WCEU 2025 Contributor Day: Call for Co-Lead & Supporters

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The WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:

Found a bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.? Create a ticket in the bug tracker.

Want to contribute? Get started quickly with tickets marked as good first bugs for new contributors or join a bug scrub. There’s more on the reports page, like patches needing testing, and on feature projects page.

Other questions? Here is a detailed handbook for contributors, complete with tutorials.

On June 5, 2025, the Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe will take place in Basel, and the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team is looking for experienced volunteers to support onsite.

Co-Lead (preferably a Core Committercommitter A developer with commit access. WordPress has five lead developers and four permanent core developers with commit access. Additionally, the project usually has a few guest or component committers - a developer receiving commit access, generally for a single release cycle (sometimes renewed) and/or for a specific component.) | One position available:

You are a Core Committer or very experienced with the WordPress Core project
You have helped lead or support a Contributor Day before
You can assist with technical questions and confidently guide new contributors through tools like TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. and GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/
You communicate clearly and feel comfortable using English

Supporter | Two positions available:

You are familiar with the Core Team workflows
You help new contributors with setup, explain tools, and assist with initial tasks
You communicate clearly and feel comfortable using English

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~~Application deadline: Thursday, May 29, 2025~~
Selection and notification: Friday, May 30, 2025
Location: WCEU Contributor Day , Basel (Thursday, June 5, 2025)

Interested? 💡

Please apply by leaving a comment under this post by May 29, 2025.
We look forward to your support—let’s make this Contributor Day a success together! 🥳

The team is complete now 🙂

Props to @francina for review this article.

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Supporter | Two positions available:

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