{"id":5295,"date":"2016-04-28T12:51:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T11:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.europe.wordcamp.org\/?p=5295"},"modified":"2016-06-09T10:14:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T09:14:46","slug":"meet-the-european-wordpress-communities-turkey-bulgaria-ukraine-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2016\/meet-the-european-wordpress-communities-turkey-bulgaria-ukraine-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the European WordPress Communities \u2013 Turkey, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WordCamp Europe is getting closer and today we\u2019re continuing our series on European communities. After introducing Poland, Lithuania and Estonia<\/a>, today we’d like you to meet the communities from Turkey, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n

This article is really special because two of the mentioned communities\u2014Turkish and Russian\u2014are spanned across two continents: Europe and Asia. Connecting continents and people, WordPress is building a better world \u2764\ufe0f<\/span><\/p>\n

The WordPress community in Turkey<\/h2>\n

In beautiful Istanbul, a city spanned over two continents with such an amazing history that once was the capital of three great empires\u2013Roman, Bizantine and Ottomans\u2013we\u2019re talking with Emre Erkan <\/strong>from the Turkish WordPress community. Emre is a polyglot programmer passionate about open source and very enthusiastic about languages, something that he proved by contributing to polyglots on the first ever WordPress Global Translation Day.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Emre Erkan and the Turkish polyglots team on the first WordPress Global Translation Day<\/p><\/div>\n

The Turkish community officially started as WordPress Turkey in 2003, and Emre is part of it from 2005. He maintains translations, the community website, and social media. Unfortunately, there are not many meetups in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Turkish community has 10000 fans on their Facebook page and around 1300 followers on Twitter. We do WP Days and around 10 people are regular,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 says Emre and continues, \u201cThe local community mostly consists of developers<\/strong>\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We asked him about their problems as a community:<\/p>\n

Money is always problem. We do sponsorship agreements with hosting companies etc. They provide us venue or budget and we let them promote their services on WP days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Get in touch with the WordPress community in Turkey<\/h3>\n