WordCamp US Experience Sharing & What's next for WordPress in 2016

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1. Dec 2015 Meetup WordPress Singapore
2. How many of you are huge fans of WordPress?
3. Usage 25% Market Share [ 3 ]
4. WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress.
5. Every year, there is a WordPress Community Summit that brings in the whole WordPress team to a single location to drive WP forward through the next year
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9. Philadelphia is a great place
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35. Backwards Compatibility & User Trust • The leftover code in WordPress to retain backwards compatibility doesn’t slow it down • If you’re using latest techniques, none of those code even run • The only thing it does is basically take up bytes of space on your hardisk • With all that however, knowing that you will be able to upgrade safely creates a strong user trust. • This trust is the basis of the growth of WordPress
36. WordPress creates jobs
39. WordPress is family
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45. WordPress is diverse
48. WordPress is and will continue evolving
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53. WordPress will lead web trends
54. When 25% of the internet uses something, browsers, tech giants and other entities simply cannot ignore it
55. We are going to run WordCamp Singapore in 2016
56. https://singapore.wordcamp.org/
57. What can I do at WordCamp • Learn • Get Help • Connect • Collaborate
58. Would weekdays be better?
59. Closing • Our Next Meetup will likely be in January • We would love to have some JavaScript experts giving a talk • We are also looking for speakers to give talks on other subjects such as – Development – Design – Content Creation – SEO – Social Media [ 59 ]
60. [ 60 ] Thank you Jon Ang @Kenshino You can see videos of the talks of WCUS and other WordCamps / Meetups at WordPress.tv Photo Credits Found Art Photography, Kari Leigh Marucchi GoldStein Media, Seth M Goldstein