We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Contributor Event this Friday (25 May 2018) at Farset Labs, Belfast.
The event will start at 2pm and run till approximately 5pm. You can arrive at the venue from 1.30pm. Please note there are workshop and other events in the venue prior to our Contributor Event. This is a ticket-only event. There are a few places still available at the time of publishing this blog.
This will be a relaxed, informal way of working alongside other WordPressers, discovering how you can get involved and feeling inspired to continue your existing volunteering or even take it a step further. You could try your hand at a new area of the WordPress project, share knowledge or show others how each contribution is valuable.
A reminder of what you need to bring with you:
- a wifi-enabled laptop and power supply. It can be useful to have your laptop already charged
- pen and paper/ notepad
- if you already have a WordPress.org account, Slack username for the UK WordPress community, you will need these and the passwords
- for those wanting to work on theme review, please bring your access details
- if you have not already got accounts set up on WordPress.org, Slack, GitHub and Trello, you can either set these up beforehand or we can help you with this as long as you have access to an email account
- if you plan to join the WordPress.TV group on the day, you will need to bring headphones.
Format of the event
A general introduction to contributing to the WordPress project and being part of this worldwide community. We will explore the main tools and then divide into groups. There will be lots of help available for people new to contributing.
Core
Our main helpers with this team are not able to join us and we are looking for some assistance to lead this group on the day.
Marketing
There will be items and projects to look at both offline and online. It is useful to let us know if you would like to contribute to this area and if you have access to the Marketing Slack Channel and Trello (not essential).
WordPress.TV
You will need a wifi-enabled laptop to go through examples and add to the projects planned for the contributor event. This project would also suit people new to contributing or who have an interest in marketing.
Community
This will give ideas for how to get involved with MeetUps, WordCamps and the Community team. We hope this session will enable people to share experiences, work out solutions to difficulties they are having using WordCamp and MeetUp tools.
Theme Review
This will include an introduction to how themes are reviewed and how to get involved in the team. There will be opportunities to examine some themes. You will need access to Slack.
> Contributor event at Belfast WordCamp 2018
Refreshments
We will providing some drinks and snacks in the break at this event.
In addition, there will be a limited supply of drinks and refreshments available from the venue with a honesty box system. There are also lots of places available locally to find some treats.
We ask attendees to kindly keep drinks away from the computers.