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Presentation by Jane Wells of Automattic at WordCamp Montréal on growing community involvement as the future of the WordPress open source project.
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The Futureof WordPress
Jane WellsAutomattic
WordCamp MontréalJuly 12, 2009
Jane WellsUser Experience
Automattic | WordPress
[email protected]://jane.wordpress.com
@janeforshort
“Jane Wells will be explaining new features of WordPress 2.9 as well as features to come in future versions of the popular CMS.”
-Charles Lapointe ressacmedia.com
Telepathic WordPress (using XMLRPC protocol)
“The future of WordPress is not about features.”
-Matt Mullenweg
“The future of WordPress is about people.”
-Matt Mullenweg
Growing a Community of Contributors
Core DevelopmentQA Testing
Forum ModerationDocumentation (Codex)
Core DevelopmentQA Testing
Forum ModerationDocumentation (Codex)
Organize Meetups/WordCamps
(Plugins) (Themes)
Core DevelopmentQA Testing
Forum ModerationDocumentation (Codex)
Organize Meetups/WordCamps
Graphic DesignUsability Testing
Information ArcitectureInteraction Design
AccessibilityScreencasts/Presentations
(Plugins) (Themes)
Ben DunkleDesign Professor
Designed icons for WordPress 2.7
Icon contest (dev blog)v
Icons, core graphicsv
bbPress iconsv
Plugin icons
Gordon BranderDesigner/Developer
Blue admin theme
WordCamp Denverv
Admin mockupsv
Post graphics/CSS to Tracv
Committed to core, 2.8
WordPress Handbook Series
• Only what you need to know
• Version-specific (2.7, 2.8...)
• SVN, Trac
• Editorial authority
WordPress Handbook Editions
• End-user (downloaded as help file)
• WordPress as a CMS
• Theme developer
• Plugin developer
• System Administrator
Doug ProvencioWriter
WordPress Handbook, CMS Edition
WordCamp SFv
CMS Handbookv
Outlinev
Editor
Distributed Usability Testing
Argentina | Atlanta | Boise, Idaho | Boston | Chicago
Czech Republic | Dallas | Finland | India | Los Angeles | Mexico
Minneapolis | Netherlands | New York | New Zealand | Norway
Russia | San Francisco | Switzerland | Sydney | Tokyo | Toronto
Turkey | UK | Vancouver, BC | Vermont | Washington, DC
Development
• Contribute core patches
• Test pending patches
• Mentor beginning developers
• #wordpress-dev
• Write plugins
Denis de BernardyDeveloper
Trac Reports
#wordpress-dev IRC chatv
Too hard to maintain ticketsv
Created new reports v
Easy to follow tickets
Andy PeatlingDeveloper
BuddyPress
Client projectv
Pluginsv
BuddyPress communityv
Automattic
Community Building
• Meetups
• WordCamp
• Co-working
• Forums
• WordPress.tv
Jeremy ClarkeDeveloper
WordCamp Theme
Organizer WordCamp Montréal
v Requested theme
vFixed code
vReturned for distribution
What Can You Do?
•Report bugs•Core patches (including design)•Test development versions•Participate in forums•Write plugins•Create themes•Abide by and promote the GPL•Contribute to related projects like bbPress•Mentor less experienced users/developers•Suggest/discuss features on Ideas forum•Vote in surveys
•Media feature design and development for 2.9•Contribute to or edit a handbook•Add community features to WordCamp.org• Improve WordPress.tv • Find ways to increase participation by women
•Media feature design and development for 2.9•Contribute to or edit a handbook•Add community features to WordCamp.org• Improve WordPress.tv • Find ways to increase participation by women
See me after class.
Questions?
Jane Wells
http://jane.wordpress.com
twitter: @janeforshort
Please feel free to contact me with any questions or suggestions.
