Contributor Day

All places for WCEU Contributor Day 2019 have now been filled. If you didn’t get a ticket, you can still be involved and use our Contributing Area during the conference days.

Contributor Day at WordCamp Europe will be on 20 June 2019, before the main conference days. All tickets for this free event have now been taken. At this one-day event attendees will be able to contribute to WordPress, collaborate with new and existing contributors, and learn about the different ways to get involved in the project. Events like this take place all over the world, either as standalone fixtures or partnered with a WordCamp.

The WordPress project is made up of a number of teams working on areas ranging from core and theme review to design and marketing.

Many Make WordPress teams will be represented at WCEU – you can find the full list on this page. There was an option to choose a team during ticket registration. You can still pick teams you might like to work with and more on this can be found below.

More in-depth info about the teams coming to WCEU.

Contributor Day Schedule

08.30 Registration
09.15 Opening and welcome
10.00 Contributing to WordPress
12.15 Group photo
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Contributing to WordPress
17.00 Quiz and wrap-up
All you will need for the quiz is a smart device and good cheer!

When you arrive on the morning of Thursday 20 June, follow signs inside the Estrel venue to find the dedicated rooms for the event. You will need to sign in at registration, where you can confirm the team you would like to join.

Volunteers will be available to talk you through different contributor areas and to support first-time attendees or anyone who would like to try working with a new team.

The day will begin with opening remarks, and each Contributor Day Team Lead will present information about their team’s focus and aims.

Following this, attendees will take seats at tables reserved for each team and start working on tasks available or continue with a ticket or card they have already begun. New contributors will receive assistance with setup and access to tools and information to help them start their contributing journey.

During the lunch break, you can meet new people, network and even consider whether to work with a different team for the second half of the day.

The event will run until the late afternoon. During closing remarks, each Team Lead will present their team’s progress and achievements.

You can continue contributing to WordPress during the conference days in our dedicated Contributing Area.

How will my skills help on the day?

Contributor Day is for everyone. A variety of skills are needed, and all skills are welcome.

A Contributor Day is not like a job interview or workplace and does not have the associated pressure. It is a friendly and supportive environment, with a shared vision to develop and maintain the WordPress open-source project.

All levels of experience and expertise across a range of areas, including but not only development, are essential for diversifying open source projects. It is the best way to ensure WordPress is useful to as many people as possible and can be used by everyone.

What teams will be at WCEU 2019?

Accessibility
Accessibility – WP Theme Auditor
Community
Core: Javascript
Core: PHP
Core: Privacy
Core: Triage
Design
Documentation
Core: Documentation
Gutenberg Documentation
Glotpress
Meta: i18n
Hosting
Marketing
Meta
Mobile
Polyglots
Support
Theme Review
Tide
Training
Triage Editor (Core: Editor)
TV
WordPress Coding Standards
WP CLI

Details of the team’s plans for WCEU 2019.

Discover which teams to join

There are a lot of teams, and we don’t expect everyone to know which one to join before the event. The WCEU team built a brand new Contributor Orientation Tool to help make a selection.

When using the online tool, you are asked a set of three questions. You can select multiple answers, after which the tool will suggest one or more teams where your skills and interests would be of great value.

Please note that WCEU does not collect personal data from this tool, and results are only visible to you. You are not obliged to use this tool nor share the teams identified. The tool is available to help you decide where you might like to start contributing.

Try the Contributor Orientation Tool and explore which teams you might want to join.

Find out about how the Contributor Orientation Tool was developed and the plans for its future use.

Bookings closed

Tickets were released on 15 April and 20 May. They were quickly taken by members of the WordPress community booked to attend WCEU.

Contributor Day tickets are no longer available. Thank you for your interest and support.

You can use the dedicated Contributing Area on the conference days if you missed out on tickets for Contributor Day.

Still have questions?

As part of the efforts to demystify Contributor Days, we have published and signposted a number of resources to make it easier to take part.

We launched an “Ask me anything about Contributor Day” campaign to help submit questions about the event. You do not need to give your name to send in a query. Answers are published on the WCEU website and shared with other WordCamps so everyone can benefit.

Read the published questions and answers:

We also published a Contributor Day Glossary to help you get to know commonly used Contributor Day terms and definitions.

If you don’t find the answer you’re looking for, feel free to post a question using this Google form. And if you have additional queries about the WCEU Contributor Day, you can contact the Community team.

More resources

Find out more about the team or teams you would like to explore at Make WordPress.

Each Contributor area has its own channel on the WordPress global project’s Slack tool. You can learn more there about the tasks each team is working on and join in. To participate in the Slack channels you will need a WordPress.org account.

We have worked with the Make WordPress Marketing team on an article featuring contributors’ experiences to inspire others to join and take part.

WordPress Workshop for Kids

During Contributor Day, we are also running a free WordPress Workshop for Kids.

Time: 14:00-17:00
Date: Thursday 20 June 2019
Location: Estrel
Capacity: 20 children
Ages: 8-14 years
Language: English