The Local Team has the arduous task of organising all the logistics at the event venue, including in the city and country, looking to build a dynamic, lively and engaging WCEU to be an engine for the entire WordPress community.
After Porto was chosen, in 2019, to host WordCamp Europe 2020, we were expecting a lot of work, several challenges and some obstacles. Still, we were not expecting what happened in March and April 2020. With the world in a frenzy, the one-year’s journey has turned into a three-year adventure.
The goal has remained the same: to honour the WordPress community with the best possible WordCamp Europe.
On this journey, the Local Team has dedicated the utmost effort to ensure:
- Diverse, inclusive catering that would bring a bit of Portuguese flavour to the event;
- Covid-related protective measures to ensure a safe environment;
- Support for all the needs of the different teams and event components;
- Community Team support on the Wellness track;
- Childcare service with a pro team that could take good care of future WordPress users;
- Organise and take care of merchandising items;
- Chose and worked to have (part of the) nice swag to offer to participants;
- Involvement of the city, for the first time, WCEU ‘left’ the venue and was communicated in various parts of the city;
- Informative content about the city and region to help attendees enjoy Porto;
- Animation, including a joyful after-party;
- Immaculate cleanliness;
- Adequate and attentive security;
And many other little (and some big) things, details that one by one built the blocks that made WCEU 2022 a success for the WordPress community.
Here are the fantastic people who made all this happen:
Carlos Miguel Silva, Toze Vasconcelos, Pedro Fonseca, Daniela Costa, Jorge Costa, Marco Pereirinha, Ricardo Correia and José Freitas.