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  • “Beautiful things about WordPress meetups is that you can meet anywhere, so we started at a coffee shop.” @thabotswana #WCEU

  • .@iv_wp is up now on @WCEurope ⚡ showing how to make your own @WPCLI command in the time it takes to order a pizza. #WCEU

  • “No success is too small to celebrate in the WordPress community.” @thabotswana #WCEU

  • .@thabotswana relating at @WCEurope ⚡ right now on Harare, Zimbabwe was chosen for the WordCamp Incubator program. #WCEU

  • Here’s my tip for improving on getting people to show up for meetups: survey your community, aim to get topics that they want to hear. #WCEU

  • Take it from a WordCamp organizer who’s been with #wcmia for almost 10 years – WordCamps always need help. They won’t turn you away. #WCEU

  • Want to get involved in the WordPress community? Start here: make.wordpress.org/community @andmiddleton #WCEU

  • “The WordPress project depends on local organizers to deeply understand their communities and share that.” @andmiddleton #WCEU

  • “…and then i went to a WordCamp.” Many in the WordPress community get their start at WordCamps. @andmiddleton #WCEU

  • “Heart’s blood of any organizer is to tell people they belong. You are coding their brain.” @andmiddleton #WCEU

  • “Contributing to the WordPress community should be viewed the same as contributing code.” @andmiddleton #WCEU

  • “Low ticket prices at WordCamps are a way to include as many people as possible.” @andmiddleton #WCEU

  • Letter from @WCEurope to Emmanuel Macron regarding “ticket prices being too low”: 2017.europe.wordcamp.org/2017/05/19/a-l… @andmiddleton #WCEU

  • “WordCamps are the celebration of the local WordPress community. Most camps are between 200-400 people.” @andmiddleton #WCEU

  • “Meetups can be at different times of day, different formats. This leads to including more, brings people in.” @andmiddleton #WCEU

  • The “good faith” rules that WordPress meetup and community organizers follow. @andmiddleton #WCEU

  • “Bedrock of the WordPress communities are the locally organized meetup groups. Anyone can start one.” @andmiddleton #WCEU

  • “Rapid interaction and release cycles are key to keeping your contributors and users engaged.” @andmiddleton #WCEU

  • “Why open source works: the direction of the product is responsive to the people who are using it.” @andmiddleton #WCEU

  • “With open source you need to cultivate a large user base. With many eyes, all bugs are shallow.” @andmiddleton #WCEU

  • “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” . Cathedral = closed source. Bazaar = publish the source code, allow contributions. @andmiddleton #WCEU

  • .@aardrian up now at @WCEurope talking about “selfish accessibility” #WCEU #a11y

  • One of the best people in the WordPress community to talk about community: @andmiddleton up now at @WCEurope. #WCEU

  • Who at @WCEurope can get me a #wapuu plushy? I’ve got dollar bills. #WCEU

  • 7yr old: “Daddy, waking up to watch @WCEurope conference livestream is crazy.” Me: “Ok. But why are YOU up at 6am?” 7yr old: “Touché” #WCEU

  • Good humble points at #WCEU today: “WordPress isn’t perfect.” “WordPress itself isn’t the point” “WordPress is just one tool of our craft.”

  • After @boone talk, come outside the room and buy your “Code Isn’t Poetry” t-shirts. #WCEU

  • “A bridge might not be beautiful but if it keeps people dry, you’ve succeeded. WordPress itself isn’t the point. It’s a tool.” @boone #WCEU

  • Love this point: “Coders should think of ourselves as crafts people rather than miracle workers disrupting things.” @boone #WCEU

  • “Code is beautiful. Beauty in our code can be defined as how well it suits the purpose of why it was designed.” @boone #WCEU