Integrating Communities

A call for PHP to help build the bridge for subsets of the PHP community - especially WordPress.

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1. Integrating Communities Jenny Wong : @miss_ jwo
2. Background
3. I <3 PHP
4. I <3 WordPress
5. The mocking of WordPress by PHP is like watching my parents having a fight every day.
6. Broken Home
7. Yes WordPress code quality isn’t great.
8. Then again PHP has its flaws too
9. There are not enough developers as it is.
10. So why are we belittling a subset of developers that we have?
11. But we can change this.
12. Lets fix it.
13. I am one person
14. Multi dimensional problems need a multidimensional solution.
15. Solution 1
16. WordCamps
17. PHP conferences
18. Stop putting them on the same dates!
19. Solution 2
20. Someone has to make the first step.
21. WordPress User Groups
22. PHP User Groups
23. Waiting around is boring
24. Solution 3
25. WordPress Developers DO want to learn PHP
26. Help teach them!
27. Go to their user groups and invite them to the php community!
28. Solution 4
29. Plugin development
30. Plugins do not have to be at a minimum of PHP5.2
31. Solution 5
32. Welcome
33. Don’t belittle
34. Leave the door open
35. Educate
36. Support
37. Mentor
38. Be cheerleaders
39. ie. an air hostess. Be hosts
40. Be empathic
41. and guide
42. Yes WordPress isn’t great.
43. But we can improve one step at a time.
44. @miss_ jwo Thank You