Last week we announced a Call for Volunteers! Here is nice write up by Ajay Maurya about his experiences as a volunteer for WordCamp Mumbai 2014 and 2015
It was February 2014, I just Googled “What is WordPress”. And look what I found a blogging platform which is free and easy to use. Going through few more pages I came to know that WordCamp is a WordPress Conference and it was happening a month later in Mumbai. So I planned to visit and then I found a post on ‘Call for Volunteers’
I applied as a Volunteer, and it was any first event which I planned to volunteer. Soon I got a call from Aditya about my Volunteering request.
We exchanged more information about open source culture and about some Code of Conduct rules of the conference and I was now a volunteer for WordCamp Mumbai 2014.
In the meanwhile I read more and more about WordPress and made a list of things to ask people attending the event.
The first day of WordCamp started. I started at the registrations table and that made me made me interact with many people right away.
I truly started to appreciate what is WordPress, what is Open-source, blogging and what exactly are startups on day one.
Talking and conversing with like minded people is the best part of WordCamp. I ended up being introduced to many people and made many friends. Soon this event also came to an end.
But it gave me a start, I was introduced to a new set of people where people who were passionate enough about WordPress that they simply shared their views and ideas for free. They were helping each other by sharing their knowledge and trying to spread the use of WordPress.
I started attending monthly WordPress Meetups and they would be a lot of fun. I decided that this time I want to work more closely with volunteering for WordCamp 2015 in Mumbai. I started helping out with community events and WordCamp tasks and soon became co-organiser of the event.
Back then I was new to WordPress. Today, I make my living out of WordPress and it’s because I simply decided to get involved. The awesomeness of WordPress is its community.
If there is a WordCamp or a WordPress meetup in your city, I would highly recommend you to volunteer some time there. You will always end up gaining more than you give.