It’s Tuesday afternoon native time, and I’m sitting within the coolest espresso store in Taipei, reflecting at the week. This was once my first WordCamp Asia and my first time within the continent of Asia. Now, this was once no longer my first WordCamp. Actually, this was once my 52nd. 😳 However being it was once my first time within the WordPress Asia neighborhood, it got here with the entire first-time feels. 🥰

raquel sitting at a table behind a glass garage door at a quaint coffee shop

Fred’s Café. Cutie Taipei espresso store.

WordCamp Asia: At a Look

WCAsia is a flagship WordCamp serving the Asian WordPress neighborhood. Over 1300 tickets had been offered and other folks got here from in every single place the arena to wait. This was once the second one iteration of WCAsia. The first came about in Bangkok, Thailand, and this 12 months’s WordCamp came about in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Shusei at WordCamp Asia

WordCamp Asia had two days of tracks and workshops, along side a Contributor Day, to kick the development off. I attended Contributor Day and contributed to the “Group Crew” in fact. However the greatest spotlight was once emceeing. I used to be selected to emcee Observe 3 on Day 1 and had a blast!

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I really like emceeing!

Connections

Because the Group Supervisor of Chic Subject matters, I am getting to interact with our neighborhood and that’s simply what I did this week. I were given to fulfill many attendees who use Divi and had been tremendous keen to attach. What I heard maximum was once how they love our product, our weblog is unbelievable, and questions on Divi 5’s unencumber. 😅

Raquel and Ahmed

assembly the neighborhood 🥰

One among my favourite interactions was once with Anne Bovelett, who made me really feel preferred. We had a perfect alternate concerning the significance of Accessibility. She’s an Accessibility Suggest and unbelievable.

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Me and Anne! 😻

Tremendous notable was once connecting with Darrel Wilson, a well known Divi YouTuber. We met on the Freemius Maker’s Meetup (thank you for the invite Vova 🙏🏼) after which were given to revel in dinner in combination. Darrel has been developing WordPress tutorials for Divi (and different web page developers) on YouTube for years and has fairly a following (take a look at his web page). Darrel’s been on my radar to hook up with, so it was once fairly serendipitous!

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Me and Darrel.

A cherry on best was once assembly a fellow Chic Subject matters co-worker! We’re a completely disbursed corporate with 100ish folks unfold in every single place the globe, and because the pandemic, we haven’t had any all-hands meetups, so I used to be tremendous ecstatic for the chance to hook up with a fellow ETer. Rea and I were given to attach after the last remarks. She was once so type, and I used to be bummed we couldn’t spend extra time in combination. It was once quick however so candy!

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Me and Rea. Brief however candy.

Subsequent 12 months

The following WordCamp Asia will probably be held in Manila in February 2025. Will you be there? Perhaps subsequent 12 months the entire group will attend.

For now, make sure to seek advice from a Divi Meetup close to you (or no longer so close to) on your Divi neighborhood repair, and perhaps I’ll catch you in Torino at WordCamp Europe.

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