Growing Together - Thoughts on the Global WordPress Community

Presented at WordCamp Tokyo 2016

In 2013, the first WordCamp Europe jump started several local communities in European countries and inspired hundreds of people to start contributing back to WordPress. Three years and four editions later, Europe has the biggest WordCamp to this day with attendees from more than 68 countries all over the world. Since 2013 Europe saw a stunning raise of local WordCamps and is getting even more active contributors every day. Having existed mostly in the shadows of the contributing efforts since 2003, the WordPress Polyglots team is now gaining strong momentum while its 10 000 strong volunteer team is working tirelessly to remove the language barriers for users. In 2016 the team organised the largest online WordPress contributor day to this day with more than 440 people from 105 countries participating.

This talk tells the story of how the ideas of a group of WordPress friends helped pave the path of the global WordPress community.

Photos in the slides by Florian Ziegler (http://florianziegler.com) and Vladimir Petkov (http://kldn.net) ❤️

Transcript

1. GROWING TOGETHER
   W O R D C A M P T O K Y O 2 0 1 6
   THOUGHTS ON THE GLOBAL WORDPRESS COMMUNITY
   

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2. 2
   PETYA
   RAYKOVSKA
   H U M A N M A D E
   SE N I OR PROJ E CT M AN AGE R
   W O R D C A M P E U R O P E
   20 13, 2 01 4, 2015, 2016
   W P P O L Y G O T S
   COM M UN I CATI ON LE AD F OR
   EUROPE
   @ p e t y e a h
   

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7. WORDCAMP EUROPE
   WORDPRESS & LANGUAGES
   GLOBAL TRANSLATION DAY
   

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8. 8
   “ F R O M I T S V E R Y B E G I N N I N G < T H E
   W O R D P R E S S C O M M U N I T Y W A S
   I N T E R N A T I O N A L B Y N A T U R E . ”
   M I L E S T O N E S : T H E S T O R Y O F W O R D P R E S S
   2 0 0 3
   

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9. 9
   FIRST MULTILINGUAL FORK OF WORDPRESS IN JAPAN
   D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 3
   M I L E S T O N E S : T H E S T O R Y O F W O R D P R E S S
   

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10. 10
    “ I N T E R N A T I O N A L I Z A T I O N W A S A
    M A J O R A D V A N C E M E N T O F
    W O R D P R E S S 1 . 2 ”
    M I L E S T O N E S : T H E S T O R Y O F W O R D P R E S S
    M A Y 1 9 T H 2 0 0 4
    

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11. 11
    MEET
    OUR
    TEAM
    W R I T E H E R E S O M E T H I N G
    

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12. 12
    EXPLOSION OF WORDPRESS TRANSLATIONS
    J u n e 2 0 0 4
    M I L E S T O N E S : T H E S T O R Y O F W O R D P R E S S
    

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13. 2003
    Created
    17.4%
    21.0%
    2011
    WORDPRESS IS GROWING
    13.1%
    15.8%
    2012
    2013
    2014
    now
    26.3%
    

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14. WordPress 4.0 (2014)
    Non English downloads surpassed English downloads
    ENGLISH
    >
    6,538,463
    7,196,847
    

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15. English Japanese German
    WORDPRESS 4.0 - 13,743, 063 downloads
    6,496,334 2,912,037 451,315
    

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16. The polyglots
    

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17. 17
    MEET
    OUR
    TEAM
    W R I T E H E R E S O M E T H I N G
    June 27, 2016
    

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18. 18
    MEET
    OUR
    TEAM
    W R I T E H E R E S O M E T H I N G
    WORDCAMP EUROPE
    

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19. WordCamp
    Europe
    2013
    Leiden, NL
    

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20. 20
    MEET
    OUR
    TEAM
    W R I T E H E R E S O M E T H I N G
    

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21. 21
    MEET
    OUR
    TEAM
    W R I T E H E R E S O M E T H I N G
    

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24. 24
    2 01 6
    Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian and
    Slovakian communities at WordCamp
    Europe in Vienna
    AW E S OM E
    Entrepreneurial activities differ
    substantially depending on the
    2 01 4
    Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian and
    Slovakian communities at WordCamp
    Europe in Sofia
    

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25. 25
    I TA LY 2 01 6
    Italy has 13 meet ups, 2 WordCamps
    and one of the most active
    WordPress communities in Europe.
    I TA LY 2 01 3
    Italy has no WordCamp, no
    meetups, no real
    WordPress community
    People from different towns in Italy
    meet for the first time at WordCamp
    Europe 2015 in Seville
    

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26. 7 0 0
    p e o p l e f r o m
    4 3
    c o u n t r i e s
    8 8 0
    p e o p l e f r o m
    4 8
    c o u n t r i e s
    9 8 2
    p e o p l e f r o m
    5 8
    c o u n t r i e s
    1 9 5 0
    p e o p l e f r o m
    6 8
    c o u n t r i e s
    THE GROWTH of #WCEU
    2 01 3 2 01 4 2 01 5 2 01 6
    

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27. 27
    WRITE A COOL TITLE HERE
    

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28. 28
    MEET
    OUR
    TEAM
    W R I T E H E R E S O M E T H I N G
    

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29. 29
    STATS
    &
    REPORTS
    W R I T E H E R E S O M E T H I N G
    

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30. 30
    GLOBAL
    WORDPRESS
    TRANSLATION
    DAY
    24 hours of translating
    WordPress.
    The first global online
    conference and
    contributor day.
    A P R I L 2 0 1 6
    

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31. 31
    WRITE A COOL TITLE HERE
    

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32. 32
    22 LIVE
    SESSIONS
    40 350
    STRINGS
    105
    COUNTRIES
    448
    TRANSLATORS
    GLOBAL WORDPRESS TRANSLATION DAY
    

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33. 33
    GLOBAL WORDPRESS TRANSLATION DAY
    A P R I L 2 0 1 6
    

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34. 34
    ABOUT
    OUR
    SERVICES
    W R I T E H E R E S O M E T H I N G
    

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35. THE
    5000 TRANSLATORS
    300 TRANSLATION EDITORS
    POLYGLOTS
    2003 - 2015
    

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36. THE
    10 532 TRANSLATORS
    1320 TRANSLATION EDITORS
    POLYGLOTS
    March 2015 - July 2016
    

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37. 37
    MEET
    OUR
    TEAM
    W R I T E H E R E S O M E T H I N G
    

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38. 38
    ABOUT
    OUR
    COMPANY
    W R I T E H E R E S O M E T H I N G
    

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39. 39
    " S U C C E S S I S W A L K I N G
    F R O M F A I L U R E T O
    F A I L U R E W I T H N O L O S S
    O F E N T H U S I A S M . ”
    W I N S T O N C H U R C H I L L
    

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40. 40
    MEET
    OUR
    TEAM
    W R I T E H E R E S O M E T H I N G
    

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41. 41
    SO WHAT`S NEXT?
    

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42. GLOBAL WORDCAMPS
    

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43. WORDCAMP ASIA?
    ?
    ?
    ?
    ?
    ?
    

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44. 44
    GLOBAL WORDPRESS TRANSLATION DAY 2!
    November 12th, 2016
    SAVE THE DATE!
    

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45. 45
    ABOUT
    OUR
    COMPANY
    W R I T E H E R E S O M E T H I N G
    Join the #Polyglots team
    

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46. 46
    ABOUT
    OUR
    COMPANY
    W R I T E H E R E S O M E T H I N G
    We are a wonderful bunch
    

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47. 47
    W R I T E H E R E S O M E T H I N G
    GROWING TOGETHER
    W O R D C A M P T O K Y O 2 0 1 6
    

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48. 48
    Thank you!
    @ p e t y e a h
    

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