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Preparing for WordCamp Europe 2019’s Contributor Day

Contributor Day at WordCamp Europe (WCEU) is Thursday 20 June 2019 with registration starting at 8:30am. The Training Team will be represented by @jessecowens with assistance from @davidneeham and @ironwiller. While you will need to have a ticket to attend Contributor Day, you can choose which team you would like to help once you are there (even if you indicated interest in another team). We hope you choose to help the Training Team!

What Do You Need To Bring?

Yourself and your willingness to give back to WordPress. You will need a laptop with power and an internet connection, although we’ve managed without that last one from time to time. We’ll be working in GitHub, but if you’re not familiar with it this team is a great place to learn how to use it!

So the quick checklist is:

  • Computer
  • Power cord
  • WordPress.org profile
  • Slack account for wordpress.slack.com
  • GitHub account
  • ZenHub connected to your GitHub account

What Will We Be Working On?

It’s exciting time for the Training Team as we prepare to resurrect the learn.wordpress.org site. We are building out a beta site at the moment and need a workshop and its lesson plans completed so that we can get ready for launch. We have identified a workshop titled “Best Practices for WordPress Friendly Layout” which includes lessons on child themes, CSS, web fonts, and the theme Customizer. You do not need to be an expert on any of those to contribute!

We will be looking to bring those lesson plans up-to-date with the latest lesson plan template, review them for accuracy, copyediting them for grammar and typos, reviewing them for clarity and understandability, perhaps taking a screenshot or two, and making other general improvements.

In addition, we are also building out templates for the new theme for the learn.wordpress.org site. If you have skills in creating custom themes, there are a handful of pages that need to be built from design mockups. If you have skills in that area, this could be a great way for you to contribute to WordPress!

What Skills Are Needed To Help The Training Team?

You do not need to have ALL of these skills, but if you have ANY of them your expertise will be put to good use!

  • Editing
  • Copyediting
  • HTML/CSS to create slides
  • Training
  • Instructional design
  • GitHub, including creating issues and pull requests
  • Custom theme template building

If you have any questions, please ask in the #training channel at wordpress.slack.com. Have a safe and enjoyable trip and we look forward to seeing you shortly!

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