This Issue's Wonder Woman: Jill Binder 

Jill Binder led the #WPDiversity group for 5 years, helping women and other underrepresented voices step confidently onto WordPress stages. She later expanded, empowering 600 people in 50 countries across WordPress, Adobe, and Drupal.

Today she runs #TechDifferently, a conference for people who think and build differently, and who want to make the world a bit better. Diverse speakers will share their stories & ideas to leave the audience energized, unstuck, and ready to ship something new!

What is your mantra?

It doesn't matter if it's been done before. No one does it just like me. <3

Tell us 3-5 tech tools that you swear by that make life & work a little easier.

• Planning/productivity: The giant planning spreadsheet system I created to run my speaker training and conference. Anti-time-blocking and friendly to many moving pieces.
• Motivation to do hard things: thing.do (I made this!)
• Focus music that works: brain.fm
• Meditation & more: insighttimer.com

What's in your mug/glass/bottle during work hours?

Tea or water. I have an entire tea corner of my kitchen. :)

What's in your mug/glass/bottle after hours?

I am a simple person. It's still tea or water! :)

Knowing what you do now, what advice would you give to your younger self?

It's ok to be different in tech. Embrace it. Right now, you feel anxious and alienated, coding at corporations and small agencies, feeling like you're too different from everyone else and like you're not thriving. But someday you'll blend your passions, go far, and help others do the same.

Your Twitter/X Link
https://x.com/jillbinder

Your LinkedIn Profile Link
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillbinder/

Other Social Link You'd Like to Include
https://mastodon.social/@jillbinder

Your Website
https://techdifferently.com/

Wonder Women Doing Wonderful Things

This week's takeaway for October 5–11 was women creating opportunities for other people.

WordPress Accessibility Day made accessibility education available to thousands of people worldwide. WordPress Campus Connect introduced students to technical careers and open-source participation. WordPress Youth Day Nicaragua brought digital skills to children and teenagers, including a dedicated program for young women entrepreneurs.

At the same time, women continued contributing to WordPress through translation reviews, accessibility coordination, and Core development discussions.

Together, these accomplishments demonstrate the many ways women contribute to WordPress—not only by building software and businesses, but also by educating, mentoring, organizing, and helping others find their place in the ecosystem.

• Last week marked another successful WP Accessibility Day! Organizers, volunteers, and speakers included: Amber Hinds, Bet Hannon, June Liu, Sarah Kornblum, Julia Undeutsch, Caroline Desrosiers, AmyJune Hineline, Sanna Kramsi, Priscilla Afia Opoku, Karimot Isiaka, Gen Herres, Pranali Bane, Melody Partain, Danielle Burton, Adrienne Grace, Isla Waite, Joni Halabi, Alessandra Vallera, Alexis Toliver, Claire Brotherton, Frah Ali Aman, Kim Ortiz, Krupa Nanda, Lisa Raposa Millar, Moira Kelley, Renee Moody, and Tanya Hollis.
  
  
• Devin Maeztri participated in the Career in the Industry & Experience session at WordPress Campus Connect SMK Bina Insan Mandiri. She brought experience as an Indonesia partnerships manager and WordPress Polyglots locale manager to students exploring technology careers.
  
  
• Mumtahina Faguni presented How to Submit Your 1st Plugin as a Non-Coder at WordPress Campus Connect Stamford University in Bangladesh on October 6. Her session demonstrated how beginners can use ideas, AI tools, and WordPress resources to begin contributing plugins.
  
  
•  At the same October 6 Campus Connect event, Sharmin Khan Urmi presented From WordPress Developer to AI-Powered Professional: Skills for Future Web Developers, helping students understand how AI is changing technical and professional expectations.
  
  
• Anika Rahman, a senior lecturer and convener of the Stamford University Computer Society, delivered the welcome address at the October 6 event. The program also recognized winners of a three-day WordPress Hackathon.
  
  
• Women organized and presented the October 10 WordPress Youth Day event in Managua, Nicaragua. The event introduced young people to WordPress, web development, digital safety, and entrepreneurship. This included: Lua Salazar, Karen Vanessa Torres Noguera, Valeria del Carmen Pilarte Castellon, Eliana Sarai Campos Rodriguez, and Karina Isabel Poveda Torres.
  
  
• On October 7, Krupa Nanda published the agenda for the October 8 Accessibility Team meeting. The agenda addressed WordPress 7.2, the Accessibility-ready program, documentation, and accessibility improvements to WordPress Core and the Block Editor. 
  
  
• On October 5, Junko Nukaga reviewed translations for the Arvity theme, identifying problems with Japanese style conventions and unnatural phrasing. On October 9, she also completed a Japanese translation-editor request for the TrustBrain Update Manager plugin.
  
  
• Amy Kamala published the October 7 WordPress Core development meeting agenda, bringing together discussion of the WordPress 7.1.3 security release, WordPress 7.2 planning, the Presence API, and Gutenberg development.

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WP Wonder Women Newsletter, Vol 2, Issue 10

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