WordCamp 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 2025 is upon us! This year WCEU is being held in Basel, Switzerland on June 5 – 7, 2025, and the WordPress Hosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. Team is happy to have a table at Contributor 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/. on June 5th. Contributor Day is an all day event that happens alongside the WordCamp conference, where new and seasoned contributors come together to forward team incentives and to contribute to the WordPress Open Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. Project.
At this year’s WCEU Contributor Day, the Hosting Team is working on some important projects and initiatives, and it’s so exciting to have so many amazing contributors collaborate to make this happen. Anyone is welcome to join, whether you’ve contributed before or this is your first time, whether you’re a software engineer or focus on other arenas: your contributions are wanted and appreciated!
Schedule
Here is the general schedule for WCEU 2025 Contributor Day on June 5, 2025. The Hosting Team schedule will be as follows:
- 08:30 Registration
- 09:15 Opening & welcome
- 10:00 Quick introductions
- 10:15 Roundtable discussion
- 10:45 Time to start contributing
- 12:15 Group photo
- 12:30 Lunch break
- 14:00 Back to contributing
- 16:30 Wrap-up & team summaries
How to Participate
To get started on Contributing to the Hosting Team, head over to the Hosting Handbook for more info on the team and what it does.
Join In Person:
For those attending WCEU Contributor Day in person, check-in starts at 8:30 am. If you’ve never contributed to WordPress, there will be an onboarding table to help you get set up, and keep an eye out for mentors wearing a green dot sticker to help with questions and guidance.
Join Remotely:
Can’t make it in person? No problem! Remote contributors are invited to join on Thursday, June 5th, 2025, at 0900 UTC in the #hosting channel. To let us know you’ve joined remotely, drop a comment on this GitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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. Issue: WCEU 2025 Contributor Day Check In.
Team Projects and Initiatives
This year, @Lucas (@crixu), @Zunaid Amin (@zunaid321) and @Wes Tatters (@wesrapyd) will be spearheading projects and discussions at the Contributor Day Hosting table.
The team will be working on:
- Round Table Discussion
- WordPress Distributed Hosting Test Software Improvements
- Hosting Handbook and Advanced Administration Handbook Updates
- Hosting Directory Project Strategy and Proposal
Round Table Discussion
The day will open with a Round Table Discussion led by Wes Tatters. The topic up for discussion will be announced shortly.
WordPress Distributed Hosting Test Software Improvements
The Hosting Team maintains a PHPunit Test Runner and Reporter software that enables Web Hosts to test WordPress software updates on their platforms and report any conflicts, errors or issues that may need to be addressed. Many Hosts participate (thank you!) and Host Test Results are shared here.
Our team reps, Lucas and Zunaid, will be leading the charge on the Distributed Hosting Test Software project. The primary goal for this Contributor Day is to push through software improvements; review, test and merge pull requests already opened and to start or make progress on tickets and tooling improvements. The tickets available to work on can be found here:
Don’t code? Not to worry! There are opportunities available for everyone!
Handbook Updates
The Hosting Team maintains two handbooks: the WordPress Hosting Handbook and the Advanced Administration Handbook. Tickets to work on the handbooks are available here:
Hosting Directory Project
Last year, the Hosting Team made a Proposal to create a Hosting Directory to bring more structure and visibility to Web Hosts who operate and contribute within the WordPress ecosystem. While some next steps were discussed, the project has not yet been launched. At Contributor Day, led by Wes Tatters, contributors will strategize on a plan for executing the Hosting Directory Project and start on a formal proposal to be brought to the WordPress Open Source Project leadership for approval.
See You There!
Contributor Days are always a moment of inspiring interactions, building momentum on WordPress incentives and are a lot of fun! The Hosting Team is excited to welcome contributors both new and experienced to collaborate in a meaningful way while adding value to and making progress on Hosting Team projects!
Please join us at WCEU 2025 Contributor Day On June 5th, 2025 to make WordPress hosting even better!
Looking forward to seeing you there!
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