Bridging Communities - Drupalcamp Vienna

BRIDGING COMMUNITIES Jenny Wong / @miss_jwo Community Engineer

BRIDGING COMMUNITIES Jenny Wong / @miss_jwo Community Advocate & WordPress
Engineer

@miss_jwo #dcvie

@miss_jwo #dcvie 2010 PHP North West

@miss_jwo #dcvie 2011 First WordPress Project

@miss_jwo #dcvie 2012 WordCamp Edinburgh

@miss_jwo #dcvie 2014

@miss_jwo #dcvie 2014 No local user groups

@miss_jwo #dcvie Community Addict

@miss_jwo #dcvie 2014 PHP North West conference

@miss_jwo #dcvie https://twitter.com/miss_jwo/status/518331214068195329

@miss_jwo #dcvie

@miss_jwo #dcvie https://twitter.com/miss_jwo/status/610802794803630080

@miss_jwo #dcvie “From the glimpses I get through your feed:
A very large, vibrant, active, passionate group of people.”

@miss_jwo #dcvie “Awww, not good enough to be a real
web developer?”

@miss_jwo #dcvie

@miss_jwo #dcvie “Wow. Pretty sad response. […]”

@miss_jwo #dcvie The mocking of WordPress by other communities is
like watching my parents have a ﬁght every day.

@miss_jwo #dcvie The mocking of any technology by anyone is
like watching my parents have a ﬁght every day.

@miss_jwo #dcvie What is community?

@miss_jwo #dcvie Developers

@miss_jwo #dcvie Business Owners

@miss_jwo #dcvie Designers

@miss_jwo #dcvie Users

@miss_jwo #dcvie Clients

@miss_jwo #dcvie Content Writers

@miss_jwo #dcvie Journalists

@miss_jwo #dcvie Shop owners

@miss_jwo #dcvie Project managers

@miss_jwo #dcvie Scientists

@miss_jwo #dcvie And so on…

@miss_jwo #dcvie Community of People

@miss_jwo #dcvie OTHER COMMUNITIES

@miss_jwo #dcvie How often do you go out to another
community?

@miss_jwo #dcvie 2015 Django EU

@miss_jwo #dcvie 2015 Drupal Camp London

@miss_jwo #dcvie 2015 Django EU / Drupal Camp London

@miss_jwo #dcvie ECHO CHAMBER

@miss_jwo #dcvie WordPressers at PHP events

@miss_jwo #dcvie <?php str_replace( ’WordPress’, ‘Drupal’, ‘following_slides’ ) ;

@miss_jwo #dcvie “I generally have good experience interacting online with
authors of PHP projects/libraries that I use.”

@miss_jwo #dcvie “I only consider the [Drupal] community. Never interact
with the whole PHP community.”

@miss_jwo #dcvie “Not much regular interaction, but I am tired
of reading blog posts our articles that denigrate [Drupal]!”

@miss_jwo #dcvie – a WordPress core developer “I’m too scared
to go. They will mock me for being a [Drupal] developer”

@miss_jwo #dcvie

@miss_jwo #dcvie The Drupal Community

@miss_jwo #dcvie Getting off the Island

@miss_jwo #dcvie GoPHP5

@miss_jwo #dcvie

@miss_jwo #dcvie There is more to be done

@miss_jwo #dcvie Multi dimensional problems need Multi dimensional solutions

Events

@miss_jwo #dcvie DrupalCamps

@miss_jwo #dcvie WordCamps

@miss_jwo #dcvie Conferences

@miss_jwo #dcvie User Groups

@miss_jwo #dcvie Meet Ups

@miss_jwo #dcvie DATES

@miss_jwo #dcvie Be considerate of when we set our dates.

@miss_jwo #dcvie Open Source Project: Open Tech Calendar

@miss_jwo #dcvie JOINT EVENTS

@miss_jwo #dcvie Run a joint event with a local …
group

@miss_jwo #dcvie PHP.UG

@miss_jwo #dcvie Open Sprint Days

@miss_jwo #dcvie CAMPS

@miss_jwo #dcvie Camp != Conference

Go Outside

@miss_jwo #dcvie Go to their user groups

@miss_jwo #dcvie Let’s invite outside community people to speak at
our events

@miss_jwo #dcvie Bring back the knowledge you gain

@miss_jwo #dcvie Build stuff with other systems

@miss_jwo #dcvie Share your knowledge

Inclusiveness

@miss_jwo #dcvie How many people are at their ﬁrst DrupalCamp?

@miss_jwo #dcvie Invite everyone to the party

@miss_jwo #dcvie Introduce everyone to everybody

@miss_jwo #dcvie Make the ﬁrst step

@miss_jwo #dcvie RECOGNITION

@miss_jwo #dcvie PROFILES.WORDPRESS.ORG

@miss_jwo #dcvie WORDS

@miss_jwo #dcvie We are able to choose our words,  
but we are not able to choose the affect they will have on others

Embrace Diversity

@miss_jwo #dcvie Diversity has to be part of the plan,
not an after thought

@miss_jwo #dcvie Diversity of technology

@miss_jwo #dcvie Diversity of tool choices

@miss_jwo #dcvie Diversity of OS choices

@miss_jwo #dcvie Respect all choices!

@miss_jwo #dcvie SWAG

@miss_jwo #dcvie Do it right or don’t do it at
all

Knowledge Sharing

@miss_jwo #dcvie People want to learn

@miss_jwo #dcvie You know more than & less than someone
else

@miss_jwo #dcvie Speakers are sharing their knowledge & experiences

@miss_jwo #dcvie Share your experiences!

@miss_jwo #dcvie Mentoring Team groups.drupal.org/mentoring

@miss_jwo #dcvie PHP Mentoring . org

@miss_jwo #dcvie WANT TO LEARN SOMETHING?

@miss_jwo #dcvie Speak Up!

@miss_jwo #dcvie Ask your local group to ﬁnd someone to
share their knowledge

@miss_jwo #dcvie Ask Questions

@miss_jwo #dcvie No question is stupid.

Attitude

@miss_jwo #dcvie Welcome

@miss_jwo #dcvie Don’t belittle

@miss_jwo #dcvie Leave the door open

@miss_jwo #dcvie Educate

@miss_jwo #dcvie Support

@miss_jwo #dcvie Mentor

@miss_jwo #dcvie Be cheerleaders

@miss_jwo #dcvie Be respectful

@miss_jwo #dcvie Be empathetic

@miss_jwo #dcvie and guide

Doing this already?

@miss_jwo #dcvie Amazing! Please share your experiences

Remember

@miss_jwo #dcvie Bridges are not built over night

@miss_jwo #dcvie Bridges need maintenance

@miss_jwo #dcvie We can improve, one step at a time.

@miss_jwo #dcvie Multi-dimensional problems need multi-dimensional solutions

@miss_jwo #dcvie What solutions do you have?

Danke sehr Thank You Jenny Wong @miss_jwo hmn.md

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