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Video Roundup: Tips for Organizing a WordPress Contribution Event

Are you planning to organize a contribution event for WordPress, like a contributor day at a WordCamp? Learn from the best! We’ve rounded up some great videos from WordCamps around the world. In these videos, you’ll learn what you need to think of while planning, but also how to market your day or sessions to both new and established contributors.
In this third in the series of blogs, you will find just some of the wonderful visual resources available on WordPress.tv that help you recruit attendees and plan your events. Previous blogs are how to contribute to WordPress and becoming part of the WordPress community. On to the videos about organizing a contribution event!
WordPress.tv Videos on Organizing a Contribution Event
We have selected three videos that cover important aspects of organizing a contribution event. If you feel inspired, head over to WordPress.tv. There are loads more videos on the subject there!
Standalone contributor days
In Italy, standalone contributor days have been used to build up interest and understanding of what it means to be part of the international open source project WordPress.org. Francesca Marano explores how other groups can use similar techniques to develop a following and encourage MeetUps and WordCamps in their locality. This inspirational talk also covers how to create a WordPress.org login and a Slack account, two of the tools people will need to join and communicate with WordPress’s team of contributors.
The benefits of holding a contribution event
If you are unsure of the benefits of holding a contribution event or the range of ways you can get involved, this video is for you. In this interview with Rocio Valdivia about the 500-strong WordCamp Europe contributor day in 2017, you’ll find great quotes about shared learning and experience. Also: how working together and attending an event can expand your network. It’s not just the project but the people, who benefit from contributing!
Guide to organizing a contributor event
For further inspiration on designing a contributor event, watch Sonja Leix’s talk. It provides a step-by-step guide to organizing contributor days, contributor nights and special MeetUp events focused on individual Make WordPress teams. It also has ideas for how to support people who want to get started with developing WordPress.
Join this blog series team!
If you would like to contribute to WordPress at an event, or from work or home, helping out with this blog series can be an easy way to join the community or try something new.
You can add to a shared spreadsheet of video links from WordPress.TV, videos that you think highlight the community. You can review a recording on the list for sound quality and key learning points, or subtitle one of the short films to help make the library on WPtv more inclusive.
Join the Make WordPress Marketing Team on slack to find out more. You can also contact either @webcommsat or @siobhanseija.
Related resources
- Video roundup #1: How to contribute to WordPress
- Video roundup #2: Joining the WordPress community
- These videos need subtitling, and you can help!
- Why your company should contribute to WordPress
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this post and everyone that continues to help us identify and review videos. Also to @webcommsat and @siobhanseija for leading this initiative and this blog series.
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