{"id":1004,"date":"2018-06-13T10:14:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.denver.wordcamp.org\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2019-07-15T13:32:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:32:16","slug":"powered-by-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2018\/powered-by-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Powered by the People"},"content":{"rendered":"

WordCamp Denver is grateful for GoDaddy’s sponsorship, and their kind thoughts in this sponsor post that welcome you to our camp!<\/em><\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve never been to a WordCamp before, you\u2019re in for a treat.<\/p>\n

WordCamps are an amazing thing. They\u2019re inclusive instead of exclusive. They have a hallway track instead of an exhibitor hall. You\u2019ve even got WordPress experts at the Happiness Bar offering up one-on-one support, no purchase required.<\/p>\n

WordCamps bring out all the businesses that have sprung up because of WordPress. You\u2019ve got the web professionals – the digital agencies, the freelancers, and the consultants who solve problems and build websites for clients. You\u2019ve got the product companies and developers who build plugins and themes and custom solutions to make it all easier to do.<\/p>\n

(And of course, there are companies like GoDaddy, who provide the underlying global infrastructure of domain names, hosting<\/a>, and site management tools. But I digress.)<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got presenters from down the street and presenters from across the country coming to WordCamps on their own dime because they\u2019re there to share, to see old friends, to make new ones, and to just have a good time geeking out over WordPress.<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019ve been to a WordCamp before, well, you know all this.<\/p>\n

But you also know that every WordCamp is different, because every WordCamp is local. These aren\u2019t industry conferences or trade shows. These are volunteer-run, community-focused get togethers. They all have a flair unique to the places where they\u2019re held.<\/p>\n

Behind the scenes of every WordCamp you\u2019ve got a team of volunteers pouring hours of days of weeks of months into creating a memorable experience. And sometimes those volunteers love it so much that they do it over and over again, year after year, not just for WordCamps but for meetups and for workshops and for hackathons.<\/p>\n

And from these moments, from these events, from these special occasions where everyone is coming together around a single piece of software, you realize that it\u2019s not really about the software at all.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s about the people.<\/p>\n

All of this happens because of the people who make WordPress possible. The people that were on their own journeys that, somehow, led them to WordPress, and then led them to give something back to it.<\/p>\n

So, if WordCamp Denver 2018 will be your first WordCamp: Welcome! We hope that it\u2019ll be the first of many to come. And if you\u2019re a WordCamp regular? Welcome back.<\/p>\n

Wherever you are on your WordPress journey, we hope that you\u2019ll use this weekend to not just learn more about the software, but to also learn more about the people who build and support it.<\/p>\n

Remember: WordPress powers the web, but WordPress is powered by the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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