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#incubator, #monthly-updates, #wordcamps

Rocio Valdivia 11:17 am on November 27, 2018

WordCamp Incubator 2018 Update Thread: November edition

Howdy Community Team!

Are you wondering how the WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Incubators are going?

Yes! this is the time of our monthly updates about the two WordCamp incubators in Montevideo (Uruguay) and Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia) 😉

PingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” to @remediosgraphic and @emanuel_blagonic for you both to tell us how your Incubators are going.

Thanks in advance! 🙂

#incubator #wordcamps #monthly-updates

remediosgraphic 1:48 am on December 4, 2018

The WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Montevideo was successfully carried out on November 24.
A week before the event all the tickets were sold and they increase the number to 171 tickets.
The Word Camp Montevideo 2018 in numbers:
There were 5 organizers
-15 volunteers
-10 speakers from 4 countries
-more than 160 attendees from at least 6 countries
-7 hours of training
-3 hours of interaction between attendees
-and 27 sponsors.
As a result, we found a community that was satisfied and expectant about the future of the next Camp.
The local organizers Joaquín Arambarri, Guillermo Figueroa, Alfonso Frachelle, Elías Margolis and Matías Viera, complied in record time (3 months) with the demanding schedule imposed to develop a WordCamp, which normally takes 6 months.
After a first informal meeting at the end of July, they made 6 meetups (http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20200430225820/https://www.meetup.com/es/montevideo-wp/) that helped define and strengthen the community of WordPress users at a local level.
They have already scheduled their next meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20200430225820/https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. for next December 13
We will be giving a follow-up of 3 months supporting them to consolidate the WordPress community in Montevideo.
On a personal level I feel very satisfied with the outcome of the event and the response of the community, to the point that some of the organizers have joined a larger group of organizers in Latin America who are working together and sharing resources to create more and more spaces that encourage collaboration and the sharing of WordPress Open SourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. in the region.

Francesca Marano 4:03 pm on December 5, 2018

Congrats to the team, the volunteers and the mentor 🙂

Rocio Valdivia 8:58 am on December 7, 2018

Congratulations @remediosgraphic for co-leading this team and for such a successful WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more.! Congratulations as well to Joaquín Arambarri, Guillermo Figueroa, Alfonso Frachelle, Elías Margolis and Matías Viera for joining their forces and becoming the founders of a new and healthy WordPress community in Montevideo! 🙂

I hope to keep seing more Meetups and WordCamps in Montevideo and in Uruguay in general 🙂

Emanuel Blagonic 12:41 pm on December 7, 2018

First of all sorry for my late reply – have been busy with regular work and working with the Kota Kinabalu community which was my focus in the past month.

We changed couple of things in November. We now have a regular weekly chat where we discuss different things regarding the upcoming WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more..

On our first chat a few weeks ago we talked with the community members to see who can (and want) to handle which part of the organising effort. We have teams for logistics (and volunteers), web and speakers and 4 people who are actively working on the organisation.

In the past month we worked on preparing the budget – getting quotes for various services (venue, food, wifi, a/v, afterparty and speakers dinner, swag, etc.). We plan to have a budget ready for review in a week. Currently we’re discussing both the ticket price and prices for all the amenities. Nevertheless, we are working to our goal to have it ready asap.

General consensus about the date is that WordCamp Kota Kinabalu will happen in the second weekend of March – Saturday, March 9th, 2019.

We started to work on defining the speaker topics – and we are working towards preparing and releasing the Call for speakers before the holiday season.

Next MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20200430225820/https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. is not scheduled yet since people have their own businesses which come first but we are working on having next meetup possibly before the holiday season or at worst – at the beginning of January. From there we will keep up with the pace of one meetup per month.

Focus in this month is on: