A presentation at CMSPhilly by Francesca Marano
Selfish Contribution Francesca Marano
Ciao! Sono Francesca • WordPress Community & Partnership Manager SiteGround • Release Co-Lead 5.3 and 5.4 WordPress.org
Accidental OSS Contributor @FrancescaMarano
My path 2010 - Freelancer 2011 - Translated a plugin I was using 2015 - Started contributing to WordPress.org 2017 - Community Team Representative 2018 - Joined SiteGround 2019 - Release Co-Lead @FrancescaMarano
SiteGround Linux Kernel Patches (loads of them!) WordPress - Core, Gutenberg, Security, Events, Community and Translations @FrancescaMarano
The Cathedral and the Bazaar Eric S. Raymond @FrancescaMarano
Be Selfish @FrancescaMarano
Pick a project Useful for your work Report a bug Fix a bug @FrancescaMarano
Get involved with a project Attend chats/calls Connect with people Be polite @FrancescaMarano
Learn from a project New tools New processes Ask questions @FrancescaMarano
Tangible results - Individuals New skills New connections New professional opportunities @FrancescaMarano
Tangible results - Companies Better software that can be safely used Discussions with like-minded people Recognition @FrancescaMarano
We strive to identify security risks. We often have discussions with the core Linux developers, we try to contribute whenever we can. So far we have written hundreds of kernel patches, dozens of which are part of the mainline Linux kernel code Angel Shtilianov Linux Kernel Dev at SiteGround @FrancescaMarano
Be Selfless Be Generous @FrancescaMarano
Two moments Step Up aka Learn Step Down aka Teach @FrancescaMarano
Examples Handoff of a blog I ran for years Helping my colleagues with giving talks Recruiting people to help in working groups Document everything @FrancescaMarano
What’s in it for me? @FrancescaMarano
Sense of accomplishment Sense of pride Validation Recognition New skills = Better CV @FrancescaMarano
Make it better, give it back John Blackbourn @FrancescaMarano
Links and Documentation Make WordPress GitHub - How To Contribute The Cathedral and the Bazaar Helen Hou-Sandí - Open Source, Open Process, Open Web My reflections as a release co-lead @FrancescaMarano
Let’s continue the conversation Francesca Marano francesca.marano@siteground.com Where Online siteground.com siteground.com/blog Online @FrancescaMarano @SiteGround
Why do people contribute to the WordPress project? If you’ve ever wondered this but never gotten involved in an open source project, you might want to know the value of spending time contributing to one.
All contributors do it for the greater good — making the web a better place — but we also do it for ourselves: to advance personally and professionally.
In less than five years Francesca went from being a small-town website maker to landing a dream job in tech and leading releases of WordPress. In this talk, she will share some of the benefits you can get by contributing to WordPress, such as improved skills, increased reputation, and meeting new people.
The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.
A website that has information about all the teams involved in making WordPress with handbooks, how to get involved, tools, etc…
Great resource from GitHub to get you started on contributing to open source, where to find a project, etc…
The online essay.
The book is out of print. On Amazon.it is available a Print on Demand service, not sure about other countries. But here you have the kindle, if like me you are incapable of reading “properly” on a computer.
Helen is the only female lead developer of the WordPress.org open source projects. She has been contributing for years, she led releases, projects, etc… Great talk for people new and experienced contributors.
During my first time as a release co-lead, I wrote a post about my personal experience and what I learned about myself in the process.
for free. You
can too.