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The WP Minute brings you news about WordPress in under 5 minutes -- every week! Follow The WP Minute for the WordPress headlines before you get lost in the headlines. Hosted by Matt Medeiros, host of The Matt Report podcast.
Eric Karkovack (00:00)
Hi everyone and welcome to the WP Minute. I'm Eric Karkovack. Today's episode features a segment from Matt's talk with PressConf EU organizer Raquel. She stopped by to talk about expanding the event to Europe and what attendees can expect. Note that PressConf EU takes place from October 27th through 30th in Barcelona, Spain. Now you can catch the entire interview over on our WP Minute Plus channel.
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Matt (00:28)
All the good stuff happens in the room on the stage, and you have to be there to experience all of it.
Raquel (00:34)
Yes, that part is the same. I make small iterations every single time, but we s what I think the part that I'm recognizing is the biggest difference is how much the European community wants this sort of space. And from what I've been communicated to by Europeans is that they don't feel like they have it, that there's this kind of inherent modesty around money.
And when we're all in the business of WordPress trying to make money with our agencies and products and they feel like they haven't had the the most safest space to speak, not that it's unsafe, it's just that you can't be as liberal in the conversation around it. So that is the biggest thing that I've been aware of with doing this. So how that might tweak what we do is very much in the conversations that the team is having with our speakers and everything that we're gonna touch on. So even more so that safe space of unrecorded.
Talks is is going to apply because of that.
Matt (01:26)
Yeah. I I mean, I think the you know, the confidence that people need to have in WordPress business these days, the conviction to run a WordPress business has to be at its all time high right now. Yeah. for many for many obvious reasons, right? Headlines in WordPress, of course, haven't been the best. I is, of course, through the lens that we've been talking about for years now, but it's just like every six months there's something else that's coming that's impacting our industry. Competitors getting better.
And then it it it doesn't help that there's a lot of sentiment around WordPress through all of those lenses. And a lot of people cast doubt on this beloved piece of software and community that we run. And I don't think there's time for people to, you know, tiptoe around trying to run their business. So I appreciate conferences like PressConf and like you've been spearheading for the last few years.
put people on stage to be vulnerable but also to tell it how it is in the space. And I for one, once again, like appreciate that and I hope this is the same kind of thing that comes out of the European conference. But but color in the lines, is there anything else that you think people are looking for in the European market when they're on stage or when they're coming to the conference that you think you'll deliver
for them?
Raquel (02:44)
Yeah, I I think you're kind of hitting on it. Like I don't know if you and I should be to together sometimes because I think we might cause some implosion, but I'm I'm kind of over it. Like you've mentioned tiptoeing. And I'm I'm very much looking forward to still being this WordPress space. You know, like I I know there's I I I I I'm I'm coming with a little bit of chip on my shoulder. And I would say that's something that's different than I've been. I've been sort of like
Hi everybody, it's your promie neighborhood, Raquel, and you all love me and I love you so much. And look, we're gonna do this PressConf and it's gonna be so cool. And yeah, maybe I'm a little crazy, but I don't know if I'm as crazy as as crazy I is as I am now. I mean, for instance, the short runway. Like I just knew this has to happen. This has to happen. Something inside of me knew. And I've been telling everybody all the events are gonna be coming. The the
Just event after event after event. And now every time I turn my head, I'm seeing some event popping up, some event popping up. And all those events, I'm just gonna say are all things to all people. Like we're we're not gonna just focus on WordPress because we're scared. And don't get me wrong, and I hope I'm ruffling some feathers right now. We have reason to be scared. We do have reason, but make a choice. And that's what I'm doing. I'm making a choice. And also I'm just done with the whole pulling that victim card out of our back pockets. Like let's let's make a choice and let's decide. And even
If it doesn't turn out the way we want it to, we made a choice and we decided and we moved. And that's what I'm doing. And that's that's what I want to see happen at PressConf EU. I want people to walk away knowing that they've made a choice and that even if the choice doesn't work out the way we want it to, you could have confidence that it's gonna work out for the best no matter what. And am I desperate to make that happen at at PressConf EU? I think I am a little bit because now all these events are popping up all over the place.
And I've seen I've put my flag down. This is here. This event matters to me deeply. I put my entire life on this. Not PressConf EU but PressConf and and WordPress. And and if there's any sort sort of like what's Raquel talking about right now, well there is. And it's gonna come out in this event and people need to be there to see it.