 Thank you, are we on? Does anybody hear me? First row, can you hear me? Should I do something? See, they say always go the middle ground so you have to... that's a very... in Berlin was a one meter in something. Milan was saying that I was smiling under the stage, which is true, but the fact that I broke three of my bones in the left hand, he didn't mention, but then everything solved out. And apparently next year, well, we went online just to make sure nobody falls off the stage. But now I understand there's railings and yellow tape on the corners of each stage at World Camp Europe, so everyone is aware where the margin actually is. So just to... I'm gonna be very short with presenting myself and then we're gonna move. We're gonna see a lot of photos today, because my name is Valvesa as they say, and I do social media and photography, which are two of my biggest passions besides my family, but that's, you know, that's... this is work, that's family. And you can find me online under the username adspedia. You can also find me on Val that's social, because, you know, I'm Val and I do social, so that's the extension of the domain. And before we go any further, let's do a small exercise of clapping. Now, I want to say something. I'm gonna do something like this, and you do one clap, but one only. We don't clap like nuts, right? Just one clap. So I'm gonna go... Did you hear that? Okay. Three, two, one. Okay, so clap only once for each slide. It's just gonna be a few slides. So, okay, anybody here from any of these companies? They are the sponsors. We need to be aware of, you know, a lot of the things and efforts that they put in, so my idea was to revigorate this sort of a late talk just to do one clap for each slide. So, okay, let's see. Three, two, one. Oh, three, two, one. One. Zero. Awesome. Great. Applause for you. You did great. So dearly beloved, we are gathered here today. By the way, when you see the green highlighted words, usually for me in my presentations are the things that matter the most, but also the other ones, I have to live in there because in English, they don't really make sense. In my head, everything is in Romanian, so when I speak, I speak in English, so you understand the phrases, so I have to have the other words in there. Answer this question. Why do we go to work camps? Community. Friends. Sharing knowledge, swag, somebody said. Fun. Very honest. Fun. Not be bored. Not be bored. Rancos is fighting bored. I'm going to work camps. Road trips. Where are we now? Zoo. I just saw the fishes. Thank you. Beer pressure. Okay. Somebody started to confess. So in order to go to work camps, you have to love people, right? You have to be okay being around people, and you have to love WordPress, at least like WordPress, or at least pretend you love WordPress because we are at the WordPress event. But in order to photograph at events, you have to love, oh, again, this is a conversation, so all the green words are for you. I forgot to mention this. See, I'm a bit of, you know, have emotions here. So in order to photograph at, you have to love. Okay. In order to photograph at work camps, you have to love, not the end. That was mine. And volunteering. Okay. So today we'll talk about, there's a green dot. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Somebody is actually, okay. We didn't talk. He had no idea what I'm talking about, right? Did you see this? No. 12. Photography dot. Work camps. Volunteering. So is it hard to work with? I want to hear answers. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. You're nodding, so you want to don't be on camera. I'm just nodding. I'm not gonna say anything. Some people is hard to work with. Okay. All people. So the answer is no. I mean, it could be an answer. No. Nobody said in the room, so I think I'm gonna delete this slide. Yes. Again, when you see green, the first to say, actually, I should have some sort of like sweets or something for you, for everyone who's it, which is something the ranker said a bit like it depends. Also, the serious answer is that working to bring people together is not easy. Not easy at all. And it is rewarding. Organizers. Is it rewarding? Yes. Sponsors in the room. Is it rewarding? Yes. Awesome. Coming together at our photographers. Let's talk about cuz I'm well, I'm not a photographer. I like photography. I take a lot of photos. Our team at work and Europe did indeed almost 15,000 photos. Not all of them are on on flicker. Where's Thomas? I'm gonna put him in a bad light here. He's not easy. He's not even paying attention. Okay. And we also gonna talk about. So photographer spend money on here. How much money did you spend on gear? 10,000. I think the too much answer was very good. Also, they don't about a lot. Our passionate about. Did you do you remember? Do you remember the photographer going behind Matt on the stage at work in Europe in Porto? Cuz we had a message like internal messaging group and I said, you go get the shot from behind him. It's like, how somebody's gonna stop me. They're gonna. No, no, just go get the shot. Well, this is just this is not that one. But this is somebody actually trying to get the shot at work in Europe. So what about and at their time to capture the of participants? Okay, as a of work camps, you get a unique chance to by doing the thing you love most while you other. So we briefly covered. We're done. So people dot dot dot dot people photography work camps volunteering. What is missing? Money. Show us the photos, right? Yes. Okay, so you shouldn't look at me because it's more I want you to look there. So this is not an album viewing party. This is not an album viewing party. This will be a conversation. So who remembers this? What? Yes. Yes. Yes, correct. So already the first slide with a photo and you start what hearing noises, smelling the air, the conversations. Who remembers this? Again, every time you see a photo, if you remember it, please raise your hand so I can get a feel of the room. Okay. Where is Ramcus? I'm trying to find who remembers this? Again, this is yes. Somebody was very surprised in the room. Who remembers this DJ? I have no idea what this is. I actually have the speaker notes, but fortunately we can't see everything. So it could be in Belgrade because I remember I remember he had the stickers on the laptop. Okay. This is people trying to do scaffolding to. Okay. Okay. See, this is what we're talking about. Stories, memories, people. Okay. We're gonna fastly move on. How many pieces of cake on the table? Who counts? Who can count fast? If you ask them, they will go like, oh, it's not just for me, it's for everyone at the table, but they're just two of them. Okay. So see, this is a case where you should increase phone size. Can you see now? They seem to say. Most of these people, as you see, they're smiling. So work hams bring people together to also, like I mentioned, smile together. Are we doing good for time? Who remembers this? What was the conversation about? Can you share? Yes. Wait, wait, wait, wait for the microphone. Yes. So please, if you know details of any of the photos, raise your hand because we want to have a conversation. Meeting with people who are planning and organizing work at the Netherlands 2017, which never happened, because it wasn't allowed by the global work force. Like I said, emotions, reactions. Awesome. Okay. So short, what were you indicating there? Like pointing to the basic needs at the top of the pyramid food. I understand I'm right before you and dinner. So I'm going to try to be very expeditive here. And you go with the family. And again, this is by permission. So we talk to the family. It's fine. Yeah. Yeah. Of course, we have to be thankful for everyone. Actually, we can give them a round of applause for every, oh, everybody at every work camp that is either taking photos, doing videos, being in the booth for the sound and all that. Of course. You know, there's love at work camps. I mean, people find each other, people get separated, people get reunited. Who can't remember this hat? Where is he? In the photo for sure, but outside. Okay, you'll see the recording. Somebody mentioned swag. Look, was it you? Was it you? Don't be jealous. Of course, we live through times that needed masks as well. This is what? Contribute a day. Porto Contribute a day, right? And this is US Contribute a day. I was on a tweet, it says work and US Contribute a day. Well, I got it off the tweet. So maybe it's fake news. People are happy, apparently, in the shadow in the lights. You know, a lot of people from various parts of the world, happy to be reunited after three years or two years and a half of, you know, watching in the screens and just at the videos. Some people are doing, you know, Spider-Man shit and trying to this. Nilo was really great here. Actually, he tried two times to get us all together to do a family photo, you know, talking to the mayor of the it's it's complicated. But enough of my selections. If you remember some of you, I sent a tweet out, I think Monday and I said, do you remember? Either you took a photo or you saw a photo or you know of a photo or a moment at any of the work camps you participated. Please tweet at me. So I was like, this was supposed to be the end of my presentation. I'm like, well, I'm going to introduce, you know, user generated content. So let's see the Twitter's response to my request. So this is the request. Do you remember a photo? And such wonderful responses. The first one from Taco. This photo of Paolo Valenti who recently passed away at work in 2016. And again, this is also part of life. You know, some, we mentioned smiles. It's not every time about just smiles, but it's also about nice and great memories of people who passed. This one of Taco being sort of a Spider-Man from Bob WP pretending to be Spider-Man. Can you explain the context? What the heck are you doing up there? You're getting ready to jump in the audience? Did you sign a waiver? Yeah, not signing a waiver. Maybe they don't go to museums often. So that's why they do the parties there. Where's your own? Okay, whose name is not there? Okay, whose name is there? Awesome. Awesome. On top. Well, you posted a photo. Of course, your name is there. Also, this was, again, another emotional response, because they're talking about Kim. By the way, I said this in a tweet. Yes. Apparently, WPmom.org is redirected to some SEO Denmark something website. Maybe we could fix that. Maybe as a community, we can think of those who pass from among us somehow to, you know, if they had like private sites or personal blogs to keep them still alive, even if it's just a page of them, you know, birth year and work in Antwerp, March. Nobody expected snow. Okay. Anybody here in the photo? You are in the photo? Okay, photo of the audience during work and blood. Am I pronouncing that right? I co-organized my check. I was stressful, but seeing them all made me realize we achieved something great. And I think all organizers feel that when they see people coming together after doing, well, they come. Did we set enough tickets? I mean, the conversations organizers seeing the slack and, you know, some people just don't appreciate that much sometimes. Okay. Who remembers that? What happens here? What is the history of this? Do we have some water? We have some water. That was inside a trading. They wanted to see you in this outfit. Well, you know, I've never heard of the work camp or the WordPress community being scary, but okay, Jeff says, I'll never forget the giant boot on stage at Workamp US 2017 in Nashville. Can you see the boot? Pretty small, but yeah, because Nashville and Cowboys and it's a bit higher than Matt, as I see. Again, you've seen this. Actually, see, I, so I didn't change my presentation just so you see that the WordPress community is connected. There's a vibe. So this photo is the first I used. And also this is in a tweet that they sent in. So some don't have at all. Milo sent this one of Josie Louis Lozanda that will haunt you in your dreams. Okay. Anybody has any memories of this? As they, as they say, when the police asks you in the US, I have no recollection. Okay, a couple of more than Milo was like just pushing the max of how many tweets you can send out. And then of course, because they're very small, I'm just gonna make sure everyone sees them. This is Chris, one of the photographers we had last year. This is some we don't know exactly what's going on here, but I'm assuming he was just passing by and Matt is trying to find signal in Europe. And then taking a selfie of the roof. Again. Where's Marcel? Marcel, can you, can you share some some circumstances about this? I have how many minutes I have? We have time. Go ahead. Five minutes. Okay. Two minutes. Sure. One minute. We're talking blisters. There's consequences of having fun. I think the consequences were wasn't in the slides. Maybe next time I can add it. The four markers during work and severe. Anybody remember any of these? Awesome. Also love this one from Lisbon 2011. These two and America Diaz started the Portuguese work and community back in 2007, 2007, but had never met in person until this photo was taken. Well, they say until this day, but I don't care. I want to use photography as a keyword. So and this is also an emotional one from all my encountered work and photos once stood out the most to me. By this time I could only walk poorly and was struggling with chronic illness. Nevertheless, I was able to get up the courage to talk about the hurdles intending to encourage others. Right? If you don't call this one emotional, I don't know. You made of steel. And this is a very recent addition. Jordan, maybe you have some insights. And I just acquired it like 15 minutes before the talk. So Greenwood, make all these possible. These are some of the photographers. What are the of now? Now I'm going into the call to action phase of the presentation, right? You generate the people will cherish for a nation. Yes, good. You make an amount of as a photo. As a you do have to for the your work and opportunity to your. Oh my God, this is military, but them and one crane. Are you? Oh, that Chris, no. Well, what you get out of something is probably against expectation. And before the event, I was expecting to have the time I expect me to be fun. I don't think I really expected how much fun it was. And how much I got out of it as part of discovering how big this music is in WordPress. And aside from the great group of photographers are working together, the wider group of volunteers work on the event, but also watching people coming together. Well, they think they've got one in common websites or WordPress or code. But actually, they've got so much more in common from a wide variety of backgrounds. And if I'm fortunate enough to be a photographer again in Athens next year, I'm looking forward again to getting more of a sense of that. But the one thing take away from it was it's great fun. And you really get an insight into what WordPress communities all about. So have a great time at work. And hopefully see what happens. I have no idea what he said, but apparently it was good. So if you have a camera, oh, by the way, Roy, can you just do a short translation for the, you know, non-Dutch listeners and viewers of the video? I hope you didn't say anything bad. Okay, now you're going to blame it. You're going to blame it now on a blurry memory. It's very Dutch. Okay, so again, if you have a camera, smartphone camera also qualifies, take photos and post them on Twitter and use that hashtag. Have you been doing that since you were here? Because if you want to have a hashtag on Twitter trend, and I know some things about social is that you got to use that hashtag for every little tweet you put out. If it's images, even better because the algorithm love content media content. It's a great word moment is looking for volunteer organizers. It's going to happen in Athens, Greece, as you've heard from Chris already. So apply if you want to. Again, if there's question, if there's any question, I don't know if you have any questions, but I'm happy to answer any question related to photography, volunteering at work camps, social media, I don't know. I'm going to ask you to help me maybe if it's too long and it's like content and marketing because I'm not that good at that. But that was my slides. It's safer here. That was one of the demands they asked. So question. Hello. No, I'm going to go short. No, never, ever, ever in any of the years I participated as a volunteer was an organizer or a lead photographer. Never ever has anyone said no, I don't want to be in the photo. But also, I think it's about the way like, you go to a conference, like you mentioned 2000 3000 people, you should expect that you're going to be at least in the background group shot somewhere. Legally, for example, in Romania, because I've had to deal with this in the court. It's if you're up, like more than six people in a group photo, you cannot have any pretensions of, you know, take me away, delete me from that photo. Legally, I don't know about the legal everywhere in Europe. But again, you're going to a major conference, you should expect to be in a video in a photo in a BTS in something somewhere. Now, if you specifically say, I have a bad hair day, I have a bad whatever. And you see the photographer trying to get the photo, we're always trying to say to all of the photographers, please be mindful of what the set up is like, did you see the photo with the family and the child? I went there and I said, Are you okay with me taking a photo? And they're like, Yeah, sure. And I even said, I'm going to go a little bit on the angle. So the face of the baby is not visible. The family didn't say anything. But I don't know, you should exercise a bit of empathy, especially if you have small children, you understand. Thank you. But that's a very good question. It's a it's a big concern sometimes at events. Yeah, please. Ever. Yes. Correct. That's a presentation on itself. Okay, I would just say this, we have a lot of fun trying to get photographers to come to apply as photographers. Some of them have those questions that we always get every year of, is anybody going to pay for my ticket? Am I going to have, you know, a luxury apartment at my disposal so I can put my very expensive gear somewhere safe? No, there's somewhere a word that was written in in green font volunteering is about you don't get paid. You don't get paid for your travel. You don't get paid for your content that you deliver as any of them don't do. Now, is this fair or not? That's a lot of conversations to have. But these are the rules. And if you want to join the photography team, you should expect to let your photo that you create photos and you give them away in what we call creative comments. So everyone has access to them. Of course, they can take it and put other people in there and do, you know, additions and alterations. But you give them away for free as I give all the portraits for free. Like I stop people at work camps and I take portraits, please, Ivana. My main takeaway, I would say friends. Yeah, I've never had, by the way, talking about money, I've never had anyone come to me say, Oh, I saw the photos you took at work and whatever year, can you do my wedding shoots? Never. So that's not what I, or at least I hope there's not what photographers are looking for. Yes, you get exposure. That's definitely true. But maybe if you are a photographer in your like commercial life, like costars or others, then maybe it's really important for you to get some extra exposure and we get some leads. But I do something completely different at like my job. So I didn't really care. So because the question was personal, I would say friends. Yeah, not money. That's my name. Actually, you know what Val means in Dutch? Talk about. And it's in Dutch, not German. Go, go ahead. I've learned one word in Dutch. My name. Yes. Yes. Usually the like 10, 15 minutes after work and closure is done on stage, you get the ends on Twitter. Where's my photo? Can I get my photo? Did you get me on a photo? Did you get a portrait of me? Did you get? And this year, we had a lot of photos, a lot of photographers, which is a thing of uncontrollably possibilities because they are not your employees. Like you are a photography lead, whatever. You don't manage their life and their work and the jobs and their families. So you have to expect whenever they have time to go through their own photos. This is a courtesy we do because I could do just select all upload to Flickr. But then you would have, you know, all those, we don't need videos, we need shots. So you have to select the best that you can and then allow each photographer to say, okay, these are for my, you know, 2,000 photos. These 800 are very good. They're never going to be that many, but I'm just saying. So and then you upload them to the Flickr account that we have, that we share for Workamp and this is maya culpa now because we don't have all of the photos from Workamp, Portugal, maybe also because I didn't, you know, I wasn't, let's say, yeah, here I know, more insistent with people. But after you finish everything, then you, of course, have to go through them. Most of them are being shot at very large resolution, so you have to minimize them and then upload them and yeah, there's a lot of things to do. But it's, it's a very, very nice thing to do. I would encourage anyone to apply to be a photographer because you get a lot of friends. So if you don't talk to many people usually, if you don't have a lot of friends, even if you have too many friends, trust me, you don't have many friends, you think you have. But at Workamps, you're actually going to meet people who know your language as in they do what you do in life. Most of them have the almost the same values as you have. It's a large diversity, as you've seen in the photos, so you can get, you know, cultural input, translation stuff, just content, ideas for blog posts. You can write about, you know, going, walking to work camp or you can talk about how somebody fell from a stage I've heard or, you know, you can make a movie out of it, like being a photographer at work camp. Why not? Get a haul you to, you know, do something. So there's a lot of things you can create after as a photographer. Yes. It was very expensive for the gypsum, but thank you. Happy to answer any questions also in private, so you can DM me or taco, go ahead. Are we still okay for time? Yeah, we can sleep here. At the start of your talk, you were joking about how much people spend on their cameras. If you have the aspiration to be a photographer at work camp, do you need that grand word of photography here? No. We'll talk in private, because no, you don't, but also you can't expect to come with a smartphone and get photos. We rejected, and this is transparency here, we rejected many photographers last year, this year, because they said I don't have a camera, so I know that their hearts were big for coming, but we can't, I mean, they can expect us to have like a, you know, lined up of 50 cameras for them to choose. Somebody did say that I have a very good smartphone, whatever that means. Okay, thank you, but maybe, and we were talking with Jord about doing stories, so you can help with that, like TikTok videos or Instagram stories, because they're all vertical, you can do it with the phone. Most of the photographers were doing that at the same time as doing their own shoot, so we had a lot of content on social as well, but definitely you don't need expensive gear, definitely not, and also you don't have to be a professional photographer, you can just like photography. If you have a good eye to take a good frame and angle, it's fine. Yes, please. Do you have any tricks or angles or techniques that you specifically use at your workplace? Nothing that you don't generally have for any other photography, you take for events. I mean, it's not wedding photography, so you know, you can, but I would say don't get very close to the people, because then you sort of ruin the whole atmosphere. The moment you have to come to Remkus and say, I'm gonna be taking a shot of you, so please can you look away and do whatever you do, you ruined everything, and then you go back there, and then he's gonna be like, well, not Remkus, he doesn't care, but some other people could be like, oh, they're taking my photo, what do I do? You take the photo and you'd go and then say, look, I took this photo, is it okay for me to use it? They can say no, you delete it, they can say yes, sure, and you use it. So it's all about the moment and the feeling. Does it feel good, like you as a regular person, if you would see that shot somewhere, would you like to spend three seconds on it or half a second? If it's more than a second, then you take that photo, because you would like to see the same photo, so you take a photo. Yeah, sure. Happy to answer. Any questions? Like I said, prepare the sleeping bags. My question is, so for example, you have a lot of photographers, I don't know how many of them work in Europe, but do you organize, as a group, like you split around or... Yes. Oh my god, it's so much organization going on, so there's all these tracks happening, right? All these people speaking different stages, different rooms, and guess what? There's a lot of corridors and hallways between these rooms, so I would also maybe mention that maybe they should be fit, because at the end of the day, I've seen some of them just like, oh my god, just get me a Red Bull, I'm going to go, oh there's a party tonight, nobody gives a shit about parties after one day of photography at work camps. If you're not fit, it's really stressful. You have to walk around, you have to, you know, talk to people, you have your own map and your own schedule of what, you know, Ivana's talking in room five, go there, you know, Milan is talking there, go there, and then you also have to coordinate with the others, because maybe somebody just has a bed diarrhea case and they go to the bathroom, what do you do? Nobody's going to cover stage five, go there, somebody can go there, so it's a lot of going on. That's why I said the next year I don't want to be a lead anymore, because I want to actually enjoy work camp and talk to people and find them and, you know, have conversations. I was just talking a booth up there with George, just going over photos, and do we have everything covered? Does everybody have their photo? Because one of the speakers would come to you and say, there was nobody in my talk, nobody took my photo, and I came here because I really thought that you're going to have professional photographers. Actually this is a tweet, I'm quoting, I'm not inventing this. So there's people coming and speaking at work camps, and that's great. Some of them know that you're going to have professional or very good photographers in the room, so they want those photos because, you know, it's for them, like their own portfolio. Yeah, you want to be seen on stage in a good photo, good frame, you know, not sort of a half-angled, you know, diagonally shaped, and then people like, is she standing or like laying or what? So all these things matter. Yes, not, you don't have to be a professional photographer, as I said, you don't have to have very expensive gear, but you still need to have a decent shot. I don't know if that answers your question. Mila is trying to shut me down. Oh, you have now a personal question? Okay, there's one minute. Okay, one minute, so who has another question? Anything? Yes, no question. Yes, we hate flashes at events. I mean, for the audience, they don't really care. For the speaker, if you're on stage and you get a poof, poof, poof, it's just also the sound, because they do video recording, so you go like, poof. So, yeah, it's very intentional, and you'll see that at many other events, not just work-hams, it's one of the requirements, do not use flash. That's why you need to have some skills, because in dark, you know, also a good lens, and, you know, not ten thousand dollars, but maybe nine. Thank you. Yes.