WordCamps events are sponsored by the WordPress Foundation, and volunteers like me help to make them possible and promote the use of this great content management system for websites.
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Sponsor organizer
All of us who work with WordPress and know its Five for the Future philosophy, which basically tells us to give back a little bit of everything WordPress brings us, help and collaborate with WordPress and its community. One of the ways is by helping to make events possible.
In this case, I proposed myself to be an organizer of the Sponsors team, where within a team of 6 people led by Jason Rouet and as partners Marko Tanaskovic, Carole Olinger, Anne-Mieke Bovelett and Valerio Vaz we managed the 65 companies that participated (thank you video). Big companies like Plesk, Yoast, Weglot, Bluehost, Google, Mollie, … and also medium and small companies like NitroPack, …
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Recruiting companies at WordPress events is usually not complicated, since by making a Call for Sponsors, interested companies arrive and it is also enough to remind the known ones that such a call has been opened.
From there, our management work begins, creating the contract, invoice, and management of the event.
A work of almost 8 months in which we started on November 11, and we had a follow-up meeting every week. You can imagine the work it takes.
So by the time we got to WordCamp, almost everything was already planned out.
For this adventure, Javier Casares, Jesús Yesares and Fede Padilla that although we do not all coincide in the trips, if we booked accommodation together to spend these days.
We all came with different interests but we managed to be together for many parts of the day.
We all came with different interests.
With Javier Casares I brought the WPAutoTranslate project (automatic translator for multisite sites) to make it known and reach agreements with different companies and marketplaces. We have made great strides in this WCEU, and we will be sure to give news.
First Day: Contributor’s Day
I also had the honor of participating in Contributor Day as a WordPress.TV Table Leader. I have Angel Moreno to thank for putting my name on the table. It was record attendance with 800 registered attendees, so we ended up pretty happy.
This day is the important one as you can meet different people who are professionals like you with the same initiatives to help the community.
The grace of the WordCamp Europe that while the local ones, usually there are 4-5 tables, in this one there were almost 30 tables and as important as the Editor, Core or as others related to translation and Documentation.
Finally we communicated our results, which in the case of WordPress.TV, were the creation of the new documentation model to better enable contributions, as well as the training of new contributors for video uploads.
Then the following day we were interviewed about this day:
Parties
I have to say that I was impressed with how the parties were put together and how the Sponsors and organization really help make WordCamp more special
The parties I attended were:
The parties I attended were:
The parties I attended were.
- Pagely’s Pirate Party. A boat with three floors that gave us a ride on the river and also came with dinner and concert.
- Social Event organized by the WordCamp for Organizers, Sponsors, and all the team that makes the event possible.
- Local Municipality. The Young Entrepreneurs Association of Porto invited us to a dinner in one of their buildings. I missed that entrepreneurs from Oporto had taken the opportunity to exchange relations with entrepreneurs from the WordCamp
- AfterParty. The grand finale with a concert including a tribute to Queen
Sponsorship booth
All the work we did all this time, concluded in a magnificent place full of Sponsors Booths as you can see below.
Also in the whole circle of the enclosure, there were also small companies with a table, presenting their product/service.
The gifts you received for visiting the booths were impressive. I actually had trouble taking them all back, as I grabbed some for my family and Closemarketing team as well.
Lectures
Because of my organizational role I had little time to watch talks, of which I want to watch quietly when they are on WordPress TV. But I could highlight several like Pablo Postigo’s A glimpse into the future of WordPress from a frontend point of view, Vicent Sanchis’ What is the next thing about color contrast?, Piccia Neri’s Design for conversions: how to be more profitable by putting people first and Matt’s In Conversation: Matt, Matias and Josepha.
Conclusion
.It has certainly been quite an experience to be and help organize WordCamp Europe 2022, of which I believe it will not be the only one. I like to get into the “mess” and know how everything works. I have generated new contacts that will surely have an impact on future needs. Next year next year it will be in Athens, and you can see the video that promotes it:
I think this has been a start to move us more on an international plane than we are trying to as both a marketing and WordPress development agency.
Other posts about WordCamp Europe
.- Javier Casares: WordCamp Europe 2022
- Jesús Yesares: WordCamp Europe 2022: The WordPress macro-event after the pandemic
- WordPress Radio: WordCamp Europe
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