WordCamp Contributor Days give you a special opportunity to share a room with other people who are contributing to WordPress. WordPress is now running more than 34% of the World Wide Web and it needs our help. We encourage you to take part in WordCamp Zurich’s Contributor Day: especially if you have never contributed before and you’re looking for a way to get started. There will be people at the conference and at Contributor Day who can help you get started.
Register for attendance
Attendance at Contributor Day is free, but attendance is not included in the conference ticket – you must apply for a separate ticket. We are using a smaller venue, which means that there will be a limited number of places available. You can apply for a ticket here.
When and where will Contributor Day be held?
WordCamp Zurich’s Contributor Day will take place on Friday 13th September 2019 at 9 a.m.. The location is around five minutes from Zurich’s main railway station when travelling by tram. We will end around 4 p.m.
Liip Arena
Limmatstrasse 183
8005 Zurich
Switzerland
What do I need?
Don’t forget your laptop and charger – you’ll need them during the contributing process.
Sign up for (or make sure that you already have):
- a WordPress.org account
- a Slack account for WordPress users (we can help you create that!)
Currently, the main communication medium for contributors is Slack, so download a desktop version or use the web version with your WordPress.org credentials.
If you have any questions regarding the Contributors day, reach out to any organizer or use the #WCZRH hashtag on Twitter.
What happens at Contributor Day?
If you’ve never contributed your time to WordPress before, Contributor Day is a great place to start. There are plenty of opportunities for everyone to help projects like:
- Core – improve the main WordPress platform. Pascal (@swissspidy) – who is a core committer – can help you get you to get started with contributing to WordPress Core.
- Design – Help design and develop the user interface for WordPress; a home for designers and UXers alike.
- Theme Review – Join the team which is responsible for the high quality in the WordPress.org Themes Directory. Ulrich (@grapplerulrich) from the Key Reviewers team will be around to help with any questions.
- Translations – make WordPress and its accompanying resources available in your language.
- Community – improve the WordCamp and meetup organization processes. Help getting a meetup started in your area. We have meetups all over Switzerland: in Baden, Bern, Chur, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, Lucerne, Lugano, Monthey, Neuchâtel, Sion and Zürich.
- WordPress.tv – reviews and approves every video submitted to WordPress.tv. They also help WordCamps with video post-production. We need help editing the videos of the talks so that we can upload them to WordPress.tv.
More ways to contribute
- Documentation – improve the Codex, handbooks and other online resources for WordPress users and developers.
- Support – spread some happiness by helping out WordPress users in the support forums.
- Accessibility –Make WordPress core and bundled themes accessible & usable for all.
- GlotPress – help to improve the collaborative, web-based software translation tool.
- Mobile – with the growing number of mobile devices on a daily basis, let’s make WordPress more mobile-friendy.
- Meta – help the main WordPress websites such as WordPress.org or WordPress.tv.
- BuddyPress & bbPress – grow the community building group by helping each of these projects.
- Rest API – join the Rest API team and start contributing to the future of WordPress.