A Post-State of the Word 2023 Chat

BobWP:
Hey Bob WP here and welcome to WordPress Event Talk. Hey, do the Woo Podcast show. This is a special one because well stay the word we’re not letting up on Stay the Word, we’re still talking about it. So yes, we have to talk about it here. And I thought, what better way than me just babbling on and on about it. Why not have some guests on people that were there, people that watched it via watch party get a little bit of perspective. Most importantly, I have my co-host Devin here today and she is going to go ahead and again, maybe introduce herself and how she watched it and then she’ll have everybody else do the same and then we’ll just get into a conversation.

Devin:
Great. Thanks so much Bob. Thanks for having us tonight here. I mean, it’s tonight in Jakarta. I’m from Jakarta, Indonesia, everyone Devin’s here coming back with Bob and with us. There are three other fantastic guests tonight, but let me just respond to what Bob was saying. So because I was in Jakarta, I couldn’t attend the State of the Word in person, but I was watching the live stream on YouTube and I was in my bed as Bob mentioned, and I had my snacks, my drinks. So it was fun. It was the usual State of the Word watch party that I’ve been having in the last couple of years, probably three years. And then I was also a meetup organizer in Jakarta and just on Saturday two days ago we had the State of the Word watch party in person. So some folks come in, we watch the recording and then we talk about it.

Some of them they were not aware of some of the new commerce, they were not aware of such an event as state of the world. So it was really great that we got together, the new and the old folks, we exchanged information about it. So that’s what we had the sort of replay of State of the Word in-person watch party in Jakarta. And so I know Bob, you also, you were in Madrid and there were two other folks here with us who were in Madrid, probably one of the busiest person behind state of the world. But then there’s also someone from Asia as well, but not quite from Southeast Asia who would also introduce herself and talk about her experience with the state of the watch party. I would just start with Pooja first. Pooja, please introduce yourself and share stuff about State of the Words that you want to share with the folks.

Pooja:
Yes. Hello everyone. I’m from Ajmer, India here We run, I’m a co-organizer of Ajmer WordPress Meetup. So on the state of word we watch online. I organized an online watch party and her few folks were attending. First time I was on our bed and that was the very nice conversation we had about the state of world watch which things are upcoming and what are the new edition have launched this year. That was a very nice and interesting conversation along with other folks who are newly joined the community and are as well as experienced persons.

Devin:
Great, thank you Pooja. Well, we’ll hear more from you. We will chat about what the conversation was, the interesting conversation you had. And then we have two other folks and I think let’s move to probably Rocio.

Rocio:
Hello everyone. Nice to be here. Thank you for the invitation Bob and Devs. So I’m Rocio Valdivia, I’m from Spain. I’ve been around the WordPress community for the last 12 years. I’ve been working organizer and meet up organizers for all that time. I work at Automattic at the donated fight for the future division. I lead the team who takes care, who works full time for the global community team of WordPress.org. So it’s a pleasure for me to be here. I was part of the organizing team of state of the world. We were many people organizing that event and I was totally focused for the last two, three months on handling logistics vendors and everything related with institute, like coordinating people, translation, captioning, well the people who were going to do it and all of that. It was a lot of work, but it was very, very rewarding. I am very happy with the result and how the Spanish community came and I don’t know, everybody was so happy we had the 97% of showing up, which is huge, great numbers. So in general it was a very, very special moment for the workers community in general, but especially for the Spanish community.

Devin:
Oh, that’s lovely to hear ciao, thank you so much. And next Rao we have Moncho. Moncho was also part of the team behind State of the Word . Yes please. Moncho.

Jose:
Hi everyone. My name is Jose Ramon. Also know as Moncho in Spain. I’m working automatic as head of Spanish speaking communities and growth for the last month and a half. So I had the opportunity to enter in the organization of the state of the world and I had to say it was one of the first experiences I had in automatic and was really, really, really rewarding in many aspects. Not only because of the human team around me and see the development and how everything was going straight farther and to the point of organizing a really good event. And also because well in Spanish, so having the first state of the world organized out of the United States in Madrid, it’s a pleasure and honor and was really a special opportunity to show mad, to show everyone there the heart and the spirit of the Spanish community.

(07:10):
We are very, I know very, I dunno how to say it, but passionate about WordPress, which we are showing it to the world because we are the country with most work comes organized with well some good figures. But finally with this event, we show our spirit and our commitment to the WordPress community, which is something that I love, I love and I was really, I dunno how to say it, excited not, but at the same time I had the opportunity to be on the stage and it was emotionally something very emotional, very, very, very emotional. Well, it was wonderful. It was wonderful. So thank you. Thank you for inviting us, thank you for inviting me and have this opportunity to talk about it. Thank you,

Devin:
Thank you. And I feel like I’m Spaniards as well that I feel like I was in Madrid with you, I feel like into my home country now. It feels like that Spanish is representing the other world who’s always wanting to have such a big flag ship event as well. I mean I would say it’s also flagship event. It’s a global event. Bob, do you want to say anything about your experience with the State of the Word in person in Madrid? I know you also have some of the other in-person experience of State of the Word, right? You want to start with that?

BobWP:
For me, it was really enjoyable for I think most listeners know, but I live in Porto Portugal now, so it was less than a little an hour away and I wanted to find Mr. Mullenweg and thank him for accommodating me by moving say the word to Spain just because I moved to Portugal. I’m sure that’s the reason it was in Spain. No, not really, but probably

But seriously, no, it was, I’ve been to both of them in New York. I’ve been to all of them when they were part of WordCamp us and this one, as I was telling a little bit earlier, my experience, well one thing is two days prior in Madrid where incredible we got to do a video while we were there for do the Woo and then got to have some great dinners, some food, other stuff besides food. And yeah, the event was, I’ve always enjoyed it. The two in New York I enjoyed very much, but this was by far the best and it was the energy. I think there was something about the energy of the Spanish community that made it, I mean the venue was gorgeous, the networking, the food, everything was absolutely wonderful. But there was that yelling and chanting and enjoyment and they were excited and this made me think, wow, this community’s alive here.

And that was a part that probably, I mean overall I love hearing what Matt has to say. I love meeting people, seeing my friends, meeting new people. But that moment, the first few moments of it was very, very cool and it was like I thought this is exactly something I’ve missed for a while. Being around that kind of energy and that kind of, almost as it was said emotion and it was just that part, it was like the rest of it was gravy when Matt started talking, yeah, this is great, but the best part was that first part. And yeah, I absolutely enjoyed it. I loved it and it is something that I’m glad I was able to experience the person.

Devin:
Yeah, I like the part when you say this, something about the Spanish community, the vibe, the excitement, the spirit that they have and they kind of show it to the world and that’s what we hope for our community, for the whole WordPress org projects, folks who are involved with the contributors, that spirit, the togetherness, the collaboration, the hopeful and sort of the can-do attitude as a group. We are a group of collaborators who really want to see what press getting stronger, healthier, bigger. Yeah. And that’s the reason also why we here gathering from all over the world. Right. Let me ask before we go, because you’ve just representing the folks from Madrid. Let me ask Pooja, Pooja, you mentioned earlier the interesting conversation you had with your group. What were the conversation, can you probably share one of the conversation about it, the conversation that you discussed and then probably some sort of revelation that you have after having that conversation?

Pooja:
Yes, definitely. Yes. There are people who newly joined, they were not aware about what state of word is. So it was started when explaining them what state of word is, then it is like they are very eager to know that is it a rotate around the world? I said no, this is first time outside of North America in Spain. They are like someone, it’ll come to India.

Devin:
That would be interesting because the community in India is also big, right? Yes. Is there anything that you and the folks talk about the new WordPress like 2024, what we are going to see Matt talk about data liberation. What else Matt talk about? Well the TT four, the 2024 theme, all of those things. Is there anything interesting discuss about those area

Pooja:
People are more interested in the WordPress playground? Oh, the WordPress launched its incredible playground. This feature allows us to deploy a WordPress environment within our browser. So this is game changer for WordPress, for beginners and for new plugins, plugin owners as well. From now on, testing in the WordPress plugin team is super, super easy. So the new feature, WordPress feature created a buzz among the WordPress community as well as in our local community group. They are right after the state of work in the night they are started exploring the WordPress playground and all. And next day they just messaged me, we are stuck. It’s at this point, how can we do this? And it was very exciting. See their excitement and about the playground and they are very eager to know more about this new feature.

Devin:
Yes, that resonates to me because that’s what we also talk about at our State of the Word in-person event just on Saturday. And I remember one of the comments was saying that we, wow, we talk about TT four, Matt highlighted the power of TT four. I mean as Matías Ventura also talking about Gutenberg and to them it’s like now they’re talking about teams, one of the most important aspects of WordPress. So that is really exciting. All right. Do you have anything to share? You were there, you meeting with the leaders of the WordPress community, leaders of businesses who were present in Madrid. What did you hear any exciting conversation coming out of the probably networking, chatting over snacks and drinks in Madrid?

Jose:
Yeah, well the truth is that every networking room we have in Spain, it’s really worth it because people start to talk with energy about everything and the conversations I had, there are two main things to emphasize as the most famous or the most common. One of them was the entire Mathias presentation. Everything that Matías introduced was really, really, really, really interesting. For the Spanish community was one of the most commenting things. And regarding the second part of maths presentation, the were two things. The data liberation, the data liberation and 2024 are the most, well in my case that was the conversations I have. The data liberation seems to be something very, very, very, very powerful.

Devin:
The one-click migration, right?

Jose:
That’s something magical. I hope it’s going to be ready, the soonest the better because that means, well something that makes sense in the open source world at the same time, because we are used to heard the word migrations and being a bit afraid about what it means. So this means something absolutely different and can be a key topic for everyone. But besides the conversations and a really nice atmosphere of networking, that’s where the most topic I heard the people talk about.

Devin:
Thanks. Now let’s go to the organizing of an event such as state of the world. I’m going to ask Rocio because we heard say she’s a meetup organizers, what can organizers like SIP event organizers and she’s been working with the community team and just a kind reminder community team is the team that wrangles WordPress community events across the world. So Rocio has all the experience as a meetup organizers, WordCamp organizers, and state the word organizers. Now how is it, how is your experience, was it too difficult because it’s so different than the usual world WordPress events, community events or this is something like challenging, interesting to you, anything that you think we as event organizers can learn from your experience?

Rocio:
So it’s a little bit different to work camps in the sense that this was organized basically by automations and we were 68 people involved. So many, it’s like more or less the same number as organizers as work in Europe. It sounds maybe crazy because it was a five hours event instead three days, but there were so many little pieces coming together for that five hours event. I don’t know by heart the number of people just making, for example, the videos. We had many people showing different parts of the wall who work in different parts of WordPress, the WordPress software making those little videos that you see during the presentation, for example about playground or about TT four or about the new things that are coming, the prototype of collaboration with Gutenberg, all of these have to be made by someone and to reviewed and the designs of the venue, which was amazing by the way.

The posters that we gave at swag, the slides, I mean everything was so I was just one part of a little, I was a little part of a big machine and I feel that of course it was a lot of work like organizing an event, but I felt part of a big machine that we accomplished something beautiful when it works, when people are happy, it makes you happy. I mean I’m great with the result. So about differences from a logistical point of view, which was what I handled, there’s no much difference with another kind of conference or event in the sense that we had to find a venue with no much time in advance. So a few months in advance we started looking for it. We found this one and I felt especially loved because that, oh my gosh, that roof was amazing. And then we had Kettering, we had, but life captioning, we had life translation because we had 80% of the audience was Spanish speaking. So we knew that many people maybe were not going to be able to follow with the whole presentation. So we had life translation as well and we provided by the way, and we provided these both things, life captioning and life translation we provided on YouTube. So we had two different signals, two different channels on YouTube. So Spanish speaker, school, follow, follow-up with it.

We had an amazing live stream team by the way, who did, they’re a company who have a lot of experience doing the live stream of Spanish work camps. . So we know them personally because they have been doing live stream for, especially during pandemic, they did so many live stream for work online work camps in Latin America and Spain. They had a great team there are part of the WordPress community at the same time. So they know everything after a work game. The videos are uploaded to WordPress TV because they are editors of the WordPress TV team already and the videos are up the same day or the next day all of them. So we know them very well. We trusted very much so they were perfect for the task. And I don’t know if you have watched the video on YouTube, but when you have the countdown and the sign of the state of the war is coming, there’s a little video of Madrid, a little video of Madrid.

It’s just a few seconds, it’s like 30 seconds or something like that. And then you see someone opening the door of the venue, you see the venue and you see some people going out of the elevator when jumping included. All of that was created the same morning of the band. Wow. Yeah. They did all these little details that made it exceptional and they did it on the flow and it was a lot of fun. But at the same time when you are working with such group of professionals is like you trust them and you are relaxed. So of course there were many things in the last, there are always things in the last minute, but to be honest, I was doing the welcoming, I was doing the opening remarks of the band. I was more nervous for that than for the band itself because every single part was taken care by good hands.

Devin:
So yeah. Wow. I wish I could be there feeling all that vibe. Oh my god, the energy, the managed community energy. Let’s ask Pooja, what was the time in Ajmer when the State of the Word happened? It’s 8:30 PM 8:30 PM so it’s not really late. That’s why you could actually do the watch party online the same time. It was 10:00 PM in Jakarta, so it was pretty late for most of us. That’s why I organize it on Saturday. But if I can share with you, because I was also supporting the global community organizing the watch party. So comparing to 20 21, 20 22 and 2023, we have quite significant rise in the in-person events. So that shows how our community are interested to coming back to an in-person event. So this is really, really good to see. And then the number of RSVPs also increasing, so it’s a steady rise from 2021 to 2023. And so we hope Booth is going to be bigger, higher in 2024. Let’s see. I

Rocio:
Want to say something about the time because mantra me, we had the conversation about the schedule thanks to you David, because it of a conversation with Devin originally the schedule of the state of the world was going to be two hours later because three 4:00 PM it was at 4:00 PM in Spanish time. That’s already very early for a Spaniards for normal schedules because we have normally lunch about two 3:00 PM But chatting with Debbie at the early stages of the organization, she told me about, wow, okay, but what about the time in Australia in Indonesia? And we were like, so we started to calculate the times in the pacific coast of the US to Australia and to find which one could be the better time for trying to get everybody awake, at least not to be 1:00 AM in the morning or something like that, right? Yeah. So we ended up with 4:00 PM in Spanish. Time was going to be like eight, nine in the morning for Pacific time in California and it was like 10:00 PM in the East Australia. So we were like, okay, this is perfect. More people can watch it on live and we’re very happy with the results. The number are amazing. I don’t know if they have been shared publicly already or not, but we have had more than 3 million views on live. Across all platforms

Jose:
In the same day, in the first day. So yeah, yeah, live watchings,

Devin:
This is amazing.

Pooja:
I can remember last year’s state of word was in my time that was 3:00 AM So I was very happy when I saw the time that it is going to happen in my regular time that I can awake and was live and can also organize the live party at the same time. Last year we organized after watch party in person and that was after one or two weeks.

BobWP:
That’s one of the reasons I moved from the west coast of the US to Europe with just a time zone. Nothing else mattered. It was just moving to another country.

Rocio:
Yeah, it’s like feeling in the middle, right? Yes.

Devin:
That’s right, that’s right. Pooja, I remember I’ve never actually, I wasn’t able to catch livestream of the state of the world because it’s just too early, too late, too late for us in Indonesia. And so this is great that state of the world came to help in Madrid and was able to really bring people together online and in person. And this is something that I also noticed that when we say, oh watch party and still many people, many organizers think that they have to do it at the same time. They have to watch the live stream. Well, when we say organize the watch party, it doesn’t have to be if it is 2:00 AM in the morning in your area, your country, you can always organize the watch party using the recording. So it’s a replay. So we are not forcing anybody anyhow all night until in the morning to watch party or to organize a watch party or

Rocio::
Are you sure you’re not forcing them at

Devin::
3:00 AM in the morning? That doesn’t suck.

Jose (29:10):
The truth is

Devin:
So for 2024, get ready, organize. It doesn’t have to be at 3:00 AM in the morning.

Pooja:
That will be real cool

Jose:
Participate in life has some advantages because watching this event live, you have opportunity to make questions. There you go. Something that doesn’t happen if you are watching it on the day after. So I hope next year we are going to keep the schedule. So something that’s affordable for all sites, all parts in the world, it’s almost impossible because the world is too big. But at least something similar to this because the q and a session is something that allows people, everyone watching live from meetups, from their homes to send their questions. It’s a limited time, limited time to save everything timeframe. Thank you. But it’s still, you have the opportunity to send your question and been lucky to be answered directly by Matt, which is something I think is important.

Rocio:
I would like to say as well that since the landing page was announced, there was an email address and it was open for more than one month I think. So anybody could send their own questions via mail with a lot of time in advance. In fact, we had some dozens, maybe not crazy, but we had a few of them.

Jose:
And I have something to say for people for the next year, if you send your questions prior to the event, please pay special attention to the length of what you say what you are sending. Because I saw two or three of these previous questions that were like five minutes talking before doing the question. And I know it’s true that some of them need context and some of them need that context, but there are not the perfect questions for this type of event.

BobWP:
And that’s one of the things I love about that system is I’ve sat through many q and as at Word camps with Matt and at the say the words and the people that come up and say, well this isn’t really a question, I have more of a thought. And it’s like, oh dear, oh man, here we go into 15 minutes. But it is keep it succinct and the questions came through that you did answer were great and stuff. But yeah, that’s the best way to do it because there is context, but there’s also narrative where it’s like, okay, a little bit more information than I needed to know type of thing. I agree.

Rocio:
Yeah. There are two things that I like, especially of the q and a format now is the first one is, as you said, we don’t have to be the q and a is maximum one hour. We know that, right? And listening at one person talking about for 10 minutes is not what people are tuning in for, right?

Devin:
That’s right.

Rocio:
That’s one thing. The second thing is that people can thumbs up or thumbs down a question. So if they are more zooms up only I think, but if they’re interested about one specific questions so we can get questions with the case was like 70 up 8 cents up, it’s like, okay, this question is very interesting for the audience we know because people were voting, so it’s giving priority to questions, which is awesome I think. And the third thing is that because they, we are using this app, we kept this list of questions. Matt was already answering them the same night, I think it was until 3:00 AM in the morning or three 30 in the morning. He was answering them and he published the P two post. He was following up on those questions that were not answered, which is awesome. Otherwise if we will have been only with a microphone, the questions that could not be answered will have only stayed in their minds. But it’s giving us the opportunity of making the q and a longer. And I love that, especially interesting.

Devin:
So folks, if you don’t know Moncho that night was the host of the q and a session. That’s why he can say these things. And then I think if I’m not mistaken, the state of the world is the first time we use Slido, right? Or am I wrong? Probably. I’m not sure.

Rocio:
Yeah, it was the first state of the world with Slido with this app, but it was the second time in a q and a of med. The first one was this work in us.

Devin:
Right, okay. Yeah. So that sounds good. We’ve talked about the events and then the preparation behind the scene. Anything Bob that you want to share as a guest that night?

BobWP:
I actually have found looking around and experiencing the moment of the event versus just what’s being said is kind of what I seem to pay more attention to the people around me, what’s going on, hearing the people talk. So it’s really more the experience for me than the content. The content is always good and I let other people talk about that and share about that and how it affects their work and stuff. So for me it’s more the community part of it just getting together. And that’s why I tried to go to these things and experience as much and that’s why I was tickled. I was actually told prior to it being publicly announced because a video I had to do while in Madrid that it was going to be in Madrid and I couldn’t believe it, I said, seriously, I moved to Porto and it’s less than an hour away this exciting.

And I had gone to WordCamp Madrid one month prior to that, so I had already experienced that community and so I was really happy to get back so soon. And I do hope to go to some of the word camps in Italy. I mean in Spain, I got some other stuff going on first part of the next year that a lot of traveling and stuff, WordCamp, Asian Cloud fest. But yeah, it was truly a great event and I think there was a lot of people that I felt like there was a lot of excitement. Pooja mentioned the playground, there was a lot of excitement around a lot of the things that did come out. So there was a lot of people I think that were really happy

BobWP:
Wer’e excited about what was going on and what the next year holds.

Devin:
I think this is also huge for the European community, like the WordPress community in Europe, that State of the Word comes came to Europe and that it’s easier for them to attend, more accessible in a way. And as I kind of feel like State of the Word is following you, Bob, probably you might want to think about India.

BobWP:
Yeah, really. I was just going to say I’m over here now. I’m over here. You never know.

Rocio:
Bali is very beautiful.

Pooja:
India is also very beautiful. You must come here.

BobWP:
In fact, I do have to admit that has been on our bucket list, my wife and I both because she goes to certain word camps depending where it is and she keeps saying, when are we going to one in India? So that is going to have to happen maybe if we can squeeze that in sometime next year. But it’s definitely something that we’ve wanted to do. And now that we’re at least much closer,

Rocio:
I went to work at in Bombay some years ago and it was an amazing experience. I had so much fun. The Indian community was so welcoming and nice. Yeah.

BobWP:
Yeah.

Devin:
And I mean that’d be something that Matt also mentioned in the state of the world that this year 2023 we have 70 wood camps. So that is a huge jump from I think 25 last year if I’m not mistaken. So that’s like triple

Rocio:
It was as far as I remember, 29. So 70 work camps this year, 29 last year. On 2021. But the difference is that in 20 21, 1 was in person 18 were online. Last year we had 5, 4, 7 online, the rest in and this year we had 69 in person and one online.

Devin:
That is huge. Well kudos to all WordPress event organizers across the globe. Oh yeah. And we are looking forward to support you again in 2024 and have more events

Rocio:
And especially events. I would like to highlight that something I was very happy about it was that met during state of the world presentation. He mentioned a couple of, well about these different kind of events that we are encouraging the workers community to start organizing. We call it next generation events, but in general I think we are moving forward from that name and we are just saying workers events in general. And the idea is that we want people to get out of the box, to think out of the box, to think how we can innovate with events, how we can get to new audiences and how we can just get to other kind of niches and communities. So some of these events that we have been seeing in 2023 are very interesting. For example, work in Valencia, they did a parallel event that they call WordPress School Day and they had 90 students from higher schools, uni level students, and they had a full daily bandwidth with one advanced track and one zero level track for teaching them everything about WordPress from, they learned from hosting and DNS to how to do a proper website in two hours.

And the experience was really good, so good that they had three classes, more than 100 students in a waiting list because they really want to do it next year and they could not sign up because they didn’t have more space. And there are two or three more cities in Spain who are doing it already. Like Bedo Grignon is going to do it next year. S So we have this interest and we have the organizers willing to do it. So a sculpture for example in Macedonia, they work in sculpture this year and in parallel they did kids camp, but with teenagers they were like 70 students I think it was. And it was packed and it was a total success not only in person but in social media as well. They gathered a lot of interest and they have teachers who are interested in doing it more. One of the working organizers, Sarah is a teacher and she already had the contacts and everything. So I would love to see more of this in 2024 and the coming years.

Devin:
Well Masaka is organizing a next gen event. It’s called WordPress Showcase. And that’s also targeting schools and students and that’s also because Moses and Hanifa are teachers. So they are not only organizers but they are teachers. Oh lovely. So that’s what exciting also about this Masaka. Bob you mentioned earlier this month that next year we’re going to start having this WordPress event talk. And so as Rocio mentioned, there are new events, especially events focusing on students and schools. So that’s probably one of our interests, inviting all these organizers to share the experience and their events to inspire other event organizers as well. I wanted to ask you Pya, if you want to share a little bit about that new event?

Pooja:
Yes, actually we are also planning in our city as Mary is a small city in India. So we are also planning to target school and colleges to raise awareness about WordPress community and specifically how to in the school days or initial days, how they can start learning WordPress and start using it. So we are also working on it and we are going to organize some workshop around this.

Devin:
We spoke earlier, right Pooja this year about next gen events and everything. And so Pooja has been very interested in organizing next gen events. So this probably a good momentum 2024 if you want to focus on students and schools. We are more than happy to support you. Sounds pretty good. Pooja. Congratulations.

Pooja:
We are in discussion with colleges and schools right now in every school and colleges there is an exam time in India. So we are in our city. So we are planning after one or two months then exam will be over and we can collaborate with colleges and schools to run a workshop.

Devin:
Oh, that’s interesting.

BobWP:
Yeah. Well obviously there’s going to be a lot to talk about, so that’s very cool. So why don’t we go ahead and I know we could probably talk forever, but we can continue this in different directions on other shows as well. So before we go, if you have any last little thought you want to say, but also to let people know where’s the best to reach out if they want to talk to you, connect with you wherever you hang out, why don’t we go around and have everybody do that? I’ll start with Pooja.

Pooja:
Yeah. Last thing I would like to tell WordPress community needs you. So please come and join the community and please start contributing and get involved with the community. You can reach out to me always on Twitter. I’m available @ PoojaDerashri. And I’m available on Slack as well. I’m pretty much active on what Make WordPress Slack that is by the name webtechpooja. So you can always contact me there.

Rocio:
Thanks.

Jose:
Yeah, before saying goodbye, I like to mention again the Spanish community that were in the state of the war event. We never forget that cheering at that blouses and everything they did in order to have the Spanish spirit inside the event. And yes, someone have to talk with me. It’s easy. Go to a Spanish world camp, I’ll be there.

Rocio:
You

Devin:
Always meet Mancho in Spanish WordCamp, right?

Jose:
Always. Every month one at least. It’s true, it’s true. It’s no joke

Rocio:
Before saying goodbye. I would like to say thank you to everyone. It was a beautiful event. It was organized by many people, but especially I think everybody was very enthusiastic, motivated, and inspired about providing the best quality experience to everyone in person and online. I think that that’s why everybody works so hard. So especially thanks to the Spanish community as well because they were fantastic and it was a little present, I think at least it was for me. For me it was a little present to all the people who have been working so hard all these years. Organizing events or contributing daily in these are not very so visible, but they keep the project alive thanks to those people. And so it was a little bit of a thank you, like a present. We wanted this event to be like a present and a thank you. So it was a treat. And yeah, anybody can find me on Twitter. I am rociovaldi on Twitter or on Slack, Rocio Valdivia or in my website rocio dot blog. So I’m always happy to chat about the workers, community workers events or technology in general. So don’t be afraid and reach out.

Devin:
Well. I also want to follow everyone here. I wanted to especially thank all of the meetup organizers across the world who are trying their best to organize the watch party in person or online. We really feel the energy, the enthusiasm. If you go to the State of the Word new landing page, you see all these maps with red dots popping up across the world. That’s so beautiful. I really, really admire your dedication. So thank you so much. And like everybody else heres, you can reach out to me on Make WordPress or Twitter, everything has the same username. Devin Maeztri. And if you have any questions about organizing WordPress events, please also reach out to support with cam.org. So we are always there to support you, community events, organizers, and we’ll see each other again next year, that’s for sure. We talk about more exciting aspects of organizing WordPress event. Yes. So right back at you Bob.

BobWP:
Alrighty, well I want to thank all five of you and you made a special episode. I love hearing the stories. I love hearing the passion and kudos to all of you for what you’ve done. Amazing stuff. And for everyone listening, yeah, I echo what they say, keep it alive in the community and be part of it. And we have one more show coming up before the year ends, so tune into that. But until then, yeah, you got to love this community. See you next time.