n<p>Team lead: Jon Ang (<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/kenshino\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>kenshino<\/a>\u00a0on Slack)<\/p>\n<p>Good documentation lets people help themselves when they get stuck. The docs team is responsible for creating inline documentation for core, as well as content for the theme and plugin development handbooks, and more recently, HelpHub.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/docs\/\">Learn more about the Documentation team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The documentation team worked on the following<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Listing out tasks that have low entry barriers (maybe things that can be completed in 15 mins by volunteers). This way more people can contribute to Documentation without having to onboard onto a complicated setup.<\/li>\n<li>We created at least 5 trac tickets<\/li>\n<li>Worked on Helphub<\/li>\n<li>Continued work on Migration of Codex to DevHub<\/li>\n<li>Fixed styling on DevHub<\/li>\n<li>Had various discussions on PHPdocs standards \u2013 perhaps to suggest the actual PHP PSR standards to adopt what we\u2019ve created<\/li>\n<li>Had a chat with Matias about Gutenberg documentation \u2013 of which we\u2019ll follow up closely<\/li>\n<li>A total of 15 people contributed and half of them were new<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019re almost done with the Docs Roadmap we created 4 years ago!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lastly, we had a great chat about possibly participating in WriteTheDocs event in Prague where we will work with other project \u2018documentators\u2019, learn from them and have a retreat for our team to create a new roadmap for the next 5 years.<\/p>\n<h2>MARKETING<\/h2>\n<p>Team lead: Bridget Willard (@gidgey on Slack)<\/p>\n<p>The Marketing team focuses on making WordPress marketable in all sorts of contexts, from the WordPress.org side all the way to core and the wider community.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/marketing\/\">Learn more the about Marketing team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our vision for the Marketing Team is to be the go-to resource for strategy and content for other WordPress teams.<\/p>\n<p>We were excited to have a well-attended group of people who were enthusiastic about marketing. Multiple people mentioned this was their first WordCamp and their first Contributor Day. They were so elated to be part of the community making WordPress. It was amazing to see so many people new to the community step up and become part of the new generation of Contributors.<\/p>\n<p>We worked on fresh copy for the German Community called CMS Garden, which is an open source advocacy group publication encouraging developers and users to explore WordPress as their CMS of choice to meet their business goals. We\u2019re excited to help them improve copy and have begun work on a press kit.<\/p>\n<p>Another team has started work on a WordPress.tv project. They are interviewing people about their Gutenberg User Testing experiences. This marketing effort will help the Gutenberg project gain support throughout the entire WordPress community.<\/p>\n<p>We use Trello to project manage and are happy to have added ten new projects to our in-progress list including Contributor Day email copy, public policy guide for governments, and promoting the donation page for the WordPress Foundation.We\u2019re so proud to have added over 20 new contributors to the Marketing Team and look forward to a brighter future together!<\/p>\n<h2>META<\/h2>\n<p>Team lead:<\/p>\n<p>The Meta team makes WordPress.org, provides support, and builds tools for use by all the contributor groups.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/meta\/\">Learn more the about Meta team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During Contributor Day at WCUS 2017, the Meta team had 12 people working on various things. Three new people were onboarded with an overview of the tools and how to provision the development environment, two Meta Trac tickets were closed out completely with patches committed, and several other tickets received attention and made good progress.<\/p>\n<h2>MOBILE<\/h2>\n<p>Team Lead: Cate (<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/cate\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>cate<\/a>\u00a0on Slack)<\/p>\n<p>The mobile team builds the iOS and Android apps. Lend them your Java, Objective-C, or Swift skills. The team also needs designers, UX experts, and testers to give users a smooth experience on every device.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/mobile\/\">Learn more about Mobile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Mobile Team at Contributor Day has decided to focus on improving accessibility within the mobile experience of WordPress. They\u2019re going through the app using voiceover (like someone who is blind would) and reporting bugs as they go along. They\u2019re fixing already-known issues that are marked as \u201caccessibility\u201d, such as changing font size based on what the OS settings. Through usability testing and design improvements, they\u2019re working hard to make sure WordPress isn\u2019t only responsive, but responsive AND accessible.<\/p>\n<p>We were able to collaborate with the API team during Contributor Day to agree upon providing a short term solution for a simple authentication method. We onboarded two new contributors and had pull requests submitted during the day for review. A number of accessibility issues were addressed including improving adoption of Dynamic Text on iOS and resolving a TalkBack issue in Android.<\/p>\n<h2>PLUGINS\/PLUGIN REVIEW<\/h2>\n<p>Team leads: Mika Epstein (<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/ipstenu\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>ipstenu<\/a>\u00a0on Slack) &amp; Samuel Wood (<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/otto42\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>otto42<\/a>\u00a0on Slack)<\/p>\n<p>The Plugins team focuses on everything revolving around plugins submitted to the WordPress.org plugin repository.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/plugins\/\">Learn more about the Plugins team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The plugin team made serious headway on supporting visible pages for closed plugins, allowing users to now see if a plugin existed (and not wondering if it vanished). We also released our proposed updates to the plugin guidelines, which are open for review by anyone.<\/p>\n<h2>POLYGLOTS<\/h2>\n<p>Team lead: Remkus de Vries (@remkus on Slack)<\/p>\n<p>WordPress is used all over the world and in many different languages. If you\u2019re a polyglot, help out by translating WordPress into your own language. You can also assist with creating the tools that make translations easier.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/\">Learn more about the Polyglots team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The polyglot team is responsible for translating WordPress into every language and locale. The team is organized into two groups: the translation team and the technical team. The technical team is in need of multilingual developers able to code at a core level.<\/p>\n<p>The polyglot team is currently working to translate all WordPress sites across all language with gender neutrality.<\/p>\n<h2>SUPPORT<\/h2>\n<p>Team lead: Marius Jensen (<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/clorith\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>clorith<\/a>\u00a0on Slack)<\/p>\n<p>Answering a question in the support forums or IRC is one of the easiest ways to start contributing. Everyone knows the answer to something! This blog is the place for discussion of issues around support.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/support\/\">Learn more about the Support team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Support Team at WordCamp US Contributor Day is focusing on onboarding new volunteers. Year round, the worldwide community of volunteers on the Support Team works hard to help WordPress.org users through support forums and IRC. During Contributor Day, the team developed improved processes to help new volunteers get involved in The Support Team. They even did a test orientation and onboarding session over Slack to evaluate their new processes, with great success! Thanks to this team, people new to WordPress or seeking more advanced help can find a friendly community online.<\/p>\n<p>For the support team at WCUS CD, we tested our new onboarding process via Slack to include those who couldn\u2019t make it to the event and that we\u2019d like to get feedback on for future online-only use. We also went through the more pressing pain points on the forums and looked at possible ideas for improving on them.<\/p>\n<h2>THEME REVIEW<\/h2>\n<p>Team lead:\u00a0<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/thinkupthemes\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>thinkupthemes<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/rabmalin\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>rabmalin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Theme Review Team reviews and approves every Theme submitted to the WordPress Theme repository. Reviewing Themes sharpens your own Theme development skills. You can help out and join the discussion on the blog.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/themes\/\">Learn more about the Theme Review team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A number of experienced theme review team members attended WordCamp US. New reviewers were introduced to the NS Theme Check plugin which is a tool that aids reviewing of themes by automating many of the checks. New reviewers were supported in the\u00a0<a class=\"tag\" href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/marketing\/tag\/themereview\/\"><span class=\"tag-prefix\">#<\/span>themereview<\/a>\u00a0Slack channel by members of the team in addition to those in the room at WCUS. New reviewers made progress particularly with completing reviews for child themes.<\/p>\n<h2>TRAINING<\/h2>\n<p>Team leads: Beth Soderberg (<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/bethsoderberg\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>bethsoderberg<\/a>\u00a0on Slack), Julie Kuehl (<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/juliekuehl\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>juliekuehl<\/a>\u00a0on Slack), and Melinda Helt (<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/melindahelt\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>melindahelt<\/a>\u00a0on Slack)<\/p>\n<p>The training team creates downloadable lesson plans and related materials for instructors to use in a live workshop environment. If you enjoy teaching people how to use and build stuff for WordPress, immediately stop what you\u2019re doing and join our team!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/training\/\">Learn more about Training.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WCUS Accomplishments<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Began to define new processes to make them more scalable<\/li>\n<li>Set up GitHub repository<\/li>\n<li>Audited all the lesson plans in preparation for migration, including those missing images or in need of updating<\/li>\n<li>Brainstormed new lesson plans due to changes in WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Started a new handbook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2018 Goals Defined<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create handbook based on new workflow<\/li>\n<li>Move lesson plans into GitHub<\/li>\n<li>Reorganizing our website<\/li>\n<li>Fix the broken images<\/li>\n<li>Update for 4.8\/4.9\/Gutenberg<\/li>\n<li>Make workshop recommendations from existing plans<\/li>\n<li>Accessibility workshop<\/li>\n<li>Consider team roles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>WORDPRESS TV<\/h2>\n<p>Team Lead: Cemal Tashan (<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/tashan\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>tashan<\/a>\u00a0on Slack)<\/p>\n<p>The TV team reviews and approves every video submitted to WordPress.tv. They also help WordCamps with video post-production and are responsible for the captioning and subtitling of published videos. Reviewing videos is a great way to learn about WordPress and help the community: experience is not required to get involved.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/tv\/\">Learn more about TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the TV team is captioning videos for WordPress.tv. Thanks to the library of content on WordPress.tv, WordCamp talks and meetup presentations from around world are not only documented but made available for everyone to enjoy. Captioning is a way to make these videos accessible and get them ready for caption translations. Thanks to the team behind WordPress.tv, we can all learn from the wealth of knowledge within the community.<\/p>\n<h2>WP-CLI<\/h2>\n<p>WP-CLI is the official command line tool for interacting with and managing your WordPress sites.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/cli\/\">Learn more about CLI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/cli\/handbook\/contributing\/\">Contributing \u2013 WP-CLI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Team Leads: Daniel Bachhuber (<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/danielbachhuber\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>danielbachhuber<\/a>\u00a0on Slack) and Alain Schlesser (<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/schlessera\/\"><span class=\"mentions-prefix\">@<\/span>schlessera<\/a>on Slack)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The WP-CLI team could successfully onboard several new contributors, one of them very new even to WordPress itself. 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