WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences that celebrate everything related to WordPress, and?are a great opportunity to meet other WordPress users and professionals in your community. This has been a great year for WordCamps — there have been 56 so far in more than 20 countries, and there another 15 on the calendar before the year’s over. If there’s one near you, check it out! In addition to getting to know your local WordPress community, most WordCamps attract some traveling visitors a well, giving you the chance to meet contributors to the WordPress open source project and get involved yourself.
Here are the WordCamps on the schedule for the rest of this year.
October 25-27: WordCamp Boston, Boston, MA, USA
October 25-26: WordCamp Malaga, Spain
October 26: WordCamp Nepal,?Kathmandu, Nepal
October 26: WordCamp Sofia, Bulgaria
November 7: WordCamp Cape Town, South Africa
November 9:?WordCamp Porto, Portugal
November 9-10:?WordCamp Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
November 15:?WordCamp Edmonton, AB, Canada
November 16-17:?WordCamp Orlando, FL, USA
November 16:?WordCamp Denver, CO, USA
November 23-24:?WordCamp London, UK
November 23-24:?WordCamp Raleigh, NC, USA
November 23:?WordCamp S?o Paulo, Brazil
December 14:?WordCamp Las Vegas, NV, USA
December 14-15:?WordCamp Sevilla, Spain
No WordCamps on this list in your area? Not to worry! There are thriving WordPress meetups all over the world where you can meet like-minded people, and we maintain a library of WordCamp videos at WordPress.tv.
Get Involved
- If you’re interested in organizing a WordCamp in your area, check out our WordCamp planning site.
- If you’re interested in starting a WordPress meetup in your area, let us know and we can set up a group on meetup.com for you.
- And speaking of WordCamp videos, we’ve recently enabled volunteer-generated subtitles/closed captioning of the videos on WordPress.tv to make them more accessible. Interested in helping? Check out the WordPress.tv subtitling instructions.