We post information on this page of the handbook to help you contribute to the Marketing Team at contributor events.
WordCamp Asia 2023
First time contributor? You’ll find instructions in this document
Google Doc with the descriptions of all activities and links to documents to use
WordCamp Asia Get Started Github issue
Resources to help you get started contributing
Contributing Resources are still available on a previous WCEU website
Setting up your WordPress ID
This video can help you set up your 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/ ID, add a gravatarGravatar Is an acronym for Globally Recognized Avatar. It is the avatar system managed by WordPress.com, and used within the WordPress software. https://gravatar.com/. and log in to the Make WordPress channel on 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/.. It has captions which will display within the video. There a number of versions of this video available in different languages.
The following videos have been created by the team in time for 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 theyāve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe 2021 contributor experience.
The WordPress Project
In this short video, you will discover what the WordPress project is, and how thousands of contributors build, maintain and grow both the software and the community. Please note, the times of meetings in the video change in October and March currently to adjust for daylight saving time changes.
Getting The Most Out Of Slack
In this short video, you will get acquainted with Slack, the platform that the WordPress community uses for most communication.
Collaborating Using Google Docs
In this video you will find out how to use Google Docs for working on projects within the Global WordPress marketing team collaboratively.
Background to the WordPress project
- Introduction guides on the tools used by the WordPress project (published on 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 āpull requestā where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/)
- How to get a WordPress.org account
- Adding a profile picture on your WordPress.org account using gravatar
- How to set up an account on the WordPress project channel on Slack
- Overview of Trello
FAQs & choosing a team
- Discover what teams could be a good fit for you using this contributor orientation tool (links out to external website)
- Get answers to questions new contributors commonly ask (WordCamp Europe 2019 website)
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