My Ignite talk at WordCamp Seattle 2011 -- Ask Not What WordPress Can Do For You -- where I discuss contributing to the WordPress community.

1. Ask Not What
WordPress Can
Do For You
@nacin
Core Developer, WordPress.org
Tech Ninja, Audrey Capital

2. How can you
contribute?

3. Ask for help! Pay it forward.
Support
Forums

4. The Codex, Blog Posts…
Documentation

5. Speak another
language?
WordPress is collaboratively
translated into 70 languages.

6. UI & Design
You don’t want me
designing, do you?

7. Break it.
Testing, test, 1, 2, 3…

8. Maybe
help fix it?
Report or patch a bug.
Contribute to a feature.

9. But…
Community.
is more than
just that.

10. Attend a
meetup group
or WordCamp
Next: Speak at or sponsor one.

11. Donate to the
WordPress
Foundation

12. Release a
theme
And send it through
the theme review
process.

13. Contribute
a plugin
And talk to your
client about
open source.

14. Why?
Where
would you
be without
WordPress?

15. Contributions
give you a
greater voice.

16. “
I love the
feeling
I get from my work
being used by
30 million .

17. Benefit from
lessons in
development
and user
experience.
(Consultants, hint hint.)

18. I learned more
in 3 months than
I had learned in
3 years .

19. Help a friend.
Evangelism
is powerful.

20. @nacin
Thanks!