{"id":133538,"date":"2014-10-22T01:05:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T05:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premium.wpmudev.org\/blog\/?p=133538"},"modified":"2014-10-22T21:20:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T01:20:41","slug":"our-5-join-wpmu-dev-to-support-wordpress-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/our-5-join-wpmu-dev-to-support-wordpress-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Our 5% &#8211; Join WPMU DEV to Support WordPress.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month back, Matt Mullenweg <a href=\"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2014\/09\/five-for-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">proposed that companies directly involved in WordPress should contribute &#8220;Five for the Future<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0specifically that they:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Should dedicate 5% of their people to working on something to do with core \u2014 be it development, documentation, security, support forums, theme reviews, training, testing, translation or whatever it might be that helps move WordPress mission forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, for once, I find myself in total agreement, and here&#8217;s how we&#8217;d like to make that commitment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_133541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" data-caption=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-133541 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screenshot-2014-10-22-16.03.33-e1413954250271.png\" alt=\"This needs to be your idea of Nirvana\" width=\"800\" height=\"260\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This needs to be your idea of Nirvana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Supporting the WordPress.org Support Forums<\/h2>\n<p>We already have core contributors (in terms of code) on board, and have employed plenty in the past, but that&#8217;s only a tiny portion in terms of time, and also I think that what we bring to our members is so much more than code.<\/p>\n<p>We at <a href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPMU DEV<\/a> try to be &#8220;Your WordPress Team,&#8221; and that&#8217;s a 24\/7\/365 commitment to be there to help you with anything to do with WordPress. That&#8217;s not just our own products \u2013 we aim to support every aspect of WordPress and every plugin, theme, tweak and component you can think of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, as a company of roughly 50 full-time staff, we want to contribute 2.5 full-time, dedicated support people to the WordPress.org Support Forums to help with absolutely anything under the sun.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;d like to invite you to apply for those positions :)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the job\u00a0entails:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hanging out on\u00a0the WordPress.org Support Forums all day, 40 hours minimum per week, helping\u00a0people out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll provide you with training and support, a great team to back you up, send you to WordCamps and, naturally, pay you, too.<\/p>\n<p>All we ask you to do is to complete a short training task as part of the usual WPMU DEV support star application process and let us know some stuff about you. We can then chat more, negotiate terms and generally get this show on\u00a0the road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/incsub.com\/careers\/support\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sound\u00a0like fun? Hell yeh! Apply here!<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month back, Matt Mullenweg proposed that companies directly involved in WordPress should contribute &#8220;Five for the Future,&#8221;\u00a0specifically that they: &#8230;Should dedicate 5% of their people to working on something to do with core \u2014 be it development, documentation, security, support forums, theme reviews, training, testing, translation or whatever it might be that helps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":133541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4161],"tags":[10121,9989,425,335],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-133538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-community","category-wpmudev","tag-community","tag-five-for-the-future","tag-support","tag-wordpressorg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216036,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133538\/revisions\/216036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133538"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=133538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}