Cats, good books, AI, and religious walking in the city of Sofia
I only have a few photos from the WordCamp contributor day that happened today. I joined the polyglots. This photo doesn’t give enough credit to the group that managed to almost fully translate WordPress 6.9 in Bulgarian. I participated by translating or approving hundreds of strings. The group was led by Vladimir Vasilev, who has lots of experience and helped us translate better.
We had free food and free Coca Cola Zero.
I had the privilege to be part of the organizing team of WordCamp Sofia. Day 1 of that event is behind us, and Day 2 is a contributor day, which will happen tomorrow.
We gave away over 430 badges, however the exact number of attendees will need some special counting and may be lower. As the Volunteers Lead, I didn’t watch many talks but still had the chance to hop in and see some.
This is a tiny part of the front row, with Petya Raykovska speaking and some current and former organizers. Petya shared about how instrumental WordPress is for the people who make Bulgaria a better place, the Open Source community, and made me cry by sharing how important Kaladan was to her life. Kaladan, who was a WordPress contributor and volunteer, passed away.
Myself before the opening, still no red T-shirt.
A group selfie with some of the attendees.
An AI panel, so we can stay current with the hype. WordPress is adjusting to the AI adoption and all of the panelists are treating it as a tool that’s helping people rather than replacing people.
And Afrodita Dobreva, with another really fantastic session about public speaking. I thought the 2024 talk can’t be exceeded but she had a blast.
It was a great event for me. Time to rest a bit 🙂
This is the Track 1 hall, looking forward to seeing it full of fellow WordPress people.
I didn’t do much advertisement on the blog but didn’t need to – more people got tickets than we hoped for. The team is great and I hope that we’ll have a nice event this weekend. By this time, the things are in motion and the conference should be fine even if most organizers stay late at the speakers dinner and don’t come tomorrow.
I had the opportunity to speak at the WordPress Sofia Meetup today. My first talk in a really long time. Happy that the organizers invited me. The event had food, beer, good folks, and a social part that was far more interesting than my talk.
Just for the record, a speaker selfie, no-hat Tuesday.
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