WordCamp Bucharest 2016: Recap. See you all next year!

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WordCamp Bucharest 2016 was an awesome experience for us as organizers, we managed to learn a lot, to be patient and to prioritize: volunteer work means time-management like never before.

We really enjoyed to vibe of the room during the speeches, the buzzing in the networking areas, and seeing people from Romania, Serbia, Italy, Poland, just to name a few, come together to make this a great event.

The speakers delivered on-point and interesting presentations and we were glad to see the room engage with them and ask questions.

Hopefully everyone who attended had a lot of fun, and from our observations, they did! The coffee was pouring, the connections were being made, and of course WordPress was present everywhere: from notebooks to pins, to t-shirts and socks. Talk about brand-following. 🙂

Here are a few crunched numbers:

Tickets: 172 WordCampers purchased tickets;
Attendants: 164 WordCampers joined us in Bucharest;
Organizers: 12 of us;
Volunteers: 10 awesome people;
Speakers: 14 presentations in total;
Sponsors: 10 sponsors, 5 global and 5 local;
Countries: participants from 8 countries;
Tweets: 120;
Retweets: 245.

We’ve taken countless photos, pages of notes and exchanged hundreds of business cards.

Everyone had a great time networking, enjoyed being part of the community and adding their own contribution to what it means to “be WordPress” in Romania and Bucharest.

Thank you to WooCommerce, JetPack, Crowd Favorite, ThemeIsle, CaptainForm (our Gold Sponsors), to GoDaddy, Bluehost (our Silver Sponsors), and to WPML and SiteGround (our Bronze Sponsors).

Also, thank you to our caterers for their involvement, making sure our lunch and coffee breaks were awesome, and the food was very tasty!

We’d love to see you all next year, in bigger numbers. With more speakers, more sessions and breaks and generally with more WordPress all in all.

Seeing all of you come together like this encourages us to continue, and we have high expectations that the connections we felt forming will not only lead to a better event next year, but also to many great things and opportunities for the WordPress community in Romania and around the world.

Thank you all!

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Discover how you can contribute to WordPress at Contributor Day!

wceu-2015-contributor-day-03_DSF4935-1If you ever thought of contributing to WordPress but haven’t yet figured out a way to do it, here’s the perfect opportunity! We are happy to invite you to join us for Contributor Day and learn how you can get involved.

Everyone is welcomed, at any experience level! Let’s support the romanian WordPress localization and give a hand to the WordPress Polyglots Team! Feel the spirit of the WordPress Community!

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Great news! The ticket sale period is extended until September 30

facebook-ad2Due to all the feedback received lately, we have decided to extend the ticket sale until September 30 and to supplement the number of tickets.

So, if you don’t have your ticket yet, grab it now! Continue reading Great news! The ticket sale period is extended until September 30

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Join us at the After Party! Free drinks included!

Surprises continue at WordCamp Bucharest 2016. Today’s news is about the After Party evening.

Let’s face it! We love to talk all day about WordPress, but at the end of a hard day of learning, being able to relax for a couple of hours is priceless!

So, if you love having fun as much as you love WordPress, join us at the After Party following the event! This is a chance to hang out with speakers, organizers, sponsors and other attendees from the WordCamp. You will enjoy free drinks, music, but also the occasion to share quality ideas and form relationships.

To get access, bring your WordCamp Bucharest badge. Free drinks will be available for WordCamp attendees. Continue reading Join us at the After Party! Free drinks included!

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Update your WordPress website at our Update Desk table

_MG_8905We are very happy to announce another surprise for our campers: Update Desk!

During WordCamp Bucharest we want to help you update all the websites you are responsible for. Continue reading Update your WordPress website at our Update Desk table

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Guided walking tour of Bucharest Old Downtown

We have prepared a surprise for the WordCamp Bucharest participants: a guided walking tour of Bucharest Old Downtown.

The tour is offered by our event partners from  TravelMaker and will start at 3pm on Sunday, after the Contributors Day. Please register below! Continue reading Guided walking tour of Bucharest Old Downtown

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Ticket sales will be closing soon, book your place now!

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As you may already know, WordCamp Bucharest 2016 is drawing near.

Since ticket sales will be closing soon, on September 24th, we’d like to round up all those who are interested in joining us for this pivotal event in the WordPress community and ask you to book your place now. Continue reading Ticket sales will be closing soon, book your place now!

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Meet our Last Group of #wcbuc Speakers!

spk_set4There are just over 3 weeks left until WordCamp Bucharest 2016! Please, join us in welcoming our last group of WordCamp Bucharest speakers.

We have experienced developers and WordPress & Branding Agencies business owners who will learn us useful tips about WordPress Translation, WordPress workflow process, speed improvement and managing a WordPress agency. Let’s meet them:

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Two years of Bucharest WordPress Meetup…. and the story goes on!

Dear friends,

The Bucharest WordPress Meetup celebrates its two-year anniversary this autumn! A perfect time to take a look back and remember how the local WordPress community has evolved.

The WordPress meetup was initiated by a group of WordPress enthusiasts and friends – Marius Vetrici, Bogdan Dragomir, Alex Negoita and Cristi Toma – after attending WordCamp Europe in Sofia, in 2014. They came back inspired to share their knowledge and passion for WordPress. Continue reading Two years of Bucharest WordPress Meetup…. and the story goes on!

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Thank you to our Gold Sponsor – CaptainForm

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CaptainForm is a WordPress forms plugin that provides top-notch functionality and a beautiful user experience. Launched by 123ContactForm in 2015, the plugin requires no add-ons and enables anyone to create and customize a wide range of forms, surveys, quizzes and polls for all types of businesses and projects.

To help you make the most out of your forms, CaptainForm is integrated with many 3rd party apps and trustworthy payment processors: Google Drive, Dropbox, MailChimp, ActiveCampaign, Smartsheet, SalesForce, Zendesk, PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net and the list goes on.

Data security and helping customers are their main priorities. Therefore, all their plans (including the free one) include SSL encryption and stellar customer support.
More details can be found at http://www.captainform.com

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