Contributor Day

Come and join WordCamp London’s full day Contributor event on 5 April 2019.

Doors open at 9am for a 9.30am start, and we’ll be finished by 5pm. The location is Graduate Centre, London Metropolitan University, Holloway Road (same as last year, and the main WordCamp).

Getting there

The closest tube station is Holloway Road on the Piccadilly Line. Alternatively, Highbury & Islington is a 10 to 15 minute walk away.

Graduate Centre, London Metropolitan University, Holloway Road. We’ll all start in the large upstairs room (GC1-08) for introductions and then separate as teams into other rooms in the same building.

The address is 166-220 Holloway Road, London, N7 8DB.

The building is the irregular shaped one. The entrance is shown here (to the right of the bus stop).

Teams

We’ll have the following teams on the day, led by the following people:

Accessibility – Rian Rietveld
Community – Miriam Schwab
Core – Pascal Birchler and Felix Arntz
CLI – Alain Schlesser
Design – Tammie Lister
Documentation – Zac Gordon
Marketing– Siobhan Cunningham
Polyglots– Remkus de Vries
Support– Marius Jensen
Themes – Sarah Semark

We may also add BuddyPress, Documentation, Training, and TV depending on demand 🙂

Workshops

We’re running three Workshops on the day:

New Contributor (Code) at 10.30am
Live-Streaming Workshop at 11.30am
State of Sustainability in WordPress at 2pm

You’re welcome to come along to any of these, and can head back to your team after.

About Contributor Days

Contributor days are a great way to start or to continue contributing to the WordPress project. Everyone is welcome to play a part, join with some friendly company for the day, and be a part of the community that makes and supports WordPress.org.

You don’t have to know how to code, as there are many different roles that need filling. It’s easy to think of contributing to WordPress as helping write the core software, but you could help out in the support forums, write some documentation, organise community events, design the interface for a new feature, user test someone else’s improvement, or do some language or video translation. There are lots of options.

On the day, there will be an introduction from the organiser covering how the day will run, followed by introductions from the team leads encouraging contributors to join their team! We will then split up into our teams and get to work. Each team will have a leader who will help you along if needed. The day is very friendly and sociable and there are plenty of people to help you. You can contribute as much or as little as you like – all contributions are welcome and celebrated! And you can move between teams if you want to contribute in more than one way.

At the end of the day, the team leads give a brief summary of what happened in their team. The important thing to remember is that it’s a Contributor day, not a Contribution day, so even if you think you’ve not made any contributions, just improving your own skills is a great outcome.

Equipment to bring

You will need to bring a laptop and power lead.
Some people find headphones useful to aid tasks like video-editing, subtitling or marketing video reviewing.
If you have these set up already, you will need access to your WP.org ID, GitHub account, Google Drive log-in, WordPress account on Slack and for some teams, your Trello ID. Don’t worry if you do not have these accounts, there will be help on the day to set them up.
You can also follow the links for the Make WordPress teams you would like to contribute to and follow their set up or onboarding tips ahead of the event.

Book your place, lunch included

Please note that although the Contributor Day is free, you do need to have bought a ticket for WordCamp London 2019 to attend it. You will have the option to include the Contributor Day ticket at the time of booking or come back later and add it.

Lunch, snacks, drinks, power, and WiFi are all provided free of charge. Also please note that there will be no on-site childcare services available to book for this day.

Ticket booking