Raquel is the founder of WonderlandCurious, a tech event consultancy dedicated to creating innovative and engaging experiences. With nearly a decade of expertise in the WordPress community and a passion for fostering connections, Raquel is now spearheading her first major project, PressConf.
Raquel is a perpetually curious soul with a passion for community building, firmly believing in creating meaningful connections wherever her feet land. She actively participates in diverse communities spanning creative industries, tech, startups, and beyond. Outside of work, Raquel recently graduated from full-time parenthood and embraces life with wanderlust, a love for music and the outdoors, a playful sense of sass, and a deep connection to her big, Indigenous family.
Active, vibrant, collaborative, warm, welcoming, friendly, strong ties to the global community, the epitome of Southern hospitality.
We are unique in that Meetup attendance is spread across a large metropolitan area among six individual groups, yet we are one Community. The Meetup organizers are friends who work together to foster a learn-do-teach approach in all or our events. Keep Reading Y’all
“Our community has gone through it’s ups and downs growing and shrinking. Since our first WordCamp in 2016 we have grown the number of regular members significantly. We are building friendships and business relationships. We work to make each other better and welcome any new face.” Keep Reading Y’all
Our Meetup topics are divided into three categories. Between 2016 and 2017 we’ve hosted 3 Meetups a month for three respective topics. We recently added a fourth Meetup mid-2017. We have Meetup topics for self-hosted WordPress users and developers of themes and plugins (organized by Steve Bruner), WordPress.com users who are often beginners to WordPress or content creators (organized by Winstina Hughes), and a WordPress Help Desk where members can ask questions, seek solutions to pressing challenges and share expertise (organized by Scott Becker).Keep Reading Y’all
“We are a small group that meets outside of Washington, DC. Being small gives us a chance to get to know new people and make them feel welcome. We usually have dinner and drinks and spend most of the time talking about what we do, in addition to having a featured speaker.”
“Our group brings together women (and men) who blog, design, develop, and market in the WordPress community. Meetings begin with introductions and a 30 minute pre-determined discussion on a WordPress topic the 3rd Wednesday of each month. We learn over dinner and then everyone takes 2 minutes to share something they’ve learned in WordPress that month.
Since we organized we’ve seen many WordPressers in our local community get involved and develop confidence in their skills and themselves. We’ve witnessed many of our members submit as speakers for the first time and encouraged others to begin their own local WomenWhoWP Meetups (worldwide). Friendships have developed and mentorship has naturally evolved. It’s amazing to be a part of such an inspiring group!”
We have 100+ people at the WordPress DC Meetup every month. It’s a great mix of people, with everybody from WordPress newbies to Automattic employees! Developers, marketers, designers and WP enthusiasts make up the community that led to WordCamp DC 2017 being the second largest first-time WordCamp in a city ever (only behind WordCamp San Francisco, the precursor to WordCamp U.S.). Woohoo!
I’ll never forget my first time at a WordPress event. It was at the WordCamp San Diego 2012 after-party. I was new and being introduced to many faces that night. Almost immediately I felt a sense of shock at how warm & inviting this community was. This was one of the very few times I had been around a group of people that genuinely cared about getting to know me; that sincerely desired to listen to me; that was just plain interested in others more than themselves. I was hooked.
Everyone has their “WordPress origin story;” the story of how they got sucked into the community. How they discovered a community to get involved with and invest in. This is mine.
What is yours? Tell us about your local WordPress Community and what makes it special. We would love to feature our local and regional WordPress communities at our WCUS 2017 Community Bazaar! Read all about it and join us in the fun!
Check out WP Tavern’s interview of two of our organizers where they talk community love:
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We are unique in that Meetup attendance is spread across a large metropolitan area among six individual groups, yet we are one Community. The Meetup organizers are friends who work together to foster a learn-do-teach approach in all or our events. Keep Reading Y’all
Since our first WordCamp in 2016 we have grown the number of regular members significantly. We are building friendships and business relationships. We work to make each other better and welcome any new face.” Keep Reading Y’all
Keep Reading Y’all
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