WordCamps in 2018

This is a long overdue post to summarize the WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. program for 2018. Thank you for your patience!

In 2018, over 35,000 WordPress enthusiasts came together at 143 different WordCamps to spend a day or three talking about WordPress, the free and open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. software that now powers 34% of the web!

WordCamps were held in 47 different countries in 2018, with events in 6 continents: Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe, North America, and South America.

As you can see in the chart below, the number of WordCamps continues to steadily increase!

	2018	2017	2016	2015
Total WordCamps	143	126	115	89
Total Registered Attendees	45,177	42,931	37,708	27,354
Unique Attendees	35,755	33,744	29,585	21,436
Total Organizers	1,395	1,061	815	600
Unique Organizers	1,342	1,017	797	583
Total Sessions	3,540	3,315	2,998	2,284
Total Speakers	3,479	3,265	2,965	2,376
Unique Speakers	2,634	2,459	2,284	1,762
Total Sponsors	2,650	2,478	2,312	1,672
Unique Sponsors	1,208	1,042	1,240	1,113

Notes on this report:

• Data was gathered using the new reporting tools, so numbers may vary slightly from past years (which were gathered manually).
• Added data on organizers (total and unique).
• We are reporting on “total sessions”, rather than “unique sessions”. This is because determining unique sessions is subjective and therefore difficult to track.

Flagship WordCamps Data

• WordCamp Europe tickets sold: 3,192 (includes 826 live stream tickets)
• WordCamp US tickets sold: 4,071 (includes 2,260 live stream tickets)

Trends and Analysis

Average number of attendees per WordCamp = about 314. This is an continued increase from the past few years, most likely due to the increase in tickets sold for flagship events.

What else did the Community Team do in 2018?

• Launched reports for WordCamps and Meetups on WordCamp Central.
• Launched a new incident reporting flow.
• Marked the 15th Anniversary of WordPress with celebrations all over the world!
• Hosted Meetup Organizer Roundtable video chats. (Report, Conclusions). Kudos to @bph for her excellent work on this!
• Launched new WordCamp ticket registration fields for life-threatening allergies, special accommodations requests, and code of conductCode of Conduct “A code of conduct is a set of rules outlining the norms, rules, and responsibilities or proper practices of an individual party.” - Wikipedia agreement.
• Launched a new personalized schedule tool for WordCamps.
• Migrated Japanese meetup groups to Meetup.com. Kudos to @nao, @nukaga, and @mayukojpn!
• Pushed out a major update to CampTix, including making Stripe payments available to all WordCamps.
• Launched Contributor Day Fields in WordCamp listings.
• Launched the Meetup Tracker tool.
• Launched WordPress.org profile badges for Meetup Organizers.

Questions?

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