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As the feedback from this year’s WordCamp trickles in its already clear that the work the organizing team put into it was completely worth it. People loved the venue, the speakers, the food and they loved the city of Split. Seeing almost 200 people enjoying the networking opportunities and learning from their peers was a very rewarding experience for us. One recurring comment that stood out was that this was one of the most laid-back, easy-going conferences people attended<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 which is exactly in the spirit of Split. It’s awesome that the hosting city can imbue some of its ambiances in such a way.<\/p>\n

There’s certainly plenty of takeaways on improving the next years WordCamp, whichever city the WordPress Croatia community decides to hold it in. This holds true for any event, but we’re extremely happy that none of these smaller issues seemed to stop anyone from having fun<\/strong>. Being a community event, WordCamp is a learning process for the organizers as much as for the attendees wanting to learn about the topics presented. This is why feedback was so important and we thank everyone that has taken their time to fill out the post-event survey we sent via email.<\/p>\n

We had a pre-event to the actual WordCamp, a day full of workshops free and open to everyone. There were various topics covered, from WordPress basics to management of WordPress projects in a commercial environment. There was one that certainly stood out with a lot of positive feedback, Luca Sartoni’s “The Art of Public Speaking”. We always knew people in the community had the knowledge to share but dismissed the idea of publicly sharing it for the all the wrong reasons, so having Luca provide a good starting point proved to be a good idea<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

More than half of the attendees in the survey reported that this was their first time at a WordCamp, which is awesome. It was our hope we could grow the community and get more people excited about WordPress by having this year WordCamp be hosted in Split. And this is exactly whats happening, people already stepped up and our community is going to see more speakers and more people involved.<\/p>\n

We had great speakers this year, with interesting and well-prepared talks. We had a great time hanging out with you at the speakers dinner, the buffet format really works well and we’ll be doing that from now on. You know people are having a good time when they decide a night swim would be in order.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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WordCamp Split swimming team \ud83d\ude01\ud83d\ude33\ud83d\ude00\ud83d\udd96\ud83d\ude4c\ud83d\udc4d thanks guys for being brave (and for going for a night swim) #wchr<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/sOKmSclumd<\/a><\/p>\n

— Emanuel Blagonic (@eblagonic) September 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n