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Make WordPress

WordPress Community Summit 2017

Whether you’re a budding developer, a designer, or just like helping out, we’re always looking for people to help make WordPress even better.

If you want to get involved in WordPress, this is the place to be. We’ve got blogs for each contributor group, general news, and upcoming events.

There are many different ways for you to get involved with WordPress:

Core

The core team makes WordPress. Whether you’re a seasoned PHP, HTML, JavaScript or CSS developer or are just learning to code, we’d love to have you on board. You can write code, fix bugs, debate decisions, and help with development.

Next meeting: Media Team Weekly Chat (+7 more)
(2 hours from now) at #core-media on Slack

Design

The design group is focused on the designing and developing the user interface. It’s a home for designers and UXers alike. There are regular discussions about mockups, design, and user testing.

Next meeting: Design Gutenberg triage (+1 more)
(5 days from now) at #design on Slack

Mobile

The mobile team builds the iOS and Android apps. Lend them your Java, Objective-C, or Swift skills. The team also needs designers, UX experts, and testers to give users a smooth experience on every device.

Accessibility

The a11y group provides accessibility expertise across the project. They make sure that WordPress core and all of WordPress’ resources are accessible.

Next meeting: Accessibility Weekly Bug Scrub (+1 more)
(1 day from now) at #accessibility on Slack

Polyglots

WordPress is used all over the world and in many different languages. If you’re a polyglot, help out by translating WordPress into your own language. You can also assist with creating the tools that make translations easier.

Next meeting: Polyglots Team Chat (Asia-Pacific) (+2 more)
(6 days from now) at #polyglots on Slack

Support

Answering a question in the support forums or IRC is one of the easiest ways to start contributing. Everyone knows the answer to something! This blog is the place for discussion of issues around support.

Next meeting: Support Team Weekly Chat (+1 more)
(5 hours from now) at #forums on Slack

Documentation

Good documentation lets people help themselves when they get stuck. The docs team is responsible for creating documentation and is always on the look-out for writers. The blog has discussion around the team’s current projects.

Next meeting: Docs Team Weekly Chat
(5 days from now) at #docs on Slack

Themes

The Theme Review Team reviews and approves every Theme submitted to the WordPress Theme repository. Reviewing Themes sharpens your own Theme development skills. You can help out and join the discussion on the blog.

Next meeting: Themes Team Biweekly Chat (+1 more)
(2 weeks from now) at #themereview on Slack

Plugins

If you are a Plugin developer, subscribe to the Plugin review team blog to keep up with the latest updates, find resources, and learn about any issues around Plugin development.

Community

If you’re interested in organizing a meetup or a WordCamp, the community blog is a great place to get started. There are groups working to support events, to create outreach and training programs, and generally support the community.

Next meeting: Community Team Bi-Weekly Meeting (Europe, Africa & Asia-Pacific) (+1 more)
(9 mins from now) at #community-team on Slack

Meta

The Meta team makes WordPress.org, provides support, and builds tools for use by all the contributor groups. If you want to help make WordPress.org better, sign up for updates from the Meta blog.

Next meeting: WordCamp.org Development Office Hours (+1 more)
(5 hours from now) at #meta-wordcamp on Slack

Training

The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments, via learn.wordpress.org.

If you enjoy teaching people how to use and build stuff for WordPress, immediately stop what you’re doing and join our team!

Next meeting: Training team weekly meeting
(5 days from now) at #training on Slack

Test

The Test team patrols flow across the entire WordPress ecosystem on every device we have at hand. We test, document, and report on the WordPress user experience. Through continuous dogfooding and visual records, we understand not only what is wrong, but also what is right. We immerse ourselves in the context of what we are making and champion user experience.

Next meeting: Test Scrubs (+2 more)
(1 day from now) at #core-test on Slack

TV

The TV team reviews and approves every video submitted to WordPress.tv. They also help WordCamps with video post-production and are responsible for the captioning and subtitling of published videos. Reviewing videos is a great way to learn about WordPress and help the community: experience is not required to get involved.

Next meeting: WordPress.tv Team Weekly Chat
(3 hours from now) at #wptv on Slack

Marketing

Our vision for the Marketing Team is to be the go-to resource for strategy and content for other WordPress teams.

Next meeting: Marketing Team Weekly Chat
(6 days from now) at #marketing on Slack

CLI

WP-CLI is the official command line tool for interacting with and managing your WordPress sites.

Next meeting: WP-CLI Weekly Chat
(3 hours from now) at #cli on Slack

Hosting

We work to improve WordPress’ end-user experience across hosting environments through industry collaboration and user education. Come join us!

Next meeting: Hosting Team Weekly Chat (+1 more)
(6 days from now) at #hosting-community on Slack

Tide

Tide is a series of automated tests run against every plugin and theme in the directory and then displays PHP compatibility and test errors/warnings in the directory.

Next meeting: Tide Weekly Chat
(2 weeks from now) at #tide on Slack

Openverse

Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media. The Openverse team implements new features and new media types; maintains the public API and front-end search engine; and develops WordPress integrations to share Openverse with the entire WordPress community.

Next meeting: Openverse Development Weekly Chat
(5 days from now) at #openverse on Slack