Youth in WordPress  ## Metadata - Author: [[Press the Issue]] - Full Title: Youth in WordPress - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/a19307a7-727f-4321-a9fe-0e7eec57aac9 ## Document Notes ## Highlights - The WordPress Community Needs to Change to Attract Young People • The community needs to change in order to attract younger people. • This can be done by changing the way that the church operates, specifically by offering more opportunities for young people to get involved. Transcript: Speaker 1 And I feel like to a degree that can create an unwelcoming environment for a young person who's like, well, why do we have to do things that way? Why can't we do things a different way? And if the answer is- It's an all-teams, rebellion church. Yeah, it's exactly. And I feel like it says, you know, well, we're not interested in revolutionizing anything. We're going to do things the way that they are because that's the way they've always been done. And to a younger person who is learning and bringing new ideas to the table, that's not an attractive environment to be in. And so I wonder, you know, how much does the community need to change for young people to find this community more attractive? Because I think that so many younger people that I like encounter on Twitter who are in the software world, they find WordPress boring because it's not new and sexy. And it's kind of a thing of like, okay, well, does it need to be new and sexy? Or do we have a marketing issue? Like, what's the problem here? Speaker 2 Yeah, it's like getting into a school bus design. It's been done. There's not a whole lot more there. Yeah. Speaker 1 But, you know, I think it's interesting and, you know, for a long time we had- or maybe not for a very long time, but for a period of time we had kids camps, right? Kids were camps. And I always thought that that was such an interesting idea that we had kids camps, but we didn't have like a college pipeline camp. We didn't have a camp that was for that in between, which to me seemed- Like a career fair. Exactly, exactly. Like, that would seem like so much more like low-hanging fruit, right? Of these young people who are interested in websites and interested in building things, maybe interested in marketing or interested in graphic design or whatever, and that we don't Speak to them, you know? Right. Yeah. Speaker 2 That's a really good point. I think that's the fact that something I started with earlier is- it got big and exciting to me. ([Time 0:09:56](https://share.snipd.com/snip/b984ab90-d705-4f46-b470-ff77b8e9268e)) - Note: education kidscamp WordPress youth - Tags: youth, education, wordpress, kidscamp - The WordPress Community Needs to Change to Attract Young People The WordPress community needs to have a camp or career fair for young people who are interested in websites and building things. These young people may be interested in marketing or graphic design, and it is important to cater to their interests to attract them to the community. Transcript: Speaker 1 For a period of time we had kids camps, right? Kids were camps. And I always thought that that was such an interesting idea that we had kids camps, but we didn't have like a college pipeline camp. We didn't have a camp that was for that in between, which to me seemed- Like a career fair. Exactly, exactly. Like, that would seem like so much more like low-hanging fruit, right? Of these young people who are interested in websites and interested in building things, maybe interested in marketing or interested in graphic design or whatever, and that we don't Speak to them, you know? Right. Yeah. ([Time 0:11:19](https://share.snipd.com/snip/b53fad72-992b-45a5-9776-d474d6aff365)) - Note: education kidscamp WordPress youth WordPress needs to be more inclusive to attract new members, especially young members. The community needs to change to make WordPress more appealing to young people. - Tags: education, youth, kidscamp, wordpress