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Taking a new product from concept to launch

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Brian Krogsgard
When you launch a new project there’s always a buzz of excitement, hope, and relief, but also that of fear of failure and disappointment. This is something I’ve experienced for all the projects I’ve been part of over the past…

M Asif Rahman writes about his…

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Brian Krogsgard

M Asif Rahman writes about his experience sponsoring WordCamp Europe for weDevs. He analyses the time and actual costs, the value beyond direct sales, and more. He also raises a very valid concern around the timing for WCEU 2018, which…

M. Asif Rahman writes about his…

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Dan Knauss

M. Asif Rahman writes about his experience sponsoring WordCamp Europe for weDevs. He analyses the time and actual costs, the value beyond direct sales, and more. He also raises a very valid concern about the timing for WCEU 2018, which…

WordCamp Europe is in the books,…

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Brian Krogsgard

WordCamp Europe is in the books, with the usual strong lineup of quality talks from excellent speakers. I (David) was unable to attend physically, but I watched both days of talks on the livestream. Since there were far too many…

You need your WordCamp Europe photo…

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Brian Krogsgard

You need your WordCamp Europe photo fix. Here are some fantastic shots from: Rarst Florian Ziegler Mark Smallman Alex Shiels Val Vesa Steve McLeod Blythe Olivier Gobet I know there are more, but these are the folks I've discovered so…

WordCamp Europe kicking off

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Brian Krogsgard

WordCamp Europe is kicking off, and I know many Post Status members are in Paris now. I hope everyone has a wonderful time! The first official events are actually already over, with the conclusion of a two-day Community Summit. Attendance…

The WordCamp Europe team has written…

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Brian Krogsgard

The WordCamp Europe team has written an open letter to the new French President, asking that he help hopeful conference attendees get visa approvals. Many have apparently been rejected due to the low cost of the event. I hope this…

Publish tickets, initial speakers, sponsors

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Brian Krogsgard
I'm super excited to finally be able to say that tickets for Publish 2017 are available. The event, as many of you already know, is in Atlanta, on August 3rd and 4th. That's a Thursday and Friday. Go straight to…

For the first time, WordCamp Europe…

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Brian Krogsgard

For the first time, WordCamp Europe is offering sponsorships exclusively for "small businesses", which they define as businesses that generate the majority of their revenue from WordPress and made less than €1 million in revenue in 2016. The sponsorship costs…

The WordPress Marketing group is looking…

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Brian Krogsgard

The WordPress Marketing group is looking at doing promotional videos for WordPress, including testimonials and event footage from WordCamps and meetups. The goal would be to make a marketing video for use on the WordCamp US site, other WordPress.org entities,…

Ulrich Pogson writes about a recent…

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Brian Krogsgard

Ulrich Pogson writes about a recent meeting with himself, Jose Castaneda, and Carolina Nymark with Matt Mullenweg to talk about "the future of the theme repository on WordPress.org." The meeting was held to establish a plan so improvements can be…

Brad Touesnard writes about the release…

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Brian Krogsgard

Brad Touesnard writes about the release of the new WP Image Processing Queue plugin, that was born during WordCamp US Contributor Day this past December. Brad hopes something like this is rolled into WordPress core, and is encouraging developers to…

John Maseda blogged an excerpt of…

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Dan Knauss

John Maseda blogged an excerpt of a message he shared within Automattic Design, entitled "Why WordPress?". Highly recommend spending a few minutes to read his thoughts about why WordPress is trust-worthy but especially his point about WordPress - and it's…

The first WordCamp Harare (Zimbabwe) recently…

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Dan Knauss

The first WordCamp Harare (Zimbabwe) recently happened, and Hugh Lashbrooke gives a recap of it. Harare is particularly interesting because it came about via the WordCamp Incubator program. The incubator so far seems to be a success in establishing events…

Shaping a vision of success

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Jenny Beaumont
With the next edition of WordCamp Europe on the horizon, Jenny Beaumont finds herself thinking about event growth past and present, and about what success might look like for all of us in this new year.
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