{"id":810,"date":"2015-05-03T15:29:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T05:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.brisbane.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=810"},"modified":"2015-05-15T10:54:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T00:54:47","slug":"contributing-back-to-wordpress-why-its-important-for-your-business","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2015\/session\/contributing-back-to-wordpress-why-its-important-for-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Contributing Back To WordPress \u2013 Why It\u2019s Important For Your Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_817\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-817\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-817\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.brisbane.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/05\/Kel-Santiago-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Kel Santiago\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/05\/Kel-Santiago-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/05\/Kel-Santiago-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/05\/Kel-Santiago.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kel Santiago<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are many ways to contribute to WordPress and\u00a0many\u00a0reasons why\u00a0it&#8217;s important for your business. Your company\u00a0will get\u00a0recognised at events,\u00a0you become the face of your company as well as\u00a0gain trust from the community and clients.<br \/>\nYou fly the flag for WordPress which is globally-recognised and\u00a0when you contribute, you gain new friends, meet new people and for company&#8217;s like Digital Cube, business is not about the money, it&#8217;s about the people.<\/p>\n<p>Kel Santiago will show you some of the many ways to contribute to WordPress such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WordPress Tips from Users Around the World.<\/li>\n<li>What it Takes to Contribute.<\/li>\n<li>DigitalCube&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2014\/09\/five-for-the-future\/\">Five for the Future<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Contributing back via:\n<ul>\n<li>Plugins.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking, Sponsoring and Organising WordCamps.<\/li>\n<li>Translations \/ Polyglots.<\/li>\n<li>Writing\u00a0WordPress books.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vccw.cc\/\">VCCW<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants\/VVV\">VVV<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp-cli.org\/\">WP-CLI<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kel is a Japan-based writer and evangelist of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.digitalcube.jp\/\">DigitalCube<\/a> Co. Ltd. Advanced Consulting Partner of Amazon Web Services and Code Poet WordPress Consultant. They were the first in Japan and all of Asia.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow Kel on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i_Monkey_Robot\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways to contribute to WordPress and\u00a0many\u00a0reasons why\u00a0it&#8217;s important for your business. Your company\u00a0will get\u00a0recognised at events,\u00a0you become the face of your company as well as\u00a0gain trust from the community and clients. You fly the flag for WordPress &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2015\/session\/contributing-back-to-wordpress-why-its-important-for-your-business\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Contributing Back To WordPress \u2013 Why It\u2019s Important For Your Business<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13984436,"featured_media":817,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1433044800,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[807],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[485821],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-810","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","wcb_track-the-forum-p419"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5LFb3-d4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"May 31, 2015","time":"2:00 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"807","slug":"kel-santiago","name":"Kel Santiago","link":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker\/kel-santiago\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/810\/revisions\/921"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/807"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/kel-dc"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brisbane.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}