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Contrib2Core: Sunday

It’s time to give back! Whether you’re a WordPress user or admin, a developer who has never contributed to core, or a seasoned contributor, make a point of joining us in the Community Room Saturday and Sunday afternoons. We’ll help you find a way to contribute to WordPress that’s appropriate to your level and interests.

If you’re a developer looking to address a bug in Trac (the official WordPress bug tracking software) we can help you find a ticket that you can work on. Learn how to do it from some of the experts in the room and we’ll walk you through the process of submitting a patch, writing unit tests and documentation. Here’s a little bonus: Submitters of committed patches get their names on the credits page on every install of WordPress worldwide!

Contrib2Core: Saturday

It’s time to give back! Whether you’re a WordPress user or admin, a developer who has never contributed to core, or a seasoned contributor, make a point of joining us in the Community Room Saturday and Sunday afternoons. We’ll help you find a way to contribute to WordPress that’s appropriate to your level and interests.

If you’re a developer looking to address a bug in Trac (the official WordPress bug tracking software) we can help you find a ticket that you can work on. Learn how to do it from some of the experts in the room and we’ll walk you through the process of submitting a patch, writing unit tests and documentation. Here’s a little bonus: Submitters of committed patches get their names on the credits page on every install of WordPress worldwide!

Sunday Lunch with Abokichi

Abokichi is an extraordinary Caterer and the creator of a wide assortment of delicious Japanese- and fusion snacks, meals, condiments and other goodies. Everything is prepared holistically and local food sources as used extensively to provide sustainable, nutritious ingredients for some seriously awesome and unique food. Unless you were at last year’s WordCamp, you will not have experienced anything like it.

Lunch and snacks on both the Saturday and Sunday are being provided entirely by Jess, Fumi and the Abokichi team and will be different on both days. Our lunch session are extra long to ensure that everyone gets a chance to sample and enjoy this delicious treat.

At other times, you can visit Abokichi at the Annex Hodge-Podge at 285 Dupont Street. Other venues that carry Abokichi’s products include the Liberty Village Live Market, the OCAD student cafe, and a wide variety of Farmer’s markets across town during market season.

Saturday Lunch with Abokichi

Abokichi is an extraordinary Caterer and the creator of a wide assortment of delicious Japanese- and fusion snacks, meals, condiments and other goodies. Everything is prepared holistically and local food sources as used extensively to provide sustainable, nutritious ingredients for some seriously awesome and unique food. Unless you were at last year’s WordCamp, you will not have experienced anything like it.

Lunch and snacks on both the Saturday and Sunday are being provided entirely by Jess, Fumi and the Abokichi team and will be different on both days. Our lunch session are extra long to ensure that everyone gets a chance to sample and enjoy this delicious treat.

At other times, you can visit Abokichi at the Annex Hodge-Podge at 285 Dupont Street. Other venues that carry Abokichi’s products include the Liberty Village Live Market, the OCAD student cafe, and a wide variety of Farmer’s markets across town during market season.

So You Want to Be a WordCamp Speaker: A practical workshop for beginners

with Kathryn Presner and Tammie Lister in the Community track

Sunday, November 16, 9:30 am-noon – special 2.5 hour hands-on workshop

Have you considered presenting at a WordCamp but thought you didn’t know enough or felt like an imposter? Does the idea of speaking in front of a group set your knees quivering and your heart racing? During this hands-on session we’ll look at what’s stopped you from speaking in the past – and explore how to move past your fears. We’ll delve into practical techniques for choosing a topic, writing a proposal, crafting presentation content, and making great slides. We’ll discuss how to avoid common public-speaking mistakes and techniques for battling stage fright. We’ll help you navigate the dreaded post-presentation Q&A session and gather post-talk feedback. Each participant will come out of the workshop with a WordCamp or meetup talk proposal – and more confidence to submit it.

Check out http://getspeak.in/ for a sneak peek.

Learning Outcomes

  • feel more confident about applying to speak at a WordPress meetup or WordCamp
  • understand common speaker pitfalls and how to avoid them
  • know how to brainstorm and choose presentation topics
  • know how to submit a solid talk proposal and bio
  • know how to craft solid content for a presentation
  • know what goes into crafting a great slide presentation
  • have practical strategies for battling stage fright
  • know how to handle post-talk Q&A and how to ask for feedback to help improve

Organizing fully accessible communities

With Jordan Quintal in the Community track

Link to slides

Most of us have discovered that WordPress.org has made efforts into making the WordPress platform more web accessible to those with physical and mental challenges, as a website publishing platform, but what about WordPress communities?

My presentation will discuss how to make your WordPress community or WordCamp event more accessible. I will cover what accessibility is, and why it is important. I will cover who accessibility affects, and how accessibility can help those affected. I will also discuss what it means to me as a person with a physical disability, and share some life experiences and real life challenges. From there, I will share some informative tips on how any community leader can go about making their WordPress communities and WordCamp events more accessible.

Learning outcomes

  • an understanding of how to make your local WordPress community more accessible to people with disabilities.