WordCamp Europe 2020 Online Contributor Day is getting closer! Together we will be making WordPress history, as this will be the biggest fully virtual Contributor Day so far. How exciting!
The WCEU team has worked tirelessly to create a welcoming event, to ensure both new and experienced contributors have a great time working together to improve WordPress.
Especially with new contributors in mind, we have prepared a set of onboarding guides and arranged a set of special office hours with Contributor Day teams to help everyone get ready for the big day.
Times and practical information
Contributor Day will take place on 4 June 2020, 13:00 – 18:00 UTC. You can use a time converter tool online to check the times in your timezone.
Shortly before the event, we will send an email to all registered attendees with all the information that you will need to take part.
Contributor Day team introductions
Each Contributor Day team has recorded a small introduction message to those who want to find out more about what each team does.
We hope that these videos will help you choose which team you’d like to join and also give you a better idea of the size of the WordPress project.
Find the videos on the Contributor Day page.
Contributor Day team office hours
To help you get started some Contributor Day teams are hosting special office hours in the Making WordPress Slack. These office hours are a great opportunity to get to know the team you will be working with! Experienced contributors will be available to answer any questions and to help you get set up with any tools you might need.
If you are unfamiliar with Slack, we have prepared a video instruction and written step-by-step guide on how to join the Making WordPress Slack.
The team video and introduction guides
Schedule for office hours:
- Accessibility team: 28 May 15:00 UTC in #accessibility channel
- Community team: 2 June 11:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC in #community-team channel
- Core team: 27 May 19:00 UTC in #core channel
- Core privacy team: 3 June 10:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC in #core-privacy channel
- Design team: 28 May and 29 May async whole day in #design channel
- Documentation: 28 May 15:00 UTC in #docs channel
- Hosting team: Wed 27 May 10:00 UTC and Wed 3 June 10:00 UTC in #hosting-community channel
- Marketing team: 25 May 19:30 UTC, 26 May 15:00 UTC and 3 June 14:00 UTC in #marketing channel
- Mobile team: every day 10:00 UTC between 25 May and 29 May in #mobile channel
- Polyglots team: 1 June 12:00 UTC in #polyglots channel
- Support team: 28 May 11:00 UTC in #forums channel
- Themes team: 2 June 17:00 UTC in #themereview channel
- Training team: 28 May 16:00 UTC and 2 June 16:00 UTC in #training channel
- TV team: 2 June 10:00 UTC in #wptv channel
Onboarding guides
We have prepared a series of guides to help you get set up with the tools you might need during Contributor Day. Whether you are a new contributor or an existing contributor who wants to refresh your memory of the tools, you might find these guides useful.
The guides cover a number of topics. For example, getting familiar with Trello and the bug tracking systems used in many parts of the WordPress project, installing the VVV and Docker local development environment, and how to start translating WordPress.
Find all the onboarding guides here.
Don’t forget to register!
If you are planning to attend Contributor Day, make sure to register for a ticket. We will only be sending registered attendees the full details of how to take part.
If you haven’t signed up already, don’t panic. Contributor Day registration is still open. If you haven’t got your WCEU 2020 Online ticket yet, you just need to select “Yes” on the “Will you be attending Contributor Day?” question when registering for your ticket.
If you have already registered for WCEU 2020 Online, but didn’t sign up for Contributor Day, just visit your ticket page via the web link you were emailed and change your answer to the “Will you be attending Contributor Day?” question. Reach out to europe@wordcamp.org if you don’t have the ticket page url, or if you have any questions, and we will help you.
See you soon!
Awesome. Looking forward to it!