During his presentation on Day 1 of WCEU 2022, Milan Ivanović, the Global Lead of WordCamp Europe 2019, spoke to the importance of the people in the WordPress community.
The code is poetry, but the community is where the heart is.
Milan Ivanović
As we close out WCEU2022, we want to take a moment to recognize the community that came together to plan, organize, host, and facilitate the first in-person WordCamp Europe in three years. Without your time, energy, and passion, none of this would have happened.
The Global Leads
Leading the effort to bring WCEU 2022 to life was a team of four talented and experienced individuals. We want to thank them for their vision, persistence, and good humor.
- Bernard Kau
- José Ramón Padrón
- Lesley Molecke
- Taeke Reijenga
These team members have stepped down now and will enjoy some well-deserved rest (but we’ll look forward to seeing them at WCEU 2023 !).
The organising team
Attendee Services
- Nemanja Cimbaljevic (Lead)
- Nikola Šddtulić
- Aleksandar Predić
- Uroš Tasić
Budget
- Juan Hernando (Lead)
- Sandro Lucifora
- Justina Baskyte
Communications
- Sjoerd Blom (Lead)
- Steve Mosby
- Matt Ross
- Michelle Frechette
- George Gkouvousis
- Hacer Yilmaz
- Mike Johnston
Content
- Sabrina Zeidan (Lead)
- Livio Vilela
- Nikola Mihajlovic
- Luke Gedeon
- Rúben Martins
- Sajja Usmani
- Pedro Mendonça
- Radu Constantin
Community
- Takis Bouyouris (Lead)
- José Arcos
- Ángel Moreno
- Penny Anderson
- Elli Mouchtari
- Dan Soschin
- Eduard Milushi
- Weni Huis in t Veld
- Nciholas Garofalo
Design
- Roberto Tuñón (Lead)
- Flavia Bernárdez Rodriguez
- Ina Morosanu
- Jonathan Pantani
- Javier Arce
- Lena Lekkou
Local
- José Freitas (Lead)
- Carlos Miguel Silva
- Toze Vascocelos
- Pedro Fonseca
- Daniela Costa
- Jorge Costa
- Marco Pereirinha
- Ricardo Correia
- Paulo Lima
Photography
- Val Vesa (Lead)
- Pantelis Orfanos
- Kostas Fryganiotis
- Nilo Vélez
- Roy Tanck
- Batseba Burgos
- Chris Clarke
- Igor Klimer
- Javier Otero
- Thomas Brühl
- Yigit Telyakar
- Alice Bertran
- Simona Badoiu
- Daniel da Rocha
- Brian Bautista
- Gonçalo Vasconcelos
- Luca Vesa
Public Relations
- Evangelia Pappa (Lead)
- Silva Nazarian
- Afshana Diya
- Kostas Vrouvas
- Reyes Martínez
- Pantelis Orfanos
- Tiago Silva Vasconcelos
Sales & Sponsors
- Jason Rouet (Lead)
- Marko Tanaskovic
- David Pérez
- Carol Olinger
- Anne-Mieke Bovelett
- Valerio Vaz
Volunteers
- Fotis Routsis (Lead)
- Felipe Santos
- Iakovos Frountas
- Aleksandar Savkovic
- Jelena Sobic
- Matt Cromwell
- Marco Andrei Kichalowsky
- Pedro Carvalho
- Matthew Wire
- Jose Luis Losada
- Sveta Guzovskaia
And, of course, our amazing volunteers!
WordCamps everywhere are only possible with the hard work of volunteers who sign up to lend their time and energy to make sure everything runs smoothly during the event. This year we recruited 164 volunteers.
For many attendees, our Volunteers are the “face” of WordCamp. Throughout the event, they performed dozens of tasks that were vital to the success of WCEU 2022.
You may have directly interacted with the friendly volunteers at the registration desk. You’ve seen the emcees and workshop assistants keeping us on schedule.
You may not have seen the efforts of many of the volunteers who work behind the scenes providing support to our sponsors, preparing content for social media posts, assisting with meal service, and numerous other jobs that made the event run smoothly.
Regardless of their visibility, we want to say a huge THANK YOU! to our Volunteers.
See you in Athens!
Thanks to all the organizers, volunteers and visitors – I had a great time and I can’t wait for Athens next year! 🙂
It was really an amazing moment. Glad to see everyone united at WordCamp 2022