A presentation at WordCamp Nordic in in Helsinki, Finland by Francesca Marano
WordPress Community Manager at SiteGround, Global WordPress Community Team
Not so great
Only 2 meetups, not a lot of activity in any front.
BOOM! What happened?
It’s popular! Everyone wants in
2013, Leiden first edition 2015, Seville, the Italians get together and start organising themselves
Let’s talk in our language and get to know each other.
Let’s meet for a day to learn how to contribute
People from all over Italy We focused on some teams for which we had mentors to help us out.
Who can attend? What do we expect? Do I need to be a developer?
A culture of contribution
Support is now integrated in https://it.wordpress.org/support/
Over 2000 contributors. A structure in place to onboard new contributors and encourage continuity
3 Italian at WordCamp Europe 2013 Not many more at WordCamp Europe 2015 Over 100 at WordCamp Europe 2017 and 2018.
Taking part in a Contributor Day helped us become a community and as a community we are making WordPress.
If you need any help with kickstarting your community, please do not hesitate to contact me Twitter: @FrancescaMarano Slack: @francina Email: francesca.marano@siteground.com
The Italian WordPress community was dormant for years, until a bunch of people got together at WCEU Contributor Day in Seville, in 2015, and decided it was time to revive it.
After months of online chats in our Slack team, we organised an event that kick-started an avalanche of Meetups and WordCamps in Italy: a stand-alone Contributor Day.
Four years later, Italy has more than 30 active Meetups, 6 cities with WordCamps in planning stages, and a great number of Contributors across the project.
In this talk, I’ll go through the steps we took to organise it.
The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.
At WordCamp US 2017 I did a longer version of WCNordic lightning talk. If you want to hear more details, this is the talk to listen to.
Here you can find all the information to start a new community or grow an existing one.
The WordPress project uses Slack as its main real-time communication platform. It is used for contributing to the WordPress project, be it code, design, documentation, etc.
The next edition of WordCamp Europe can be always find at this address, it will redirect you to the current year
The amazing company I work for, that allows me to share my knowledge (and failures and what I learned from them) at many WordCamp around the world. We do managed WordPress hosting and we rock!
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