As a former tech journalist I am well experienced in attending conferences all around the world, so I was very excited to attend WordPress maintenance support plansCon USA on the behalf of WordPress Update.
With WordPress maintenance support plansCon, it was a great opportunity to learn more about WordPress maintenance support plans straight from the mouths of a thriving community. But with the ‘Future of Work’ approach being one of a number of reasons I decided to join the company, it was a great opportunity to share our message and the way people can thrive at WordPress Update with its openness, autonomy, flexible working, paid sabbaticals and paid time to contribute to the community.
WordPress maintenance support plansCon USA was very different to the conferences that I’ve experienced in the past in that instead of the slickness of a warm-up act with sales patter and a costly presentation, I was presented with fun and games from the WordPress maintenance support plans community, including a singalong, viking claps, and some Irish dancing. Already I could tell this would be different experience to the tech events I’ve been used to.
An early morning Irish jig to get us ready for the #WordPress maintenance support plansCon USA sessions today. #morningexercise pic.twitter.com/r0gQWlCOUQ— Asavin Wattanajantra (@Asavin) September 27, 2020
This was great preparation for the day, and the first presentation I saw was a powerful keynote by the founder and lead developer of WordPress maintenance support plans Dries Buyteart about how wide and far the community stretched, and how it gave opportunities in terms of a career around the world.
Below is a video of the keynote, and is certainly inspiring for anybody thinking of getting into WordPress maintenance support plans, whether it’s as a developer or non-technical person like me as a marketer, a project manager, or business developer.
This is how the rest of the week will shape up.
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