{"id":7013,"date":"2019-07-12T17:20:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T17:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=7013"},"modified":"2024-02-08T01:38:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T01:38:11","slug":"people-of-wordpress-ugyen-dorji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2019\/07\/people-of-wordpress-ugyen-dorji\/","title":{"rendered":"People of WordPress: Ugyen Dorji"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You’ve probably heard that WordPress is open source software, and may know that it’s created and run by volunteers. WordPress enthusiasts share many examples of how WordPress changed people’s lives for the better. This monthly series shares some of those lesser-known, amazing stories.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet Ugyen Dorji from Bhutan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ugyen lives in Bhutan<\/a>, a landlocked country situated between two giant neighbors, India to the south and China to the north. He works for ServMask Inc and is responsible for the Quality Assurance process for All-in-One WP Migration plugin.

He believes in the Buddhist teaching that \u201cthe most valuable service is one rendered to our fellow humans,\u201d and his contributions demonstrates this through his WordPress translation work and multi-lingual support projects for WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bhutanese contributors to the Dzongkha locale on WordPress Translation Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

How Ugyen started his career with WordPress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Back in 2016, Ugyen was looking for a new job after his former cloud company ran into financial difficulties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During one interview he was asked many questions about WordPress and, although he had a basic understanding of WordPress, he struggled to give detailed answers. After that interview he resolved to develop his skills and learn as much about WordPress as he could. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few months passed and he received a call from ServMask Inc, who had developed a plugin called All-in-One WP Migration. They offered him a position, fulfilling his wish to work with WordPress full-time. And because of that, Ugyen is now an active contributor to the WordPress community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WordCamp Bangkok 2018<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

WordCamp Bangkok 2018 was a turning point event for Ugyen. WordCamps are a great opportunity to meet WordPress community members you don\u2019t otherwise get to know, and he was able to attend his first WordCamp through the sponsorship of his company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first day of WordCamp Bangkok was a Contributor Day, where people volunteer to work together to contribute to the development of WordPress. Ugyen joined the Community team to have conversations with WordPress users from all over the world. He was able to share his ideas for supporting new speakers, events and organizers to help build the WordPress community in places where it is not yet booming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the main day of the event, Ugyen managed a photo booth for speakers, organizers, and attendees to capture their memories of WordCamp. He also got to take some time out to attend several presentations during the conference. What particularly stuck in Ugyen\u2019s mind was learning that having a website content plan has been shown to lead to 100% growth in business development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-Organizing Thimphu’s WordPress Meetup<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After attending WordCamp Bangkok 2018 as well as a local Meetup event, Ugyen decided to introduce WordPress to his home country and cities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of the WordPress Translation Day organizers, he realized that his local language, Dzongkha, was not as fully translated as other languages in the WordPress Core Translation. That is when Ugyen knew that he wanted to help build his local community. He organized Thimphu\u2019s first WordPress Meetup to coincide with WordPress Translation Day 4, and it was a huge success!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like all WordPress Meetups, the Thimpu WordPress Meetup is an easygoing, volunteer-organized, non-profit meetup which covers everything related to WordPress. But it also keeps in mind the Bhutanese Gross National Happiness<\/a> four pillars by aiming to preserve and promote their unique culture and national language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big dreams get accomplished one step at a time<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ugyen has taken an active role in preserving his national language by encouraging his community to use WordPress, including Dzongkha bloggers, online Dzongkha news outlets, and government websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while Ugyen has only been actively involved in the community for a short period, he has contributed much to the WordPress community, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n