WordCamp Europe 2025 : Contributor Day Recap

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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. Europe 2025 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. took place on Thursday, June 5th, in the beautiful city of Basel, Switzerland. The Training Team shared a spacious conference hall with many of the other Make Teams. Nearly 700 attendees participated in the Contributor Day.

Our plan for the day was shared in this post: WordCamp Europe 2025 Contributor Day.

This year, we had a total of 11 in-person contributors and 31 online contributors, giving us a total of 42 contributors to the Training Team on Contributor Day!

Kudos to all who were involved:

In-person: @rfluethi, @timotheemoulin, @nikola93n, @marija95n, @sanjaypanchal89, @chris1ober, @bigod, @ursha, @sumitsingh, @rjekic

Online: @devmuhib, @jagirbahesh, @zeelthakkar, @mayur6740, @azharderaiya, @vasantrajput, @drewgarcia, @sagardeshmukh, @jhimross, @dilip2615, @rraventos, @jaydipgoswami, @sonaliprajapati, @nishitajoshi, @jdy68, @tejaskhatri, @ravimakwana, @manishkrag

If you don’t see your name up here, leave a comment or message in the #training channel on Make SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. so we can update it. We appreciate your time and want to acknowledge your hard work!

Our accomplishments

Got 13 new contributors to the Training Team
Onboarded 9+ people to the Training Team
3 content reviews
1 new online workshop planned
7 translation initiatives kicked off

The Training Team uses GitHub to manage their ongoing content creation work.

What’s next?

Continue your path to earning a Contributor Badge.

To the folks who joined us for the first time, and even some familiar faces, we encourage you to continue to engage with the team in Slack and within your local WordPress communities. I’d also like to take a moment to share with or remind you that we have Team Profile Badges, which you can earn for your contributions.

Keep up the great work to earn your contributor badge!

Share Feedback about Contributor Day

We’d love to be able to improve and share in anything that went well for our Contributor Days, so please take a moment to fill out this Contributor Day Attendee Feedback Form when you get the chance!

Fireside Chat with Matt and Mary

As the final day drew to a close, Matt and Mary shared some thoughts on EU regulation (Open Web Alliance), AI, and the introduction of the WordPress AI team, and then answered questions from the audience.