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WordCamp Europe 2024 and its less-is-more approach: Q&A with lead organizer Wendie Huis in ‘t Veld
WordCamp Europe 2024 lead organizer Wendie Huis in ‘t Veld shares how this year’s event has fully embraced transparency, simplicity, and diversity. The world’s largest WordCamp has come a long way since the first event in Leiden, The Netherlands, in 2013. Back then, only 750 people attended. This year, organizers anticipate it will be the…
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WordCamp Asia’s ambition to go beyond regular WordCamps: Q&A with organizer Jon Ang
WordCamp Asia organizer Jon Ang speaks about programming for this year’s event, why organizers are marketing to non-WordPress people, and how diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging have been deeply embedded into every stage of the event. In 2019, Jon Ang, Human Made’s Director of Sales, wrote the original proposal to get WordCamp Asia up and…
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How has WordCamp US 2023 tackled DEIB and accessibility? Julia Golomb
WordCamp US lead organizer speaks about programming for this year’s event, why organizers chose to forgo a blind selection process, and how organizers have addressed criticism about the lack of accessibility at last year’s event. Julia Golomb describes herself as passionate about promoting the open source values of transparency, collaboration, and inclusiveness in community engagement.…
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Diversity & WordPress: Q&A with WordCamp Europe Global Lead Evangelia Pappa
Diversity has been a hot topic for WordCamp Europe. Last week, Sjoerd Blom, one of the event’s global leads, apologized for how he reacted to recent scrutiny of the diversity of the event’s speakers. He was responding to Michelle Frechette, StellarWP’s Director of Community Engagement, who questioned the apparent lack of diversity in the first…