PHPUK15 - Integrating Communities

Is PHP one community or many? Frameworks and CMS's created in PHP are popular enough to have self-sufficient communities, but this can often result in a lack of crossover between communities. The result of the fragmentation can be wasted effort and time as a developer but also a lack of knowledge transfer that extends outside of our own subgroup bubble. This talk will bring some practical suggestions and solutions on how to look outside our comfort zones, widen our technical circles, and ensure that we learn from other people’s mistakes whilst bridging the gap between communities. As a result, we can make our communities more diverse and stronger.

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1. Jenny Wong @miss_jwo Human Made Integrating Communities
2. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 2010 First user group - PHPNW
3. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 2011 First WordPress project for PHPNW
4. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 2012 First WordCamp
5. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 2013 The year I nearly quit
6. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 2014 No local user groups
7. So?
8. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Community Addict
9. The mocking of the WordPres The mocking of WordPress by PHP
10. The mocking of the WordPres The mocking of WordPress by PHP is like watching my parents having a fight every day.
11. The mocking of the WordPres The mocking of any technology by any one is like watching my parents having a fight every day.
12. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Broken Home
13. @miss_jwo #phpuk15
14. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 A community of people
15. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Good is relative
16. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 We can change this - together
17. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Multi-dimensional problems need multi-dimensional solutions
18. Events
19. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Camps
20. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Conferences
21. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 User Groups
22. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Meet Ups
23. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Avoid putting them on the same dates
24. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Open Tech Calendar
25. Inclusiveness
26. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Invite everyone to the party
27. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Make the first step
28. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Words
29. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 We are able to choose our words, 
 but we are not able to choose the affect they will have on others
30. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Getting off the Island
31. Embrace diversity
32. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Diversity has to be part of the plan, not an after thought
33. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Diversity of technology
34. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Diversity of tool choices
35. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Diversity of OS choices
36. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Diversity of gender
37. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Diversity of race
38. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Diversity of background
39. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Diversity of cyborgs
40. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Diversity of humans
41. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Include all people!
42. People want to learn PHP
43. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Help teach them!
44. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Go to their user groups & invite them to your community!
45. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 PHP Mentoring
46. Want to learn new things?
47. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Speak Up!
48. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Ask your local user group to find someone to share their knowledge
49. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 No local user group?
50. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Start one!
51. Attitude
52. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Welcome
53. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Don’t belittle
54. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Leave the door open
55. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Educate
56. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Support
57. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Mentor
58. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Be cheerleaders
59. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Be respectful
60. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Be empathetic
61. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 and guide
62. Doing this already?
63. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Amazing! Please share your experiences
64. Remember
65. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Yes there are barriers between communities
66. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 We can improve, one step at a time.
67. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Multi-dimensional problems need multi-dimensional solutions
68. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 What solutions do you have?
69. Thank You joind.in/13379 Jenny Wong @miss_jwo hmn.md
70. @miss_jwo #phpuk15 Image Sources Slide Source 1 Scott Cresswell - Just a face in the crowd https://flic.kr/p/knkntv 7 Willi Heidelbach - Passt 2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/86399392@N00/4471068814 9 - 11 Matt - 51/52 - Fit https://flic.kr/p/j5kLem 13 Richard Pope - Naughty step https://flic.kr/p/5cAYyQ 18 Eric Lynch - Sunset over roller coaster https://flic.kr/p/4wW3oM 20 - 51 NASA/Bill Ingalls - Green Flight, Checkered Flag http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2074.html 64 David J. Fred - Three variations of Jury mast knot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jury-mast-knot-variations.jpg