The #WCBUC Aftermath

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It’s been a pleasure to have you at WordCamp Bucharest this year! We cannot measure the success of the event only in the number of attendees or sponsors, but also in the feedback we receive.  We’d like to learn about your experience, what you liked/disliked about the event, what talks you enjoyed most, how was the after party vibe and more. Please take a few moments and share your thoughts about #wcbuc 2017!


And now, let’s see some stats and how things looked like in social media.

WordCamp Bucharest in numbers:

Tickets sold: 260
Attendees: 247
Organizers: 13
Volunteers: 12
Presentations: 14
Speakers: 17
Sponsors: 17, 7 local, 5 global, 5 international
Countries represented: 14 (Romania, Moldova, Serbia, Netherlands, Scotland, Germany, Georgia, Poland, England, Ukraine, USA, Australia, Bulgaria, Switzerland)
#wcbuc tweets: 204

Sponsors

This year we were overwhelmed by the support received from the sponsors. We can’t stress enough that WordCamp cannot happen without their involvement. Here’s to the companies that helped us this year: WooCommerce, JetPack, CaptainForm, WPZoom, SiteGround. TranslatePress (our Gold Sponsors), to GoDaddy, Bluehost, Crowd Favorite, (our Silver Sponsors), and to WPML, WPRiders, Yoast and ThemeIsle (our Bronze Sponsors).

JetPack and WooCommerce booth:

Captain Form team:

Beautiful swag from WPZoom:

Siteground wardrobe:

TranslatePress demo:

Sessions

We’ve had an extensive line-up this year with topics covering theme development, automation tools, security, online marketing, business strategies and many more. All wrapped up in one conference day with a single track and 14 presentations.

Some of the presentation slides can be found online:

Ulrich Pogson- Improving code through automation

Alex Denning – A tale of two product launches

Ionut Neagu – A practical guide to launch, grow and monetize a blog

Cristian Antohe – WordPress in more languages

Vineet Talwar – How to effectively utilize services of Amazon Cloud to boost performance of your WordPress Website

Vassilena Valchanova –Growth experiments: lessons from a failed attempt

Contributor Day

Attendees

WordCamp Bucharest is the only event in Romania dedicated to WordPress, so we’ve had people coming in from all major cities in Romania. Besides our international speakers, we were happy to see new faces who came from far away to meet our local community. People from 13 countries attended the event.

See the full photo gallery.

Volunteers and organizers

Finally, a big round of applause to the organizing team that has been preparing this event since early May. Everything from venue to catering, website, communications, to speakers sessions must be thought through and prepared in advance. Big up to the volunteers team who was spot on in handling registration, taking care of the speakers and making sure things are in place during the event.

It’s been a pleasure to have WordPress people from all around the country and beyond gathered in the same city. We are not always aware how big the WordPress community is and it’s always encouraging to be able to talk and learn from each other in person. We hope this will lead to more WordCamps and WordPress Meetups being organized in other cities.

There’s so much more that can be said about WordCamp Bucharest, but little time to review everything. Good thing that others have covered it too:
https://olivian.ro/wordcamp-2017/
https://www.wpzoom.com/news/wordcamp-bucharest/
https://pixelgrade.com/blog/culture/a-few-takeaways-from-wordcamp-bucharest
https://www.luminitaciobanu.ro/wordcamp-bucuresti-2017/ (Romanian)
https://translatepress.com/value-sponsoring-wordcamp-bucharest-translatepress/

Thank you all for participating and hope to see you next year!