{"id":96,"date":"2014-06-04T17:31:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T16:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zedejose.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2018-10-20T16:39:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T15:39:03","slug":"europaer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zedejose.com\/europaer\/","title":{"rendered":"Europ\u00e4er"},"content":{"rendered":"
So, it looks like\u00a0I’m presenting the keynote talk at WordCamp Hamburg 2014<\/a>, which is both an incredible honour, and also a little scary…<\/p>\n The scary bit is that I’ve promised to intro the talk and do the Q&A in German (the bulk will be in English). A\u00a0brave promise, but what was I thinking? First of all, and despite the fact that I still read enough in German, I have only\u00a0spoken it sporadically, and usually not about WordPress (yes, I had to go look how to say “upload<\/a>” in German…). Then, and even more worrying, my German sounds Viennese, a city both culturally and geographically very far from Hamburg; they will make fun of me, des was I scho jetzt, macht oba nix<\/em>. Case in point, I had to promise not to jodel<\/em>\u00a0(which, by the way, shows you how much northern Germany knows about Austria: it’s Vienna, not Tirol: we don’t jodel<\/em>.)<\/p>\n I am however mostly humbled to be invited to speak at an event organised by one of the oldest, largest, and most active WordPress communities in the world. I hope to make a good case for the planned internationalization push in 4.0<\/a>, of course, and to “sell” WordCamp Europe 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n What I’m not sure of, is how to chronicle the relationship of this community with WordPress throughout the years (including some episodes of which I was part), and how, in the end, it came to represent all the power, graciousness and enthusiasm which has become a flag of WordPress, not only in Europe, but worldwide.<\/p>\n I have 10 days to come up with something brilliant.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, it looks like\u00a0I’m presenting the keynote talk at WordCamp Hamburg 2014, which is both an incredible honour, and also a little scary… The scary bit is that I’ve promised to intro the talk and do the Q&A in German (the bulk will be in English). A\u00a0brave promise, but what was I thinking? First of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[33,26,38,27,25],"yoast_head":"\n