Last weekend marked the beginning of the end of my journey as lead organiser of WordCamp Cape Town. Over the course of the past two years I’ve worked with an amazing team of local volunteer organisers plan and execute our yearly WordPress conference.
The question on my mind as I wind down from the joyride that is planning a WordCamp is, what next?
So what I do know, is that I am not going to jump straight into the next big thing. Planning a WordCamp is time consuming and mentally draining, so I’m going to take a break from my contributing activities for a few weeks to recover. There are also a bunch of small WordCamp wrap up related tasks I need to complete anyway.
Once that is over however, I’m looking forward to resuming my community deputy duties, namely meetup vetting and orientations. I’ve also applied to be a WordCamp mentor, so I look forward to helping another lead plan and execute their WordCamp next year.
Besides that, the next big thing that I’d like to help with is the next Global WordPress Translation Day. I hosted a very small translation meetup during the 2016 event, but I’d really like to plan a much bigger meetup for the next one. We have 11 official languages in our country and it would be amazing to mentor local volunteers and help them get WordPress translated into their own language.
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