Participate In Contributor Day

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We’re excited about Contribution Day on Sunday where we all pitch in to give back to WordPress. After all, it’s done so much for us! And don’t be fooled for one minute thinking that only developers can contribute! There are so many ways to give back to WordPress and the community that it will make your head spin. So we hope that no matter who you are, and what your experience with WordPress is, that you’ll consider pitching in and helping move things forward.

Whether you’re a designer, developer, systems or support specialist, or writer, there’s a way for you to contribute:

  • If you’re a programmer, contribute code directly to core*
  • Write or update WordPress documentation
  • Design wireframes for new features (or ones you think could be improved)
  • Help out with your knowledge of accessibility or other relevant standards
  • Answer questions on the WordPress.org forums
  • Work on the wordpress.org website itself, including the plugin and theme repositories

People who come to Contributor Day will be 1000% focused on contributing to or learning to contribute to the WordPress project — although we have fun, this is a working event. If you’ve been looking for an opening to add your contribution to WordPress, this is the perfect opportunity!

* CODE CONTRIBUTORS

If you’re planning on helping out with WordPress core code (writing patches, testing bugs on trunk, etc), then you’ll need to get set up with a few things. To save time on the day, we strongly recommend that you set WordPress up locally on your laptop. You’ll need to install a local web server and check out a copy of WordPress from Subversion.

Sponsor Spotlight: Hawai’i Information Consortium

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Hawai’i Information Consortium is our latest Kohola sponsor! Mahalo Nui Loa for your support!

Hawai’i Information Consortium’s  goal is to make interacting with the government easier for the public by bringing services online and improving government efficiency. Their sole focus is to build, manage, and maintain electronic government solutions and the eHawaii.gov, the State portal and official website for the State of Hawaii.

They were also awarded Best in Class at 2014 The Interactive Media Awards in the government category for their work on the State’s official website for the Aloha State. Hawaii.gov is gorgeous, responsive and the user can customize their home page.

We are beyond excited to have Hawai’i Information Consortium in our WordCamp corner!

Get Your WordCamp Maui Badges!

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Looking for a WordCamp Maui 2015 badge to tell the world you’re attending, speaking or sponsoring? Here they are!  Just copy and past the code under whichever badge you want to use and spread the WordCamp Maui 2015 love!

 

WordCamp Maui Attendee

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WordCamp Maui Sponsor

<a href="https://2015.maui.wordcamp.org/" target="_blank"><img src="https://2015.maui.wordcamp.org/files/2014/12/badge-sponsor.jpg" alt="WordCamp Maui Sponsor" /></a>

WordCamp Maui Speaker

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Sponsor Spotlight: Crowd Favorite

Sponsors

If you’ve found your way here, you already know what a crowd pleaser WordPress is. Nene sponsor Crowd Favorite has taken that crowd pleasing to a new level. Not only did they step up to our sponsor plate but they also offer a full service approach to their clients.

Crowd Favorite is a web design and development firm who can help you design, build, launch, maintain and scale your web project. They will happily jump in at any stage you desire with their active and complete approach. They’ve also developed products like Ramp, Carrington Build and Developer’s Code Journal to make your process smooth and efficient. Efficiency never fails to please!

We are grateful that Crowd Favorite has joined WordCamp Maui as a sponsor. Thank you!

Friday Business Workshop

Friday Workshops

For our Friday Business Workshop we really wanted to bring together a  variety of experiences in the realm of business and WordPress that would blow your socks off! Truly.

Chris Lema will be doing deep dives with each of the folks below to help them share the key learnings each has had in the development and running of their own businesses – from contracts to marketing, from hiring to mergers, from product development to pricing. The interviews and lessons themselves will only be surpassed by the Q&A following each interview.

  • Karim Marucchi – Karim Marucchi is the Founder and Chairman of the VeloMedia Group, the parent of several boutique professional service firms around the world. Over the last twenty years he’s run start ups, taken companies public, managed mergers and acquisitions, and led professional service organizations across the globe. Today he is also the CEO of Crowd Favorite, which continues to grow beyond its current offices in Los Angeles, Denver, Bucharest, Las Vegas, New York, and Rome due to its unique blend of localized project management and high quality digital solutions. As the first premiere WordPress agency for the Fortune 500, National Geographic, DirectTV, Lexus, the Dallas Mavericks and major entertainment studios count among the company’s client roster.
  • Syed Balkhi – Syed Balkhi is the founder of WPBeginner and List25 an extremely popular entertainment site with over 1.2 million subscribers and 200 Million video views. Syed’s work has been featured in NYTimes, HuffingtonPost, Yahoo Small Business, Wired, Mashable, and countless other well-reputed online magazines.
  • Sam Hotchkiss – Sam was the founder of BruteProtect, a distributed brute force attack protection tool which was acquired by Automattic in August 2014. Sam is now hard at work on integrating BruteProtect into Jetpack, and exploring the future as an Automattician.
  • Vladimir Prelovac – Successfully bootstrapped a company in eastern Europe, reaching over $1mn in revenue in the first year. Won EY Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 award. Ranked among top 100 most influential people on Social Media in the world in 2012.
  • Jeff Milone – Co-founder of Invulu – a web software, service, and application company known for the popular brands Organic Themes, KahunaHost, and more. He started Invulu on Maui with David Morgan in 2009. Jeff also contributes time as an advisor to several nonprofit organizations. An avid globetrotter, Jeff enjoys traveling to WordCamps around the world.
  • David Morgan – Co-founder, designer and developer of Invulu, Inc., the company responsible for Organic Themes, Kahuna Host and more.
  • John Hawkins – John was an early adopter of WordPress. He moved his blog to the brand new platform a few short months after it was released and never looked back. After doing countless updates to his own site and those of a few dozen friends, John co-founded 9seeds.com to focus full time on WordPress development. In his spare time, John is the lead organizer of the Las Vegas WordPress meetup, blogs at vegasgeek.com and recently became addicted to CrossFit.

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