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Contributor Day for WordCamp Asia 2020, will be held on 21st February 2020.
It will be held a day before the conference days, which will take place on 22nd & 23rd February in Bangkok, Thailand.
What is a Contributor Day
You do not need to be a programmer or designer to yet to know anything concerning WordPress to participate. A great way to learn about the project and give to it is to participate by contribution.
The WordPress project is made up of a number of teams working on areas ranging from core and community to design and polyglots.
Contributor Day – Schedule
09.00 – Registration
09.45 – Opening and welcome leads to introducing their team
10.00 – Contributing to WordPress & Workshop for Kids (KidsCamp)
12.15 – Group photo
12.30 – Lunch
14.00 – Contributing to WordPress
17.00 – Closing remarks and wrap-up
The Teams you can join
Core
The WordPress core development team builds WordPress! Get involved and learn about general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate.
Test
The Test team helps manage testing and triage across the WordPress ecosystem. They focus on automated and user testing of the editing experience and WordPress dashboard. User testing tests, documents, and reports on the WordPress user experience. Automated testing covers integration and unit testing using tools such as Jest and PHPUnit.
Design
The Design Team provides the user experience, user interface, and visual design expertise for the WordPress project. This includes design for the WordPress product, the WordPress.org network, and community projects. All levels of experience are welcome.
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.
Community
This team oversees official events, 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!
Accessibility
The Accessibility Team provides accessibility expertise across the project to improve the accessibility of WordPress core and resources.
The WordPress Accessibility Coding Standards state that “All new or updated code released in WordPress must conform with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 at level AA.”
Accessibility is a transversal focus that impacts many other teams. Our current main focuses are WordPress Core and the block editor, but we are also working on automated unit tests for themes and other projects, like our first WordPress Accessibility Day which will be tentatively be organized this year for the very first time.
If you are interested in making WordPress accessible to everyone, join us!
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 & assigns tasks.
Mobile
The mobile team is responsible for development and maintenance of the WordPress mobile apps. There are many ways to get involved to take the mobile experience to the next level. There are opportunities to start coding for one of the mobile platforms, to bring better design solutions to the UI and UX challenges, to beta test the latest versions of the apps and provide feedback on the existing or missing features, or help with translations of the mobile apps in any language you wish.
If you would like to start coding, we are more than happy to help get you started and answer any questions about mobile apps and development. You can start by reading the homepage of our WordPress Android and iOS projects on GitHub to have your environment set up.
CLI
The CLI team works on WP-CLI, the command-line interface for WordPress. Most of the open issues to work on require development or documentation skills, although there are certain parts that could do with some marketing or design help as well.
Development work is done via Github, and testing requires a local WordPress install to run the commands against.
The preliminary plan is to have a new scaffolding framework ready for WordCamp Asia, and let some of the participants experiment with new software building blocks to the scaffold (plugins, themes, blocks, CPTs, …).
Theme Review
The theme review team will evaluate each theme submitted from all across the world to the official directory and will provide input and requests for correction when appropriate.
Documentation
This team is responsible for WordPress documentation and current goals are retirement of Codex, enrichment of Block Editor manual and localization of documentation. If you have an interest in those topics or just want to brush up on current user guide, please join to this table.
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!
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, Support Forums, WordCamp Central, and GlotPress.
Hosting
The hosting team works to improve WordPress’ end-user experience across hosting environments through industry collaboration and user education. Come join us to discuss WordPress hosting — let’s make things better together!
We’ll introduce the group (please come, even if you’re new to the team!), and along with discussion, some projects available are the updating of the team’s WordPress Hosting Best Practices documentation, development of End to End distributed testing, and fixes to the existing WordPress distributed automated testing.
Training
The WordPress Training Team creates downloadable lesson plans and related materials for instructors to use in live environments such as meetups and workshops. Also we are creating a new Learn site which will be focus on Training Material. It’s under development so if you are looking to help in a theme you are welcome.
Note: Please use the same email address that you used to purchase the regular ticket for WordCamp Asia 2020.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a separate ticket from the session day?
Yes. Make sure you have a free Contributor Day ticket if you are planning on participating. This is a separate ticket from WordCamp Asia tickets for session days.
How can I tell which ticket I have?
The ticket email for Contributor Day includes the following line.
Contributor Day Ticket (฿ 0.00) x1 = ฿ 0.00
My child is attending KidsCamp. Do I need a Contributor Day ticket?
If you don’t need a seat in the room Contributor Day is taking place, No. You can still come in without your own ticket and spend time at the KidsCamp room or other areas of the venue such as a lounge space.