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WordCamp Bucharest 2016 was an awesome experience for us as organizers, we managed to learn a lot, to be patient and to prioritize: volunteer work means time-management like never before.<\/p>\n
We really enjoyed to vibe of the room during the speeches, the buzzing in the networking areas, and seeing people from Romania, Serbia, Italy, Poland, just to name a few, come together to make this a great event.<\/p>\n
The speakers delivered on-point and interesting presentations and we were glad to see the room engage with them and ask questions.<\/p>\n
Hopefully everyone who attended had a lot of fun, and from our observations, they did! The coffee was pouring, the connections were being made, and of course WordPress was present everywhere: from notebooks to pins, to t-shirts and\u00a0socks. Talk about brand-following. ![\"\ud83d\ude42\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.facebook.com\/images\/emoji.php\/v5\/zeb\/2\/16\/1f642.png?w=640&ssl=1\")
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Here are a few crunched numbers:<\/p>\n
Tickets: 172 WordCampers purchased tickets;
\nAttendants: 164 WordCampers joined us in Bucharest;
\nOrganizers: 12 of us;
\nVolunteers: 10 awesome people;
\nSpeakers: 14 presentations in total;
\nSponsors: 10 sponsors, 5 global and 5 local;
\nCountries: participants from 8 countries;
\nTweets: 120;
\nRetweets: 245.<\/p>\n
We’ve taken countless photos, pages of notes and exchanged hundreds of business cards.<\/p>\n
Everyone had a great time networking, enjoyed being part of the community and adding their own contribution\u00a0to what it means to “be WordPress” in Romania and\u00a0Bucharest.<\/p>\n
Thank you to WooCommerce<\/strong>, JetPack<\/strong>, Crowd Favorite<\/strong>, ThemeIsle<\/strong>, CaptainForm<\/strong>\u00a0(our Gold Sponsors), to GoDaddy<\/strong>, Bluehost<\/strong>\u00a0(our Silver Sponsors), and to WPML<\/strong>\u00a0and SiteGround<\/strong>\u00a0(our Bronze Sponsors).<\/p>\n Also, thank you to our caterers for their involvement, making sure our\u00a0lunch and coffee breaks were awesome, and the food was very tasty!<\/p>\n We’d love to see you all next year, in bigger numbers. With more speakers, more sessions and breaks and generally with more WordPress all in all.<\/p>\n Seeing all of you come together like this\u00a0encourages us to\u00a0continue, and we have high expectations that the connections we felt forming will not only lead to a better event next year, but also to many great things and opportunities for the WordPress community in Romania and around the world.<\/p>\n Thank you all!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WordCamp Bucharest 2016 was an awesome experience for us as organizers, we managed to learn a lot, to be patient and to prioritize: volunteer work means time-management like never before. We really enjoyed to vibe of the room during the … Continue reading WordCamp Bucharest 2016: Recap. See you all next year!<\/span>