What meetup members have shared on their event experiences:

WordPress.com Night: Beyond the Comments “Fantastic presentation.” –Umoette U

“Great very informative for a beginner.” – Zulie

“Good people, good presentation, good connections. Thanks for having me.”– Former Member

WordPress.com Night : Inside a Woo Commerce Website “Subject matter was interesting and the presenter was knowledgeable as well as congenial. Things got off track at times with unrelated discussion, but not out of hand.”– Steve A.

Women of WordPress NYC (WoWPNYC) Networking Event “It was great to meet women in various fields using WordPress. Great Community!” –Seema K

“This was a terrific event. There was a lot of comradery.”– Annette F

“Thank you so much for organizing this great event! I loved meeting and learning from all of you!”– Michele

Meet4SPEED: Speeding up WordPress Sites – Invite for Women “I think the WP group did a good job setting this meetup, but the speaker was not someone I would recommend for anything else. I am new to WP and I did enjoy the part as to how to test your website, but then he got off into “cache” and all kinds of other things…” –Aurelia S.

“The event description is about speeding up WP site and I was expecting to learn how to improve WP site speed and also to learn how WP and Google collaboration can help with this…”– Sveta

“Hi All. I actually found the presentation to be very informative. True that Sergey jumped around a bit, but we were provided with a plethora of tools to help us evaluate our websites…” – Stephanie

Meet4SPEED: Speeding up WordPress Sites – Invite for Men “Good Evening Winstina. Excellent hosting of the Meet4SPEED Event! I also want to thank Rick and Sergey for sharing their performance knowledge. I learned a lot from this gathering. Thanks again”– George W.

“Very informative with lots of good info! – Tim

Women of WordPress NYC (WoWPNYC) Developer Series “Thanks to Lisa and Winstina for arranging this meeting and to Jocelyn for her excellent moderating. It was very insightful. I enjoyed it very much. Feel free to connect with me on linkedin if anyone wants any more information from me.” –ozEworks

WordPress’ 15th Anniversary Celebration “Well-organized!” – Mark S.

Avocado Toast and Gutenberg on WordPress.com for the Curious “This was such a great meetup! Everyone was a great communicator – and story teller! I have already checked out some of the great blogs you people have created, and am knocked out by what individuals can do. Looking forward to the next one – and learning more from Winstina on the coming of Gutenberg. And hopefully about attending NY WordCamp in Sept. See you at the next one!” – GG

How AMP, SiteKit, Lighthouse and WP Rig Make WordPress Even More Awesome “Great presentation! Excited for some of these products to be released. Thanks Sal!” – Steven N.

Build Ecommerce Sites With Confidence (Demystifying commerce “I very much liked the session as well and has already began integrating the knowledge we received into my practice. Thank you!”– Gulnar

Changing Themes on WordPress for the curious “Thank you everyone for a wonderful first-time event for me!” –Rene C.

WPNYC Meetup Event Series’ Organized

• Content and Marketing
• WordPress.com Night
• WoWPNYC series (co-hosted)

Current Sponsor: Kinsta

Past Sponsor: A2 Hosting

What WordCamp NYC 2018 attendees shared about their experiences:

“A huge thank you to the organizers, sponsors, and speakers. This weekend has been fantastic. #wcnyc #wcnyc18” – Kevin

“Another great day today at #WCNYC! Thank you @WordCampNYC
organizers, speakers, sponsors, contributors, attendees who made this possible! #WordPress #Conference #Community #Plesk” – J_S

 “A huge shoutout to the @WordCampNYC organizers. Great experience from start to finish, as an attendee and as a speaker. Thank you!” #wcnyc – Andrew S.

“For my first WordCamp experience,
@WordCampNYC is gonna be tough to top...great conversations, great sessions (and equally great treatment). Other WordCamp presenters better bring their A-Game.” #WCNYC – Mike L

WordCamp NYC 2018 Stats:

• Winstina led with an amazing team of 18
• She managed a budget of $120,000
• They had 43 speakers
• 400 attendees converged at Convene near Times Square
• They made $12,000+ in ticket sales  
• They fundraised an additional $52,000 from 12+ companies in addition to our global sponsorship allocation

WordCamp NYC Organizer Roles

• Lead Organizer (2018) 
• Sponsor Wrangler (2017)
• Speaker Wrangler (2016)

WordCamp Speaker 

• WordCamp US (2015, 2016, 2017, 2019)
• WordCamp Austin (2017)
• WordCamp NYC (2015)