{"id":1440,"date":"2015-09-14T11:18:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T18:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015-beginner.seattle.wordcamp.org\/?page_id=1440"},"modified":"2015-10-07T21:03:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T04:03:44","slug":"contributor-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-beginner\/contributor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Contributor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contributor Day will be held on\u00a0<strong>Sunday, October 25th<\/strong> from<strong> 9:30am &#8211; 4pm<\/strong>. We&#8217;ll be in\u00a0the <strong>Allen Room<\/strong> inside\u00a0<strong>McCaw Hall<\/strong>, on the Seattle Center campus, the same building as the main conference on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Contributor Days are casual events where people of all skills and experience levels can\u00a0give back to the WordPress community. We&#8217;ll be working in teams to improve WordPress&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/docs\">documentation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\">translations<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/handbook\">code<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/ui\">design<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/support\">support<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/meta\/handbook\">official websites<\/a><span style=\"color: #993300\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Everyone is welcome!<\/strong> You don&#8217;t need any special skills, just\u00a0a desire to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2013\/05\/10\/contributing-to-wordpress\/\">give back to the community<\/a>. If you&#8217;re new to contributing, we&#8217;ll help you find an area where you can get involved and\u00a0walk you through making your first contribution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Attendance is free <\/strong>and<strong> lunch will be provided<\/strong>, so please let us know if\u00a0you plan to attend when you register for Saturday so that we can plan accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>What to bring:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>laptop\u00a0or tablet<\/strong> is the only thing you really need.<\/li>\n<li>If you want to bring\u00a0a\u00a0<strong>power strip\u00a0and extension cord<\/strong> that could\u00a0come in handy, but we&#8217;ll have some already there too.<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0pair of <strong>headphones<\/strong>, if you plan to subtitle WordPress.tv videos.<\/li>\n<li>If you plan to work on code,\u00a0you can get a head start by setting up <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants\/VVV\">Varying Vagrant Vagrants<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/iandunn\/wordpress-meta-environment\">WordPress Meta Environment<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for a local development environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have questions? <a title=\"Contact\" href=\"https:\/\/2015-beginner.seattle.wordcamp.org\/contact\/\">Contact us<\/a>\u00a0and we&#8217;ll help however we can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributor Day will be held on\u00a0Sunday, October 25th from 9:30am &#8211; 4pm. We&#8217;ll be in\u00a0the Allen Room inside\u00a0McCaw Hall, on the Seattle Center campus, the same building as the main conference on Saturday. Contributor Days are casual events where people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-beginner\/contributor-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Contributor Day<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33690,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1440","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6ppIO-ne","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1440\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}