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Eric Karkovack:
Hi there WordPress enthusiasts and welcome to the WP Minute. I'm your host, Eric Karkovack. Today's episode features a segment of my interview with Rodolfo Milogli, organizer of the Checkout Summit event for WooCommerce professionals. Now to access the entire interview, check out our WP Minute Plus podcast. Visit us at thewpminute.com for all the details and to become a member. Thanks and we'll see you again next time.
Eric Karkovack:
So I noticed that you didn't want to have a live stream or post videos of the conference. And from what you've told me here about, you know, just the a lot of in-person networking, that makes sense. Was it a hard decision for you to make, though?
Rodolfo Melogli:
So it was and it wasn't. I mean, live streaming and recording, first of all, costs money, like loads of money. And because this is all on my basically own, like, you know, I'm investing my own money to make these up and hope that the money comes back from sponsors and ticket sales. Like, first of all, it's an expense. But most importantly, we've been...
Rodolfo Melogli:
you know, talking about in-person events for years, like there are amazing online conferences like, you know, WP sessions, WUSash, you know, work camps are live streamed. If you really want to rewatch things, lots of other conferences do live streaming recording. And I said, hold on, like, I need to tell people that this is all about the people actually. It's all about coming here. I mean, it's only 150 people or not, you know.
Rodolfo Melogli:
I don't need to live stream to 5,000 people all over the world. I just want 150 in Sicily to come and actually put faces on people that they've always seen online. So the live stream and the recording goes basically against my ideal conference type, which would be, go there, I speak to those people and that's it. Like no pressure.
Rodolfo Melogli:
I don't want to live stream and record because I want people to say, I can't make it. So I'll just watch it from, you know, from my office. And I don't like that. Like I want actually people to show up and otherwise networking wouldn't happen. So that's also a way, or if you want to say a trick to, you know, let people understand that this is all about the people. So we're talking about content.
Eric Karkovack:
Yeah.
Rodolfo Melogli:
earlier. So it's a content first, people first conference because it is what we've been looking for, what we've been asking for the last few years within the WooCommerce ecosystem. And that's what I would love to be communicating.
Eric Karkovack:
Yeah, it sounds like a great idea in this era where everything is live streamed, everything is always online. It would be nice just to get together and feel a little bit sense of intimacy and privacy, right? We don't normally get that when we go out anymore. We certainly don't get it online, and we definitely, in a lot of conferences these days, we don't get it.
Rodolfo Melogli:
True, and let me add one last thing for speakers. Like just the thought of not being recorded or not being on a live stream, like can allow them to, you know, let go and say whatever they want. And, you know, your occasional swearing, I'm okay with that. And, you know, if you disagree with something, I'm okay with that. I mean, for sure, you're going to get hundred percent honest speakers.
Eric Karkovack:
Sure.
Rodolfo Melogli:
and you're going to get good quality. And if they're shy, it's not a problem because they can do mistakes and no one is going to ever know. So it's totally okay. And it's going to be very relaxed and social until that event. And that's my goal. So I hope to get there to achieve it.