WordCamp India contributor days were held successfully on February 6-7, 2021! Thank you so much for joining us and for contributing to WordPress! 🙏 Keep ’em contributions coming!
Contributor Day is a chance for attendees to contribute to WordPress, collaborate with new and existing contributors, and learn about the different ways to get involved in the WordPress.org project.
Contributor Day is for everyone. A variety of skills are needed, and all skills and levels of experience are welcome.
How to participate in the WordCamp India contributor day?
The WordCamp India 2021 contributor day has concluded on February 6-7, 2021.
You will need a WordCamp India 2021 ticket to participate in the contributor day (get one now, if you haven’t)! Just make sure that you have a WordPress.org account (register for one if you don’t have one already), and join us on the Make WordPress Slack (here’s how to join the WordPress Slack in case you haven’t).
The contributor day event happened on Zoom. We will start at 1:00 PM India Standard Time (07:30 UTC).
We are also trying to have the inaugural meeting broadcast live on YouTube, and will share an update on it soon.
After the inaugural address is over, you will be encouraged to join the respective zoom breakout room (within the same call), where you can join and start participating in contribution activities. Here are some screenshots that show you can join your chosen team’s breakout room in zoom after the inaugural call is over:
Step 1: Choosing the breakout room option
Step 2: Entering the chosen breakout room
You will receive instructions on how to participate in your chosen team in the inaugural zoom call. If you have already expressed interest for a team, based on our emails earlier this week – great! If not, that’s totally fine too. You can decide now (or later), join the call, and start working with the team you wish to contribute to.
When and What time is Contributor Day ?
Contributor Day for WordCamp India 2021, was held on 6th and 7th February 2021 at 1pm to 5pm IST (7:30 am to 11:30 am UTC).
It was held online via Zoom.
Am I good enough to contribute?
Short answer, Yes!
You do not need to be a programmer or designer yet to contribute to WordPress.
The WordPress project is made up of a number of teams working on areas from code to design, from marketing to community building and more. Look at all the teams here.
How will my skills help on the day?
Contributor Day is for everyone. A variety of skills are needed, and all skills are welcome.
A WordPress contributor event is not like a job interview or workplace and does not have the associated pressure. It is a friendly and supportive environment, with a shared vision to develop and maintain the WordPress open-source project.
All levels of experience and expertise across a range of areas – including but not only development – are essential for diversifying open source projects. It is the best way to ensure WordPress is useful to as many people as possible and can be used by everyone.
Contributor Day – Schedule
- Contributor Day Introduction
- Meet the Team Facilitators and attendees will be guided to the right zoom breakout room
- Contributor sessions
- Thanks and end
Select Your Team
Fill out this form and let us know which team you would like to contribute to. This helps us with the planning for the event.Thank you for your interest. The WordCamp India 2021 contributor day has concluded!
If you are not sure, you can use the Contributor Orientation Tool, being developed by WCEU to share with other WordCamps.
Links: Team Selection Form
Contribution Teams
Community
This team oversees official events like WordCamp and meetups, mentorship programs, diversity initiatives, contributor outreach, and other ways of growing our community. If you love WordPress and want to help us do these things, join in!
Join us on the #community-team channel in the Make/WordPress Slack. Here’s the agenda for the day. Most of our work will happen over a zoom call.
Team Facilitators:
Hari Shanker and Aditya Kane
Core
The WordPress core development team builds WordPress! Get involved and learn about general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate.
Team Facilitators:
Gagan Deep Singh
Design
The design group is focused on the designing and developing the user interface. It’s a home for designers and UXers alike. There are regular discussions about mockups, design, and user testing.
Team Facilitators:
Ahmed Chaion and Boy Witthaya
Marketing
The Marketing Team focuses on marketing the WordPress open source project and its community to the wider world. At contributor events, you will be able to get involved in one-off or longer term tasks, work on your own or with others, and join a vibrant and energetic team.
Team Facilitators:
Meher Bala and Abha Thakor
Meta
The Meta team is responsible for the software that runs the various WordPress.org web sites, APIs, and related tools. We help support other teams by working to maintain and deploy updates to the web sites and tools that they use. Some of the projects that we maintain include the Theme and Plugin directories, Showcase,
Team Facilitators:
Shital Marakana and Pravin Parmar
Polyglots
The Polyglots team translates WordPress in more than 200 languages. If you’re fluent in a language other than US English, you’re welcome to join us and help bring WordPress to people around the world.
If you’re new to the world of WordPress, this is one of the easiest ways to get contributing. Join us and we’ll help you translate WordPress or your favourite plugins or teams in your native language.
Team Facilitators:
Swapnil Patil
Support
The support team is responsible for helping users at WordPress’ Support Forums so they can make the most out of their WordPress websites. We answer everything that we can, from basic WordPress questions to advance development topics. Everyone knows the answer to something!
Team Facilitators:
Nidhi Jain and Amit Dudhat
Training
The WordPress Training Team creates downloadable lesson plans and related materials for facilitators to use in live environments such as meetups and workshops.
Also, we have launched a new Learn site https://learn.wordpress.org/ that focuses on Training Material. So if you are looking to help, come and join our team. We need people to write, copyedit, test, audit, connect, and review our lesson plans.
Team Facilitators:
Pooja Derashri and Chetan Prajapati
TV
WordPress.TV Team has the following agendas for Contributor Day:
- Introduction and Awareness about WPTV ecosystem and its activities
- Editing & Upload procedure to new contributors
- Things to keep in mind for Moderation
- Engage and onboard new volunteers & assign tasks.
Team Facilitators:
Nisha Singh and Rahul Sarker