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My Washington D.C. Adventure and the APM Community

By Hallett German posted Jul 18, 2017 03:34 PM

  

Introduction: 

This past weekend, I attended the WordPress Users Group, Wordcamp DC -- https://2017.dc.wordcamp.org/ along with my daughter who does all of my fiction book covers -- http://www.alessandragerman.com/#home

 

Over 500 people attended and will likely be back next year. (If you are attending in 2018, glad to briefly meet!). However, the current location (Carnegie Library) may soon be an Apple Store. 

 

Five Qualities of a Thriving Community

 

There were qualities that I saw there that I am hoping to see more of in this community

 

* Passion - People were excited about talking about technologies such as SVG, Personal Productivity Tools, and how to build a successful website community.

 

* Willingness to help - Speakers were available long after the presentation for follow-up questions. It was a friendly environment to try out ideas and seek help for nagging issues.

 

* Fun -- Silly prizes for audience involvement, amusing slides and anecdotes.

 

* Technical Knowledge sharing in many formats -- Slide locations were tweeted after the presentation. Talks were filmed and being transcribed.

 

* Learn about your Neighbor -- Sharing three things cool about yourself broke the ice.in presentations.

 

I will be writing a series of articles on growing this community. In the end, I will put these into a PDF. I look forward each day seeing many of us get a little more involved in our APM community space!

 

Please think what you can do to make the APM Community more of what you want it to be.

I end with a Hunter S. Thompson quote -- "You are always doomed when people don't participate."

 

 I hope that shall never come to pass here. Feel free to reach out to me at hallett.german@ca.com or add your comments below to discuss further.

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