Last month, I attended WordCamp Malaysia 2024, and also helped to staff our Jetpack booth.
Overall it was a good and enjoyable experience.
On the first day, I attended the contributor day event. I chose to be in the Core group, thinking to contribute issues and fixes to the Gutenberg repository. Along the way, I had some conversations with first-time contributors, and I managed to offer my advices and helped them out.
It is interesting to see how far I’ve come. In WordCamp Asia (Bangkok) in February 2023, I knew nothing about contributor day, and I knew little about WordPress core development; and now one year later, I am helping other people who are new to WordPress development in contributor day.
After contributor day, my colleagues and I attended the sponsors/speakers appreciation dinner in Simply Ribs restaurant (Google Maps) where we had the chance to network with the organizers, sponsors, and speakers. The food was really good, though the space is quite limited for the amount of people we had. We got to talk to people about our products like WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Automattic for Agencies etc. It is always food to get direct first-hand feedback from them and understand their pain points in using our products.
On the second day, I helped out my colleagues in staffing the Jetpack booth. Even though I am not in the Jetpack division and I don’t work directly with Jetpack, my experiences in staffing Jetpack booth in past WordCamp events and working with Jetpack connection in WooCommerce extensions are helpful. We got to promote our Jetpack products to people who are new to them, and we got to listen to feedback and pain points from people who have used them.
I also used the opportunity to attend some of the speaker sessions, especially the ones that are related to AI, coding and development. If you like to watch them, you can find them in WordPress.tv.
After the event day, I attended an unofficial dinner meetup organized by Appfromlab to connect with other plugin builders. I got to meet a bunch of interesting people and learn from their experiences, and also helped to answer their questions related to WooCommerce and Automattic.
Throughout the two days, I also used the opportunity to talk about our WooCommerce projects, specifically our existing Analytics feature in WooCommerce core and also our new WooCommerce Analytics plugin that we are working on.
If you like to see more photos, you can take a look at the public shared albums in Google Photos:
- 2024 WordCamp Malaysia Contributor Day
- 2024 WordCamp Malaysia (conference event day)
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