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Newcomers could sit down with Polyglots to translate WordPress into their own language, with Documentation to fix the pages people reach when they get stuck, or with Support to answer questions in the forums. More technical tables covered Core, Performance, Testing, Themes, and the Plugins team, whose reviewers screen every plugin submitted to the directory.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First-timers were not left to find their own way. The day was built around onboarding tables, named table leads, and mentors, with an open invitation for experienced contributors to adopt a newcomer and walk them through their first patch, string, or ticket.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People who could not travel to Kraków were welcomed to join remotely through the #contributor-day channel in the <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/\">Make WordPress Slack</a>, so distance was not a reason to sit the day out.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Birthplace of the Web</h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was fitting that the opening keynote came from CERN. 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The argument running through the AI sessions was that this belongs to everyone who builds on WordPress, not only to developers shipping their own integrations. Speakers got specific about how to put that to work.</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/anukasha\">Anukasha Singh</a> focused on how the Abilities API can make plugin permissions cleaner and safer than the capability checks developers have leaned on for years.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>In a workshop, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpfeedback\">Vito Peleg</a> set out to take builders from one-off prompts toward a tool-using workflow that audits a live site and files structured tickets.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/schlessera\">Alain Schlesser</a>, a WP-CLI maintainer who has worked on structured data and the AI-native web, turned to a fast-growing opportunity. AI assistants and search now send real traffic to the open web, with more than a billion referral visits logged by the middle of 2025. His session framed WordPress as well-placed to earn that attention, with a practical checklist for getting a site ready to be found, read, and cited.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People stayed at the center of the conversation, too. <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed\">Tammie Lister</a>, in a talk called &#8220;Human in the loop means something,&#8221; framed the phrase as a real commitment rather than a checkbox. 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WordPress 7.0 had just launched with Ventura as its release lead, and he asked everyone who had contributed to it to stand for a round of applause.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much of the chat explored the balance between building WordPress with AI, and building with AI on WordPress, without losing the human part. Ventura noted that WordPress&#8217;s long investment in its design system is paying off now that you can ask an AI to extend a menu or a control, and it reaches for the right components. He pointed to older primitives gaining new value, like <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/cli/\">WP-CLI</a>, which AI models use fluently, and to <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/developer-tools/studio/studio-code/\">Studio Code</a>, an open source, agent-based coding tool the team has been building for WordPress. 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My name is Nathan Wrigley.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, building trust and collaboration in the hosting industry with the Secure Hosting Alliance.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice, or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast, and you can copy that URL into most podcast players.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have a topic that you&#8217;d like us to feature on the podcast, I&#8217;m keen to hear from you, and hopefully get you, or your idea, featured on the show. Head to wptavern.com/contact/jukebox, and use the form there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So on the podcast today, we have David Snead. David has been involved in the hosting industry since 1999, starting out as legal counsel for one of the earliest shared hosting companies, and going on to work with over 50 others. He helped found the i2Coalition, serve as in-house counsel for cPanel and WebPros, and now leads the Secure Hosting Alliance.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re listening to this podcast, I&#8217;m sure that many of you will have worked closely with hosting companies. Perhaps you run an agency, or business, that depends on the reliability, ethics, and security of hosting providers. David is here to talk about cross-industry collaboration in the hosting world, specifically around improving security, professionalism, and communication between hosts.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conversation focused on why, and how, the Internet Infrastructure Forum, or IIF, is building a framework for real-time intelligence sharing and abuse reporting, aiming to help the entire ecosystem detect and prevent attacks faster than adversaries can adapt.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David talks about the challenges hosting companies face, especially smaller ones, in keeping up with security, and how this evolving project hopes to ease this by sharing actionable, non-proprietary abuse information across registrars, hosting providers, DNS services, and more.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He discusses the growth of both the Secure Hosting Alliance and the IIF, the business case for collaboration, and the nuances of legal and technical information sharing across borders.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re in hosting, run a web agency, or just want to know how the backbone of the web is working to stay more secure and connected, this episode is for you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re interested in finding out more, you can find all of the links in the show notes by heading to wptavern.com/podcast, where you&#8217;ll find all the other episodes as well.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so, without further delay, I bring you David Snead.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am joined on the podcast by David Snead. Hello David.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:03:20] <strong>David Snead:</strong> Hello.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:03:21] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Very nice to have you with us. David&#8217;s got a really interesting background, and a really interesting, I&#8217;m going to use the word project. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s the right word. It feels like it&#8217;s got more solidity and it&#8217;s got a lot more history than that. It&#8217;s something which is, I think going, but we&#8217;ll find out a little bit more about it. It&#8217;s all about the hosting industry and trying to get hosts to, I guess communicate with each other in ways going forwards.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:03:44] <strong>David Snead:</strong> That is a part of it. There are really two goals and one is to level up the ethics and professionalism in the hosting industry. And the second is to facilitate more comradery and interaction among hosts. Something that folks felt occurred in the early 2000s, and with all the consolidation that occurred went away. And so that&#8217;s something that we&#8217;re also trying to facilitate.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:04:16] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay. So given that we&#8217;re going to be talking about hosting, I guess it&#8217;s a good idea to paint your credentials and find out a little bit more about you. So a short opportunity to just tell us a little about you and your background in WordPress and hosting specifically, I suppose.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:04:29] <strong>David Snead:</strong> Sure. So I have been working in the hosting industry since 1999. As I often say, I was working in the hosting industry when hosting was cool. It is not so cool anymore. In fact most people don&#8217;t really pay attention to it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You know, and I started as a lawyer for a hosting company, and I was in-house counsel for a company that actually owned a hosting company and was one of the earliest hosting companies that specialised in shared hosting. And so I was their general counsel. And for some reason it stuck, and I&#8217;ve just kind of turned it into a career.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So after that I had a private practise as a lawyer and I worked with probably 50 different hosting companies, mostly writing policies that nobody ever reads, which makes me super fun at parties.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then from there, my friend Christian Dawson and I formed the i2Coalition as a response to some legislation in the US that would&#8217;ve been kind of the death nail for internet providers. So we started the i2Coalition. I then went in-house for cPanel and worked at cPanel and WebPros for 10 years, and then started the Secure Hosting Alliance.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:05:52] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay. So you&#8217;ve got all all the history. That&#8217;s pretty good. You know, if we&#8217;re going to talk about hosting.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:05:57] <strong>David Snead:</strong> All the hosting history in one person. That&#8217;s kind of a very scary idea, no?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:06:02] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> But that&#8217;s excellent. So do you still offer counsel? Is that still, so you haven&#8217;t sort of sidestepped and do half of the week on a sort of more technical basis? It&#8217;s still the legal side that you&#8217;re involved in.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:06:13] <strong>David Snead:</strong> I do. Right now I&#8217;m doing mostly M&amp;A work for, it&#8217;s weird. So I don&#8217;t know if anybody has ever said this to you before, but web hosting is kind of like the Hotel California. It&#8217;s like, once you start in the web hosting industry, you never leave. And so I have all these clients from 15 years ago who are now running like little baby hosts, and they&#8217;re talking to bigger hosts and they want to get acquired. So I&#8217;m doing some of that now. I am not writing any of the policies that nobody ever reads because that was just, I did that for too long.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:06:51] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> There were too many moments parties.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:06:53] <strong>David Snead:</strong> Yes, exactly. Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:06:55] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, so I&#8217;m going to read into the record the title and the blurb that went with the presentation that you are doing or done.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:07:02] <strong>David Snead:</strong> I did it yesterday.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:07:03] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, we&#8217;ll get into that in a moment. So the title is coordinating the fight, cross industry collaboration, and the blurb goes as follows. WordPress hosting threats cross company lines. When one provider falls victim, the entire ecosystem suffers. This session explores how the Internet Infrastructure Forum, or IFF, enables hosting providers, registrars and registries to coordinate abuse response through real time intelligence sharing. Learn how operational collaboration helps responsible operators detect and stop attacks faster than adversaries can adapt. And why working together produces results no single provider could achieve alone.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I read that, immediately was, yeah, that&#8217;s a really sensible idea. Why are we separately, as hosting companies, I say we, I mean the hosting companies. Why are they all trying to do the same work over and over again, separately? When presumably this aspect of the work, the security bit is something they all have in common.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:08:05] <strong>David Snead:</strong> Right? So that&#8217;s the fundamental question, right? So the IIF is a voluntary organisation that is made up of everyone in the infrastructure stack. So from registrars, registries, DNS providers, hosting providers, cloud providers, everyone in the stack. So it is facilitated by the Internet and Jurisdiction Foundation. 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Those are folks who don&#8217;t generally participate in these kind of industry led collaboration exercises. And that&#8217;s the reason that I&#8217;m at WordCamp, is to talk to web designers, marketing agencies about why they should participate in something like this.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:13:13] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So this really isn&#8217;t bound in any way to WordPress, is it? It just so happens that WordPress has a significant chunk of the internet, so this is a good place to start. But if you happen to be a, I don&#8217;t know, Drupal user, or you&#8217;re just into writing PHP code or whatever it may be, this is still applicable. There&#8217;s no real WordPress layer to this. This is just a good place for you to come because, well, there&#8217;s probably, what, 30 hosts, 100 yards away from us out there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:13:37] <strong>David Snead:</strong> I know. 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And I am pretty used to answering that question simply based on the political work that I do with the i2Coalition. But once you talk about, so let&#8217;s use fake shops as an example. Fake shops, and you&#8217;re providing services to fake shops, actually has an impact on your bottom line.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So if you are providing, let&#8217;s say, payment processing to an entity that is running a fake shop, it very easily can make your credit card processing charges higher. It ends up eating bandwidth. It will tax your abuse resources.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the things that you referred to initially is, you know, larger hosts have a lot of money. I wouldn&#8217;t say they have a lot of money, but they have more bandwidth to handle a vast fire hose of abuse issues. Most smaller hosting companies might only get five or six abuse issues in a month. 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Well, David Snead, thank you very much for joining me today.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:31:35] <strong>David Snead:</strong> Glad to be here. Thanks for having me.</p>\n</div></details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the podcast today we have David Snead.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David has been involved in the hosting industry since 1999, starting out as legal counsel for one of the earliest shared hosting companies and going on to work with over 50 others. He helped found the i2Coalition, serve as in-house counsel for cPanel and WebPros, and now leads the Secure Hosting Alliance.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you’re listening to this podcast, I’m sure that many of you will have worked closely with hosting companies. Perhaps you run an agency or business that depends on the reliability, ethics, and security of hosting providers. 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You see the other side of WordPress: the community, the people pushing it forward, the people wrestling with the same problems you are and finding creative ways through.<br /><br />That first local WordCamp was enough to make us want to go further. In 2019 the team went to Berlin for WCEU — my first trip abroad outside of the Finland-Ukraine route I knew well. We spent a few days exploring the city and attending the event. WordCamp Europe is a different scale entirely: thousands of attendees, hundreds of volunteers making it happen. Standing in that crowd, I knew I wanted to be part of it — not just as a visitor. And then corona happened.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-porto\">Porto</h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/3026/07/image1.webp\"><img alt=\"Volodymyr leaning on a handrail with Krakow in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-8718\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/3026/07/image1-768x1024.webp\" style=\"width: 400px;\" width=\"768\" /></a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Me, standing on the roof the Super Bock Arena, where the WCEU 2022 took place. Photo by Oleksandr Misyats.</figcaption></figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WCEU 2020 and 2021 were online, and I felt they were missing the whole point — thousands of people in one place, feeding off each other&#8217;s energy. So when Porto was announced for 2022, I started packing. This time, I joined as a volunteer, to see WordCamp from the inside. It was the right call. It was also a difficult time for Ukrainians — the full-scale invasion was by then well into its second year, and everyone was finding their own way to cope. For me, this event became a source of strength. I connected with the Ukrainian community, had real conversations with speakers, and came away feeling like I&#8217;d experienced what WCEU is actually for.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br />That trip also clarified something I&#8217;d been circling around for a while. I&#8217;ve always loved traveling, but there was a barrier that had nothing to do with visas or money — though those were factors too. It was a justification problem. Coming from a culture where time should be spent purposefully, traveling for its own sake felt hard to defend. A work conference, though? Completely justifiable. Nobody asks how much fun you had. I&#8217;ve been to Germany, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, and Poland this way. Spain is next.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attending WordCamps is one thing. Building a similar event is another.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-wp-suomi\">WP Suomi</h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2025 I became the lead organizer of <a href=\"https://wpsuomi.fi/\">WP Suomi</a> — the first independent Finnish WordPress event, held in Helsinki. The months before October 10th were intensive in ways I hadn&#8217;t anticipated: budgets, logistics, gifts, merch, catering, venue coordination, a hundred small details that needed to be right simultaneously. I remember waking up at midnight worrying that I hadn&#8217;t ordered something in time and it wouldn&#8217;t arrive before the event. Most of the work that goes into an event like this is invisible to the people attending. They see the schedule, the food, the afterparty. They don&#8217;t see the half a year of pieces being polished before the puzzle comes together.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/3026/07/image5.webp\"><img alt=\"Banner for WP Suomi\" class=\"wp-image-8721\" height=\"576\" src=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/3026/07/image5-1024x576.webp\" width=\"1024\" /></a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">WP Suomi hall screen graphics. Graphics by Sergei Shchegrinets.</figcaption></figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the day of the event, there was nothing left to worry about. Whatever needed doing had been done — if something had been missed in the preparation, it would show up now and there would be little we could do about it. So why worry? The time for that was the preparation, not the day itself. The team — experienced, reliable, no hand-holding required — knew exactly what they were there for.<br /><br />Around 300 people attended WP Suomi. Forty filled out our feedback form afterward, giving an overall score of 4.47 out of 5. But the number mattered less than what people wrote: networking, atmosphere, meeting old friends and new ones, a community that welcomes everyone openly. Reading that, I recognized the same feeling I&#8217;d had at WordCamp Helsinki 2017 — something new, interesting, and full of possibility.<br /><br />Organizing WP Suomi gave me a clearer understanding of what goes into making these events happen. Having been a volunteer at WCEU and then a lead organizer at WP Suomi, I arrived in Krakow with a slightly different perspective — a better sense of what the people around me were going through. This year I&#8217;m back on the WP Suomi organizing team as speakers coordinator — a different role, another angle.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/3026/07/image2.webp\"><img alt=\"Milania Cap near a presentation podium.\" class=\"wp-image-8723\" height=\"683\" src=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/3026/07/image2-1024x683.webp\" width=\"1024\" /></a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Milana Cap is ready to show some magic with HTML API. She is one of two people who convinced Vladimir to become the lead organizer of WP Suomi ‘25. Photo by Asanka Hettiarachchi.</figcaption></figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-krakow\">Krakow</h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordCamps have changed for me over the years — less about the sessions on stage, more about what happens between them. As an organizer, you miss most of the talks anyway, pulled in ten directions at once. But real life happens in the corridors, and at the parties in the evenings. </p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This matters especially for the Ukrainian community. The war has scattered us across Europe — different countries, different companies, different lives. WordCamp Europe has become one of the few places where we reassemble in person: to share what the year brought, to meet people we only knew online, to see the community still growing despite everything. Many couldn&#8217;t make it to Krakow, some would not be able to visit these events anymore. For those of us who could, the room carried extra weight. </p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s what Danylo and I were singing about at dawn outside Bastion III, even if neither of us said it out loud. I hope to do that someday in the afterparties in Helsinki and Kyiv — whenever that becomes possible again.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/3026/07/image4.webp\"><img alt=\"Ukrainian team at WordCamp Torino 2024.\" class=\"wp-image-8725\" height=\"684\" src=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/3026/07/image4-1024x684.webp\" width=\"1024\" /></a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ukrainian team at WordCamp Torino 2024. More and more Ukrainians visit this event every year despite the war. Photo by Maksym Kaharlytskyi. </figcaption></figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background is-vertical is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ff19e26b wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" id=\"desktop\">\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading8704_097876-99 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" id=\"work-environment\">Volodymyr&#8217;s Work Environment</h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We asked Volodymyr for a view into his development life and this is what he sent!</p>\n\n\n	<div class=\"hotspots-image-container\">\n		<img alt=\"Volodymyr’s Desk\" class=\"hotspots-image skip-lazy\" height=\"1890\" src=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/img_5363.webp\" width=\"2560\" />\n	</div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has--font-size wp-block-paragraph\">HeroPress would like to thank <a href=\"https://wpdrawattention.com/\">Draw Attention</a> for their donation of the plugin to make this interactive image!</p>\n</div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"ukranian\">“Послухай… пташки заспівали”</h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls=\"controls\" src=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/3026/07/volodomyr_ukrainian_recording.mp3\"></audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Слухайте власну історію Володимира вголос.</figcaption></figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">«Послухай… пташки заспівали», — сказав Данило, українець, з яким я познайомився на попередньому WordCamp — ми якраз протеревенили останню годину afterparty WCEU у Кракові. «Значить нам теж час іти». І тут він від душі почав співати «Гей, гей, гей, соколи, оминайте гори, ліси, доли». Я підхопив пісню разом із ним. Поляки, що ішли поруч продовжили польською: «Dzwoń, dzwoń, dzwoń dzwoneczku, mój stepowy skowroneczku». Хтось позаду теж приєднався до хору. Це була «Гей, соколи» — українсько-польська народна пісня — під акомпанемент якої нас виносив натовп із Бастіону III, австрійської фортеці XIX століття на околиці краківського Старого міста, саме тоді, коли вже ніч переходила у ранок.<br /><br />Щоб пояснити, як я там опинився, доведеться повернутися до самого початку цієї історії.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/krakow_castle2.webp\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8748\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/krakow_castle2-894x1024.webp\" width=\"894\" /></a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Вид на Краківський замок, фото зроблене зранку після вечірки, приблизно в той час коли “вже заспівали пташки”. Фото зроблене Володимиром Мельниченко. </figcaption></figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-миколаїв\">Миколаїв</h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ця історія бере свій початок у Миколаєві – місті суднобудівельників і наречених, де я виріс. Здобув освіту у двох університетах, де навчався одночасно і почав шукати роботу під час року перерви перед продовженням навчання. Я планував знайти собі роботу, щоб заробити грошенят для продовження навчання, готуючись до вступу в один із фінських університетів. У Миколаєві було важко знайти якісь серйозні перспективи для випускника, хіба що в тебе є зв&#8217;язки, але я примудрився знайти роботу в &#8220;IT&#8221; компанії. У 2011 термін &#8220;АйТі” нічого мені не говорив, але там потрібна була англійська, яка була моїм основним предметом в університеті, тому я подумав, а чом би й ні? Робота не була важкою: треба було казати, що я “Боб” із США і допомагати клієнтам, які купували фізичні продукти, відслідковувати їх замовлення і давати інструкції, як використовувати оте, що вони поназамовляли. Мене звільнили через півтора місяці. Можливо, я щось не так робив, можливо, просто не вдався обличчям — у будь-якому випадку, що було, то загуло.  </p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br />На цю роботу я влаштувався самостійно, без будь-якої підтримки, перша заробітна плата була символом моєї незалежності, і перше звільнення — це був бурхливий вир емоцій. Але остання частина просто вибила землю з-під моїх ніг, гірше тільки зробили коментарі на кшталт: “це було занадто добре, щоб бути правдою”, “та ми тобі казали, що там надурять”, і “подивись на нього — він робить те та й се, ще й добре заробляє”. Дуже важко було бути вдома і відчувати себе невдахою. Але це відчуття зробило набагато більше ніж будь-яка ефемерна підтримка — воно мене загартувало і пробудило палке бажання довести, що всі помилялися щодо мене.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-templatemonster-0\">TemplateMonster</h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Хоч перша робота виявилась провалом, вона дала мені чітке розуміння, що треба продовжувати шукати роботу в IT. Наступну роботу я знайшов у TemplateMonster.com — добре відому у певних колах. Вона була повною протилежністю моєму минулому досвіду. У 2012 році вони продавали шаблони для більшості популярних CMS-ок того часу: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, і для різних рішень електронної комерції. Лише ознайомлення з роботою і навчання зайняло два місяці, що промовисто свідчить про те, наскільки серйозно компанія сприймала своїх людей — майже ніколи не звільняли, а якщо люди й ішли з роботи, то з власних причин.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br />Моїм завданням було допомагати клієнтам із шаблонами, які вони придбали: встановлення, налаштування, редагування. Було доволі складно, але дуже цікаво — мені подобалося. Тоді я вперше познайомився із WordPress. Я працював шість ночей на тиждень, а неділі були найважчими, бо тіло звикало до активності вночі і відмовлялося спати. Хоча такий графік мене не дуже турбував. Можливість створювати будь-які сайти і кастомізувати їх саме під себе — оце було до дідька захопливо. Я багато перепрацьовував, вивчав щось нове, заколупував розробників питаннями, щоб хоч трохи вгамувати жагу до знань. Але усе закінчилося несподівано швидко: я отримав три листи про зарахування на магістратуру у Фінляндії, вибрав один університет і поїхав до Центральної Фінляндії.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-гельсінкі\">Гельсінкі</h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Система навчання у Фінляндії побудована зовсім по-іншому — і, на мою думку, на краще. Коли я закінчив основні курси моєї спеціальності, я почав шукати роботу. Завдання було не з легких: рік я шукав пасивно, де-не-де подаючи заявки на роботу, і ще пів року я зайнявся цим активно, відгукуючись на декілька вакансій щодня. Зрештою, доля занесла мене у Гельсінське агентство, що розробляло сайти на WordPress — цим я займаюся і сьогодні. У нас була дуже дружня команда, приблизно з десяти людей, з більшістю з них я досі дружу. Ми будували сайти дуже різного рівня складності, удень, вечорами грали в настолки, ділились історіями зі свого життя і влаштовували грандіозні вечірки.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/image3.webp\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8751\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/image3-1024x1024.webp\" style=\"width: 400px;\" width=\"1024\" /></a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Вранішній “Weekly” у booncon PIXELS, моєму першому агентстві у Гельсінкі. Фото зроблене Володимиром Мельниченко. </figcaption></figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">З цією командою я вперше відвідав подію WordPress: WordCamp Helsinki 2017 — дводенну конференцію. Я не був вражений наповал, але вона відкрила мої очі на дещо. Коли ти працюєш у маленькому агентстві, і живеш у своїй бульбашці, а тут неочікувано відкривається цілий всесвіт. Ти бачиш іншу сторону WordPress — спільноту, людей, які рухають увесь проект вперед, людей, які стикаються з тими самими проблемами, які знаходять творчі способи ці проблеми вирішити. </p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br />Того першого місцевого WordCamp’у було достатньо, щоб нам захотілося рухатися далі. У 2019 році наша команда поїхала до Берліна на WordCamp Europe — це була моя перша закордонна поїздка за межі звичного для мене маршруту між Фінляндією та Україною. Ми провели кілька днів, досліджуючи місто й відвідуючи конференцію. Масштаб відчувався зовсім по-іншому: тисячі учасників і сотні волонтерів, які усе організовують. Стоячи серед цього натовпу, я зрозумів, що хочу бути частиною цього, і не просто як відвідувач.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">А потім почалася пандемія коронавірусу.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-порто\">Порто</h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/image1.webp\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8754\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/image1-768x1024.webp\" style=\"width: 400px;\" width=\"768\" /></a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Я, стою на даху Super Bock Arena, де проводився WCEU 2022. Фото зроблене Олександром Місяц</figcaption></figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordCamp Europe 2020 і 2021 років проходили онлайн, і мені здавалося, що вони втратили найголовніше — тисячі людей, зібраних в одному місці, які заряджають одне одного своєю енергією. Тож коли оголосили, що WCEU 2022 відбудеться в Порту, я почав збирати валізу. Цього разу я приєднався до команди волонтерів, щоб побачити WordCamp зсередини. І це було правильне рішення. Для українців це був непростий час — повномасштабне вторгнення вже тривало, і кожен шукав свій спосіб впоратися з новою реальністю. Для мене цей захід став джерелом сили. Я ближче познайомився з українською спільнотою, жваво дискутував зі спікерами й повернувся з відчуттям, що нарешті зрозумів, нашо той WordCamp.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Та поїздка також допомогла мені усвідомити дещо, над чим я давно розмірковував. Я завжди любив подорожувати, але існував бар&#8217;єр, який не мав стосунку ні до віз, ні до грошей — хоча й вони теж відігравали свою роль. Проблема була в тому, як виправдати саму подорож. Я виріс у культурі, де час потрібно витрачати з користю, тому подорожувати просто заради подорожі здавалося чимось, що важко пояснити. А ось робоча конференція — зовсім інша справа. Це цілком виправдана причина. Ніхто не питає, скільки задоволення ти на ній отримав. Саме так я побував у Німеччині, Португалії, Італії, Швейцарії та Польщі. Наступна — Іспанія.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Відвідувати WordCamp — це одне. Створювати подібний захід — зовсім інше.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-wp-suomi-0\">WP Suomi</h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">У 2025 році я став головним організатором <a href=\"https://wpsuomi.fi/\">WP Suomi</a> — першого незалежного фінського заходу, присвяченого WordPress, що відбувся в Гельсінкі. Місяці, які передували 10 жовтня, виявилися набагато напруженішими, ніж я очікував. Бюджет, логістика, подарунки, мерч, кейтеринг, координація локації — і сотні дрібниць, які мали зійтися в потрібний момент. Пам&#8217;ятаю, як прокидався посеред ночі з думкою, що не встиг замовити щось вчасно і воно не приїде до початку події. 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Is to get to the end of this episode and for your curiosity to have been turned into action. To have gotten you out of your chair, written an email, turned up to an event, helped organise a thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So please have that in the back of your mind. If you&#8217;re sitting listening to this in a car, at your desktop, there is actual action that could be taken at the end of this. I think the intention of all four of us on this panel would be dearly for that to happen.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, let&#8217;s establish the credentials of the people that we&#8217;re going to be talking to today. So we&#8217;ll just do a little potted bio of you one at a time. So we&#8217;ll begin with Destiny, if you could just tell us a little bit about you, your relationship with education in the WordPress space, I suppose would be apropos.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:06:01] <strong>Destiny Kanno:</strong> Yeah, absolutely. So again, Destiny Kanno. I&#8217;m currently working as an education program manager sponsored by Automattic. And I work directly with the Make WordPress Community Team. And I also work adjacently with the training team as well, because education training materials, they go pretty hand in hand. And I&#8217;ve been doing this now for about four years and, yeah, it&#8217;s just evolved since my original time working on Learn WordPress, and that relaunch that happened, to now, yeah, these wonderful programs that are spreading like wildfire as you said.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:06:37] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Fantastic. Thank you so much. Okay, we&#8217;ll move over to Anand for the same sort of introductory moment.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:06:43] <strong>Anand Upadhyay:</strong> Yes. So my name is Anand Upadhyay, and I run the WordPress plugin development company, WPVibes. Apart from that, I&#8217;m very much involved in the WordPress community and I contribute in multiple ways. It can be documentation, it can be Core, Polyglots. But I&#8217;m also keenly involved in the community part, and specifically I can say with the education initiatives, I started with WP Campus Connect in WordPress Campus Connect in 2024. And since then, after that we started joining hands with Destiny and we started evolving this program in a much bigger shape. So that&#8217;s it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:07:16] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay. Thank you so much. And last, but by no means least, Maciej.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:07:20] <strong>Maciej Pilarski:</strong> Yeah. Thanks for having me. My name is Maciej Pilarski. So I&#8217;ve been doing anything related to WordPress pretty much since 2007, so that&#8217;s been a while. But the biggest breakthrough for me was 2014 when I actually volunteered to WordCamp Europe in Sovia, Bulgaria. That opened my eyes to the whole community, everything that is happening around WordPress.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And since then, pretty much I&#8217;ve been working for multiple companies from the WordPress ecosystem. I joined Automattic in 2016. For many years I&#8217;ve been a Happiness Engineer, and since October last year, I&#8217;ve joined Isotta as one of the admins of the WordPress Credit program. And since that time, I will have been helping her out to grow that initiative.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And Destiny mentioned, it spreads like fire because at that time we had six universities onboarded, now we are at 21. The 21st, we got it after WordCamp Asia actually through a connection made there. And it&#8217;s our first institution from Africa, from Uganda. A huge shout out to Stephen Dumba, who I connected with during the event. And after that, pretty much a week after we signed our first partnership from Africa. So we&#8217;re actively growing and getting new institutions on board.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:08:42] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Thank you so much. Gosh, there was an awful lot in there, wasn&#8217;t there? That was really interesting. We&#8217;ll try and unpack quite a lot of that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firstly, a sort of slightly personal message from me. I don&#8217;t usually reveal much about myself on this podcast. I take the position that I&#8217;m a, kind of like an interested party, but don&#8217;t really give much of my own thoughts. However, this is different because I cannot think of a more interesting, meaningful, moral, let&#8217;s go with that word as well, use of time than educating people. It simply is the most profoundly useful thing to do with your life.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, obviously people will have different opinions about that, but the juxtaposition of free open source software, in this case WordPress, and education is a real sweet spot for me. I just think that is such an amazing thing to be involved in, to have going on in the background.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you think about it, an open source project, like how many open source projects have this level of stuff going on in the education space, this real international footprint. Things going on which we&#8217;ll find out about in a minute. It&#8217;s really fascinating.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I am sure that the listenership to this podcast, the vast majority of people listening will never have encountered much of this before. Maybe they&#8217;ve seen stuff on Learn because they want to technically learn about WordPress in an online capacity, but we&#8217;re going to be delving into real world events affecting real adults, real youngsters.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so anyway, that&#8217;s my little bit at the beginning, just how curious it is that the project is so big that we&#8217;ve got this international footprint of education. And so I suppose what we should do right at the beginning is lay out the different initiatives and just name them, and try to figure out how they differ from each other. Just so that we&#8217;ve got some kind of awareness.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I don&#8217;t know which one of you wants to take that, but if maybe you take one each or something, I don&#8217;t know. If we just want to lay out the, just erect that tent basically so that we know what the initiatives are called, and how they differ from one another. So I&#8217;ll open that up. Whoever wants to step in.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:10:48] <strong>Maciej Pilarski:</strong> I can start with the Credits Program. So the Credits Program is based, it&#8217;s a contribution based program, internship, initiative by the WordPress Foundation that connects higher education students with the global open source community. So basically it&#8217;s an opportunity for the students as part of the educational curriculum to contribute to the WordPress community.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are two types of courses that the students can do. One of them is 50 hours, the second one is 150 hours. Usually the students do that during a full academic semester. And as part of that, students are first onboarded into the WordPress ecosystem and the wider open source ecosystem where they learn not only about WordPress, but open source as a whole, and how crucial it is for the internet.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then the second phase is picking the contribution area to which they would like to contribute. All the contributions areas basically are the ones that are listed at make.wordpress.org. So any team that is listed there, students can pick from that area. During that phase, they work on a particular area that they have selected.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And finally, during phase three, they wrap up the whole achievements, the contribution, what they did, they publish a final post. And what is also very important as part of the credit scores, students have also assigned a mentor from the WordPress community that guides them through the whole process. We don&#8217;t leave them alone. We connect them with actual mentors from the WordPress community that are vetted by us, that guide them through the whole journey into the contribution and the whole WordPress ecosystem.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it works on multiple levels. For me, this connection is also special because it builds this bridge between the previous generation of WordPress contributors to the new one where they are introduced and can start working on any fields of contribution.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is also important is that this is not limited to technical universities. Pretty much any type of university can participate in the program. The first university that we started with was University of Pisa, and it was the humanity studies. So the students from humanity field were the first group who started the Credits Program. There&#8217;s room for pretty much anyone from any field.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:13:18] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay. There&#8217;s a lot there. Wow. I&#8217;ve just been taking notes and I&#8217;ve almost filled an entire A4 page. So WP Credits, the WordPress Credits Program, I guess the name sort of gives it away. The idea here is that you trade time for university or higher education credit. So credit being, I suppose if you were to atomise your three year degree, you might do, I don&#8217;t know, 12 modules or something like that. The idea is that one of those modules, perhaps it&#8217;s more, becomes something in the WordPress, but also curiously the free open source software space as well. I didn&#8217;t actually know that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The idea is that you link up with real world institutions. So the first one was Pisa, and maybe we can get into which other ones have come along. And in exchange for 50 hours or 150 hours, you will be given that credit, which can then go to the overall awarding of a degree or whatever it is that you are hoping to get.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;re then linked up with team members, WordPress community team members who will mentor you and shepherd you through this process. And the idea is that it culminates, I think you said in a final post, which I suppose in a sense is a bit like a dissertation or something like that, you sum up all the different bits and pieces. Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:14:29] <strong>Maciej Pilarski:</strong> Once that happens, the students also receives an official certificate from the WordPress Foundation, signed by Matt himself, that certifies that they completed the course. And what is also important to know, the whole progress through the course and what they did during the course, it&#8217;s also stored on the wordpress.org profile. So any contributions that they did, for example, photos that they&#8217;ve uploaded, this all will be visible on the wordpress.org profile. And they also receive a special badge dedicated to students who graduated from that program.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it really gets them started into the WordPress ecosystem, and at the same time creates something like a small portfolio for any future company that would like to, for example, hire them. Because they have a proven history of contributing to the ecosystem.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:15:20] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, so that&#8217;s an interesting quid pro quo, isn&#8217;t it? So the idea is you do all this work, which on the face of it, I suppose looks very philanthropic, you know, you&#8217;re giving up your time, but you get a real thing at the back end of it. You get a certificate. You can then presumably apply for jobs and indicate, okay, I&#8217;ve done this, I&#8217;ve contributed in this meaningful way.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I think is really interesting there, and it kind of gets lost, I&#8217;ve worked in education in the past and I know the red tape that&#8217;s involved in doing anything in the education space. There is so much red tape. And I can only imagine what&#8217;s happened in the background to enable these kind of things. You know, the back and forth, the tennis of emails that go on and on and the proof that&#8217;s required to categorically show that this thing that we are doing is worth something. You know, it&#8217;s not just this Mickey Mouse. We use that expression, Mickey Mouse kind of qualification that really, it doesn&#8217;t actually require any hard work. It&#8217;s just there, nothing really in it, but you get an accreditation anyway.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can only imagine the hard work that has gone in every single time you touch a new institution, trying to convince them that this is legitimate, that this is real. You&#8217;ve just kind of glossed over all of that by just describing what is in existence, not necessarily what has gone on to make it happen. I know that there&#8217;s probably more than the three of you involved in this, but my profound thanks for all of that hard work, which presumably is utterly and completely invisible. And I can only imagine what&#8217;s going on there. So yeah, thank you for all of that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:16:54] <strong>Maciej Pilarski:</strong> Thank you for that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:16:54] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So that was WP Credits. So that was one wing of the things that we&#8217;re going to discuss today. Should we move on to another one and maybe somebody else wants to take the helm?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:17:03] <strong>Anand Upadhyay:</strong> I think Destiny can take Campus Connect and then I will take Student Clubs.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:17:06] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay. Destiny, let&#8217;s move over to you and see what you can tell us about something different.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:17:11] <strong>Destiny Kanno:</strong> Yeah, so I&#8217;d love to tell you more about WordPress Campus Connect. And the way we ended with WordPress Credits, I think is also very critical to the story of Campus Connect because, you know, it started with Campus Connect first, and that&#8217;s how organisers such as Anand and Pooja like were able to get those connections with the universities through being boots on the ground, you know, having those relationships. Proving through action that these activities that we&#8217;re doing with the students are having real impact and are showing real results.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slowly building up these kind of case studies in a way has helped open a lot of doors, especially with Campus Connect now, we&#8217;ve done a lot of events, especially since we last talked. Like I think this year alone, we&#8217;ve already had 22 Campus Connect events. So, like it&#8217;s not even half the year and it&#8217;s quickly becoming one of the biggest run events, WordPress official series.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But these events are like a way of opening the door, right? Hey, here&#8217;s a free learning opportunity for your students. And as you said, like the red tape is there. A lot of institutions are like, wait, so what&#8217;s in it for you? Why is, there&#8217;s a little bit of dubiousness sometimes in the reaction, right? You&#8217;re going to give your time to educate our students, why? But once they see, it&#8217;s like, no, we really are just passionate about spreading WordPress, showing students what&#8217;s capable with their website, how it applies to different skillsets as well. Like it&#8217;s not just for coders, it is for marketers, it is for designers.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You know, there&#8217;s so many career opportunities that once we just get the foot in the door and we&#8217;re able to showcase that, a lot of institutions are like, okay, now I get it. I do want to highlight in Anand&#8217;s case, like they&#8217;re going to have their third WordPress Campus Connect in Ajmer this year. You&#8217;ve got repeat institutions. I&#8217;ve heard you also have institutions that are like, when are you going to come to our place and teach WordPress? You know, once the fire is lit and people see how bright and shiny it is, like people want to get involved.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But as you said, like getting it to click for people, that is like the most difficult part. And I&#8217;ll give an example of, right now in Japan, we had our first WordPress Campus Connect event on the 9th of May. So I&#8217;m like, woo hoo. Like it finally happened. But we have this community in Japan that is like very passionate, very active. So when I first was like introducing the concept of Campus Connect, people were like, okay, but like how do we do this? What&#8217;s it about? It takes like a lot of presentations, a lot of going to people in person and talking. Helping them even shape the conversation that they&#8217;re going to have with the institution to sell this amazing gift of WordPress on their campus.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And after this one on the ninth, like now we have a case study in Japan that others can now use to be a starting point for those conversations going forward. So I think, once you have that one step, the gate just slowly opens until it&#8217;s just, the doors bang open in each way. But yeah, we&#8217;ve seen really great success with Campus Connect and it&#8217;s just like honestly, it just keeps growing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:20:30] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Can I just ask a quick question? So I just want to draw a very clear line for everybody that&#8217;s listening to this, what the difference may be between Campus Connect and WP Credits. Because from the description that we&#8217;ve had so far, it may be that you&#8217;ve fallen into the trap of thinking, well, they sound like they might be the same thing. So could you just, Destiny, just tease out where Campus Connect differs? Maybe in the nature of the event, the timing of the event, the availability, the age group, those kind of things that separate WP Credits from the Campus Connect initiative.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:21:02] <strong>Destiny Kanno:</strong> Yeah. Thank you, that&#8217;s like a really great distinction to make. So whereas WordPress Credits is geared toward higher education, Campus Connect is geared toward, honestly any level of students as long as they&#8217;re able to browse the web safely, and enjoy and participate.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So that means, Elementary school students now are pretty good at devices. High school students, college students, vocational students. We honestly kept the door pretty open in terms of what a campus means. We&#8217;ve even had a Campus Connect event in Uganda in a library, the Lira Public Library because students were able to go there right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were trying to make it as barrier free for students wherever their campus is. And so that&#8217;s, I think, the main difference. It&#8217;s more wide ranging in terms of who can participate as a student. And then also the fact that it could be a one-off event, so a one day event. A lot nowadays are multiple day events, they&#8217;ll maybe go two times out of a month, or a couple days consecutively. And then after that it&#8217;s up to really the organisers in the institution whether or not we have another addition on their campus the same year, or the next year.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:22:15] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I&#8217;m going to tease out a few things. I just want to point out to, me as an English person, that is to say, not an English speaker, but somebody from England, campus has a really defined definition, and it&#8217;s usually bound to a university. Whereas it sounds like the description here, campus literally means the place where education happens, not it&#8217;s 18 years old and older, you know, people doing degrees, bachelors and PhDs and that kind of thing. Basically, if there&#8217;s an institution somewhere, that&#8217;s what the campus is in this case. Okay.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So the WP Credits program sounds like you forge your relationship with the university, and correct me if I&#8217;m wrong, it sounds like it takes place inside that institution, and it&#8217;s part of that program and what have you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Campus Connect initiative is much more ad hoc. It could be a one-off, it could be monthly, it could be inside a library, it could be inside the school, it could be an inside an institution. It feels a bit more like, I don&#8217;t know, a WordPress Meetup, but geared towards a younger audience or something like that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the minimum age requirement is really driven by your capacity to type on a keyboard and hold a mouse and those kind of things. And that&#8217;s kind of curious to me because I think my educational experience was always younger children. It&#8217;s really interesting how patterns are laid down at a very, very early age. Patterns that go on into much later life get laid down, typically at incredibly young ages. So this is fascinating for digging into that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it&#8217;s not just about, say, the code, it sounds like code is on the menu, but it could be about marketing, it could be about design. Basically the gamut of anything online, CMSy, those kind of things. Okay, is there anything you want to add? Did I misunderstand anything there, or misstate anything there?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:24:02] <strong>Destiny Kanno:</strong> No, I think you&#8217;re completely right. We&#8217;re trying to convey that WordPress isn&#8217;t just a blogging software that I think is still a lot of people have a mentality of. Like there are many ways to utilise it that goes beyond that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And one thing I did want to add are a couple numbers. So since WordPress Campus Connect became official in May of 2025, an official WordPress event series, I should say, we&#8217;ve had 42 completed events, with 71 participating institutions, and over 5,500 students have been reached.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:24:37] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> That&#8217;s something else. 42 events, 71 institutions, and I think you said five and a half thousand individuals. Good grief. I don&#8217;t know what the measure of success is for this, but that feels like success to me.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I mean, imagine turning up to a WordCamp, like a flagship WordCamp and five and a half thousand people descending on you. You&#8217;d feel slightly overwhelmed. That&#8217;s a lot, isn&#8217;t it? Gosh, that&#8217;s pretty remarkable. Wow. Congratulations.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:25:05] <strong>Destiny Kanno:</strong> And the majority, the outcome, the students make a website. So we could almost count those students as also new WordPress websites that are live now on the web. So within a year, organisers around the world have been able to make that happen.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:25:19] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Could I just perhaps draw another distinction as well, just very quickly, because it sounds like the WordPress Credit system, because it&#8217;s binding itself to institutions, it sounds like there might be more paperwork going on there, and maybe more high level meetings that need to take place. Whereas Campus Connect feels much more community driven. It&#8217;s the kind of thing that, quite literally, anybody listening to this podcast with a fair wind could have one of those going in a handful of months. If they&#8217;ve got the right initiative and they can find the audience for that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again, is that about right? There&#8217;s sort of more opportunity to become involved with the Campus Connect initiatives. You don&#8217;t need to have that academic background or have a point of contact at a university. You basically just need a building, some interest and a bunch of students.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:26:02] <strong>Destiny Kanno:</strong> Yeah, the key thing is, you know, having a real connection to the campus that you&#8217;re going to present at. But you&#8217;re exactly right. We tried really hard to lower the barrier to organise these events. Because I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve organised a WordPress event before, there&#8217;s kind of a lot of hoops you have to jump through. And we&#8217;re like, okay, how can we think about this in a different way?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I think that also has positive repercussions for how we organise other events too, that are, changes are being thought about too so that we can enable people and empower them to put these events, instead of bogging them down and process and a little bit of bureaucracy to say.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:26:38] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So what&#8217;s really curious about that as well is we&#8217;re all in different parts of the world, aren&#8217;t we? People on the call today are in Japan and I&#8217;m in Europe and, Anand, are you in India? I think.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:26:47] <strong>Anand Upadhyay:</strong> Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:26:47] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. Each of those events, I guess would look quite different. The kind of nature of the attendees, the nature of the kind of building it might be in, the institution. And it really is, you just grab what&#8217;s around you I suppose, and work with that. If you&#8217;ve got a connection to an institution, you can go for it. Maciej, I feel like I crosstalked you. I think you wanted to say quite a few times and I&#8217;ve just interrupted. I&#8217;m very sorry.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:27:08] <strong>Maciej Pilarski:</strong> No worries about that. So I wanted to add that those initiatives set backgrounds for each other. Because in some uni institutions, the interest sparks with a Campus Connect event, and that gets the institution interested in those initiatives, which sets background for WordCamp Credit.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it happens also the other way around, where we start with an institution that starts credits and then we get the students interested in WordPress in general, the community, which leads to a Campus Connect event during the Credits Program. What is important is that those initiatives don&#8217;t compete with each other. They support each other.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:27:51] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Right, so there&#8217;s a lovely virtuous cycle there, isn&#8217;t there? Where the two things can be going on in harmony, one promoting the other and they&#8217;re definitely not in competition. Okay. That&#8217;s really interesting.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One final question on Campus Connect, and I&#8217;ll direct this at Destiny, just because she&#8217;s been handling that. With the WP Credits thing, there is this moment where you hold the certificate in your hand and you go, yay, did it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is the same thing true of Campus Connect or is it more of a show up to the one event, you know that you did that, that was great, you can file that away in your own head as a thing? Or is there some sort of accreditation, or certificate giving, or badge giving, or profile updating that might go on on wordpress.org? Is there any sort of thing that the attendees receive, and I suppose that the people that are organising might receive as well?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:28:37] <strong>Destiny Kanno:</strong> Yes. So we do have a certificate of participation that students can receive signed by WordPress Foundation Executive Director, Mary Hubbard. And that just needs to be requested by the organisers ahead of time, because we need to get the signature and all that. So yes, they can come away with that. And we&#8217;ve heard really positive things about that, like it motivates them. They&#8217;re like, yeah, I did something, which they did.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:29:01] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> There we go. That was WP Credits and WP Campus Connect.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can I just say at this point, dear listener, if at this point you&#8217;re thinking hang on a minute, there&#8217;s a lot going on here, don&#8217;t worry, there&#8217;ll be show notes. If you go to the WP Tavern website, there&#8217;ll be show notes. I&#8217;ll try to list out as many sensible links to get you to the root of each one of these initiatives, so that you can begin your journey and fan out from there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m not sure what episode number this will be, but if you just go and search for, oh, I don&#8217;t know, Destiny or Anand or Maciej, you could probably find the episode that way. And all the show notes will contain all of the links.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right, in which case, I think it might be Anand&#8217;s turn. What have you decided to take on Anand?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:29:39] <strong>Anand Upadhyay:</strong> So I will be sharing my thoughts on the third part of this whole education initiative ecosystem. So that is a Student Club. Just a few minutes before you were giving the analogue of meetup with this Campus Connect. So I would like to share the same analogue with us because we are more accustomed with like other terms of WordCamps and Meetups and contributer days.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordPress Campus Connect is kind of like a WordCamp happening in the campus, because it&#8217;s like a big day event that holds everything happening, different kind of sessions, maybe workshops happening. So I would compare it with that thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And same way, credits thing, Credit Program is kind of like ongoing contribution series because more focused on the contribution part because the student devote 150 hours of their program. A lot of period goes to the contribution.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now the same way we, if we talk about the Student club, it&#8217;s similar to like the Meetups that we have. But these are the in campus meetups for the students and by the students. How do things get started? Like the Campus Connect introduce the WordPress to those campuses and to those students, but since most of the campus, it&#8217;s a once in a year event. So once this event has sparked something about the WordPress in the students. So keeping that momentum going on, that&#8217;s where the Student Clubs come in.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So with the Student Club, it&#8217;s kind of like, as I mentioned, it&#8217;s like an in campus meet program. So a student can gather themselves, they can form a club and a couple of students can be nominated as club organisers, student club organiser from their campus. And then they organise the in-campus events, maybe like once in a month or twice a month, depending on academic calendar. There are a lot of hurdles in doing those things continuously.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But they usually do once or twice a month. They do a kind of a meetup in their campus. The students gathered together. They learn from variable resources available from WordPress. And from those resources, they share with the other students. It&#8217;s kind of a group learning, group study, that we use. Education live, we always do that. It&#8217;s kind of a group study. They&#8217;re learning from themselves. If someone has learned something, they are helping others to learn those things.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I would just like to give some of the examples from my city. There are multiple Student Clubs are going on. When we went to the campus, we just taught like a small group of students about the WordPress, because we&#8217;d have some limitations of the resources, of the setting arrangement. We cannot call all the students of the campus and, okay, come together and I have a amazing workshop. So we have given the WordPress walk through to the limited number of students.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After that, they form a Student Club in their campus because they got very much interested. Then the first session they did was like, they started teaching to their juniors, like the students who have just entered the campus. They took a session for them. So they told, whatever we have told them, they have taught the same thing to the juniors.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After that, in the next few session, they experimented different things. Like in some session they&#8217;re just doing a fun quiz around WordPress. And in some sessions they are doing a kind of like a, I would say like a hackathon kind of thing. So they are just picking up a website. Or you can, just similar to the speed build challenge that Jamie do. So they have just one website open on the screen and everybody&#8217;s like cloning that website.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So there are different ways students are engaging through those student clubs. So it is helping to keep the momentum going on so that the student keep learning about WordPress and they are also connecting with the community members for the guidance about how they can learn more. What should they learn next if they are sharing their experience. Like we have covered these things and, what should we go next?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And in the recent WordCamp Asia, they&#8217;re also one of the Student Club lead from my city. She joined the event and there are conversation with the, like other community members who has offered them like, okay, we can come to your campus, or we can do, have a webinar for your campus where we can teach you particular subjects, particular topics. Maybe they can talk about SEO, maybe they can talk about plugin development.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So this is also opening the horizon for them, to learn from people across the world. So that is how the Student Clubs are happening. The examples I&#8217;ve gave, again, from my own city because I&#8217;m closely mentoring them, but there&#8217;s similar things are happening across the world.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it is helping to create a kind of sustainable environment for the long-term sustainable environment in the campus. So the next time when we go to that campus, we are not going to teach like the basics of WordPress, because we want like, the ecosystem should be built within the campus, so every student know about the WordPress. Because last time when we went to the campus, we have to tell everything about WordPress because why you should learn WordPress.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So the Student Clubs, my ambition is that, wherever the Student Club is from, next time a Campus Connect event is happening, next time we should not tell them about what is WordPress and why they should learn this thing. There should be already a sustainable ecosystem.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I feel that all these three programs are like very much interconnected. And the real impact of these programs, we will be able to see in the next two or three years. And there will be a regular ongoing activities around WordPress in the campus.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And these are also kind of a balance program as well. Like the Campus Connect is introducing WordPress to the students, Credits Program is motivating them more towards like the contribution part. And I would say that Student Clubs is more inclined towards getting new users to the WordPress. Because if we keep on focusing on the contribution, contribution, but if we discard the like increasing the number of new users, so we are not going to win. We need a balanced state.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Student Club is trying to, learning how to build website, how to mastering the skills of the WordPress. And later on, many of them are going to join the contribution part as well.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So this whole ecosystem is built around bringing more people to the contribution, bringing more people to use WordPress, build websites, as in, for the individuals as a business as well. So that&#8217;s how all these three programrs are very much interconnected, and growing together fast.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:35:16] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> It feels like, of the three things that we&#8217;ve talked about, so WP Credits, Campus Connect, the Student Club, this final one that you&#8217;ve just covered, it feels like that&#8217;s got a very flat hierarchy to it. In other words, there&#8217;s like this peer learning. So it feels like more or less anybody can show up and demonstrate anything, which might then lead to somebody else thinking, okay, that was interesting, I&#8217;ll take on next month&#8217;s one because I&#8217;ve now seen that&#8217;s doable. Less hierarchy, if you know what I mean? So a much more flat structure.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:35:45] <strong>Anand Upadhyay:</strong> Because when we started Campus Connect, we also get a lot of attraction in the local community as well. And people join our Meetup groups. But then it becomes difficult for us, how to plan about the topics for our meetup. We have some experienced professionals coming in. We have some students coming in, and we plan the topics that suits the professionals. The student will feel like, okay, what&#8217;s they&#8217;re talking, we are not getting anything in our mind. If we bring the topics, very basic topics and the professionals who are joining the community meetups, they&#8217;ll feel like, okay, these are very basic stuff, why am I coming here?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Student Clubs giving them their own platform, giving them a own opportunity. Okay, these are all the familiar faces. It is also giving the opportunity to come on the stage, come onto the stage and get out of your fear as well. It is also generating leadership qualities in them. Okay, we have to keep this momentum going on and we have to keep the activities going on. So there are a lot of ways, apart from learning WordPress, there are a lot of other ways it is helping the students as well.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:36:40] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> When you have to stand up in front of a bunch of people and deliver something, obviously there&#8217;s a whole bunch of us that are just really confident at doing that, quite happy to stand up and do that kind of thing off the bat. But equally, there&#8217;s people for whom that is just the most terrifying experience possible. You know, standing up in front of two or three people, oh boy, you know, anything above that is just off the books.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I was just wondering about that, whether or not there&#8217;s, in this particular style of event, the Student Club, whether there is a growing corpus of, I don&#8217;t know, previously done topics or topic suggestions or slide decks or anything like that, which might enable people to feel that level of confidence? I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s something which is being put together. Just resources which enable somebody who doesn&#8217;t have the confidence, let&#8217;s go with that word, who then may gain that confidence. And I&#8217;m going to pass this to Destiny because she&#8217;s waving her hand.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:37:30] <strong>Destiny Kanno:</strong> I was really hoping I could shamelessly plug this project. This is like, you&#8217;ve said the most opportune thing. So I&#8217;m actually developing right now what I&#8217;m like tentatively calling the Meetup Activity Library. It comes with like kits on certain topics. So for example, WordPress Playground was the first one I built. But it comes with the facilitation guide, which is a doc. So the facilitator can read through, understand the steps they&#8217;re going to go through in the activity, how to pace it. And then a presentation deck which they would display, if that&#8217;s available to them, to the folks that they&#8217;re presenting to. And it&#8217;s a hands-on activity only. So it&#8217;s not only presentation. The facilitator of course guides and talks them through things, but then people are getting hands-on experience with that topic along the way.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:38:16] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> That is a beautiful remover of barriers, because I think just having that little document, that little crutch, you don&#8217;t have to feel that you, okay, I&#8217;ve got to come up with a topic. Not only have I got to come up with a topic, but then I&#8217;ve got to research the topic, deliver the topic. If you can have it all on a thing that you can crib from, I don&#8217;t know, it just arms you with that confidence as you walk in. I think that&#8217;s such a brilliant topic. And, Maciej.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:38:40] <strong>Maciej Pilarski:</strong> Both Destiny and Anand mentioned two keywords, sustainability and facilitator. The goal of also getting all those educational initiatives going is also create in a sustainable way. We&#8217;re not pushing for numbers, but growing them in a smart way where we don&#8217;t get too many students so we get overwhelmed. We need to have enough mentors to accommodate those students, and also enough facilitators to be able to scale the program, to grow it in the future.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it&#8217;s exactly what Destiny is now doing, the Facilitator Training Program, which gets more people from the educational sectors, community organisers, everyone on board, to jump on those educational initiatives and help us to grow. Because the number of every, all those students involved in participating in those programs is increasing and we need to be able to accommodate them. And through the Facilitator Training Program, this allows us to do that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:39:42] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> It&#8217;s so interesting in open source software spaces as opposed to corporate spaces. I suppose the metric of success for anything like this in the corporate universe would be how many people showed up and gave us money in exchange for this knowledge or, you know, something akin to that. Basically a metric of humans in a room and money gained. And of course, the measurement of this is so not that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did wonder, Destiny obviously very proudly rattled off the statistics for Campus Connect, you know, the five and a half thousand attendees and all of that. I wondered if there were success criteria of some kind in the background, which guide you. You know, it&#8217;s not like, okay, well we didn&#8217;t meet that we&#8217;re going to abandon it all. But more, things like you would like to see happen, so aspirational goals. It sounds from what Maciej was saying that maybe the attendance growing slowly over time is some kind of measure of success. Maybe there is none of that, but I&#8217;ll just open that one up to see if you want to take that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:40:38] <strong>Destiny Kanno:</strong> I think one definite measure of success is repeat events on certain campuses. So if the campus is saying, we love that, please come back, or please come again soon. I think that is a really great indicator that, not only did the students get something great out of it, but the school believes in it. And that&#8217;s what we want to do. We want to create these systems that, not only bring people into WordPress, but also continue this cycle of, you know, growth within the community, but also ownership by the institution.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another measurement of success is the institution is like, okay, great, how do we learn how to do that ourselves? So we have some folks now working in the institution that are organising WordPress Campus Connect events that are helping facilitate these Student Clubs. So the faculty and educators themselves, they&#8217;re directly getting involved. And that for us as community members too, whose volunteer time is quite limited, as Maciej was saying, like it is a great multiplier that makes everything much more sustainable.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:41:45] <strong>Maciej Pilarski:</strong> So from the WordPress Credits perspective, we don&#8217;t hope all the students to turn into contributors. That would be amazing but that might not happen. I can share with you some numbers. So currently we have 450 students globally enrolled. For the whole program so far, 75 graduates.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We hope that some or as many as possible of those graduates who completed the program will stay and become active contributors to the WordPress community, stay engaged.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s one of the goals we are aiming for the Credits Program, to not just get this done, but this is building the next generation of contributors. We know that like we are ageing, we&#8217;re getting older every year. We are not getting younger, unfortunately. Getting those students staying in the community allows us to build those next generations of WordPress contributors that will also have completely different perspectives to how the community functions, how it was built.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What brought us here might not move us forward. So these new students will bring us this new, fresh perspective of how they would like the community to function and move it to the future, to be current, to stay up to date with what&#8217;s happening globally.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:43:00] <strong>Anand Upadhyay:</strong> That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s very difficult to like measure the impact in numbers because how it is impacting in the longer term. But yeah, it&#8217;s going to impact. And I would say also, like Destiny mentioned, one of the metrics is like this campus is willing to have the Campus Connect again and again in the campus.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I just want to share one more. Like I just recently got a call from one of the faculty coordinators from one of the campus where we have a Student Club. And now they have like two months of vacations. And he called me like, okay, now the vacations are going on, students will not be here, so what can we do for the students to keep their involvement with the WordPress in those two months? So can we do something online? Can we do something like this?</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we get these calls, these kind of communications, that these are interactions that we have, this gives us a sense of like accomplishment. Okay, yeah, we were able to create some kind of interest in the students. Because we cannot expect that if we are going to like any campus and 100 or 200 students are participating in our Campus Connect, they are all going to jump into the WordPress. They are getting a lot of different kind of opportunities as well.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are other technologies as well, which are, some students are going into that, some students are going into that. But we are showcasing the WordPress as one of the career opportunities. And they have a choice of multiple options, so they will choose what they do. But yeah, the impact will be seen in the next few years. Just like Maciej said, mentioned that he went to the WordCamp as a volunteer and it&#8217;s bring him into the community.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the same is with me. I attended the WordCamp and just after coming out of the WordCamp, I started the Meetup group in my city. So I got inspired from that. So that is a result of that WordCamp. And that cannot be measured in the numbers. That can only be sensed when we are doing this kind of conversation. Okay, that WordCamp helped me, that WordCamp helped me.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same way in future, these students who will join the community or the WordPress industry, they will be talking about, okay, I got first introduced about WordPress through a WordPress Campus Connect event or I got introduced to the contribution through WP Credits Program. So when these conversation will be happening in the future, then we will say that those are the real metrics that we are looking for.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:45:00] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> That&#8217;s really interesting, and I like that. It sounds like there&#8217;s not so much a focus on statistics, you know, literal, brutal numbers, more kind of playing it forwards and measuring the impact over many years, not, you know, a handful of months into the future.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:45:15] <strong>Destiny Kanno:</strong> So yes, we&#8217;re not like, okay, here&#8217;s our KPIs, you know, and here&#8217;s our hard metrics. But one thing I really noticed that our community is, it could be better at doing, is just talking about what happened. Because then you hear all these success stories and there are numbers in that. So like for example, Ajmer again, Women&#8217;s Day event this year. 50% of tickets sold were to students. And that&#8217;s directly because of the involvement in going to these campuses and teaching WordPress. And I&#8217;m like, that&#8217;s amazing, that&#8217;s direct injection of 50% youth into the WordPress community.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:45:52] <strong>Anand Upadhyay:</strong> And they sold out so fast.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:45:53] <strong>Destiny Kanno:</strong> And they sold out really fast, yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:45:55] <strong>Anand Upadhyay:</strong> The organisers were hoping like, now we have to pitch out to sale our tickets. And they have planned a social media campaign around that. Okay, we will be periodically pitch a student on the social media to encourage the ticket purchase. And within one day, we sold out. And the whole social media campaign was like their whole planning was gone. We don&#8217;t have tickets.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:46:14] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> It&#8217;s really interesting that there&#8217;s all this success going on, and yet, as Destiny said, it is hard to get that discovered. Maybe it&#8217;s a case of shouting louder about the previous success. Maybe things like this podcast will help in some small way for things like that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I know what you mean. There&#8217;s a lot of people talking about the code, and there&#8217;s a lot of people talking about the plugins and the themes and whether or not we&#8217;re going to get collaborative editing in version 7 or 7.1. All of that seems to suck up all of the oxygen in the room. And yet, without a throughput of, let&#8217;s go for young adults, coming into the WordPress space, there&#8217;s not really a great deal of hope for a project over decades unless we get people of a much younger age beginning now. And I&#8217;ll just hand the torch to Maciej because I think he&#8217;s got something to add.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:47:05] <strong>Maciej Pilarski:</strong> But this is also changing because at WordCamp Asia, we were able to introduce the educational table during the contributor day. And I&#8217;m also organiser of WordCamp Europe that&#8217;s going to happen really soon in two, three weeks, beginning of June. And during WordCamp Europe, we will also have a contributor table, dedicated to education, but for the first time also educational track.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the second day, we will start the whole day with topics related to education. We will have a discussion panel rethinking learning in WordPress that Mary will be participating. And later in that afternoon, we will have actual students, who take part in the program. Sharing the experience, presenting the results. Not only students from universities, but I&#8217;m also leading a group of high school students who&#8217;ve been working for the whole past semester with a teacher on some projects related to WordPress building websites. So they are super eager and excited to show them.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will also showcase some students, teachers stories, how both of those sites motivated each other, learn from each other, and basically help us keep growing the community.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So WordCamp Europe definitely will feature some of those things. And we&#8217;re slowly introducing more and more those things into those flagship events and into the broader community.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:48:28] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Really nice. Yeah, that&#8217;s really nice to hear. I think it&#8217;s a difficult circle to square, the idea of making this stuff visible so that everybody&#8217;s aware of it. Even if they&#8217;re only interested in running their agency, or writing code or whatever it is. Maybe to realise that this is some version of the underpinnings of the WordPress community without which the software ultimately doesn&#8217;t exist.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it is quite curious. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m reading between the lines here, I think I&#8217;m not, but I get the impression that, I&#8217;m going to use the phrase like, I don&#8217;t know, from higher up, let&#8217;s put it that way. It feels like education is taking a more central place. It feels like for example, Mary Hubbard, it feels like you&#8217;ve got a real advocate there. Again, I could be reading between the lines, but it feels like the words coming out of her mouth, I hear the word education coming out of her mouth quite a lot when she&#8217;s on stage.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it feels like you&#8217;ve got some big hitters, let&#8217;s go with that. I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve got anything you want to add to that, but it feels like the importance of this is more profound this year than it was a few years ago.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:49:33] <strong>Maciej Pilarski:</strong> You are correct. Mary is a big supporter of that and she also created this space for us to grow those initiatives that like allows us to grow that. Isotta started the first Credits Program at the Pisa University as an experiment. And from there it was proven that this actually works. It gets us universities and new contributors.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then on the other side, there was those Campus Connect events that also organically grew up on their own. So basically there was a need. It feels like there was this hive mind somehow that worked also for all of us. All of us felt this need to introduce those things. It looks like we&#8217;ve reached a certain growth level for the community that we organically felt that that&#8217;s the direction that we should start heading.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:50:24] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. What&#8217;s interesting there as well is that it very much overlaps with maybe a concern. So we&#8217;ve touched on this at various points without saying it out loud quite. If you go to, and I&#8217;m going to exclude WordCamp Asia 2026 from what I&#8217;m about to say, because that event was very different. If you go to a typical WordCamp, the age skews, and I&#8217;m doing air quotes, older. You don&#8217;t typically look around and see a bunch of teenagers.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So that&#8217;s a concern. There&#8217;s this, like a pyramid, like a reverse pyramid, and if we don&#8217;t get the younger people coming up, the edifice of this entire project kind of becomes a lot more shaky. And we&#8217;ve lived through 22 plus years of WordPress, and I think quite a lot of those people began, a lot of the people who&#8217;ve been involved in the community began their careers using WordPress and they&#8217;ve kind of moved through WordPress as it&#8217;s evolved over those 22 years.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And not to, I don&#8217;t know quite how to say this. At some point they&#8217;re going to stop contributing. Their age will become something, you know, they want to retire or they want to move on or do some other things. Unless we build the scaffolding and put things in place so that young people feel they&#8217;ve got a place here, feel that, I don&#8217;t know, some proprietary system is not the way they want to go, they want to support the ethic of open source.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unless these building blocks, these educational building blocks are put in place, then that&#8217;s going to be a bit of a concern. So to your point, Maciej, it organically grew. And what a nice thing that it did kind of organically grow because it&#8217;s sorely needed at the same time. There isn&#8217;t really a question in there. But anyway, there&#8217;s my observation. Anand, did you have something to say? I think you did.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:52:04] <strong>Anand Upadhyay:</strong> Yeah. So just want to add that thing you have raised recently. So the way that we want to teach the students about the open source as well, because if you go to the WP Credit curriculum, so the initial lessons, they learn through the, given to them to learn from the learn.wordpress. So it&#8217;s all about like open source ethics, and how the WordPress community, WordPress project works.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So this opens up their mind about the open source. Because in the education system, it is something that is not clearly mentioned. There are simple, just simple definitions around the open source. But open source is much more than those definitions.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And especially the open source community like WordPress. It&#8217;s more about the people. So the students also learn about how the community is working, how the people are working from the different time zones, people are joining hands for running the bigger events like WordCamp Asia or these Credits Programs. The students will learn all those things as well, and I&#8217;m sure when they will join as a contributor in the future, they will have lot of experience before joining as well.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:53:02] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Thank you. I love that expression, by the way. You just dropped it in in the middle of a sentence there. You said people are joining hands. What a perfect summation of the entire enterprise being discussed today. Maciej, you raised your hand.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:53:14] <strong>Maciej Pilarski:</strong> Yeah, and besides the community goals and keeping it going, I have also a very personal goal that also is behind all of those things that I do. From my own experience, I had a pretty difficult and bumpy educational path, let&#8217;s call it. Unlocking those possibilities for those students, helping them out, making it easier for them, it&#8217;s one of my very personal goals, because I know it does not need to be very difficult or crazy when you study, especially when you are young. You&#8217;re not sure fully which direction you would like to go. So creating for them, one of those opportunities that might click for them is also something very personal and close to my heart. Because not everyone needs to struggle or have like difficulties, so.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:53:58] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I am so glad you said that because that encapsulates all of it. That&#8217;s the entire point. It&#8217;s got to be that, right? So we&#8217;ve spent a long time talking about the minutiae of this, that, and the other thing. It all goes, like they&#8217;re spokes on a wheel. And the whole point is that little bit in the middle, which is the child, the adult, the human being somewhere who just wants to make use, wants to grow, wants to learn things, wants to figure things out.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With open source, with this kind of learning, there is potentially zero impediment, or at least very few impediments to actually get that learning underway. And so I think maybe we lost sight of that in this conversation a little bit. So I&#8217;m glad that you grounded it there, Maciej, right towards the end. That&#8217;s perfect. Destiny, was there anything you wanted to say? I don&#8217;t know if you were indicating that you did.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:54:48] <strong>Destiny Kanno:</strong> I know we&#8217;re like probably over time, but there&#8217;s still so much to share. Like even thinking about keeping WordPress relevant, right? For us and then also for youth. I think about the new AI Leaders Credential that was announced and is being worked on. And how tying WordPress to AI is like really helping students engage more, and see like the relevancy of it in a different way. Not even for the students, like for me, that&#8217;s challenging me and I think other organisers and learners of WordPress to be adaptable and think about WordPress differently in a new way of this year as AI keeps advancing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then you were also talking about wins, right? How do we celebrate that? I did want to surface, we have the Education Buzz Report, which goes out every month, which aims to try to surface all of these educational wins that are happening in the community. And I just have received some further collaboration from marketing to hopefully also broadcast that on our socials going forward so that we do get the word out.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And lastly, like celebrating the students too. There was a post that went out about the Student Clubs and the success. And we just want to make sure that in this, that they feel seen, right? And that this feels like a space for them. And I know WordPress Credits, we&#8217;re working on something to showcase, no, something went out recently. A post went out recently to showcase some of the successes of the students. And we just want to keep highlighting that as well. Because their work and the way they operate, especially because they&#8217;re coming in with different lenses, is really important to showcase and highlight and make sure that they feel like they deserve that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:56:26] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, there was a post, I&#8217;ll try and link to it. I think it was like a week ago about the Student Clubs. There were three or four images, three or four photos and there were so many smiling faces in those pictures. It was absolutely lovely. Lots of people gathered in classrooms. I couldn&#8217;t exactly tell where, but it was just so nice seeing people kind of enjoying WordPress, having a nice time, bit of camaraderie, hanging out with each other, learning things. It was absolutely wonderful.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, I think time might have got the better of us. Hopefully, dear listener, what you&#8217;ve gained is an understanding that there&#8217;s so many layers to this educational initiative. It doesn&#8217;t appear to be in any way standing still. It&#8217;s growing. It&#8217;s interesting. There&#8217;s a lot going on, and you can be involved.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will put links in the show notes to any of the places where I feel you would be best making a start with that. Maybe the contributors to this panel can drop some things, you know, if they&#8217;ve got a particular link. So again, wptavern.com. If you want to go over there, we will look for the links.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This giant edifice that you maybe know nothing about, and maybe at the end of this episode, some parts of you is tuned in and thinking, I would like to be involved in that. And the truth is, you can be. It&#8217;s all available to you to get involved and you could start today.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So there we go. With that said, I&#8217;m just going to say a great big thank you to Destiny, to Anand, and to Maciej. It kinds of feels like we need to come back. Let&#8217;s do it again in six months or so, and we&#8217;ll see where we&#8217;re at. Oh, I&#8217;ve got a lot of nodding faces. That&#8217;s nice. So maybe we&#8217;ll revisit this in a few months time.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But seriously, from the bottom of my heart, Destiny, Anand and Maciej, profound respect to you and all of the different things that you are doing. Thank you so much for chatting to me today.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:58:13] <strong>Anand Upadhyay:</strong> Thank you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:58:13] <strong>Maciej Pilarski:</strong> Thank you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[00:58:14] <strong>Destiny Kanno:</strong> Thank you.</p>\n</div></details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the podcast today we’re joined by three WordPress education initiative leaders, Destiny Kanno, Anand Upadhyay and Maciej Pilarski.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Together, they have spent years at the heart of WordPress training and outreach, working in roles spanning community education management, plugin development, and credit program administration. Their efforts have helped shape student engagement and university partnerships across the globe, introducing thousands of learners to WordPress. You can see their bios further down.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conversation focused on the current landscape of WordPress education, with particular attention to three key initiatives: the WordPress Credits Program, Campus Connect, and Student Clubs. Each initiative is designed to provide unique entry points for students of all ages and education levels, from high schoolers building their first site in a library, to university students earning official credits for open source contributions.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We discussed the different approaches these programs take: WP Credits ties student work directly to academic credit and mentorship, Campus Connect provides flexible, community-driven events in diverse locations, and Student Clubs foster sustainable, peer-led learning within schools and other institutions. We explored how these models feed into each other, building a sustainable ecosystem for ongoing growth in the WordPress community.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also got into the importance of repeat campus partnerships, the need for scalable facilitator training, and the role of recognition: certificates, badges, and public showcases, in keeping students motivated and validated in their journey.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you’re curious about the growing movement to bring WordPress knowledge to the next generation, or are looking to get involved with education in your local community, this episode is for you.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Useful links</h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previous episode of the podcast related to this episode:<br /><a href=\"https://wptavern.com/forums/topic/183-destiny-kanno-isotta-peira-and-anand-upadhyay-on-how-wordpress-is-shaping-the-future-of-education-for-students-worldwide\">#183 – Destiny Kanno, Isotta Peira and Anand Upadhyay on how WordPress is shaping the future of education for students worldwide</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/community/\">WordPress Community Team</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https://events.wordpress.org/campusconnect/\">Welcome to WordPress Campus Connect</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/stephendumba1/\">Stephen Dumba&#8217;s WordPress.org profile</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/handbook/wordpress-credits-contribution-internship-program/\">WordPress Credits: Contribution Program for Students</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https://wordpress.org/education/student-clubs/\">WordPress Student Clubs</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https://events.wordpress.org/campusconnect/2025/ajmer/\">WordPress Campus Connect in Ajmer</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/community/2026/05/01/peer-review-needed-hands-on-wordpress-meetup-activity-library/\">Peer Review Needed: Hands-On WordPress Meetup Activity Library</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/community/2026/04/03/introducing-the-wordpress-facilitator-training-program/\">Introducing the WordPress Facilitator Training Program</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2026/02/ai-leaders-credential/\">Piloting the AI Leaders Micro-Credential</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/community/2026/06/03/monthly-education-buzz-report-may-2026/\">Monthly Education Buzz Report – May 2026</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https://learn.wordpress.org\">Learn WordPress</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2026/04/student-clubs-build-momentum/\">WordPress Student Clubs Build Momentum</a></p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links provided by the guests</h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>WordPress.org Education page:<br /><a href=\"https://wordpress.org/education/\">https://wordpress.org/education/</a> (and all subpages)</li>\n\n\n\n<li>WordPress Credits Institution application form:<br /><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/handbook/wordpress-credits-contribution-internship-program/#get-involved\">https://make.wordpress.org/handbook/wordpress-credits-contribution-internship-program/#get-involved</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Call for WP Credits mentors and mentor application form:<br /><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/handbook/wordpress-credits-contribution-internship-program/a-guide-for-wp-credits-mentors/call-for-mentors/\">https://make.wordpress.org/handbook/wordpress-credits-contribution-internship-program/a-guide-for-wp-credits-mentors/call-for-mentors/</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Any companies interested in supporting the Credits Program:<br /><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/handbook/wordpress-credits-contribution-internship-program/get-involved-company-guide/\">https://make.wordpress.org/handbook/wordpress-credits-contribution-internship-program/get-involved-company-guide/</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Student form to apply their institution for the Credits Program:<br /><a href=\"https://airtable.com/appIzQKfwTn5dyPVp/shr6Gf1mMMEAxevw4\">https://airtable.com/appIzQKfwTn5dyPVp/shr6Gf1mMMEAxevw4</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/education/wordpress-facilitator-training-program/\">WordPress Facilitator Training Program</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Education buzz reports: <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/education-buzz/\">https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/education-buzz/</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Apply to organize a WPCC event: <a href=\"https://events.wordpress.org/campusconnect/organize/\">https://events.wordpress.org/campusconnect/organize</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Apply to create a student club: <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/education/student-clubs/request-the-creation-of-a-wordpress-student-club/\">https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/education/student-clubs/request-the-creation-of-a-wordpress-student-club/</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ai credentials:<br /><a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2026/02/ai-leaders-credential/\">https://wordpress.org/news/2026/02/ai-leaders-credential/</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Guest bios:</h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Destiny Kanno</h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Destiny Fox Kanno, sponsored contributor acting as a Community Education Programs Manager at Automattic. Destiny works closely with the Community team and Training Team, with a focus on growing, enabling and amplifying WordPress Campus Connect, Student Club, WordPress Credits and other education initiatives.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anand Upadhyay</h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anand Upadhyay is a long-time WordPress contributor and community advocate based in Ajmer, India. Active in the ecosystem since 2010, he has contributed to several Make WordPress teams including Core, Docs, Community, and Polyglots, with a strong focus on empowering others to get involved. He is the founder of <a href=\"https://wpvibes.com\">WPVibes</a>, a WordPress plugin development company that builds performance-driven tools for WordPress and WooCommerce users.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anand is also a regular WordCamp speaker, Meetup organiser, and someone deeply committed to bringing WordPress education to students. In 2024, he launched the first WordPress Campus Connect event, which went on to become a global program officially recognised by the WordPress Foundation. Anand continues to support and mentor student communities through events, workshops, and open-source advocacy.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Maciej Pilarski</h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maciej Pilarski is a Community Wrangler at Automattic, where he works on WordPress.org with a focus on educational initiatives that connect the next generation of contributors to the global WordPress community.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As one of the admins behind the WordPress Credits Program, Maciej works with universities across Central &amp; Eastern Europe and Asia to bring students into open source contribution, pairing them with mentors, building institutional partnerships, and helping turn academic coursework into real-wor