Community Strategy & Open Source
Talks, presentations and workshops that I have given at various events.
We’re heading deeper into a hybrid future – usually envisioned as in-person events with an online component included. While this is certainly a great way to allow for events to accommodate people who cannot attend in person, what if we could do more? What if we could build an entire community that brings people together in multi-faceted and impactful ways, regardless of where they are in the world?
Yesterday I presented a workshop as part of the first CMX Global Connect event about defining a membership identity for your community. As promised during my session, here’s a link to the worksheet that we worked through together, as well as the slide deck.
We all know how great in-person communities can be, but what happens when things don’t go so well? What happens when people in your community cause conflict and make things difficult for everyone else? Here is a practical path towards successfully mediating conflict within community.
A look at a few ways that we can become better open-source citizens, no matter what project or community we are a part of.
Earlier this month, I chaired a panel at WordCamp Cape Town that was all about contributing to WordPress. As I wasn’t answering the questions on the day myself, I thought I’d pick out a few of the interesting ones and answer them here.
I gave a talk at the Cape Town Branch of the Developer User Group this week that covered the basics of getting started with WordPress development. I have given this…
This evening I gave a talk at our Cape Town WordPress meetup covering all the things we can expect from the WordPress project in 2018. We looked at what’s coming…
Earlier this year I ran a workshop at PHP South Africa 2017 on building your first WordPress plugin. I ran this same workshop at WordCamp Johannesburg 2017 today, albeit with…
In addition to running a WordPress development workshop at PHP South Africa this year, I also presented a talk about growing your product by building a community. The talk used…
As part of my overall goal to step up this year and get involved in more community conferences and such, I ran a workshop at PHP South Africa 2017 on…
This morning I presented a talk titled There is no “I” in WordPress at the first ever WordCamp in Johannesburg. The video of my talk will be up on WordPress.tv at some…
Today I presented a talk titled Democratising Community at WordCamp Cape Town 2016. Even though I gave an intro talk last year, this is actually my first real WordCamp talk and…
Last week was the much anticipated WordCamp Cape Town 2015, which was an undeniable success. I’m busy putting down some of my thoughts about the event and the WordPress community in South…
Yesterday afternoon I presented a session on WPSessions that was all about the WordPress community and how we can all engage with it in a more meaningful way. The session…
At WordCamp Cape Town 2014 I presented a workshop on building your first WordPress plugin. It was a pleasure to share my experience with everyone who attended the workshop and, as I promised at the end of the workshop, here are a few links regarding what we learnt.