Contributor Day Onboarding Guide – Training Team

Contributor Days are awesome. People are excited. Sometimes, though, the excitement is tempered by mild to moderate frustration with getting set up on all of the tools.

The Marketing Team made a generic one but the training team asked for a specific one.

Please feel free to download, email, print (responsibly), etc.

https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/files/2018/05/ContributorDay-OnboardingPDF-Training.pdf

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/.

The Training Team Welcomes & Thanks You!

• Please bring your laptop and charger.
• Please register for a WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ Account.
• Create a WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. Account.
  • Login with your WordPress.org account on this link: make.wordpress.org/chat/
  • Scroll on that page to “Joining the WordPress team on Slack” and enter your email address.
  • If you can, make your Slack and WordPress.org usernames the same.
  • After you sign up for WordPress Slack, the email associated with your Slack username will be [wporgusername]@chat.wordpress.org. This is important if you forget your password.
  • Find the #training channel and join.
  • Bonus points for uploading a photo and completing your bio so people can recognize you and know a little bit about you.
• You may need a TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. Account.
  • Our team uses Trello to manage tasks and lesson plans.
  • Sign up: https://trello.com/signup
  • Training Team Board: https://trello.com/b/BsfzszRM/wordpress-training-team-lesson-plan-development
• You may need a 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/ Account
  • Our team uses GitHub to build our lesson plans.
  • Sign up: https://github.com/join
  • Training Team Organization: https://github.com/wptrainingteam

More information is available on our blog at: make.wordpress.org/training.

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