WCKTM2022 – WordCamp Kathmandu 2022

September 12, 2022September 12, 2022

WordCamp Kathmandu 2022 Closing Remarks

Firstly, I would like to start by thanking all the sponsors for their generosity in helping us to make this event happen; the speakers for their excellent thought-provoking talks; media partners for their incredible social media coverage; Internet Partner, Payment Partner, and the emcees for organizing and animating sessions and keeping things both under control and reasonably on time. However, most importantly, I would like to thank you all, the participants. Without your enthusiasm and discussion, this event would not have been the success it has been.

Speaking about the success of the event, it is important to thank all of our organizers and volunteers for playing a vital role in its success. Also, I would like to thank our mentor, Yam B. Chhetri Dai. He has been providing regular support and suggestions to this community since the early days. Many of you already know that the WordPress Nepal community is now officially registered as a W.P. Nepal Community.

We are happy to announce this with great honor towards the initiator of this community, the late Ujwal Thapa Dai. As a tribute to him, we provided five free tickets for the Ujwal Thapa Scholarship at this WordCamp. We are also thankful to Alice Receptions for providing the perfect space for us with all the flexibility.

This WordCamp, we tried the “Say No To Plastic” campaign with the motive of saving our environment. We avoid all possible uses of plastic by using plastic-free materials. We also requested our sponsors to try not to bring plastics. We are also promoting WordCamp Nepal 2022 as well as WordCamp Asia 2023 to make them both a grand success. That couldn’t be possible without every WordPress enthusiast and community contributor like you all. So, I’d like to request you all to support and attend those events as well. WordCamp Nepal is happening again after 6 years and will take place at Chitwan Garden Resort, Bharatpur, Nepal, on November 5th and 6th, 2022. Likewise, WordCamp Asia is from February 17th to February 19th, 2023, in Bangkok, Thailand. Mark these days on your calendar.

At last, I would like to thank each one of us present here for the success of this event. Hats off to all for the remarkable contribution!

Closing Remarks of WordCamp Kathmandu 2022 from Surendra Shrestha

September 10, 2022September 12, 2022

A big thanks to all our sponsors! See you in 2023 at WordCamp Kathmandu.

Once again, many thanks to all of our generous sponsors of WordCamp Kathmandu 2022. You may know that WordCamps are non-profit and volunteer-based community events. The entire budget of WordCamp comes from global and local sponsors. At this event, we got 30 sponsors, among whom 6 are global community sponsors and 24 are local.

With around 450 attendees, 23 speakers, 10 contribution day team leads, 2 media partners, 18 volunteers, and 18 organizing team members, #WCKTM2022 was a huge success. Among the total sponsors, we had 19 stalls on the event day. Each booth was swarming with attendees. We believe that all of the sponsors got the best attendee experience from the event.

**WordCamp Kathmandu 2022 Sponsors Group Photo**

Due to the COVID pandemic, everyone is seeking to attend in-person events after 2 years of pandemic delay. Sponsors made this WordCamp very affordable and the most significant event in our community.

Once again, I would like to thank all of the official sponsors for their generosity in supporting WordCamp Kathmandu 2022. Without your incredible contribution, we wouldn’t be able to host this top-level WordPress event. I am proud to be a part of this successful event. Moreover, I am highly grateful to all the sponsors as the sponsor wrangler of the event.

And a big thanks to all our sponsors! See you in 2023 at WordCamp Kathmandu.

September 8, 2022

Diversity at WordCamp Kathmandu 2022

#WCKTM2022 is successfully conducted ensuring a diverse stage. As WordCamps do not make discrimination against all WordPress enthusiasts, we heartily welcomed all WordPress users, developers, designers, as well as interested freshers, without any consideration of their experience level.

We conducted sessions in 3 halls parallelly. Every session was in a variety of formats, including presentations, demo sessions, workshops, Q&A, panels, discussions, and any other format you can imagine.

We had a total of 23 Speakers. Out of that, 18 were local personnel, and 5 were from the international stage. Among them, there were 4 female WordPress Experts. Some of the speakers were Developers, some of them were SEO experts, some were working mothers, some were designers, one was a working student, a number of digital marketers, and a few were project managers. After all, each of them was a motivation altogether amazing expertise.

As it is a local-level WordPress Conference, it is overwhelming to showcase local talents. It’s pretty enjoyable to hear from Lead WordPress Developers and other well-known WordPress personalities. But, to not make this huge event like a lecture circuit with the same speakers, again and again, we tried to include many new faces as much as possible.

Talking about the new faces, we had 9 of the newbie Contribution Day Team Leads out of 10. However, they are working as WordPress Professionals for years. One of the Table Leads was from India. In addition to learning from each other, there was a Job Board for the advertisement as well as the vacancy announcement from several WordPress companies in multiple designations.

Moreover, within the whole WordCamp crowd, we hope attendees found new collaborators, employees/employers, and potential fellow conspirators. Although we had cumulated divergent populations, there were many with similar thoughts. After all, we are connected through WordPress.

WordPress is an Open Source Community and it is the signature of open source communities to have diversity and inclusion. WordCamp Kathmandu 2022 was also a good example of that. And as we all know, new ideas get born in between the diverse group of people.