Raj Nilayam is a FOSS lover involved with many open source communities (co-organizer WordPress Noida Community). He is also a freelancer and currently work remotely as a Web Developer at Prontoux Inc.
For the past 3 years, he has been a WordPress enthusiast, developing websites, customizing themes. He loves to meet new people in the WordPress community and discover how together all can grow with the community as well.He enjoys playing with codes, and you can call him a budding entrepreneur too.
About the Session:
In this session, you will get to know about the various reasons for which developers actively keep contributing to Open Source Projects.
Raj will take you through various scenarios where contributing to Open Source Projects such as WordPress is helpful for personal growth and what are the factors that keep the contributors motivated towards contributing.
You will learn about numerous objectives of developers have for contributing to open source projects. Objectives such as-
- To Improve the Code
- To Gain Competitive Advantage
- To Reduce Development Costs
- To Support Open Source Values
- To Promote Industry Standards
- To Make the Software More Usable
- To Further Your Career
- To Give Back
- To Have Fun
There will be a separate brief session about why should you contribute to WordPress. So, those who want to learn about the same will benefit the most from this session.
By the end of this session, you will be thorough with these points-
- Why should one contribute?
- What are the perks of contributing?
- How to contribute?
- Crystal clear with every aspect of contributing as there will be a Q&A session in the end.
